The Alpha's Fox Princess Mate

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Somebody is being sneaky

So I'm a big fan of the OVA series that this Manga was based on, and after watching it all over again, one day when I was going through my favorite manga scan site, this came up and I figured I'd give it a read. Man, was this something.

Before I get too into things, I'd like to make note that everything I look up on this seems to give the impression that after the first volume, all this story does is devolve into porn. And while yes, there's a lot of sex, and yes, things get graphic beyond comprehension (seriously, if there was an ecchi scale from 1 to 10, this would be a 14—this book both literally and metaphorically gets the fuck in there), I feel the need to inform you that the at times overwhelming amount of sex that happens in this story has a purpose. It's just something I'll have to explain. But like I've done before, here's the TL;DR for those just scanning reviews:

TL;DR

This is an interesting look into the psyche of a free spirit as he explores a wide variety of topics, from the worshiping of false idols, the meaning of life as he knows it, and the after-effects on the people whose eyes he's opened to the wonderful mystery that is the world.

Story:

What we have here is the tale of a guy who wanders town to town, doing odd jobs and getting into a series of perverted scenarios. While the first volume is more of a "woman of the week" affair, similar to the 6-episode OVA, at points just outright feeling like panels of the show, it quickly devolves from that and turns into an overarching tale of large proportions.

Around the second volume, we get a small glimpse into Kintaro's past, and we start to learn that it's within his nature as a person to help others out and do what's best for them while still making sure to shove his dick into anyone that moves, and of course, making their lives better possibly because of that. This volume is where one of the first things this Manga's advantage over its OVA counterpart really starts, and that's its overarching plot of characters with the introduction of Masamune Kongoji, who, for lack of a better way to word it, is a metaphorical god that is the embodiment of the theme of manipulation through false hope and the desire for sheer comfort that we all have, and that Kintaro is the polar opposite of. This arc continues on and off through the rest of the series, only concluding at the very end, which, without spoiling too much, leaves you at a loss for words.

There's an overarching theme of the same story getting told, just taking longer and longer to get there throughout the 10 volumes. In between the most graphic of sex scenes, you get a lot of moments where characters are giving really long monologues about a multitude of really serious topics, like the corrupt nature of government, how people are numbed to the harsh realities of their very futile existence of life through false idol worship, the fucked-up nature of the educational system and how it doesn't actually teach but rather forces us to follow someone else's order and put our own free thought on the back burner, and it even covers just how sex is both a true means of expression and a really easy way to manipulate an individual.

This manga is surprisingly deep, and there's quite a bit of quality sections here and there, with the biggest sting against this being the arc involving golden showers.

Kintaro as a character is a fascinating case study, and when he was the focus, this story was just the absolute best. But I hate to say I can't really rate the story too high just because of the "Golden Water" arc around Vol. 5 and a lot of the parts involving Naoko Katsuda, who was already my least favorite character in the anime.

7/10

Art:

It's 90's manga, and with that, you have really solid environments, characters that are a lot closer to reality in terms of overall looks, the expression work on the characters' faces are pretty funny, and the ladies... they're alright. You get more than enough *cough* STUDYING material if you uh know what I'm saying.

I happen to like old anime visuals, but if you don't, knock my score down about half.

8/10

Character:

Best noble pervert ever, his first true love we meet near the end of the book is excellent, and everyone else does their job well, with only a couple of people I wish would be thrown down a well.

Yes, there was a good amount of awful people, but the good ones make this story worth it.

9/10

Enjoyment:

I'll be blunt—this story dragged to high hell at a lot of points, but when it hit, it fucking hit. For me, this was a "just one more chapter" kind of read where I found myself up late, really wanting to go further and just keep reading. Its ending, while a bit "what the fuck," felt just right for one of the most surprisingly deep things I've read in a while. This story is a roller coaster of crazy that I can only really recommend to folks just wacky enough to read it, but for everyone else, I'd say beware.

This story isn't just porn—it gets the fuck in there, trust me—but it's actually a real story.

9/10

Golden Boy stands as the worst manga I've ever encountered. Although I wouldn't generally recommend it, reading parts of it might still be somewhat entertaining due to its sheer weirdness.

And this manga is extremely, exceedingly weird. Personally, I wasn't a fan of the anime, so I began reading the manga without any preconceived notions, hoping for an improvement. Instead, the manga only deteriorates further with each chapter. It reached a point where I was physically cringing during almost every chapter, and I had to take numerous breaks from reading because it was just too overwhelming.

I believe Golden Boy works best when you showcase out-of-context screenshots to people. Some truly insane (and by insane, I genuinely think the author may have some form of mental illness) events occur in the manga, and they can be quite amusing if taken out of context. However, over the series' progression, I found the antics of the manga to become exhausting.

At some juncture in the manga, the author seems to abandon any attempt at crafting a coherent story or even coherent content. Instead, the characters engage in sexual acts while simultaneously ranting about society and life, usually all at once. I quickly grew tired of these rants, but the author's views are often delusional and somewhat hypocritical. Some of these rants genuinely sound like something you'd hear from someone on the street at 2 am under the influence.

The sexual content is also bizarre. Events in the manga include, but are not limited to: mind control, statutory rape, general rape, NTR, cross-dressing, and urophagia. If you're interested in such themes, feel free to explore, but I think you'd be better off reading a doujin.

I noticed that other reviewers online criticized the art. Personally, I thought it was decent enough, as the quality of the art aligns well with everything else. It's not the best, but I consider the art a product of its era.

There are numerous occurrences in the manga that I could elaborate on endlessly, but I'm uncertain if I can recall them all, so I don't intend to list them. Other reviewers on MAL do an excellent job of detailing these. However, I will mention that the ending is atrocious, as the series abruptly concludes without resolving anything, mid-story arc.

For most of the series, I felt a strong inclination towards a 2/10 rating. I reserve 1-star ratings for series that utterly frustrate me, and the first half of the manga is just plain bad, but not bad enough to genuinely irritate me. This changed more towards the end when every page became a challenge to read.

Final Rating: 1/10

tl;dr: likely not worth reading unless you seek something so bad it's entertaining, though it's not entertaining most of the time.

It's tough to write a review about Golden Boy without spoilers, as all the issues are plot-related, but I'll try my best. I'm almost at the end, but with its snail-paced progression, I can sort of predict where it's heading.

Like many others, I became aware of this manga through the OVA. I assumed, like the OVA, that it would be an ecchi comedy with some character insights thrown in—fun, short, and heartfelt.

The early chapters were very much like this, even at their strangest. Kintaro drives somewhere new, finds a new job, a woman he works with or encounters somehow intrigues him and helps resolve their issues. It's a simple formula, not very deep, but it must have worked given the OVA's popularity. I think they only selected these earlier chapters for good reason—they had consistently good stories.

The artwork, at least to me, is quite unique. I love how you can tell a different assistant worked on specific chapters; each assistant's style stands out yet matches simultaneously. Details like teeth and hair are very nice (weirdo lolol), and Kintaro's expressions are delightful in how grotesque they can get. Even the weird anatomy at times has charm. Backgrounds and things like cars or bikes are also disturbingly accurate and beautifully drawn.

However, by the first long arc, the premise crumbles quickly. They diverge from the original premise; it is no longer about Kintaro and the women he meets, but random people at random times who are vaguely but conveniently connected to him in some way and have these convoluted dramatic arcs, and not dramatic in a good way.

Characters create political and ideological conflicts, and the dialog becomes very long-winded and the points they make outright conflict with their actions. They talk less like people and more like college essays. They'll say things that boil down to "society bad" or "people evil" and yet they do outright nefarious actions. But because they're open about the "evils of the world," it's OK! And in ecchi fashion, the only punishment they receive for it is unsavory sexual acts.

We're shown over and over again with some characters disagreeing with establishment-type figures. They hate being led around by people who think they can take over the world, and they want to decide things on their own. But then they also want that same power and use malicious methods to fulfill their goals for...some reason? It's not really explained why? They'll claim they want power and status, but they don't even have end goals.

Let's use Kintaro as an example. He's shown early on to have a very freedom-loving mindset; he wants to learn about the world as much as he can, doesn't enjoy government and other establishment figures using their status for wrongdoings. He wishes for society to empower others, to learn freely as he did in school, and to stop holding others back. In flashbacks, this part of him had always been the same. But there is a part in the very later arc where he's shown as someone who's actually just pro-"work and get a wife and get excited for the next thing." That kind of mentality. Despite saying otherwise earlier as it was his reason for doing something specific in the beginning of that arc. Characters can change as people, but to twist his character just for the sake of relationship drama that's shown later on, it's poor writing imo.

The political takes that show up in later arcs seem like very personal views (war bad, environmentalism good, industrialization bad, capitalism bad). I'm not here to judge the author for them; they're his own views, and I am but the humble reader just trying to read a story with anime boobies.

Like I said earlier, character dialog becomes extremely long. There's less panels and more gigantic speech bubbles you'd find in bad internet webcomics, you know the ones. I had to read through someone getting lectured on WW2 and the consequences of Japanese war crimes and their bubble economy at a fancy dining table, and it took about 8 pages. If anything, the author predicted the "fictional characters used as some sort of political mouthpiece" trend of the current year. Big brained. And like the morals, they'll be outright conflicting with the characters' actions.

As for the sexual acts, I was personally fine with the ecchi. I don't mind a bit of weird porn lmao. But, as the series progresses, fetishes become more and more blatant. Without too many spoilers, there's an entire arc dedicated to cross-dressing and another with VR hypnosis. Lots of NTR. And piss. An obscene amount of urine. There is so much piss drinking. Sometimes the sex scenes take up so much time half of an entire volume will be just that, and you bet they'll be ranting about how "people are like, just sheep, maaan, open yer mind to the woooorld" while cumming. It just goes from 0 to 100 very fast to the point where you're turned off completely. I felt like I had caught syphilis with some of the events occurring lololol. But this part is probably personal preference; maybe you'll enjoy or do enjoy some of these fetishes. Godspeed brother.

All these things I criticize, they're fine on their own. A character with flaws is not a bad character; they're only human after all. For characters to constantly go against their own values that they'd outright said in dialog, and for the author's views to overpower the entire storyline, it's just shitty. In writing, you should show consequences for one's actions, good or bad, yet there is nothing. Besides getting forcibly starved to death, pissed on, raped, or cheated on, which, I guess works but it's still dumb.

Once you learn about the author's past as a porn director, as well as his teaching career, it begins to make sense. Golden Boy is not the story of a young and free-spirited man looking to learn about the world around him, but the author using it as a dumping ground for his takes acquired in college and his fetishes.

Authors putting themselves in their works isn't wrong; I love authors who basically create memoirs of themselves, putting down their thoughts and what they enjoy in comic form. If the work is pulling itself in so many directions it can't keep its head straight, and it doesn't even mesh well, then I have to question the author's sanity. It's a shame, since there were some storylines or exchanges that I did like, at least theoretically. They would have been awesome if written by someone who understands what makes good and consistent writing.

TL;DR: It's just a counter-culture of the 90s version of long political Tumblr comics with weird fetishes, so if that's your thing, go nuts.

The author is the primary issue with this comic book.  
As you read through it, you can't help but notice — or at least that was my impression — that the author has crammed every page with sex scenes and sexual references, as if obsessed.  
The entire comic appears to be a self-justification of the author's childhood notions about society and sex. It's truly pitiful.  
At some point, it becomes unsettling to encounter those childish dialogues on sex and society. You just hope the author decides to stop talking about sex — even if only for one chapter.  
This is a work that aims to be mature but seems to be crafted by a teenager trying to appear cool by throwing in trivial ideas and superficial philosophy.  

(Please excuse any grammatical errors; English isn't my strong suit.)

Oh boy, what a letdown... here we go. Throughout the manga, you'll encounter various fetishes that often lead to humorous moments. Since this is a world saturated with sex, non-consensual relationships (NTR) are bound to occur. Initially, it didn't bother me; I was curious to see how Kintaro dealt with these situations. To my disappointment, he handles them like a classic cuckold.

Philosophy becomes increasingly prominent as the manga progresses, and this is where NTR spirals out of control. The author essentially claims that if you're concerned about your partner having sex with someone else, you're weak and don't genuinely love her.

Now, I don't know about you, but I came here for comedy, an engaging plot, and some good material for personal enjoyment. What I didn't anticipate was being served an argument on why being a cuckold is supposedly commendable.  

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