Review of "Battle Vixens Vol 1"

Review Type: Manga & Anime
Levitz9's Rating: 1 of 5

Let's get something straight--throught the entire time that I read Battle Vixen's 1, I was aroused by the fact that a half-naked girl was kicking butt and taking names. Okay. But, the whole time, I was put off by the fact that the manga was about a big-chested girl who spent her time getting her clothes torn, kicking butt, and taking names. So, it's sort of a contradiction.

For every page, there's a pantyshot (1 minimum). For any fight, a shirt get's torn, and breasts are seen. And this goes on for a few chapters.
I'm not one of those uptight 'moral' persons--as I said, I was titilated by seeing Hakufu walk naked into the hot spring in that one scene. But when an entire book is riddled with that, and plenty of other crud, that's when things get out of hand. I mean, this is insane--a girl fights a guy, handcuffs him, and proceeds to doing something naughty with his head, with dirty lines following. Why didn't they just make this a hentai series? It'd done them better, because, seriously, they're selling a series purely on the fanservice of it all. The cover alone--Hakufu's doing a kick, and a conveniently placed dragon is covering her panties. That should've been a warning.

Now, there have been worse--case in point, Elfen Lied has plenty of nudity. Not-needed nudity. But the series doesn't depend purely on nudity. This series takes the story of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and turns it into something that's three steps from being soft-porn (worse--there's a scene in the 'bonus content' with a girl, ahem, 'making a guy happy').

My final line is this: If they were going to make a series like this, then why not just go ahead and make it a hentai instead? As a manga, it's pretty low--fighting with the excuse of a few magic crystals thrown about, and the promise of more frontal nudity. As a hentai, it'd probably do better.

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