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Rhapsody

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Adult Black and white graphic novel/collection of stories.

Rhapsody is a collection of five story sections.

The first section is titled "Rhapsody of a Brother and Sister" and includes four stories ("volumes"). The first story involves the brother mooning over a girl, and the sister that is jealousy. The sister has taken care of the brother since their parents died, and, as she notes: "[y]ou need no one but me." The brother and sister have a very close relationship. Too close. The second story involves the brother and sister being too close some more, and a memory of when they found out that their parents had died. The third story involves the girl the brother likes stopping by the apartment. The girl and the brother go up to the brother's room, and then the sister calls the brother downstairs, tells him to stay down there and the sister heads to his room. When the girl refuses to leave the brother alone, the sister sexually attacks the girl: "I'll make it so you never show your face in front of my brother again." The last story follows directly on the third. After the rape, the brother (so far unaware of what really happened), confronts his sister while she is in the shower. The sister tries to go down on the brother, but he pushes her away. But that doesn't last. The artwork in these stories is good, nothing is censored, but the subject matter is off-putting.

The second story section involves a one part story called "Our Relationship." This story involves a very smart, beautiful high school girl, named Saeki, and the girl, named Ryoko, that she "stalks." After learning that Ryoko needs to take a make-up test, Saeki invites herself to become Ryoko's tutor. Ryoko's nervous about the situation. Then she learns that Saeki, the girl that could get into any university, is intentionally failing her tests so that she could remain in the school with Ryoko. One thing does not lead to another, as there is no sex and no nudity.

The third story section involves another one part story, this one called "A World of Beautiful Women." This story involves a school club that needs one more member to stay open. A strange all-female "Conjuring Tricks Club," involving bondage. A woman is stripped, bond and made to join the club (oh, and all this nudity and bondage is occurring outdoors, on what might be school grounds). Good artwork, good story.

The fourth story section is yet another one part story, this one called "Got Milk?" This story involves a man and woman that have been going out for a week. When the man finds and reads the woman's planner, he finds out that the woman goes out with other men. The woman spots him reading the planner and begs him to not leave her, and that she will do anything to keep him. The man asks for milk, the woman brings it, and then an odd sequence of events unfold. The man shoves the woman over, shoves the milk into one of her holes in her lower body, and basically attacks her. Interesting little odd story.

The last story section is yet another one parter, and a return to incest, in the story titled "Little Sister's Feelings." Yet again, the brother wants to break off the relationship, and the sister doesn't want to do that (difference being that this time it is an older brother/young sister relationship). The brother says that he likes one of his sister's girlfriends. The sister "make[s] [his] wish come true." The brother and the girlfriend enjoy each other while the sister watches.

Overall, the subject matter was a little too off-putting. The drawing was good, though hindered by being black and white (and the incest). Book includes: incest, no censoring, rape (girl on girl), bondage, exhibitism, whipping, and voyeurism.

basically, if you like hentai,girl on girl, incest and rape then this is the book for you. the book contains a number of stories. mostly about brother/sister sex.

After i read the book twice all the way through, it practically fell apart, so whoever put this book together must have used crappy glue or something.

I am not sure if Yuuki Ryoh is sexy or not, but she knows how to draw great artwork and perfect stories. To find a manga with both, that deals with adult themes dealing only in sex, is amazing. I was really turned on by many of the plots and even enjoyed the after word from the artist herself.
To me her artwork and stories are better than that of Yukimino Yukio. While both know what readers want, she seems to add a little more in spice. One story is about two girls and was even touching in how it was done.
The five stars were earned. Two thumbs up!

This graphic novel shows it all for those who enjoy hentai type graphic novels. Yuuki Ryoh does great artwork. Upon starting this book I continued until the final page. The book is written in English in the standard format for books in this language (left to right). Each chapter is a story in itself but these are arranged in a manner that continues the basic theme all through the book.

Comprised of five, very erotic and dark, short stories, this novel opens with a taboo sexual relationship between brother and a sister. It follows with equally erotic and taboo stories about lesbian stalking, group bondage sex, and non-tradiational toys.

Some of the reviews for this book are from people complaining about the subject matter. Well, the books cover clearly states that its contents are "taboo" and "incest", so if that turns you off, just buy something else.
If, however, you can enjoy a fantasy of sex between a brother and sister, which is what most of this (pretty thick for what it is) hentai is about, then you're likely to love this.

Theres a bunch of short stories of an incestious relationship between the same brother and sister, a not very graphic story about two schoolgirls where one has the hots for the other, a story about a girl that gets tied up and "raped" (in a very friendly way) as a sort of sorority initiation, and some other stuff I haven't read yet.
The drawings are very nice in my opinion, and the storylines and ideas are, although fit for hentai and not much more, pretty good. And you get more pages than usual for the money.

Like someone else wrote though: The pages do fall out really easily, so it's kind of tricky to read.

Hentai is an excellent place to submerge yourself in forbidden fantasies and surreal situations. Not necessarily things you would like to experience in real life, but excellent eroticism nonetheless. This book presents some quite raunchy and forbidden scenarios, of the kind you might think about when you're 14 and 15 and then forget about or learn to shun. It's a great book to spice up your imagination a little. Everything goes in hentai, that's one of the things that are so cool about it. And you don't have to worry about any negative consequences that might arise in real life.

Of course, if the mere thought of a brother having sex with his sister is a huge turnoff for you, this might not be your cup of tea. But if not, just relax and enter the fantasy, it's a good book.