Have you ever read Kazuto Okada’s Ibitsu or Sundome? I read them when I was quite young, 16 years old—precisely 6 years ago. I’ve always found Kazuto Okada to be an odd manga writer; his works are ecchi and always centered around some form of masochism, yet there’s a depth to them that I could never fully understand. His endings are always tragic, maybe as a way to conclude the manga in a masochistic manner. His protagonists are always very weak, unable to defend themselves or their loved ones. The world always seems threatening, and the main character and his beloved (the girls on the covers) always feel so fragile in a world full of dangerous people.