Life isn’t going so hot for Yuma after her break-up with Takeda. But things only get worse when Fujiwara snaps and intimate shot of her and Hotaru… and then asks to join in! To top it all off, Yuma finds out that Hotaru has a big secret she’s been hiding! Can Yuma handle the truth when it is finally revealed? Or will she run away?
At the end of the last book, the author promised to make things "even more dramatic" and "messier," and I worried it was just going to go down a path of invented drama for drama's sake. Somehow, that didn't happen. Even though there are some contrived situations, it all works as a vehicle for showing the one character's endless ambivalence and distress over the feelings she doesn't understand that are there for her friend. She still seems confused, believing that those feelings come entirely from her friend's aggressiveness; and it doesn't help that her friend is never straight with her, always dismissing the advances she herself makes as one big joke.
Of course that has been the theme of this relationship from the first page of Volume 1, but the deleterious effects of this "messiness" really are starting to take their toll on our main protagonist. It's also definitely sexier, wandering slowly from the upper-reaches of PG-13 towards R territory.
An additional plus is that our stock sleaze character is barely present this volume. We see him mostly only lying in wait, plotting something. He's mildly redeemed by almost being believable-bad but not-too-awful, even useful, in the few other scenes he appears. But to be sure the best part of this story (any yuri story, right?) is the relationship between the two girls. And while it's the usual "is it OK to feel this way about another girl?" conflict, it really is a bit—as the author promised at the end of volume 1—"extra soppy" than those other stories, in a delightful, almost-sleazy way that's a lot of fun.
The medium-length anime adaptation just started less than a week before this volume's release, and the end-note from the author is mostly how excited she is to see her characters come to life. Her promise this time is to "keep giving the manga my all so it doesn't lose to the anime." Seeing as the anime appeared to start even more hot and heavy and dramatic than Vol 1, I can only imagine the depths we'll descend in the next issue, if she keeps that promise.
(English copy from my Instagram @agamundisr_escritor / @leyendoconalice)
Today I bring you the review of the third volume of the Netsuzô Trap manga. With that said, we begin:
💓The volume begins with Yuma destroyed by the breakup with Takeda trying to digest both the snapshot that portrays her infidelity taken by Fujiwara and the mixed feelings towards Hotaru.
💓In these circumstances, final exams and university orientation begin to take place, a period in which Yuma, first, and Hotaru, later, end up working as escorts in a place for men.
💓Hotaru's intention to work is inspired by her desire for economic independence, she seeks to get away from Yuma without success. As we can see throughout the plot, the sexual tension between the two continues to grow.
🌸Conclusion: This third volume gives a feeling of plot transition in the story of the young lovers, who now face challenges such as the unremoved photograph in bed.
In this installment the author knows how to play with eroticism without showing complete nudity or being extremely explicit, knowing how to find the reader's excitement through the situations.
It should be remembered that the strength of this title lies in the personal destruction of the characters and the deformation of their lives through the game between physical desire and friendship.
As a last point, it should be noted that Fujiwara's bad art does not seem to be designed solely for the enjoyment of a target audience, but rather gives a new dimension to the work, adding the piece of public ridicule to the complex chessboard developed.
On retrouve une certaine inégalité dans les illustrations : il y a quelques planches où les corps des personnages n’ont pas les bonnes proportions. Pas grand-chose de plus à ajouter. C’est toujours un peu pareil que ce soit au niveau des dessins ou de l’histoire. Ça n’avance pas vraiment. Les personnages font un pas en avant pour reculer de deux… comment veux-tu… comment veux-tu qu’i’s’tricotent un pull ? Ça en reste au statu quo. J’avoue que je suis un peu déçue. https://psylook.kimengumi.fr/2023/02/...
I am both happy and sad when these come out. I'm happy because YAY new manga and I get new content.... but sad because I know it won't last past an evening. This has the added bonus of giving us the news that the manga series is going to become an anime!!!! OMG! I will totally be watching that! Anyone else have any others they would recommend?
The problem I have with this volume in particular is that Yuma acts like a jealous alpha boyfriend when she finds out about Hotaru’s part-time job (which is questionable because of age limits, though that may be different because it’s Japan). I don’t know, I don’t even really root for the two girls to get together because they just seem like toxic friends to one another overall.
Again, lots of fan service and strangeness. Hotaru does lay off Yuma at least so their relationship gets back to how it was. I'm really not liking Fujiwara at all. I don't know if he actually hit her or not the last volume, but he's just not very likable at all.
This series doesn't know whether it wants to be smutty trash or trashy melodrama. While it's possible to enjoy both, they're enjoyable in different ways, which makes switching from.one to the other difficult. The result is a mess.
Okay, solo diré que tiene 3 estrellas más que nada por "interesante" ya que de gustarme no creo que sea muy exacto. Estoy muy curiosa más que nada, ya que Hotaro y Fujiwara no dejan de hacer estupideces. Realmente estoy desquitando mi coraje con este Manga.