Honda is a lady-killer who thought he had every woman wrapped around his finger, but it turns out there's a carnivore in his flock. While he's getting handsy with his newest conquest, the gloomy Shimizu scares off his newest prize. And just before he could turn on the charm with the little bookworm, she makes him submit using only her hands. With his pride shattered, he returns to her daily, only to be defeated by her silk stockings, caressing hands, and bewitching smile. As he falls further under her thumb, his kinks have been twisted forever, turning from playboy to Shimizu's little boytoy!

Man Eater has a story and art by Gar. Translation by Andrew Castle and lettering by Diogo Pereira. Published by FAKKU (September 2026). Rated M.

Lucas DeRuyter
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Gar's Man Eater is some damn fine smut and you should read it right this second if mascs in submissive roles and femmes in dominant roles does anything at all for you! Covering a number of grounded, but still distinctly pornoworld, scenarios and a number of rarer kinks that the author clearly understands well, this work is as erotic as it is charming. I also especially appreciate how casually it brings up kinks and makes them a part of the interiority of these characters as, while I do appreciate the campier parts of kink-inclusive sexual expression, it's also nice to see this material treated as a normal part of these characters' sexual identity.

Man Eater opens strong with “Library Poser” which features a school's fuckplayboi library hook up getting interrupted by the plain and even dour librarian's assistant, Shiori. Blue balls turn into nearly busted balls, though, when Shiori reveals that she's even more of a sexual Casanova than he is, and awakens his sexually submissive side. The framing of the male lead constantly challenging and losing to Shiori is especially fun, as it both ties into gender norms around dominant and submissive role, and is appealing to anyone with a competitive streak.

One of my other favorite works in this anthology is “Bab-Me!” which features a gyaru working for the titular maid service app, being summoned to the home of a burnt out office worker. Firmly pro-sex work in tone, this chapter is all about how rejuvenating it can be to turn your brain off and allow yourself to be softdommed by someone who's able to see and prioritize your needs. If you, like me, are someone who prides themselves as being hyper capable, dependable, and defaults into a leadership role in most of your relationships, this story is going to hit you where you live.

While I appreciate “My Girlfriend's Little Sister's” exploration of the taboo and rare framing of rimming as an act of sexual domination, “When You Pick Up an Abandoned Cat…'s” framing of kink as a more casual part of a person's identity, and “Public Indecency!'s” very informed exhibitionism, I especially want to highlight the final chapter, “Don't Call Me Cute!!.” This is just a very sweet and smoldering story about a young couple having sex for the first time, and in the process challenging the pedestal and masculine-coded expectations that have been socially ascribed to the female lead, Yuu. The last thing I was expecting from a work that features public cosplay sex and a woman who's basically a cat a la Tama Nekonari from 100 Girlfriends is a heartfelt depiction of how sex and intimacy can help people grow and become more comfortable with themselves.

Even if the translation/dialogue is a little clunky in some spots and the character designs could be more varied, there's just so much to love about Gar's Man Eater that I can't help but fawn over it. Gar even goes so far as to add new character artwork and fun details about each leading lady at the end of the chapter they appear in! With each chapter being either a fun or touching story with incredibly hot sex, all hentai should aspire to be as good as Man Eater, and I hope we get another Gar anthology release soon!

Jean-Karlo Lemus
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I lack the creativity to make a proper Hall & Oates joke, but I am implying one. Anyway, Man Eater is a nice grab-bag of fun stories from Gar. I'd like to say that it has a consistent through-line of dominant women topping masochistic men, but that's not quite the case since two of the other stories feature submissive women and the last story plays around with a “princely” girl. But the first three chapters do a great job of staying on course. Gar's additional strips for each chapter also do a fun job of expanding on each couple, revealing how Honda in the Library Poser chapter has his kinks irreparably changed by Shimizu's sadism or how Miu truly becomes her master's pet cat. The chapters are all uniformly fun and, even if they don't all hit the “femdom” mark, have fantastic stories of their own. In a way, their variety makes for a decent spread. I also appreciate that all of these stories have unique outcomes. Even Gar points out that not everyone ends up in a dedicated relationship; Honda chases after Shimizu's ghost, Kojima doesn't really see Mamika again after she services his house, Miu and Mister's relationship is left hanging, and so on. It's a good bit of worldbuilding for a series of one-shots.

Special credit goes to Gar's artwork. For starters, he does a great job of drawing a variety of body types, from Miu and Rei's petite frames (Rei is singled out as having a prodigiously large butt) to the gyaru Mamika's bombshell physique. (Between her figure and Gar's stellar toning, Mamika's got some of the best boobs I've seen in ages.) Gar also excels at flourishes; there's a cute bit where the opening to Shimizu's cervix takes on a heart-shape.

It would've been nice for all of the stories in Man Eater to have a consistent theme, but the overall execution is solid enough to get this book a strong recommendation. Even if only some of the girls in this book are actual man-eaters, you'll find you can go for that.

Bolts
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I read a title like Man Eater and my first thought is that this is going to be a book predominantly filled with women dominating others, and for the majority of this book, I was right. There are one or two stories towards the end of the book that invert the main appeal, but those come off more like moments of levity in an otherwise very fetish focused collection. Do you want a woman to tease you in public and stare you down like you're worthless? Do you want to be edged to the point where you can't even control your own orgasm no matter how much you fight back? Then boy do I have the book for you!

I love the expression work on all of the women here, especially since all of them are drawn very differently with some even adopting deceptive dispositions. The literal cover girl of the book definitely falls into the category of Man Eater, but I doubt most people would expect the same behavior from other people like a quiet librarian. This is a pretty easy book to recommend because if you are not interested in that particular type of fetish then this is the kind of thing to avoid. But if you are, then I think this covers all of the bases of people who are looking to insert themselves in those types of scenarios, whether they want to be the dominant, be in control or be a submissive that has control taken away from them. There's plenty of time focused on the teasing with the fallout of some of the sex scenes really laying into the power dynamic that gets established. I think this is written by somebody who fully understands what the appeal of that fetish is, so if that's what you're looking for, then by all means, enjoy.