Overall, the story has a much more melancholy and introspective feel to it. (By necessity, the sex in “1/4” has to be particularly creative.) Initially it would seem that “1000 Meters Deep” would be the exception to this trend. Humor pervades Priapus, everything from the basic premises of the stories, to the references to anime and adult videos, the breaking of the fourth wall, the interactions between the characters, and even the imaginative sex itself. The erotic content of Priapus tends to be the focus of the manga, but there are some rather charming character moments as well.Īlthough in part some of the characters in Priapus are inspired by Greek mythology, Itto’s stories and interpretations are entirely his own. The men in the other stories, too, make emotional and romantic connections with each other, not just physical ones. He even takes the time to set them up with other guys when he needs to move on to his next target. But it soon becomes clear that he actually and honestly cares for the men he seduces.
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As expected, Priapus is a stunningly virile god who takes great delight in being given free rein to have as much sex as he wants with as many men as he would like using wide a variety of divine tools and techniques to achieve his goals. At times the volume is even surprisingly cute and sweet. Ultimately, the result is highly entertaining. But so much of Priapus is intentionally ridiculous that, for the most part, it’s not intended to be taken too seriously to begin with. The setups mostly serve as an excuse for a copious amount of sex, and there is plenty of vigorous, uninhibited sex included in the manga. In general, there isn’t a lot of depth to the stories and characters of Priapus. Priapus concludes with the completely unrelated “1000 Meters Deep” which is about the intimate relationship between the two last remaining members of a swim club. The gods have their fun in “1/4” as well, shrinking a young man to less than a quarter of his size and cursing him to stay that way until he successfully has sex with someone he likes. However, the rules of the competitions change according to the gods’ whims, and with Priapus in charge that means the champion will be whoever makes his opponents orgasm first during a fight. “Gachinko Battle” is a spinoff of sorts from “Priapus.” The Gachinko Budokai is an epic mixed martial arts tournament, the winner of which is granted a wish by the gods. Believing more violence will do nothing to solve the problem or teach humanity a lesson, he orders Priapus to bring about their demise bloodlessly in a way that only he can-by turning all of the men gay in a great Homopocalypse. Zeus, fed up with humans and their pointless wars, has decided to eliminate the entire race.
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The volume opens with the first three episodes of “Priapus,” an ongoing series of stories featuring a contemporary erotic reimagining of the titular Greek god of fertility. Priapus collects several of Itto’s short manga and doujinshi. But, I don’t actually know much about Itto beyond the fact that he seems to have garnered a global following Bruno Gmünder describes him as “one of the most exciting young voices in gay manga today.” Although the release of Priapus provided my first opportunity to read any of Itto’s manga, the creator does have a fairly strong presence online and so I was already somewhat familiar with his artwork and illustrations. However, unlike Tagame and Matsu, who both had examples of their work translated before being published by Bruno Gmünder, Priapus is Itto’s official English-language debut. With the publication of Priapus in 2015, Itto joined Gengoroh Tagame and Takeshi Matsu as one of the few creators of gay erotic manga to have had an entire collection of their work released in English. Although the publisher is based in Germany, so far all of the manga have been translated into English. Mentaiko Itto’s Priapus is the fifth volume to be released by Bruno Gmünder as part of its relatively new Gay Manga line.