Manara's Kama Sutra

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Summary: On the verge of boring
Review: Don't let the synopsis fool you, Parva isn't really the main character. She seems like it, but her friend (who wears a stupid hat through-out the book) who is featured in the 'climatic' scene.

And 'climatic' is in quotes because the tension of this story never really changes all that much. One could read this entire book and feel no real change in emotion.

And calling it the 'most hardcore' seems silly, too. Despite some hardcore situations, they are delivered in such a way as to diffuse any emotions they might arouse.

As said before, go right by this. Trust me.

Sure, Manara's art is great, but everything else is just too bland.

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Summary: Manara on Autopilot
Review: Following Milo Manara's usual style, this book is simply a series of sexual vignettes loosely tied together by a fantastical/supernatural plot.

Like a lot of Manara's books, the continuity of the story is purely structured by the author's whim. For example, a sensual "kissing cousins" scenario is broken up by a blustering landlord which then segues into a near rape of the main character. Such scenes also highlight another penchant of the artist--linking slapstick to tone down darker scenes--which may put some readers off. However, those used to his other books like Butterscotch and Click will find this to be par for the course.

Overall, this is standard Manara fare and probably best appreciated by fans of his artwork.

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Summary: eduardo
Review: manara is goo

Rating:
Summary: On the verge of boring
Review: Milo Manara is a gifted artist with an occasional sense of wit and situational humor in several of his works. This however, is not the case with Manara's Kama Sutra. The book is a series of silly excuses for amorous encounters (very)loosely based on the Kama Sutra. Humor content varies from poor to nonexistent. Finally, the ludicrous encounters are un-erotic in their execution and seem like independent scenes that are poorly organized into a loosely coherent work.

Manara's Click (series) and WWW are much better works.

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Summary: Manara's poorest accomplishment
Review: Milo Manara is a gifted artist with an occasional sense of wit and situational humor in several of his works. This however, is not the case with Manara's Kama Sutra. The book is a series of silly excuses for amorous encounters (very)loosely based on the Kama Sutra. Humor content varies from poor to nonexistent. Finally, the ludicrous encounters are un-erotic in their execution and seem like independent scenes that are poorly organized into a loosely coherent work.

Manara's Click (series) and WWW are much better works.

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Summary: when Eros meet the art
Review: Milo Manara is probably (surely) one of the best artist of erotism. He can explain feelings, emotions, and other deep things through his draws. I like this new book, of sure; every books of manara is different and interesting...

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Summary: It stinks
Review: The art is good but the story line is bland and not enough action. Trust me just go right pass it.

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Summary: good drawing, poor erotica
Review: The plot is utterly stupid. The illustrations are gorgeous, and, taken individually, very erotic. But somehow the overall effect of all of them together is just ho-hum. Manara has no sense of erotic timing: the final erotic encounter between Parva and Shiva, which could and should have been stretched sensuously over a couple of dozen pages, consists of a two-page wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am. Anyone who expects more from their erotica than just a couple of sexy pictures should look elsewhere.

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Summary: Exquisitely drawn
Review: Well, no one can accuse Manara of being a great writer...but he is an excellent illustrator.

The reason he has so much appeal for me is the fact that he can communicate so much with such stark and simple lines. There isn't a lot of shading effect with most of his drawings; it's mostly cartoon art done in an anatomical manner without the gratuitous detail that makes the Image line of comics so tedious to read.

This isn't his best work; I would recommend Click! 2 if you can find it. This isn't bad, though.