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ATTN: fans of Chobits, romantic comedies, sex comedies, or hentai with a plot!
A robotics engineer creates the world's most advanced android -- Yuria 100 Shiki, or Yuria version 100. He has designed her to be the ultimate in sex partners. She is preprogrammed with a wealth of knowledge on sexual techniques, venereal diseases, and fetishes many fans in Japan are familiar with. Yuria is also the physical object of every man's eye, featuring design specs that aim to please men whose opinions differ over what constitutes the perfect face, the perfect chest, the perfect butt, and the perfect personality. Perhaps strangest of all, the engineer has designed Yuria such that she will become the lifelong sex slave of the first man she has sexual intercourse with.
Isn't she beautiful? Sample pictures of the nudity and sexually suggestive imagery you will find inside. Click for larger resolution. (NSFW)
There's just one catch: Yuria doesn't want to become a sex slave! Considered a programming error by her creator, Yuria is horrified by the thought of becoming somebody's sex slave and runs away from the laboratory before her creator can follow through on his plan to have sex with Yuria and make her his own personal sex slave.
Not wanting to become a sex slave isn't the same thing as not wanting to have sex; in fact, that aspect of her programming is still very much intact! And so Yuria doesn't know what she should do regarding Shunsuke, the charming young man who offered Yuria a place to stay the night she ran away from home. On the one hand, Yuria wants to have sex with Shunsuke (as per her programmed sexual instincts), but on the other hand Yuria wants to retain her freedom and not become a mindless sex slave, something which is guaranteed to happen when Yuria is first penetrated. Things get even more complicated for Yuria when she has to figure out if her feelings towards Shunsuke are purely the result of her preprogrammed sexual urges or if it's because he's a genuinely nice guy and she's fallen in love with him and now simply wants to consummate her love with the man she loves.
Here are some choice selections from early on in Volume 1 of the series that show you one of the cutest and funniest parts of this series -- the "Did You Know?" boxes about what the Dutch wife model Yuria 100 is capable of. The picture on the top right is one of my favorite pictures of Yuria -- look at that adorably anxious face!
This is, bar none, my favorite H-manga I have read to date. I do not make that sort of claim often nor am I easy to please compared with most people I've met over the years in the hentai community. If I had to describe Yuria 100 Shiki in one word, I would say it is cute. The drawing style is quite adorable; the story is incredibly charming; and there are plenty of nude scenes but next to no intention to arouse the reader (as evidenced by the fact that these nude scenes never last more than one page and are 99% of the time the climactic page right before some slapstick that the reader's been anticipating for pages). The author has clearly set out to write a sexual romantic comedy, and I would say he has succeeded admirably. The primary focus of Yuria 100 Shiki is comedy; secondary is the romance; the sex factor is reduced to third place.
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This is the only hentai manga I have ever enjoyed so much, and whose translation I have found to be (on cross-comparison with the original) so accurate and well-written, that I felt compelled to donate. I don't know whether you will like it as much as that ... or perhaps you will like it even more than I do! All I know is, you should definitely try this one out if you haven't already!
(Center tags don't seem to be enabled so the images and captions are all left-justified, sorry!)
, I would insist that Futari Ecchi is hentai, too.
(uh i'm not good in english, sorry!)
