It was very conscious of itself, I think, and of it's martial arts genre and it felt very obvious that some of the tropes were being made fun of and exploited. I really enjoyed reading Sumomomo Momomo.mo (? I'm never sure if I have the right amount of 'mo's) I found the emotions played really well and I laughed out loud several times through out the story as well. First off, Koushi refuses her offer of bearing their children, and then he tells her he hates martial arts?! Reaching the Inuzuka household, however, things do not go as planned. When Momoko, the only daughter of Sendayuu Kuzuryuu, the leader of the Dragon clan of martial artists, is told by her father she, as a woman, cannot gain anymore strength and must instead find a strong man to have a child with so that her offspring can surpass her, Momoko goes to find her father's equal's son to ask for sex and marriage to fulfill this order. I had a few design choice issues myself, but I'll discuss that later, but its a lot of fun to look at in a very good way.

Its kind of surprising seeing the variety of characters in this story, the manly men look like old-style samurai and their children all are typical manga characters including huge eyed chibi types and just plain huge little eyed types. The eyes have a unique look, the faces, too, and emotion is played across the faces amazingly. Despite being a martial arts manga, the fights are hardly there, but though there is a lack of actually seeing people fight, what is given is done well. The movements were very good, and once the clothes stopped looking too big for the bodies, it got even better. Other than that, I've got nothing to complain about.

Mostly, it was the same small handed syndrome, which disappeared by the end of the manga, and a bit of big guys having too wide of shoulder for their heads. This manga had other little things like that, in general it reminds me of Beelzebub with a little One Piece big teeth thrown in, and like Beelzebub, at the beginning the proportions were a little strange. If you read One Piece like me, its a bit like the wiggly lines you get on it, too, just in the mouths and clothes, it doesn't look unprofessional. Right off the bat, the art is a little shaky, literally the lines look very 'hand drawn' I suppose would be the nicest way to put it.

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