Step Mom Sayuri. The title character of Step Mom Sayuri is the perfect example of how a Japanese love story can be written in the form of an erotic story: it’s completely steamy, and it involves some titillating sexual situations. The story itself is about two young women who are forced to live separately after their parents split up them when they were young. One girl (known as Sayuri) has a crush on a boy named Takeshi, but he’s an arrogant jerk who reject her overtures. She ends up going to a housewarming party in order to ask Sayuri out, but when she arrives, it’s to find a handsome, muscular man with a rock-hard body – Sayuri immediately begins to imagine the sexual possibilities around her. There’s only one problem: instead of asking him out to a romantic dinner, she decides to seduce him in the first place!
In order to seduce Sayuri, Takeshi gets his friend Mabuni to tie him to a bed, and Sayuri proceeds to attack Mabuni as he undresses her. The scenes are incredibly brutal but not graphic in any way. As far as I’m concerned, this was one of the most realistic love stories I’ve ever read, and it comes from a male point of view. If you’re a female and have ever wanted to give your boyfriend something nice and meaty to play with while making out, this is the book for you. I read it because I had been craving a good old-fashioned story about a Japanese housewife finding love and fulfilling her dreams, and I also thought it was hilarious.
The main characters in Step Mom Sayuri are all interesting and well-developed people who don’t conform to the usual stereotypes of what a Japanese mother and father should be like. There’s Mabuni the sexy and caring girlfriend, Sayuri the obedient and gentle wife, Miki the self-centered and foul-tempered older brother, and of course Takeshi, the overworked and bedridden hubby. The storyline may be a bit long for your taste, but it’s a great read nonetheless, especially if you enjoy Japanese literature.
