Manga A Day: Yubisaki Milk Tea Vol 05

Amazon.com: Yubisaki Milk Tea Volume 5 (Yubisaki Milk Tea): Books: Tomochika Miyano ISBN: 1598168908 ISBN-13: 9781598168907

Yubisaki Milk Tea, it just gets squickier and squickier. How many uncomfortable storylines can you pack in one 180 page book? I think Yubisaki Milk Tea has gone for the record, I can't imagine what they'll pack into the next volume. Lets count of the squicks, shall we?

In this volume:

Yoshinori makes out with his sister
Yoshinori's sister throws herself at Hidari's father (again)
After being interrupted while having sex, Yoshinori dresses up as yuki to masturbate.
Kagami, Hidari's (14/15? year old) best friend has been letting an adult guy take nude pictures of her
Hidari offers to let Kagami use her for sex as an apology for not being in love with her
Yoshinori, as Yuki, takes erotic nude pictures of Kagami
In a bonus side story, Minamo, Yoshinori's classmate, reveals that her brother used to make passes at her in middle school.  And she liked it.

Diiiiiisssstuuuuuuurbing. I can't imagine what they're going to do in the next book. Everyone is so mixed up. None of these things are particularly frowned on by anyone in the story. Everyone is so lonely that they're just throwing themselves at anyone who shows them a bit of attention.

The delicate and sketchy artwork set off the story. Almost half the story takes place at night or in darkened rooms so there is a lot of screen tone and shadows. At times it makes the artwork look muddy. The characters at times look alike, sometimes only set apart by hair color and length. In one scene where Yoshinori and Minamo are kissing, it's hard to tell who is who.

This isn't a book for everyone. It's provocative and disturbing, but shows surprisingly deep flashes. It's not just a perversion-fest. It's the kind of book I'm afraid of some parents group finding on the shelves and using as a rally cry against manga, because it would be easy to just see the raw sexuality. It's easy to miss the soul searching and exploration because of all the sexual fumbling going on by the cast.

This book felt like it was going in a million directions at once. It seemed to fly a bit off the track set by the earlier books in the attempt to shock as much as possible. I want to see if they can pull it back on track with the next book.