It’s best to not burn bridges at work.
Creative Staff
Story/Art: Puniiyu
Translation/Adaptation: N/A
What They Say:
Here it comes!! 100% chance of precipitation. ♥
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic Shitsurakuten from the June 2017 installment, Soaking-Wet Forecast is an eighteen page story from creator Puniiyu, who has two other works on the service. This marked my first experience with this particular creator and it’s definitely appealing when it comes to aspects of the artwork. While they do go over the top with the breast size and movement of them in a way that’s eye-roll inducing, a lot of the material beyond that is pretty good with camera placement and angles as well as the general backgrounds and the like. The only downside for me is that it goes for that whole x-ray vision thing in showing what’s going on inside during penetration and that just doesn’t click for me most of the time and instead takes me out of things.
The story is one that focuses on a work relationship of sorts as we’re introduced to Yasagure, a salaryman who ended up losing his job due to a screwup by his boss that got pinned on him. It’s been a few months since he was let go and that reputation has followed him around which has lead him to not working and drinking a lot. So, on a very rainy day, the woman who trained him ends up crashing into his place to get dry since she remembered where he lived while being out. Nijino is your standard overly busty young woman and she gives Yasagure a lot of grief for his heavy drinking that she realizes he’s been engaged in. There’s a bit of a twist at the end as to how this whole meet-cute works but it’s definitely problematic because of how it all really starts when you get down to it.
Yasagure’s mindset is not good so seeing him pull her top off and start in on her as she pushes him away and tells him no is familiar, as is the fact that he continues anyway even though she hasn’t given consent. Yes, fantasy and all that and I totally get it, but it’s something that just doesn’t work well here since she has such a change (due to the later twist) with her attitude that it’s more about her being caught off-guard by how forthright he is than anything else. But ugh, what an example. Once the two get down to the heavy sexy times where it’s all above board (though it’s easy to imagine it’s all pressured sex due to how it starts, but again, the twist), there are some fun things as they go at it. Puniiyu has some good layouts here and the flow of the action is good as is the design for it all with Nijino’s expressions and all. But at the same time it’s just hard to shake those early moments off because it infects the work as a whole.
In Summary
A story like this will be divisive just based on where you fall within the whole fantasy element of what it presents in terms of consent here, regardless of the twist at the end. It’s something where if it bothers you then this story will fail. If it’s something you know going in it can be a fifty/fifty kind of thing. And if it’s what you’re looking for then it’ll largely deliver. I like what Puniiyu has here with the artwork and layouts, not keen on the internal bits that just detract from the appeal of the sexuality, and wish that the story had been constructed just a bit differently so it could have been more enjoyable and not “ugh, creepy, dude.”
Content Grade: C-
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+
Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: November 2016
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription
