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That scene shocked me too but I'm not convinced that Eren is actually dead. He lost and arm and a leg so things aren't looking too bright for the poor lad, but the Titan didn't appear to chomp into anything vital. And this being shounen and all...20thCenturyBoy said:Attack On Titan
I was very shocked that the guy we think is going to be the main protaganist ends up dying.
But yeah. An intriguing premise, some gloriously brutal violence, and scruffy art. That about sums it up.
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Velvet Kiss v1 - 8/10
Salaryman Shin is unwittingly lumbered with an 80 million yen debt that he can't pay back. But the creditors offer him a lifeline: all he has to do is befriend a young woman and they'll freeze the debt as long as the two of them remain friends.
The young woman is Kanoko, a strikingly beautiful girl who spends a fortune on clothes and lives in a swanky hotel suite where she holds sex parties with her friends. But despite everything, she seems desperately lonely and emotionally distant.
Using the debt as leverage, Kanoko basically makes a slave of Shin, calling him at all hours to do everything from bringing her cakes to... well, you know. As Shin's work productivity drops and his social life suffers he starts to consider whether it's worth the hassle, but after he and Kanoko fall out he finds that he's unable to get her out of his mind, and not because of the debt. Kanoko seems to miss Shin, too, apparently preferring his company to that of her hedonistic chums.
Though this manga is released under DMP's adult line, the story and characterisation are too good for me to consider it as porn (and it's not all that graphic anyway). My favourite thing about Velvet Kiss is, obviously, Kanoko. Not only does she have an exceptional beauty and a cracking set of... twintails, but she's a character of many layers and in her the female author has absolutely nailed the essence of a beautiful and mysterious woman's allure. And I don't feel that about many female characters in any manga or anime, be they for adults or otherwise.
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