Kimi Koi Limit is one of the Yuri Hime cell-phone manga releases by Ichijinsha. Drawn and written by Momono Moto, it tells the story of Sono, one of the most selfish cretins to ever inhabit a manga.We start the manga with a scene late in Sono's high school life when she confesses her feelings to, and is rejected by Satomi, who is leaving after graduation to go to school in Tokyo.
Time flies and we see Sono, now also in Tokyo, with a lover Hiroko. Sono contributes nothing at all to the household - she's a slob, a slacker and a jerk. Hiroko can tolerate all that but when, not for the first time, Sono says someone else's name as they make love, Hiroko has had it - she throws Sono out.
Sono quickly becomes homeless, because she's a slacker. And in a crazy, unbelievable, but nevertheless predictable, handwave she is found and rescued by none other than Satomi.
To her credit, Sono moves into Satomi's life as if she has been given a chance to find happiness by the gods. She starts to clean, cook, she even gets a job at which she perseveres. She knows she can't stay with Satomi forever, but she can at least get herself straightened out to be worthy of her. She still lusts after Satomi and this proximity isn't lessening that one bit.
In yet another unbelievable yet predictable handwave, not only do Hiroko and Satomi attend the same university, they work together at the same library on the same shift. In a casual conversation about Hiroko looking unhappy, Hiroko spills that she just threw her lover out and is worried that she is homeless. Satomi mentions why, how odd, she just found a friend who had been homeless, thrown out by her lover! But it's not until Satomi *sees* a picture of Hiroko and Sono toghether that they put it all together. Hiroko's feckless lover and Satomi's roommate are both Sono! zOMG!
Before I go on, I have to say that, at this point, I absolutely loathed all three of them. There was no ending that was going to make me happy, unless it ended with Sono going the hell away. And what were the chances of that?
Through a series of even more handwaves, uncomfortable situations and cliches, Sono leaves Hiroko for Satomi who decides inexplicably that she's suddenly in love with her. Honestly, getting Sono out of her life was probably the best thing for Hiroko.
In the end, we're to believe that because she attained her dream, suddenly Sono found ambition, skills, a career, etc. We see her in typical careerwoman get-up, while Satomi plays the role of wife. And they live happily ever after.
Bleah....
While this manga is nicely drawn, extremely well-toned and really, really well-executed as compared with, say, Gokujou Drops, Kimi Koi Limit had so many things I had to just accept, so little plausibility, that *my* Koi Limit was stretched. And on top of that, Sono was just an unlikable little prat. If Sono had been a good lover to Hiroko, a kind friend to Satomi, I might have been able to hack it. But she wasn't. She was a selfish, narcissistic jerk right to the very end.
Ratings:
Art - 8
Story - 6
Characters - 4
Yuri/Lesbian - 10
LoserFanboy - 4
Overall - 5
This is probably the best-looking of the YH cell-phone manga. I just wish I liked the story a bit more than I do.
And, in the way of such things - I have an extra copy to give away! Yes, you too can be annoyed by Sono and her inability to appreciate what she has.
To enter you must be 18 and this time, I'm keeping it domestic - contiguous 48 states only. Not because I don't love you overseas folks, I just want to cut back on shipping.
So - if you are from the US (not Alaska or Hawaii) and would like a copy of this beautiful, but emotionally unsatisfying manga, please tell me in the comments where *you* draw the line. Keep the comments non-pornographic please. I'm not asking for your least fave sex position, I just want to know what behavior stretches your love to breaking point.