Koi Kaze
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This is probably the best serious incest-themed manga ever.
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MC had absolutely no redeeming qualities and the sister never stopped looking like an elementary schooler.
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Forbidden love works out without any major drama (Just don't have kids)
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You fuckers ever heard of spoiler function?
Spoilers below, because humanity.
Spoilers below, because humanity.
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A somewhat level headed approach to incest. It's not bad.
Everything in this manga was so well-planned out and incredibly dense in every way. The emotional side of an taboo, highly immoral topic like incest is explored in a sepulchral, painful straight-forwardness to the point of almost unnerving me to catch my senses, which is a trademark of Yoshida-san's works to feature often brutally down-to-earth depictions of romantic affairs and situations, all to a tee. Genius work, overall. If you're looking for any conventional narrative here, you should look somewhere else. This is quite avant-garde, as the story takes a step back in favor of its aesthetics and atmospheric character dialogue that really drives the manga's major point home, in that incest is real, and it is brutally amoral at the hands of the animalistic desires of a human being. Absolutely not for the faint of heart, because this manga can be devastatingly crushing at times.
tl;dr: The Mona Lisa of underground romance manga.
tl;dr: The Mona Lisa of underground romance manga.
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Definitely worth reading. Quite serious and realistic put on controversial topic like insect.
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Genre should be changed to tragedy
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I started this because it was so highly rated... But it feels like most of the people hailing it as a masterpiece seems to do so because of the rarity of a taboo topic treated somewhat maturely in manga. Maybe I would have had the same fascination if I was 12 and discovering "mature" mangas...
But looking at it more objectively, Koi Kaze is a disappointment. What is it trying to do? It's not making you think, because the actions of the characters are never contextualised: why is a 30 y.o man acting like a rebellious teenager? Is it because he's lived somewhat emotionally sheltered? A trauma from his past? A personality repressed too long by society's crushing norms? We don't know, and nothing in his environment or the storytelling hints at anything but him being someone who tends to hide his feelings. Which is clearly not enough to justify acting on incestuous feelings. Harboring them is fine, no one can control one's feelings. But I expect an explanation as to why he acts on them.
What about the consequences of their love then? Sometimes internal motivations are not the focus, and the interest of the story resides in seeing how the world reacts to the initial push. But the author tells us nothing about that. At best a little scolding from a work friend who ends up acting normally after being angry. The main couple lives in a world without friction, where it's just a matter of "being true to you feelings" and everything works out (with a little lie here and there). Nothing to see here!
OK, so maybe the manga doesn't try to tell anything and is just an aesthetic exploration of a simple story. A sort of "In the Mood for Love", but with incest. Here again, this is a disappointment. The art is average, the panelling is uninspired, the story is structured linearly, without any surprise. I can see someone like Oshimi Shuzo pulling off a story like that purely on the strength of his visual storytelling. But here again, Koi Kaze is a disappointment.
What does that leave us with then? A story about a sensitive topic treated in a disappointing way. It could be worse, but that does not make it good. It's at best harmless. Too bad.
But looking at it more objectively, Koi Kaze is a disappointment. What is it trying to do? It's not making you think, because the actions of the characters are never contextualised: why is a 30 y.o man acting like a rebellious teenager? Is it because he's lived somewhat emotionally sheltered? A trauma from his past? A personality repressed too long by society's crushing norms? We don't know, and nothing in his environment or the storytelling hints at anything but him being someone who tends to hide his feelings. Which is clearly not enough to justify acting on incestuous feelings. Harboring them is fine, no one can control one's feelings. But I expect an explanation as to why he acts on them.
What about the consequences of their love then? Sometimes internal motivations are not the focus, and the interest of the story resides in seeing how the world reacts to the initial push. But the author tells us nothing about that. At best a little scolding from a work friend who ends up acting normally after being angry. The main couple lives in a world without friction, where it's just a matter of "being true to you feelings" and everything works out (with a little lie here and there). Nothing to see here!
OK, so maybe the manga doesn't try to tell anything and is just an aesthetic exploration of a simple story. A sort of "In the Mood for Love", but with incest. Here again, this is a disappointment. The art is average, the panelling is uninspired, the story is structured linearly, without any surprise. I can see someone like Oshimi Shuzo pulling off a story like that purely on the strength of his visual storytelling. But here again, Koi Kaze is a disappointment.
What does that leave us with then? A story about a sensitive topic treated in a disappointing way. It could be worse, but that does not make it good. It's at best harmless. Too bad.
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I get the criticism. Koshiro is quite unlikable and Nanoka was designed prioritizing cuteness over depth.
However, the story is still incredibly well-structured and paced if you can swallow the premise, and it's one hell of a ride. I don't know how well the manga fares compared to most, but the anime it spawned it easily one the best romance shows ever in that media.
About the ending:
However, the story is still incredibly well-structured and paced if you can swallow the premise, and it's one hell of a ride. I don't know how well the manga fares compared to most, but the anime it spawned it easily one the best romance shows ever in that media.
About the ending:
I think the anime's ending is better. It's a fake closure that represents how their romance is doomed to tragedy. The ending in the manga is a stalemate of sorts that feels better and leaves the story in a better note than it honestly should.
