Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? Vol. 2

This volume starts off by building a bit into the mystery behind Nadeshiko. She’s clearly advanced tech - beyond anything Akane is aware of - but her maker is a mystery that the volume slowly drop feeds at different spots in the volume. The mystery is interesting, but remains so firmly in the background of the story that it’s more an afterthought. While the virtual gathering of sexadroid owners at the very beginning had some fun bits, it was a bit of a letdown from what I imagined from the ending of vol 1, and it barely takes a chapter. Instead, the majority of the time is spent building Akane and Nadeshiko’s relationship, getting Akane more used to and embracing of Nadeshiko’s presence, whether she’s conscious of it or not. Oh, and tons of smut. Good stuff, though it may have taken up too much of the page time for the story minded. I’ve already read the next volume by the time I’m writing this, and this volume definitely feels like a higher concentration of on page sex. The one part that I wasn’t thrilled with was when Akane regressed age-wise mentally while she was sick. I could have done without that, or maybe if it was done differently. Ah well. Still a good volume, overall.

 Akane gets an invitation to attend a secret meeting of all owners of sex-robots. She hopes to get some answers on basically everything, but it turns out the meeting only creates more questions.  Only the reader gets to know why: because it wasn’t a meeting. Akane apparently has a one-of-a-kind robot, and it seems a childhood friend of hers is behind that? Not exactly sure in which relationship she is to Akane or what she gets from stalking and watching her with her machine... okay, maybe that’s her fetish and maybe she needs someone to test the robot. But apart from that? There seems to be more at least.    Akane meanwhile gets to experience a new feature from Nadeshiko: illusion sex. Kind of. Nadeshiko can connect with every device, such as normal glasses, which then connect to Akane's brain and make her see things. For example a duplicate version of Nadeshiko. Not only does she see her but also feel, hear, etc.  So, yeah, there’s a threesome chapter.  Which is cool, but also creepy. Imagine a robot can hack into a normal pair of glasses and have access to your brain and therefore all of your senses! If that robot falls into the wrong hands... damn.    Well, apart from the technological aspects, the story is not that interesting.  Though the volume ends with a new character introduced, probably a love rival.  And apart from that, I do wonder what Nadeshiko’s creator wants exactly or who she is and all that. So, yea, I’ll be continuing.    Also, on the other hand, there’s no homophobia. It does play in the future, but not that far, so it weren’t that surprising, if people still haven’t accepted that queerness won’t go away, but it’s great that this is not the case. It’s normal, and that deserves half a star more, so 3.5!    -24.11.23