Ori no Naka

Description

Gomi Jirou, a 29 year old virgin, has spent the past 9 years nerding out with his work colleagues about anime during lunch and drawing erotic doujinshi at night so he can masturbate.

However, one day, this comfort zone of his is thrown into disarray by the introduction of a new colleague, Yumezora Kuroko, a bespectacled beauty with long, dark hair and a massive chest.

It only takes a moment to fall in love, just like how it takes a moment to lose your footing.

This is the story of a weak man's sins and sexual fixations.

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Manga

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Associated Names

Inside the Dregs

澱の中

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Galactic Rolling Dynamite Pancake

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Status in Country of Origin

2 Volumes (Ongoing)

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Average: 5.8 / 10.0 (18 votes)

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Last Updated

September 10th, 2025 3:48am PDT - 2 months ago

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Genre

Adult Drama Psychological Romance Seinen
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Author(s)

Amu (II)

Artist(s)

Amu (II)

Year

2025

Original Publisher

Kodansha

Serialized In (magazine)

Young Magazine (Kodansha)

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Beauty and trauma rollacoaster, but far from a bad manga

by AoiTsukiReviewer
1 week ago

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At 28 chapters out, i feel confident to write a short review. This is Itoi Amu’s work, and you should know what that means. And if you don’t, it means the following: surprising psychological depth, emotional cluster-F drama on bottom and fringes of society, with all the nastiness, beauty and violence woven into what can justly be called a storyline with surprising depth and attention to detail, not a mere generic plotline.

ART – Art is actually good albeit pretty grimy and rough, but this fits well with the overall feel. People are drawn a bit like caricatures, which is unusual for a manga. There is only one notable exception; the heroine and her beauty (as well as how she’s drawn) stand out among all other characters. I think her beauty but plays an important role to contrast the grime of her situation and the manga on the whole, to highten dramatic tension and make a contrast between what she actually is, and her situation and past.

PLOT: Story starts generic enough, with MC as a socially-awkward, introverted young man (a “loser”) that is into anime while avoiding 3-d girls (past trauma) and wishing to live his days out in tranquility while working in a blue-collar company. His peaceful days change when a young woman joins the company, and she seems to be interested in him. Seeing his chance, he starts to get closer and from there on story takes turn after turn (not for the better) as their situation gets more intimate and more and more of her situation and past get revealed. The MC (naturally) wants to help her because he loves her. Enter drama and suffering.

Main girl, Kuroko, goes through quite a transformation of how we see her: she is first introduced as a ditzy and cute girl (basically an unicorn), she soon reveals underlying unstable behavior such as anxiety,` nervousness and neurotic behavior (not yandere tho).

More than once there is a plot twist (and knife twist in the belly) where the new information paints the entire situation differently and has you going “oh sht, what now?”

I think underlying message isn’t just about human trauma, but is also a critique is pointed at how society puts down anyone that isn’t beautiful, or pretentious, boisterous and social, no matter their other qualities and potential. But perhaps i’m getting way too ahead.

Be it as it may, it’s not the most comfortable of reads (but hey, it’s Itou Amu, that’s simply the kind of manga she writes) but it’s far from not being worth reading. At least if you have a bit thicker skin and don’t mind being taken for a ride to explore both beauty and dirtiness of human society and nature, it's certainly a good, well-thought-of manga. It’s the story of the people at bottom of society (socially or psychologically). The people in the dregs.

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