New release: Manage! Let’s Kiss!!

Some might remember that back in February we’ve had our little week-of-announcements event. In the last post of the series, we mentioned that we’re going to release a new Kabayakiya doujinshi with a baseball theme. Meanwhile, we actually released another Kabayakiya doujinshi, “Night Service story”, so the poor baseball-centered story of “Manage! Let’s Kiss!!” got pushed to the sidelines. But not any more! The time has come, ladies and gentlemen, to release the first doujinshi in our portfolio where a couple has sex while wearing hats.

Underwear goes down, but the cap stays on

The backstory of this doujinshi is fairly interesting, as it’s based on a visual novel titled “Manage! Kimemasu!!”. If you follow that link, you might notice that the art from the VN look fairly similar to the art found in this doujinshi. That’s because the character artist for “Manage! Kimemasu!!” was Unagimaru, the artist behind Kabayakiya. In the afterword of the book, this conundrum it dubbed “self-doujinshi” by the author and is something that we believe should be more common.

The story of the doujinshi itself is fairly simple and basically boils down to the heroine, a student council president, giving one of the top-performing baseball club members a chance to pick a reward for his achievements. He picks her, of course.
As a side note, if you’re a baseball fan, you’ll appreciate the research that the author put into real world details of managing a baseball club, even if it’s apparent only in the first few pages. The visual novel expands greatly on that aspect, even if it expands even more on the ero.

Here are a few sample pages to give you the idea of the art. Be sure to check the store page, where you’ll find not only the sample pages in higher resolution, but also more information about the “Manage! Kimemasu!!” VN. There’s a even a link to the page where you can hear the character’s voice acting during a sex scene. Helps with the immersion.

Manage! Let's kiss!! sample page 1