Okada has a talent for potraying sexual deviancy in an extremely empathetic manner. Ibitsu has this standard slice of life atmosphere to it, which is juxtaposed by these scenes of extreme sexual strangeness, until it isn't. At a certain point they feel like they become routine for these characters. Okada is trying to get us to understand sexual deviancy from the eyes of the protagonists, this is helped by the tenebrist lighting he uses in many of the sexual panels, where the characters are illuminated against a black background as if the sexual act is something beautiful and shining. It's only until the final actwhen the two leads are threatened to be torn apart did I realize that this strange little fetish manga I wanted to gawk at, made me not only empathize with these two characters but also that I'd accepted their sexual deviancy and their right to view it as beautiful. That realization definitely hit harder when I reached that ending. A very compassionate piece of art. Definitely not for everyone. Definitely one of my favorites.