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Yesterday I read an adult romance manga called, Alcohol, Shirt and Kiss, by Yuko Kuwabara. Since this was the debut comic from the author, my sister and I decided to be lenient with our final review of the story, but first published work or not, this manga was an enormous letdown!

The premise of the tale is that Detective Naru, after losing the girlfriend he loved, tries to drown his sorrows with alcohol and wakes up in his partner’s bed the next day, completely unaware of anything that may have happened between the two. It seemed like the sort of story that would have plenty of romance and drama and worth the thirteen dollars, but it really, really wasn’t.

There were so many loose ends, introduced characters that were completely unnecessary to the story, locations and situations that had no progress on the ‘drama’ that the way the story is told in an extremely broken and haphazard manner makes me almost want to bet money on the fact the manga was originally supposed to be several volumes and due to whatever reason, was cut to one. It’s that incomprehensible.

For example, since Naru and his partner, Kita, are detectives, the two obviously deal with bad guys and one who was introduced was a real creepy, sleazy murderer who was being interrogated by the two. Kita mutters absently about how deadly accurate Naru is with a weapon and how the killer had been bewildered by his ability when the detective pulled a gun on him while being arrested, but the reader never saw that scene. Even worse, this potential villain or at least, obstacle, for Naru and Kita to work through was completely discarded in a matter of a few pages and never mentioned again.

Why did I read that scene? Nothing useful came from it.

Even worse, there was an adorable flashback to Kita as a little boy and how he couldn’t figure out if his parents loved him. He had a butler growing up and was insecure even at a young age about his own inability to understand love and passion, but this again was never mentioned. Why? He works like a slave as a detective when he apparently had a rich childhood? Couldn’t there be some story to that? Shouldn’t the writer have expanded more on Kita’s inability to show affection towards Naru in a more normal manner?

Several times I was so at a loss as to what I was reading, I had to turn back just to make sure I didn’t accidently skip a page or something. The beginning had such potential, everything was lined up to be quirky, uncomfortable at moments, adorable, but then a whole heap of nothing happened. It was a very unfortunate conclusion for that manga and unless you have nothing better to do with your time, I’d recommend passing on this one.