Special edition: Does it Count if You Lose Your Virginity to an Android Vol. 2

Author: Yakinikuteishoku
Illustrator: Yakinikuteishoku
Publishers: Seven Seas Entertainment
Age Group: Older Teen 17+/YA
Genre: Girl Love, Romance
Type: Manga

Content Warnings: Sex, Lewd/Naughtiness

Spoilers ahead

Plot

Beautiful, brainy Tsuda Akana is indispensable at the robotics manufacturer where she works, but her colleagues never see her private side. At home, Akane’s a hot mess with an apartment that looks more like a landfill than a living space. When she drunkenly orders a maid to help her tidy up, the lady android who arrives is a horny hottie who’s about o give Akane more service than she bargained for! 

Akane gets a strange e-mail to join a VR chat session with other pleasure android masters. Will she learn more about Nadeshiko? 

Character Development

As before, Akane and Nadeshiko are well thought out. A third character is introduced, Nadeshiko’s creator (mother). Her mother gives advice, asks for updates, and wants Akane to “register” Nadeshiko as well. With this goal, her mother tells Nadeshiko things she should try to get Akane to “register” her as owner of Nadeshiko. 

Nadeshiko’s mother seems like a mad scientist type who is also using Akane to test and further her research of A.I. 

World-building

The world-building is the same, but we do find that other pleasure android owners get together. They seem like a normal group of people you’d make friends with online. 

As part of the world-building, Akane finds that the website she ordered Nadeshiko from, doesn’t actually exist (at least not anymore). None of the other owners know who would make Nadeshiko as she’s more realistic than any of their androids. 

Themes

You reap what you sow.

In essence, due to Akane’s tendency to shop for weird stuff while inebriated, she has no one to blame but herself for her predicament. Now she has to keep it secret that she has a pleasure android, find out where she came from, and if she can get her savings back before she’s found out. 

Observations & Predictions

This second volume is a bit better in both smut and world-building. The best example of this is when Akane has her VR spectacles on, we find out that Nadeshiko can link into those and create scenarios (such as a threesome). While the spectacles don’t have tactile capabilities, Nadeshiko can provide that through some of her functions, creating a complex VR experience that allows all senses. This is fascinating as current technologies can’t do this even in Akane’s world. 

A new character has been introduced, Nadeshiko’s mother, whose motives are still unclear. It can be assumed that she’s using Akane for some purpose. This would make the most sense considering Akane’s job as a planner for an electric manufacturer that deals with A.I. tech daily. 

My hope for this series is that we get more of the VR chat group. Somewhere Akane can talk freely without freaking out about getting arrested.

We do see some emotional attachment between Akane and Nadeshiko. We also see some social learning from Nadeshiko. I hope that we get more social learning from Nadeshiko as this will help relieve some of Akane’s fears of being found out. 

I’d also like to see Akane reason out that she should “register” as Nadeshiko’s owner just so she can learn more about her and where she comes from. We get a little of this when Nadeshiko shows Akane what she can do with the VR spectacles. 

I love the fresh take on the smut in this second novel as it’s innovative while bringing in a classic dream of many people (threesomes). The artwork also made it easy to distinguish between the normal Nadeshiko and the VR Nadeshiko, which I found very helpful during that steamy scene. 

In all honesty, if the first volume and the second volume had been edited and combined, this would have made an excellent introduction into this series. While it’s still not perfect, there is some good momentum and hope for the future volumes of this series to expand upon a real plot that makes this series worth reading beyond the smut. 

My hope for the next volumes to for the author to continue with this momentum. I will be picking up the third volume to see how it improves. I’ll keep you updated. 

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