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Gokujou Drops
by Master_M2K on September 13, 2009, 7:53pm - 16 years ago

Rating - 7.4 / 10.0
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User rating of this review - N/A out of 5
Story/Plot - 3.5 out of 5
Characters - 4 out of 5
Drawing Style - 3.5 out of 5
Enjoyment - 4 out of 5
Overall - 3.5 out of 5

Gokujou Drops is a Shoujo, Smut, Yuri manga about your regular Plain Jane getting caught up in the lives of some extravagant individuals. There is nothing unique about this set-up but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying it and shouldn’t stop any fan of the yuri genre… albeit those who aren’t too fond of explicit material.

Plot / Story
Just like with most manga of the “yuri” genre, Gokujou Drops follows the day-to-day antics of Komari. A High-School freshman who’s in serious need of a place to stay and she’s in luck, as one of the residents of Paraso no Yakata (a dorm of elites) has acquired an interest in her. So in the typical shoujo fashion, she’s allowed to stay in said dorm yet she must conform to being her onee-sama’s pet, play-thing, whichever way you want to spin it. This whole “Master–Slave” pairing is the least bit original and the predictable formula each chapter follows doesn’t help one bit, but the characters and the way they interact with one another is what makes it all enjoyable.

Characters / Drawing Style
With that said… don’t expect anything original with the character set-up either, since this manga basically ticks every box; from the squabbling twin siblings, to the level-headed leader. Nonetheless it’s the way they interact with one another that intrigues me and would do the same to most fans of the yuri genre. Learning all their subtle mannerism, various personal traits and such certainly adds a lot to the bland story of this bland slice of life. Shame the artwork doesn’t do the same, as it adopts the exquisite design found in most yuri manga of this nature.

Overall
In the end yuri is a genre that is not often ventured and on the of chance that it does go beyond your standard oneshot, it often ends up like Gokujou Drops. A slice of life set in an extravagant all-girls school, where one poor innocent girl is constantly sort after and used to relieve sexual tension. But hey… if the concept ain’t broke then don’t fix it… just tweak it to your liking and that’s also what Gokujou Drops does.

Be warned, there's a lot of sexual content.


 

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