Title: 神様だもの (Because I'm The Goddess) Vol. 1
Artist/Author: 紗夢猫 (Shamneko)
Book Size/Pages: A-5, 170pp., w/o furigana
Original Serialization: Monthly Comic Gum 6/03-11/03
First Printing: 12/10/03
Rating: 2/4

I really like Shamneko's character designs from all her shonen comics. Judging from the front cover, maybe she really should stay with shonen. Her character designs don't really lend themselves to sexiness. However, Pandora isn't always in her voluptuous form and turns into a normal girl at times, so she's portrayed that "big" for most of the story.

Speaking of story, I don't know. I just couldn't get hooked to the whole goddess thing and what her purpose for coming earth was. I could follow it, but this story doesn't have the elements that I enjoyed from her previous works.

There's a color first page and an autobiographical mini-comic at the end of the book.

1. 神々からの贈りもの (A Gift From the Gods): パンドラ (Pandora) is a goddess sent to retrieve all the "gifts" from god. She's quite voluptuous and gets all the attention from guys standing around her. She encounters 葵 (Aoi), who saves her from potential embarrassment and she declares that he's her servant. Aoi doesn't believe her, so she whips up a tsunami with her powers and washes everything away. A week later, Pandora meets Aoi again but this time, she's in a teenage body. It's soon revealed that after she uses her goddess powers, her body turns into that of a teenager and cannot use any powers. In order to return to her regular self, she has to get a kiss from Aoi.

2. 葵の決断 (Aoi's Decision): Aoi is reluctant to take Pandora in, but eventually does so. He prefers her teenage form rather than her adult form.

3. 神様の初仕事 (God's First Job): Pandora, in her adult form, and her cat can see men who have been collared by a magical leash and made "prisoners." At the other end of the leash is a women who has been possessed by the "gift." The gifts are little cupids who dwell inside women and empower them to seduce men via the leash. Pandora spots the first victim, a businessman who steals for the woman he loves. During the confrontation with the woman, she transforms Aoi into a pair of wire-cutters and cuts the leash.

4. 例外の虜 (An Atypical Prisoner): The next victim they find is 天城摩耶 (Maya Amagi). They're confused at first because she looks like a girl, yet "gifts" only take males as prisoners. It turns out in fact that it's a guy. Despite that, Pandora gets a little jealous that Aoi might take a liking to her. During the confrontation, Aoi is changed into a pair of supergloves that Pandora uses to rip apart the chains.

5. 待雪恋愛講座 (Matsuyuki's Course in Love): Because of the incidents from last chapter, Maya is in the hospital and Pandora and Aoi are visiting. Pandora's cat goes to the room next door and starts talking with the patient there (the cat can talk). The girl who has bandages over her eyes, can hear the cat, but can't see that it's not a human. She assumes that she is a human and calls her Matsuyuki. In order to not disappoint the girl, Pandora offers her body. Pandora and the girl spend time together over several days. However, Pandora (the cat's voice) tells her that once she regains her vision, it's best of they not see each other.

6. 信じる心 (Believing Heart): A "gift' has taken control of one of Aoi's old private tutors and almost seduces him. If he's on a leash, that means Pandora can't use him to extract the "gifts." Pandora saves him just in time and she captures the cupid.

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