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“Virgin 19-year-old Ryuu travels to India to find his missing grandfather and fulfill an arranged royal marriage.”
Kamasutra
カーマスートラ
5.81
21,959 rank · 508 readers · 3 favorites
Historical
Adventure
Comedy
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Virgin 19-year-old Ryuu travels to India to find his missing grandfather and fulfill an arranged royal marriage.
Aikawa Ryuu is your typical 19-year old japanese young man, except he has been preseving his virginity by his grandfathers orders until the time comes when he is to be wed with Princess Surya. He receives a call from his grandfathers assistant that he has been gone missing or could even have been killed. A thrilling adventure begins when Aikawa starts his journey in India to find his missing grandfather!
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
4.3
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 4
mode 3
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.67
Running avg · Jun 2015 → Jun 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 6 “Kamasutra is a manga from 90's. The plot: In short, a ecchi Indiana Jones. the art: Character design is dated, but the scenery is amazing and pretty realistic. Character are clichet and plain, but...”
- 4 “A non-sensical story, Borderline H content that alternates between sexy and off-putting, periodic excerpts from the actual Kamasutra, and a "wtf was that" ending. If that sounds like your kind of...”
- 3 “This must be one of the worst manga I've read in a very long time. Don't get me wrong, I love many of Nagai Go's series, though I don't read his work all that often anymore. I even have physical...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 67%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 21 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 48m approx
- Published Mar 1990 – Nov 1990
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M29223 catalog