Shiwasu no Okina's latest work, this anthology showcases the author's ability to bring commonly held erotic fantasies and pornographic tropes to life. Featuring sexual exploits galore that range from downright wholesome to overtly taboo, this work touches on every kind of smut under the sun!

Kiss Kiss Bae Bae has story and art by Shiwasu no Okina. English translation is done by TBAC with and lettering by Vladyslav L.. Published by J18 (January 21, 2026). Rated M.

Content Warning:Dubcon, Noncon, Power Exploitation

Lucas DeRuyter
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From veteran hentai artist Shiwasu no Okina, Kiss Kiss Bae Bae continues the artist's longstanding trend of putting out pristine versions of commonly held sexual fantasies or scenarios. To name a few, the premises within this anthology include: a practice threesome so a younger peer won't be nervous about having sex with their girlfriend, an erotic medical emergency that inexplicably ends with a pulp fiction reference, and an effort to create a promotional video of a school's dormitory that goes awry as the dorm's inhabitants are hosting several play parties of different themes on any given night. If you've ever had the thought, “this situation would be a good framing device or inciting event for something horny to happen” chances are it's in Kiss Kiss Bae Bae or one of Shiwasu no Okina's other works.

On a technical level, Kiss Kiss Bae Bae is rock solid. Character designs are detailed and distinct enough for every major character in this anthology to feel unique, but the art style is simplistic enough to lend itself well to exaggerated expressions and to soften the impact of some of the darker themes this doujinshi can trade in. The panel layouts are also super legible, with the actions and the order in which they happen being clearly laid out even as the events of a given story become more frenetic and simultaneous. The writing and TBAC's translation are also worthy of praise, with even supporting characters having distinctive voices. The whole work also has a self-awareness to its narratives being filled with porn tropes, and that often gives Kiss Kiss Bae Bae a fun and almost campy tone.

Kiss Kiss Bae Bae is far from an entirely lighthearted romp, though. The "Good Night, Sweet Students" two-part story in the middle of this larger work delves into darker or more divisive kinks like age gap, noncon, humiliation, teacher-student power exploitation, and pseudo-somnophilia. These entries are arguably the most taboo stories ever penned by Shiwasu no Okina and, while people curious about this book should be alerted to them, he really understands what makes these kinks appealing to the folks who are into them. The way the plot escalates and the way the characters have to slowly accept what's happening to and around them so that they can reclaim the acts taking place with some kind of pleasure and eroticism is peak, hardcore smut.

The erotic comedy of errors in "Surviving the Health Committee" and the absurd escalation in the "Get My Cock on Camera" multi-part series balance this out, though. If I had any criticisms of Kiss Kiss Bae Bae it's that these stories could be a bit wilder and their framings more inspired. Even with the venture into the taboo, this project still feels a bit constrained; as though this work were created more for a hypothetical reader than for the author. It's been clear for a while now that Shiwasu no Okina is one of the most proficient hentai artists in the game and, while Kiss Kiss Bae Bae is very good, I hope that he's able to go all out with his next work.

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In all the adult books for this guide, this is probably one of the most detailed and involved I think I've read. I think this really goes to show that you could have one of the most random or unconventional setups with characters that almost don't feel like real people, but if you fully commit to their intimacy, you could really sell your sex scenes to anybody. I'm trying to think about what would happen if the same scenarios were portrayed by a less talented artist and I genuinely do not think it would work. At best, things might come off as unintentionally funny. That still sometimes happens here, but there is almost a seriousness that draws me in. It's almost like the author fully captured the awkward, confused and fuzzy feelings that teenagers and young adults feel when they want to be sexually active with people. That is personified here in a surprisingly intense way.

This is a collection of a handful of stories, or rather it's a collection of three stories with one of them taking up roughly two thirds of the entire book while the other two are more standard chapters. It's vaguely implied that all these stories are more or less taking place in the same world, but the characters are all different. The first one deals with some childhood friends that randomly end up in a threesome because they all just sort of go with the flow. The second one is about a girl who is forced to take care of a classmate that is about to die from having a boner and the final, largest story is about a girl being brought around to record tenants of a dorm where it's perfectly normal for everyone to just have crazy sex with each other. None of that sounds normal and the way that everything just sort of happens with practically no buildup whatsoever from a narrative standpoint is jarring. But as I mentioned before, the author kind of makes up for that with just how intimate the sex scenes actually feel.

There's a lot of attention to detail to a lot of the minor and often overlooked elements that go into building up the tension of a sex scene. There's a lot of foreplay and teasing that's almost painstakingly portrayed with very specific panel layouts. Silence is surprisingly used a lot in order to showcase characters' rising emotional feelings, and climaxes feel every bit emotional as they do physical. There's a sense of comfort here with all of the characters and while I could not tell you any of their names or really remember much of what they look like because the artist does suffer a little bit from same face, when showcasing so many characters back to back, I do remember the sex that they performed on each other. This feels like the kind of book that you could reread a few times and still get captivated by just how intimate everything feels. The plot doesn't make any sense whatsoever, but I don't think that's really the point here. The point is to win the audience over off the back of the sex alone. It might not work for everybody, but it definitely worked for me.