For me, Spunky Knight was one of those guilty pleasures in manga I loved to indulge in. The art is unique and well detailed while lacking in continuity errors (save for may be one frame in one issue) and the characters, though badly short lived compared to the heroine and her pet dragon are all very well detailed to the point where their skin actually looks soft and warm to the touch.

I think the sole aspect I didn’t like about Spunky Knight however was that it took one issue to sacrifice the main story line for the sake of introducing us to a new character and a unique and surprisingly innovative sexual encounter.

By doing so it allowed the series to fall into the bog standard pain in the butt fatal misogyny that interrupts the sex scenes I’ve forever hated about manga and anime in general, especially when this all happened to my only favorite female character in the entire damn series. It really sucked for me because the build up for the issue was well scripted and as I started reading the dialogue actually started sympathizing with the one-time heroine of issue 5; had they just left the final frame of the last page out and left the ending completely open-ended, I wouldn’t be complaining.

Now I know the series has a very anarchic sense of sexual humor where death and sex sort of intertwine at random moments and for the most part it still manages to be mildly funny until around the fifth issue then the irony and subtle humor inspired nothing but hatred and repulsion because it’s difficult to find sickening cliches of a particular genre funny especially when a series like Spunky Knight successfully avoided them for a long enough period of time.

Despite that nit-pick though, I can’t help but recommend Spunky Knight because the sex scenes are so well drawn and unique that it’s hard not to like it.

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Individual Rating: Art/Animation 10; Story 6; Characters 7; Sounds 7; Ecchi Level 9

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