The Dangerous Convenience Store

Heh, so this will be a short review. The other day I picked up volumes 1 and 2 of The Dangerous Convenience Store because I'd seen a review somewhere that it was "cute" and the back copy looked okay. Sure, it said "18+" on it, but so does My Dress Up Darling, and there's just a couple of dodgy illustrations per book and the rest of it is really pretty tame (and the story is great). At the most, I thought it might be like Love Stage, where there are some graphic scenes, but they come kinda late and are just a few pages.

Welp.

Haha, me. The story starts out ok-ish, but then literally nearly a third of the first book is some pretty graphic hardcore stuff. Little too much for me. Okay, a lot too much. Luckily, even though I'd removed the shrink wrap, the lovely Forbidden Planet staff let me return them the next day.

Story-wise, it wasn't anything special at all anyway (from the bit I read before I was all 😑😬😣😮😱😳). There's a college student who works at a convenience store at night that is frequented by gangster types, including one middle aged handsome one, who takes an interest in him. When he gets depressed because he confessed to his crush (and his crush flirts back but tells him he's actually dating someone), gangster dude, who is apparently hung like a truck, offers to "get his mind off of things" though he's apparently never dated or done anything with a guy before? Thus ensues a freakishly, dangerously long encounter, etc., etc.

I flipped through it and, yeah. DEFINITELY not at all the same level of My Dress Up Darling or even Love Stage. They MEANT this 18+ rating. Let's just say there's not a lot of dialogue in this book. I didn't even really read any of the next one, just flipped through to see it looked about the same. Too hardcore for me.

So, thank you, staffers, for letting me exchange it for something else.