Just like how women tend to love a man in uniform, there’s nothing that excites some guys more than seeing a girl in a uniform of her own. Some men drool over nurses outfits, workout gear or swimsuits. For many, though, the maid holds a special place in their fantasies. Maybe it’s the risque nature of a prim and proper servant engaging in sexual acts that get people excited. Maybe it’s the way their elegant, fluffed uniforms highlight the natural curves of their bodies so well. Whatever reason people may have, there are endless amounts of erotic fantasies concerning the humble housemaid. Fanaticism explores every aspect of that fantasy to the most extreme degree, resulting in a brief but certainly wild adventure into a world of naughty maids.
Despite a regular length of 233 pages, Fanaticism is only six chapters long, with each chapter running for about 30 or 40 pages. On top of that, this is no anthology of unrelated tales involving a variety of different maids and working-class women. Of the six chapters in the anthology, four of them are set in the Fanaticism story that focuses on two maids and their deviant relationship with their young master. The other two chapters, meanwhile, are truly standalone stories that end up feeling like weird bonuses considering the focused narrative of the rest of the book. One chapter focuses on a young heiress and her head maid engaging in a forbidden carnal relationship together. The other chapter, meanwhile, focuses on a young woman struggling to rekindle her relationship after she returns from the war addicted to a certain medicine. I can’t help but feel like the balance in this volume between the Fanaticism story and the anthology chapters could have been handled better. Most of the extra pages you get in these lengthy chapters end up being sex scenes, resulting in a technically full-length volume that still ends up feeling woefully short.
It would help if the main story of Fanaticism were engaging enough to carry the bulk of the volume that it occupies, but that part falls a bit flat too. The story focuses on Alyssa, a young and inexperienced maid who’s just joined the team at the estate of Master Oswald, a young dreamboat. Alyssa heard rumors that the maids of his house give their master special sexual services at night, but after weeks of working there, no such thing has happened. Despite being infatuated with Master Oswald, Alyssa gives up on the rumors of sexual servitude and lives life peacefully as a clumsy maid. At least, until a certain day when the head maid, Colette, brings Alyssa to her room to discuss something. When Alyssa arrives, she finds Colette straddling Oswalds hips and discovers that the rumors are true, and Colette has decided to recruit Alyssa to help give Oswald sexual education.
It’s only the two of them educating him, and at first, Colette simply brings her on to be an extra hole for Oswald to fill when the head maid is busy. Soon, though, Alyssa and the young master start falling in love. This sparks massive retaliation from Colette, who inflicts severe punishment on Alyssa and sends her away to be the sexual slave of the kitchen staff while Colette slowly turns Master Oswald from shy gentleman to brash sex freak. Despite over 140 pages of content, I felt like the four chapters of this collection barely told a story. The power struggle between Colette and Alyssa is brief and simple and only bloated by the magnitude of sex scenes in each chapter. With such a paper-thin story, I can’t help but feel like the overall anthology would have succeeded more if every chapter were a separate story instead.
Thankfully, the art of Fanaticism manages to pick up the slack where the story falters. Siokonbu draws one kind of woman and draws her incredibly well. Every girl in this volume is rocking a gorgeous hourglass figure with large breasts, plush butts, and full, well-defined legs. There isn’t a lot of character variety to begin within this anthology, considering the short length of it, with there being a total of five or six women featured in the entire book. Still, each of the women has a different design, style, and personality, helping ensure that the characters don’t blend together. There are about just as many men in the book, if not a few less, but that results in each of them being wildly different. Oswald is a slender young man, but later stories feature short and well-endowed boys, a big and brutish husband-to-be, and even a handsome war-veteran with a much more adult figure. Despite having so few characters, Fanaticism manages to make each of them stand out surprisingly well.
The art excels even more in sex scenes. Characters have vivid, lust-filled expressions on their faces as they’re fingered, fucked and tossed around by their partners. The way the thick and busty bodies of each girl move during these scenes are incredible, and it’s elevated even further by the detail put into the sexual anatomy of each character. Each chapter begins with four or eight full-color pages before transitioning into black and white, and these pages are consistently some of the most erotic parts of the book. Shiny specks of light drop across every figure to create a wonderful sense of depth and oily shininess that I couldn’t get enough of.
Fanaticism is a well-drawn volume full of gorgeous, full-figured beauties. Unfortunately, it’s held back by a weak and short main story. With only six chapters to speak of, four of them focused on a singular story, the book is over before you know it. As long as you can forgive the short run and basic plotline, you might get some mileage out of this book. Fanaticism by Siokonbu is available at our shop here, along with many other great hentai manga series.
