Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Truer words have never been spoken. Parting from a series like Bokura no Hentai, which we have deeply loved over the past three and half years, is tough because we know that we will never see more of these characters than what has been shown in these 10 volumes and 41 chapters. But at the same time, it has been a great privilege of ours that we were the group that was able to bring it to English readers, which we hope we have done to the best of our ability. So it is with great sorrow, but also joy, that we have now completed the series with the release of chapter 41.

As mentioned back when we picked it up, we knew we had to do it right when we saw the first chapter appear in Comic Ryuu in March 2012. Being similar in both its style and theme with Hourou Musuko at first glance was very promising, especially at a time when Hourou Musuko was on the decline, and there were so few other series out there dealing with similar LGBT themes. Fumiko Fumi's style was different though, something I personally had never really seen before. Her art style back then was much more simplistic and rough, for lack of a better word, but since then, her art has largely come into its own, and even though it still retains a relatively simplistic style, it has a sophistication to it that made Bokura no Hentai all the more amazing.

But compared to Hourou Musuko, Bokura no Hentai was able to do a lot more with a lot less. In comparison to Bokura no Hentai's 10 volumes and 41 chapters, Hourou Musuko is 15 volumes and 123 chapters long, but whereas Hourou Musuko had a very slow, drawn out decline, Bokura no Hentai has ended where it should have ended. But still, the comparison between the two series is easy: both have multiple protagonists with overlapping storylines, both deal with LGBT issues, and both are drawn in a similar style. But that is where the comparisons I feel should end. I won't go into where Hourou Musuko ended up if you've never read it, but I will say that the message being conveyed near the end of that series was one in complete contrast to Bokura no Hentai's message (if you've read both series, you will probably understand what I mean).

So while Hourou Musuko had left a bad taste in my mouth by the time I finished it, Fumiko Fumi has left me with a sense of longing for these characters, and not only the three main characters, but all the others that we saw throughout the series, and that is perhaps the greatest gift Fumi could have left us with, because Bokura no Hentai is a series I feel deserves to be read and reread for many years. If a series like Stop!! Hibari-kun! can retain its popularity even after 30 years of publication, we hope that Bokura no Hentai will be able to do the same thing, because even though there are so many other manga out there, even those that could be seen as similar to it, there will perhaps never be another series quite like Bokura no Hentai. You will be dearly missed.

As for the future, Fumiko Fumi is going to start a new series in Comic Ryuu soon, but no other information has been revealed yet. We will be looking into it and decide whether we will pick it up or not when we know more about it. Also, on an unrelated note, we can finally say with confidence that we've now released more than 1,000 chapters across dozens of series over the past five and a half years. How many of those 1,000 chapters have you read? Hopefully, the 41 chapters of Bokura no Hentai are among them.

And next up, we finally get to the first volume of Ayumi Komura's new series, Mori no Takuma-san.

Bokura no Hentai ch. 41: Mediafire, Dropbox
Bokura no Hentai volume batches: On the Bokura no Hentai page.