TOKYO Cyberpunk GIRL

NOT SO FANTASTIC - A little pedestrian

86 pages of full-color photos of the titular “Cyberpunk” young woman on the cover. First and foremost, while the description states “women of adult age (18+)”, there is ABSOLUTELY no nudity involved, nor anything “adult” about the book. It's clean and safe for work as there are zero provocative shots (though there are perhaps five to six shots that come accidentally close to being somewhat provocative. So if you've come for sexy images, this is not the book for you. That said, I'm glad the photographer and “author” (there is no text in this book whatsoever) decided on using a young woman instead of a preteen like is so popular in similar books in this vein.

Unfortunately, I wasn't as impressed by this book as I wanted to be. It's rather dull and amateurish. Is it bad? No. But Julie Watai's work with Hardware Girls puts this to shame. This is just a young woman in several different cyberpunk-ish headgear pieces, a gas mask and VR headgear. I flipped through the whole 86 pages in less than five minutes. There wasn't anything to hold my attention. And sampling (via Amazon's free samples) shows that this “8 Book Series” gives the same treatment to the same young women in subsequent titles.

Hopefully the “author” and photographer decide to spread their wings a little in the future and really get a little wild and crazy with the settings. This series does NOT need to be sexy to be good, it just needs to work on settings, and perhaps, clothing choices for the model a little more.