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Japanese: すんドめ

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 8

Chapters: 76

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 20, 2006 to Nov 20, 2009

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Ecchi

Themes: Psychological, School

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Champion

Authors: Okada, Kazuto (Story & Art)

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Ranked: #4146²

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Popularity: #406

Members: 47,632

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Ranked #4146Popularity #406Members 47,632

MangaYoung ChampionOkada, Kazuto (Story & Art)

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Sundome is the story of an apathetic young man whose dull existence is forever changed when an assertive young woman wants to join the same after-school club in which he is a member. If only all after-school clubs were as hands on as this!

(Source: ANN)

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Sundome was published in English by Yen Press from January 9, 2008, to December 21, 2010.

The series was adapted into multiple Japanese live-action movies. It was also adapted into a short Japanese TV drama series, with all episodes released on November 1, 2023, on Abema.

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Sahana, Kurumi

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Feb 26, 2025

L-Man

Recommended

Here is what this site says about reviews in bold text "Readers are not interested in how you came to watch the work or how the anime made you feel."

and what am I gonna do? Ignore it of course

This is one of the mangas that made me achieve Nirvana for some moment. It is not that it was as good as other mangas that I rated 10 or better than mangas that I rated lower, but reading this was quite the experience and I still remember it clearly. SLOPS dont do it, you read it then you forget about it

Synopsis and summary is boring, so ...

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Aug 4, 2025

sosmeos

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Synopsis: standard pathetic male character becomes non-pathetic due to obsession, fetish, submission, pain, abstinence, masturbation, various acts of indecency, piss play, jealousy, and many similar things all in service to mysterious female character whose lack of exposition or interiority leaves us with many questions and very few answers.

I get that a lot of people will relate to this, I've read reviews hailing this as a godsend, I've seen people disgusted about the first few acts the male lead engages in, people dropping the story and people saying just get through the fetishy bits to get to the heard. I've seen how polarizing this manga ... gets. But I think with a lot of these "pathetic lad gets better" style of story, this isn't the most relatable thing for me on that front. However, the story is a bit more than that growth which always seems to come at the expense of the female lead they obsess over. In a sense, maybe the journey of self-discovery IS enough (even if it comes in twisted ways such as puncturing your penis with a nail or tying your hands behind your back while your pants are falling in public). Abstractly, the object of getting better is external (in this case, it's the yearning for the female lead), a lot of people have that, as long as it doesn't get problematic, why not aim to be better because you want to be romantically involved with or praised by someone you like? PLUS this story's object of getting better is into the same freaky shit you're into, I can understand people being weirdos when growing up, finding they have similar fetishes or interests. But notice I keep saying "object" of getting better. the Female Lead even calls it out at a few points that the ML is only doing things for rewards from her and she is aloof mysterious until the ML apologizes profusely and she goes back to her usual mysterious yet dominant ways.

Most of the story, the FL is hidden behind walls of defense, and we learn that she is without parents, she lives alone, she has some form of debilitating sickness since she's often out of school and bleeding from her nose, she has a strange relationship with a doctor at the local hospital who visits her at home, and she likes the dominant-submissive relationship she has with the Male Lead, she's a little laissez-faire and naive at school, a little uncaring about how she's perceived. Her character growth is that she opens herself up to friends and potentially to love but the end of the character arc is a bit of a spoiler. Most of the things outside of that are created in the ML's own thoughts, there's a lot of things she says that are lies, and many things that seem one way and are invented by the ML's insecurities. I want to highlight that the FL does also change in this, it's not unilateral, but it is often overshadowed by continuous references to the ML's growth. The few instances of change pointed out by people is by the doctor's wife and by the ML saying things like "today I was able to see into her heart more than usual" things of that nature.

But a lot of speculation about that doctor and that's really what drove my curiosity with this story, this unknowable presence and his relationship with the FL. The narrative, the images, the interactions present that something is off, something is not normal with the relationship between the FL and doctor, I wanted to know anything about the medical condition she suffered, why the home visits, why the doctor's wife knew about the condition, why the reaction between the doctor and the ML are twisted to the point where the ML has to brag about the nasty stuff FL gets to do to him. And well dear reader... is any of that answered? :) we shall leave that to you.

The friends are often one-note and the same trope about their obsession with different body parts and fetishes, they get into wacky situations. The gyaru and fishface nerd characters were probably the best aspect outside the central premise, they are two of the members of this school club that also undergo growth and it was nice to see them get better with understanding themselves. Whoa look at that, the seemingly one-note character for comedy gets a character arc. One of the more touching moments was when the gyaru, whose delinquent ex asks her back so she can give him a blowjob on the roof, gets to have a moment of sad intimacy with the FL and cries, breaking her usual facade of everything is fine. Things really take a turn for the better after that.

So yeah, all this ink spilled and a lower than surprising rating, it's probably my own subjective feeling that the premise was interesting enough and the growth of characters is pleasing but it is just solid and because I'm not the age range this might appeal to, it makes me feel as though it misses the mark of greatness WITH ME, your mileage may vary.

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Mar 16, 2023

charlegnarle

Not Recommended

I saw this mentioned in the same breath as Oyasumi Punpun in a few online circles, and that made me want to check this out. Those people speaking so highly of this manga are completely mistaken.

This manga has weird kinks throughout (pissing, mostly. drinking piss. anal. degradation.) but I overlooked how much dissatisfaction the portrayal of these kinks gave me. I was assured that the initial ecchi content would become more complex as the story progressed and it would become more than simple baseless hentai. But that never happened.

I see what the story was going for, showcasing the bonding of these two characters. But ...

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