O Maidens In Your Savage Season is a manga series written by Mari Okaada and drawn by Nao Emoto. The series was so popular at it's time of release that an anime began production soon after. There was also a live action drama created last year. English versions always flew off the selves as soon as they were released and you can't really find them in many bookstores anymore......
A group of girls who couldn't be more different in personality come together in a high school book club where they learn more about sex and the growing pains of becoming women.
O Maidens isn't a series that's too hard to think about. I believe anybody no matter your gender will be able to relate to one of the female characters in some kind of way. The reason the series shot to fame so fast was that there isn't a manga that goes so deep into the minds of girls blossoming into maturity. Well, not none without the perverted fan service done to female characters to please otaku male readers. People who ask me how to describe this manga, I say that it's the female perspective of what males at a certain age think about. This manga shows that females have sexual desires too but sometimes it's hard to find that right way to approach them. Life lessons in love, friendship, and, becoming an adult keeps O Maidens In Your Savage Season truly keeps this series being savage through all it's eight volumes. Comedy moments are funny because they have awkwardness in them as the characters try to figure themselves out. The ending was cute and I would defiantly read this manga again. This was one of the series that I bought a physical copy of every month because the volumes aren't that big, plus the series is relatively short.
I'm familiar with Nao Emoto's artwork from reading Forget Me Not(no not the flower..). That was one of the main reasons I picked up O Maidens in the first place. Forget Me Not's storyline was a let down, especially after all going through the story and all those girls to get that lackluster ending. What did keep me around was the art and Emoto's work for O Maiden's is no different. The cover's color schemes on top of the flower drawing scream blossoming women. Her art style naturally has an emotional vibe that not many manga creators have. She knows when to turn it on and off from panel to panel too. One moment she's drawn a character who wants to die from embarrassment using an over the top facial expression, next moment she's drawn a very serious character who it looking back on their regrets. I enjoyed the youth dynamic being presented in the characters's round faces and big eyes since the look inexperienced like they're suppose to. On top of that, the emotion that'a shown in each character through a panel where the character might feel instantly rejected, so Emoto will draw them without any eyes or just the facial outline. Due to this you can see the character's heart sink clearly in the panel.
O Maiden In Your Savage Season was by far one of the best manga series of 2019. It's a manga I would highly recommend to readers who want a slice of life involving young girls's ever maturing perspective on puberty never done in manga before. Girls don't have everything all figured out during youth just like boys. No matter how mature they might seem.
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