Maico 2010 review

AfterGlow12
Apr 12, 2021
The summary makes this seem like this is going to have a lot of cool ideas for realizing a futuristic, sexy vibe. It really doesn't, so it kinda disappointed me. The main problem is that it almost never plays to its strengths, Maiko and Rie. Especially at the beginning, it spends WAY too much time on Matsuo, the utterly generic male lead who feels totally out of place. When it's not focused on him and his feelings about the various girls throwing themselves at him, it's busy doing nude scenes that rarely did anything for me because there was no heat to them.

I will say that it definitely picked up in the second volume and the third volume was the high point. After Rie gets involved and there's more than one outlet for the futuristic stuff, there's more excuses for action and character moments that have nothing to do with Matsuo. Honestly, this should have just been a yuri comic about Maiko and Rie. They had such great, adorable energy that was just absent everywhere else.

The end of the third volume runs us directly into a plot railroad that brings everything to a large-scale finale in Volume 4 that ends up being both conclusive and weirdly abrupt. There was some obvious retooling at some point in the middle of the story, particularly obvious with the villain Sugita's character design change, and the resolution to everything makes the series feel even more aimless than it was.

There are also plenty of distasteful, weird sex-adjacent things in this, but that almost goes without saying, doesn't it? It's written primarily for people who think pervs are funny, I guess. That distracted them from focusing on the parts of this that could have been a really good story.
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Maico 2010
Maico 2010
Autor Shimizu, Toshimitsu
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