Comic Studio 1-26 (end)
It's like I was reading just another cute hentai manga, but the build-up extended to 26 chapters.
A guy who wants to be a mangaka through drawing a shonen battle series, is told
"moe manga or bust" by the editor and then he is offered apprenticeship under his favorite mangaka, who the protagonist thinks is an older man (due to the long-running nature of the series), but is actually 20-year-old girl.
I honestly disliked how explicit of a moe loli character Ichiko was, and how often she used that pouty babyface expression. However, the fact that her attraction to the Aihara starts out being very physical was a rather interesting sort of contrast.
Not a lot of tsundere-isms or anything that hide her feelings, Ichiko pretty much sees the protagonist's rock hard abs and goes "hubba hubba". Given how convoluted and dramatic the starts for a lot of these romances are, this kind of a beginning was rather refreshing. Although Aihara being bit too much of a loser character at times, was not.
The perverted humor, and Ichiko's attempts to make Aihara
get a fucking clue are probably the only notable good parts about this. Not
really good but probably enough to keep you smiling and
d'awwing through the more boring stuff.
Your mileage may vary
Edit: Oh damn, I just remembered another positive thing for this manga. Despite that there's both an onsen chapter and beach chapter, I don't remember a
SINGLE breast comparison/groping/envy scene. That's worth some motherfucking applause!
Lewd...