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Jun 06, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English

せきらら

Sekirara

This review contains spoilers. 性的に求められることが自分の価値であると思ってしまう人、好きでもないのに性欲に流されて関係を持ってしまう人、自分の体や心の変化を受け止められない人…第二次性徴の怒涛の流れで、自分の性に振り回される人物像がリアルに、赤裸々に描かれている点で、他に類を見ない作品だと思う。

This review contains spoilers. People who think that what is required of them sexually is their own value, people who are swept away by sexual desire and have relationships even though they don't like them, people who can't accept changes in their own body or mind... I think it's a work like no other in that it realistically and starkly depicts figures swayed by one's own sex in the furious flow of secondary sexual characteristics.

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May 08, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English

自分がどうありたいかを考える本

A book about thinking about how you want to be

性的なことに関わらず、自分ってなんぞや？という気持ちにさせられてしまいますね。地元にあるしょぼーい科学館の匂いを思い出しました。なぜ。この作品のテーマに関しては否定も同調もしません、でも、ただただ何かを考えて浸ってみたくなりました。特に考えることもない自分なんですけどね。

What am I, regardless of sexual matters? It makes me feel like that. It reminded me of the smell of a shabby science museum in my hometown. why. I don't deny or agree with the theme of this work, but I just wanted to think about something and immerse myself in it. I don't even think about anything in particular, though.

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Apr 21, 2026 (PST) | Translate to English

よく考えるのですが

I think about it a lot

This review contains spoilers. 何が普通かは人それぞれ個々にあるもの。日本独特の多勢にいようとすると、自分に無理があると気付いたのは小学生の頃。他の人たちが普通じゃないと思いたいなら思わせておけばいい…いつか学んでくれればいいと思うようになりました。苦しいものからは抜け出していいと思います。認めてもらえなくても自分が深呼吸できて生きるほうが大事です。読んでいて体の交わりというものが苦だったのか、気づきを与えてくれたのか、はたまた両方なのか？で、洋ちゃんがもう嫌だとなって男を捨てるとなった時に気持ちがよくわかったような気がしました。

This review contains spoilers. What is normal is something that is individual for each person. It was when I was in elementary school that I realized that I couldn't do it when I tried to be in a large group unique to Japan. I've come to think that if I want other people to think they're not normal, I should let them think... I hope they learn someday. I think it's okay to get away from what's painful. It's more important to be able to take a deep breath and live even if you don't get recognized. Was the relationship between bodies painful when reading it, or did it give you awareness, or maybe both? So, I felt like I understood the feeling when Hiro-chan didn't like it anymore and abandoned the man.

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Oct 07, 2025 (PST) | Translate to English

深く考え出せられる

I can think deeply

This review contains spoilers. 今まで当たり前のように女性として生きてきたけど、考えさせられました。慧ちゃんと自分の中で重なる部分が沢山あって沢山泣きました。私は男性にも欲情するし、女性にも欲情をしてしまう。それは性別として見て興奮している訳ではない。「人」が快感を得ているのに欲情していただけだったのかなと。自分語りしてすみません。でも、それでもいいんだよね、女性も男性も降りて欲情して、何も無くなってみたい。そう思わされました。とにかく大好きな作品になりました。

This review contains spoilers. I've lived as a woman for granted until now, but it made me think. I cried a lot because there were so many parts that overlapped between Kei and myself. I have desires for men, and I also have desires for women. That's not something I'm excited about as a gender. I wonder if “people” were just lustful even though they were getting pleasure. I'm sorry for talking to myself. But that's fine; both women and men want to get down and get lustful and lose everything. It made me think so. Anyway, it became my favorite work.

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Aug 05, 2025 (PST) | Translate to English

ただの漫画ではない

It's not just a comic

エロ要素のしっかり入った漫画ではあるのですが押見先生の深い精神性の中身を漫画を通して見させてもらうような感覚でした。押見先生の危うい精神性を現実世界でも血を流しながら漫画の中に落とし込んでいて、読んでいるこちら側の深い部分に訴えられ揺らされました。絵は非常に上手くて上手いだけでなく心に衝撃を感じるような表情・カットがあります。押見先生の漫画は本当にすごい。

It's a comic with plenty of erotic elements, but I felt like I was being shown the contents of Oshimi sensei's deep spirituality through comics. Oshimi-sensei's dangerous mentality was incorporated into comics while shedding blood even in the real world, and I was shaken by being appealed to by the deep part of this side I was reading. Not only are the pictures very good and good, but they also have expressions and cuts that shock the heart. Oshimi-sensei's comics are really amazing.

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Dec 18, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English

1巻レビュー

Volume 1 review

単に男の子が女の子になったコメディーじゃなく、ん？何か深いぞ？と感じ始めていたら巻末の押見先生のページを見て納得。これは面白いし興味深いストーリーだと思う

It's not just a comedy about a boy becoming a girl, huh? something deep, isn't it? When I started to feel that, I was convinced when I saw Oshimi-sensei's page at the end of the book. I think this is an interesting and interesting story

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Sep 28, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English

けいちゃんかわいい

Kei-chan is cute

This review contains spoilers. とにかくけいちゃんにときめいてしまいました。体を重ねるシーンについて色んな描写がありますが、きらきらもドロドロもどっちも描ける押見先生はやはりすばらしいです。

This review contains spoilers. Anyway, I had a crush on Kei-chan. There are various depictions of scenes where bodies are layered, but Mr. Oshimi, who can draw both twinkling and muddy, is still amazing.

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Jul 23, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English

とても面白かったです

It was very interesting

作者の性についての悩みなどもあとがき等で感じ取れよかったです。けいちゃん可愛い。洋ちゃんも可愛いです。

I'm glad I was able to sense the author's concerns about sex in the afterword etc. Kei-chan is cute. Hiro-chan is cute too.

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May 14, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English

1番好き♡

I like it the most ♡

This review contains spoilers. 先生の作品は全て読みましたが、この作品が1番好きかもしれません♡他作品も読ませて頂いていつも感じますが、ラスト辺りに迷いや葛藤があるように強く感じます。本作は読後のモヤモヤが私的には少なく良かったです。いつも良い作品をありがとうございます。

This review contains spoilers. I've read all of the teacher's works, and I probably like this one the most ♡ I've read other works and I always feel it, but I have a strong feeling that there is hesitation and conflict around the end. Personally, I'm glad that this work doesn't have much fuss after reading it. Thank you for your continued good work.

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May 01, 2024 (PST) | Translate to English

うーん

Umm

トランスジェンダーの話、そっか、男の子同士のあい、きれいにかいたなーいつか、法律でも、まとめられたらいいなー子供ができないだけ、だもん。

The transgender story, well, the relationship between boys is pretty clear — someday, it would be nice if it were put together by law — it's just that they can't have children.

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Nov 04, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

祝完結！最終巻まで読んで。

Congratulations to the end! Read until the last volume.

This review contains spoilers. 非常に生々しい作風で重めな内容だったので、読み進める度にちょっと勇気がいりました。笑押見先生の最後の言葉にもありますが、人生の中で苦悩は何かのタイミングで出続けるかもしれない。だから〝辛いこと〟自体をこの先の自分の人生から完全に抹消することはできないかもしれないけれど、その時その時行き着く結論でその苦しみから降りて楽になれたら良いと思う。その時の自分を助ける結論を見つけることで、昔と今との結論が真逆になっても、今の自分を助けることに繋がるなら何だって良いと思った。大事なのは世間一般論的な正解を見つけることではなくて、自分の体や心が腑に落ちることを見つけられるかかなと。だから最後慧ちゃんは女の子になるという結論を見つけたのだろうか？洋ちゃんはまだそれを探している途中なのだろうか。分からないけれど、2人が自分の生きる方角が定まって軽やかに歩き進められるようになり、模索しながらも幸せでいてくれることを願います。

This review contains spoilers. It was a very vivid style and heavy content, so it took me a little bit of courage as I read on. Lol it's also in Oshimi sensei's last words, but suffering may continue to appear at some timing in life. So I may not be able to completely erase the “painful thing” itself from my future life, but I think it would be nice if I could get away from that suffering and feel comfortable with the conclusions I arrive at from time to time. By finding a conclusion that would help me at that time, I thought anything would be good if it would lead to helping myself now, even if my past and present conclusions were the exact opposite. The important thing is not to find the right answers in general theory, but to be able to find something that makes sense for one's own body and mind. So I wonder if Kei finally came to the conclusion that she would become a girl? I wonder if Hiro-chan is still searching for it. I don't know, but I hope the two of them have decided on their own direction of life and will be able to walk lightly, and that they will be happy while searching.

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Oct 15, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

とても良いラストでした。

It was a very good last.

This review contains spoilers. 二人が一緒に混ざり合うシーンがとても幻想的でとても素晴らしかったです。おかえりの意味もわかってよかったです。とても読みごたえがあり、考えさせられる作品でした。

This review contains spoilers. The scene where the two mix together was so fantastic and so wonderful. I'm glad you understood the meaning of welcome home. It was a very challenging read and made me think.

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Oct 15, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

三谷さんが可愛い

Mitani is cute

押見さんの作品はストーリーが独特でキャラクターは実際に想像できるような人物で好きです。三角関係のストーリーです。三谷さんがとにかく可愛い。

I like Oshimi's work because the story is unique and the characters are people I can actually imagine. It's a triangular story. Mitani is just so cute.

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Oct 07, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

久しぶりに

After a long time

惡の華読了後から忙しさにかまけてしばらく押見先生の作品から離れてしまっていました。久しぶりに読んだ先生の漫画は相変わらずドロドロでエロくてひん曲がっていて醜くって、ですが爽やかで純粋で真っ直ぐで美しかったです。人生の中で読むことが出来て良かったと思える素晴らしい作品でした。ありがとうございました。

After I finished reading Eku no Hana, I stayed away from Oshimi-sensei's works for a while due to busyness. The teacher's comics I hadn't read in a long time were still muddy, erotic, twisty, and ugly, yet they were refreshing, pure, straight, and beautiful. It was a wonderful work that made me think I'm glad I was able to read it in my life. Thank you very much.

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Oct 06, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

静かに終わった

It ended quietly

十代男女の小さな物語。いや「男」とか「女」とか使いたくない。2人の多彩な心の発露。性を意識しなかったピュアなままで居られないもどかしさ。ただ心を重ねたいだけなのに弾かれてしまう悲しさ。そんな物を感じさせながら静かに幕を下ろした

A small story of teenage boys and girls. No, I don't want to use “man” or “woman.” The expression of the two diverse minds. The frustration of not being able to stay pure without being aware of sex. The sadness of being played even though I just wanted to put my heart together. The curtain came down quietly while making me feel something like that

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Oct 06, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

すごくよかった

That was really good

満たされた気持ちになりました。女の子怖すぎ。トラウマになる怖さだった。あんなん成人男性なら興醒めだろうな。。学生だからたってたけど

It made me feel satisfied. girls are too scary. I was afraid I would be traumatized. If it were an adult man like that, I would be excited.. I was standing there because I was a student

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Aug 30, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

惹き込まれる

I'm drawn in

本当に面白い。試し読みをしてから読みたい衝動にかられ全巻買ってしまった。はやく次の巻が出て欲しいです。

It's really interesting. After doing trial readings, I got the urge to read them, so I bought the whole volume. I hope the next volume comes out soon.

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Jun 05, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

気づけば全巻購入。

If you notice, buy the whole volume.

TikTokでこの作品がおもしろかったといっている人がいて軽く読んでみたら、どんどんどんどん引き込まれ、気づけばある分の巻数全て読んでしまった。色々考えさせられました。次の巻も待ちどうしいです。

There were people on TikTok who said this work was interesting, and when I read it lightly, I was drawn in more and more, and before I knew it, I read all the volumes I had. It made me think a lot. I can't wait for the next volume.

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人間が人間を好きになるってどういう事か

What does it mean for humans to fall in love with humans

気になる作品ですね。何をレビューしていいかわかんなくなるくらい。いい意味でねこの漫画を読むと学生時代に味わった下腹部が気持ち良くなるあの感覚（性的な要素ではなく）を思い出します。この気持ちがわかる人少数かな。表現も難しい。押見修造が好きな人、性に対し寛容な心を持ってる方は読んだ方が良いと思います(^-^)

It's a work I'm interested in. So much so that I don't know what to review. Reading cat comics in a good sense reminds me of that feeling (not a sexual element) that makes my lower abdomen feel good that I experienced when I was a student. There are probably only a few people who understand this feeling. Expression is also difficult. I think people who like Shuzo Oshimi and those who are forgiving about sex should read it (^-^)

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May 20, 2023 (PST) | Translate to English

性を求める自分が汚いというセルフイメージ

Self-image of myself seeking sex being dirty

これはジェンダーとかそういう話ではなく、自分の性欲をネガティブに捉えている人間の話だなあ、と思いました。漫画部分はこのテーマを面白く見せてくれるガイド役であり、作者さんのあとがきが本編だと思って読んでいます。性や恋愛でつまずいた経験（「イケなかった」などという積極的な失敗を必ずしも意味しないと思う）から立ち直れなかった人をこの本で救済したいというモチベーションをなんとなく感じました。有効なセラピーがいつも優しく甘いわけではないですね……。己の暗闇の部分から目を逸らさず直視する苦しさがありますが、良薬口に苦し、バリ効きます（笑）。性の客体になりやすい女からしても大変苦しい漫画なのに、加害的な役割に囚われやすい男性の苦しみたるや、、想像を絶します。彗ちゃんの「男を降りたい」と阿野さんの「私も女を降りたい」は同じことを言っているようで実際はたぶん非対称ですね。。

I thought this wasn't about gender or anything like that; it was about people who have a negative perception of their own sexual desires. The comic part acts as a guide that shows this theme in an interesting way, and I read it thinking that the author's afterword is the main story. Somehow I felt motivated to use this book to help people who couldn't recover from experiences of stumbling over sex or romance (I don't think it necessarily means aggressive failure such as “not cool”). Effective therapies aren't always gentle and sweet... It's painful to look directly at yourself without taking your eyes off the dark part of yourself, but it's hard to take good medicine, and it works so well (laughs). Even though it's a very painful comic, even for women who tend to be sexual objects, it's hard to imagine the suffering of men who are easily trapped in harmful roles. Come-chan's “I want to get off a man” and Ano's “I want to get off a woman too” seem to say the same thing, so in reality they're probably asymmetrical...

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