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Manara's Kama Sutra

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The plot is utterly stupid. The illustrations are gorgeous, and, taken individually, very erotic. But somehow the overall effect of all of them together is just ho-hum. Manara has no sense of erotic timing: the final erotic encounter between Parva and Shiva, which could and should have been stretched sensuously over a couple of dozen pages, consists of a two-page wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. Anyone who expects more from their erotica than just a couple of sexy pictures should look elsewhere.

Adult full-color graphic novel.

This book is Manara's version of that old sex book. Manara's version is set in modern times, and involves two women, and the trouble they get into when one of them ends up with an odd object in their possession.

As a blonde woman rides a little motor scooter along a city street, a man calls out "Show me what you've got!" The girl turns, glares and flips him off. Distracted, the girl ends up driving into a courier on a scooter. The courier drives off, leaving one package in the street; the girl retrieves the package and takes it home. Unsure what to do with it, she calls up her friend, a female that wears a red hat throughout the book, and is occasionally attached to a geeky looking guy. The friend suggests that the blonde should open the box. Blondie does and finds a long green snake like thing.

After removing her pants, the blonde girl checks herself out in the mirror for injuries. Suddenly a voice calls out to her. Apparently it is the long green snake like thing. The girl raises her shirt at the green snake-like things command, and then strokes the snake. Out pops a genie like creature which is the spirit of Shiva, blondie's hero (oh, and if it is important at some point, blondie is called Parva). The nude shimmering spirit thing tells the blonde girl that he could be flesh and blood again. Blondie wants to help. Apparently, if she passes some tests, she can meet up with the spirit's body during the full moon in August. Just then, Parva's friends arrive. Blondie allows Red hat and geeky guy up to her apartment without bothering to put anything like pants on, leaving her half-naked.

The snake mentions that whoever possesses it is in danger of Kali the Destroyer, and only tantra can protect. Therefore, blondie and geeky guy end up kissing. Kissing doesn't seem to be enough, so they have an orgy. Two beautiful women, one geeky Woody Allen looking guy. During the orgy, the pictures turn reddish and the people are barely visible.

Suddenly an irate turbaned guy bursts in looking for the package. Blondie grabs the snake and runs upstairs. Geeky and red hat hurriedly dress (at least a short skirt and pants). Finding that she isn't safe hiding upstairs, blondie wraps the snake around her like a belt and runs out into city traffic. Blondie is now wandering around wearing just a white t-shirt and a green belt. Without the belt, she is barely covered, with the belt, all is exposed below the waist. Blondie runs down prostitute alley with angry turban man after her. To try to disguise herself, she grabs a guy's coat, and when she spots the angry turban man coming, she leaps into the strange man's arms (coat guy, not angry turban man). Angry turban walks past, blondie attempts to leave, coat guy flips her over, sucks on her, flings her down, and inserts himself into her. Suddenly red hat arrives and knocks out coat guy.

Blondie and red hat run away, but when red hat realizes that blondie left the coat behind, red hat (Lulu) runs back for it. Blondie (remember, Parva) hides in the back of a storage container resting on a truck trailer (18-wheeler). Red hat is captured by turban man and blondie ends up locked up in the back of the trailer, off to who knows where. The container is lifted straight off the trailer and placed on a merchant ship. Before she knows it, off blondie goes on an ocean voyage. She pounds on the door, is let out, is fondled and led before a strange fat guy and a nearly naked she-male. Running from them, she falls overboard, floats to a beach. Found by nearly nude, but masked and turbaned men and dragged, strangely enough, to where her friend had been lead after her capture. Another 18 pages of this strange little book.

Overall, a strange little story. The artwork was good, the plot-line was strange, the she-male was annoying, but especially annoying was red hat's refusal to ever take off that red hat. (by the way, that test that the spirit guy mentioned? it doesn't start until page 52).

The art is good but the story line is bland and not enough action. Trust me just go right pass it.

Well, no one can accuse Manara of being a great writer...but he is an excellent illustrator.

The reason he has so much appeal for me is the fact that he can communicate so much with such stark and simple lines. There isn't a lot of shading effect with most of his drawings; it's mostly cartoon art done in an anatomical manner without the gratuitous detail that makes the Image line of comics so tedious to read.

This isn't his best work; I would recommend Click! 2 if you can find it. This isn't bad, though.

Following Milo Manara's usual style, this book is simply a series of sexual vignettes loosely tied together by a fantastical/supernatural plot.

Like a lot of Manara's books, the continuity of the story is purely structured by the author's whim. For example, a sensual "kissing cousins" scenario is broken up by a blustering landlord which then segues into a near rape of the main character. Such scenes also highlight another penchant of the artist--linking slapstick to tone down darker scenes--which may put some readers off. However, those used to his other books like Butterscotch and Click will find this to be par for the course.

Overall, this is standard Manara fare and probably best appreciated by fans of his artwork.

Don't let the synopsis fool you, Parva isn't really the main character. She seems like it, but her friend (who wears a stupid hat through-out the book) who is featured in the 'climatic' scene.

And 'climatic' is in quotes because the tension of this story never really changes all that much. One could read this entire book and feel no real change in emotion.

And calling it the 'most hardcore' seems silly, too. Despite some hardcore situations, they are delivered in such a way as to diffuse any emotions they might arouse.

As said before, go right by this. Trust me.

Sure, Manara's art is great, but everything else is just too bland.

Milo Manara is a gifted artist with an occasional sense of wit and situational humor in several of his works. This however, is not the case with Manara's Kama Sutra. The book is a series of silly excuses for amorous encounters (very)loosely based on the Kama Sutra. Humor content varies from poor to nonexistent. Finally, the ludicrous encounters are un-erotic in their execution and seem like independent scenes that are poorly organized into a loosely coherent work.

Manara's Click (series) and WWW are much better works.

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This book has nothing to do with Kama Sutra. I love Manara and his work but in this case he just abused the name of the holy text from India for a second rate story that has, I repeat, absolutely nothing to do with the title, Obviously the title has just been used to attract customers. A pity.