I'm a big Ougi Yuzuha fan, flaws and all. She's the real deal. Just read her afterwords. She's not some fresh-faced two-bit hack. She's a whip-smart, genre-savvy veteran. I know this is a weird work of hers to stand by because it's among her more sophomore professional output and because at a passing glance it's all pomp and frivolity, but this is Yuzuha brandishing the tools of the trade to wreak some unbridled fun and havoc at her own expense. You can say there's even some pretty sophisticated class humor here—shenanigans of the obscenely rich and influential, who spend their obscene wealth and clout on the obscenely wasteful. What a great premise to go ham with. Ougi is everything I find endearing about Japanese humor on crack. She knows exactly what she's doing and she's not here to apologize for it. It doesn't hurt that the sex is peppered liberally in her stories either. Look at how she weaponizes lust even in such a ridiculous premise—how she manages to make it so palpable.
I'm a big Ougi Yuzuha fan, flaws and all. She's the real deal. Just read her afterwords. She's not some fresh-faced two-bit hack. She's a whip-smart, genre-savvy veteran. I know this is a weird work of hers to stand by because it's among her more sophomore professional output and because at a passing glance it's all pomp and frivolity, but this is Yuzuha brandishing the tools of the trade to wreak some unbridled fun and havoc at her own expense. You can say there's even some pretty sophisticated class humor here—shenanigans of the obscenely rich and influential, who spend their obscene wealth and clout on the obscenely wasteful. What a great premise to go ham with. Ougi is everything I find endearing about Japanese humor on crack. She knows exactly what she's doing and she's not here to apologize for it. It doesn't hurt that the sex is peppered liberally in her stories either. Look at how she weaponizes lust even in such a ridiculous premise—how she manages to make it so palpable.