Manga Diary of a Male Porn Star Vol. 1 Paperback – September 28, 2021

I love everything about this manga i always wonder about how male industry was in the sex industry and this will show u how it is in Japan ! Everything about it was funny and will have u wanting to read more of it highly recommend

I didn't care for this manga. I kept getting bored and setting it aside for a while, only picking it up with resignation about five different times until it was finally complete. These 150 pages seemed to last forever. It literally took me over 2 months to plod through this one book.The main character of this manga is drawn (poorly) as a frog. It took me until the end to even realize that. The longer I had to look at it, the less I liked it. I don't know why he couldn't be drawn as a human being, even if he didn't want to look like himself to protect his identity. I guess it was funny at first but the "tadpole" joke grew tired pretty quick.All the males in this book are drawn so ugly. All the women are extremely beautiful. I had the impression by the end that the author is homophobic because he also stated that when he was being filmed he would lean away and try his best not to touch another man even when they were having group sex as the script dictated. Then he patted himself on the back about no one realizing that he was trying to avoid contact with the other men.The main character came across as skeevy. There was a lot of behind-the-scenes real-talk about the porn industry, which is what you'd hope for with this manga, but there was also his constant commentary about how much he liked watching, doing, etc. to the point he really comes off as a sex addict. I'd like to think I'm pretty open-minded about this subject. I don't judge or shame anybody for liking what they like, but his commentary really grossed me out after reading so much of it. Every single page was filled his objectifying all the female characters. It came across like he didn't respect them as colleagues or as people at all. He is only in the game for his own self-gratification.This manga was annoyingly repetitive. It's just the same thing happening over and over and the manga came across as way too long as a result. He gets called in for a job, does the work, then goes home and waits for another call. The pattern just keeps repeating and his job doesn't vary much. If he had more to say on the subject (like dating a coworker, as the volume 2 teaser at the back of this book indicates), he probably should have just said it already and not dragged this out as a multiple-volume series. I won't invest any more time in this one.

It is a somewhat different but very interesting manga