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Object of Desire (Josei) (Luv Luv)

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Object of Desire, by Tomoko Noguchi, is a story of how modern high school student, Kako, comes to terms with the fact that all guys seem to want is sex...with love trailing behind "if" one's lucky. Of course, this is probably due in part to her "E-cup breasts," but hey, it's not like such girls don't exist in ordinary life! Teenage life is full of pubescent girls and boys with raging hormones, so for a girl blessed with beauty, big breasts, or some other physically ideal attribute, it's understandable that they would have a hard time finding anything remotely close to the "meaning" of love (since boys tend to spout such cliche words just to get in a girls pants).

So in a way, this story is just as described in the title: women as objects of desire. Will this stereotype ever be overcome? Personally, I doubt it. But, as Kako puts it, "I actually don't care if they just want to sleep with me, if only they would be honest about it." And interestingly enough, the main guy character actually does just that when he approaches her upfront and tells her straight out, "Would you let me have sex with you."

I found this approach to the common story of two strangers meeting, and then later falling in love very refreshing and sarcastically funny ^_^

The art is modern, the characters are funny, and the sex is great. What more can you ask for? It's basically Sex in the City set in a high school, with the main lead being a high school girls with a beautiful body. However, unlike Sex in the City, the character is still quite believable as she's not part of some beautiful, super-elite working women group with looks, brains, money, and sex, but a high school girl who just happens to have big breats ^_^

And this is just the title story! Included are five other stories that revolve around the same subject with characters and storylines that are just as quirky and interesting to read! Readers should give this title a shot if they like modern pop culture stories!

The different emotions that are clashing around in you during high school days are captured here in these short stories in Object of Desire. Sometimes they don't even make sense to the outsider, but this is the time where hormones are raging! Indeed, I enjoyed this josei manga, especially chapters 3&4 with a tomboy-ish heroine and her dufus of a boyfriend. This one is definitely a keeper!

Alright. first off putting this in the same category as some of the TRUE great manga titles Ah! My Godess, One Piece, Naruto, Fullmetal alchemist and many many others is possibly THE worst thing anyone could ever do.

Having picked this up at a local bookstore then RETURNED it for arefund i hate to say if you are looking for some good manga ansd picked this up! then i really pitty you. It is not realistic and counts too much on Heavy explicit scenes to progress the weakest of all plotlines in any of its unconected storylines. this ain't manag and to tell the truth it has much more in common with top shelf magazines that anything that should bear the tag of manga.

Do your self a favour and in these hard economic times buy a decent manga that will entertain you much more than this over paid book which is no better than toilet paper