Intro page. At least the editor's note is funnyThis doujin contains 4 unrelated stories, with
durians being the common theme.
IMHO, the quality of the stories went from: relatively funny > boring > bad > I regret this purchase.
Before I talk more about the doujin, let's take a brief look at the stories...
"A Durian Flavoured Drink" starts off introducing Sharry. No matter what he does, he is unable to
find a life partner attract girls.
One day, after talking to "God", he is given a durian flavoured drink.
He buys more of this drink (which turns out to be available in convenience stores), and by drinking it, he manages to attract more women. However, he did not read the warning label on the can, which says not to drink it "after 10 PM sharp".
So one day, he goes to meet a girl, but he finds out that
she he it's really a guy!
He later realizes that the durian drink has been making him hallucinate, and all the while he was dating ah quas (ah qua= slang for gay). And that's how "A Durian Flavoured Drink" ends.
Next is "Impossi-durian", the longest story in the doujin.
The story begins with the Black Suits gang being attacked and robbed by Mr. Mercenary.
Mr. Mercenary did his job for the Mamak gang, and took the box, which was supposed to be full of gold. But when the boss of the Mamak gang opened the box, all that was inside was a durian. Meanwhile, Clyde of the Black Suits gang explains that the gold is actually hidden inside an empty durian shell, and that Mr. Mercenary has taken a decoy.
Unfortunately for the Black Suits gang, Mr. Mercenary did get the right one. When he
RAGE'd got angry and threw the durian...
It split open and gold spilled out. The Black Suit gang finally realizes that Mr. Mercenary took the right box, and starts to hunt down Mr. Mercenary.
Now being chased by both the Mamak gang and the black suits gang, Mr. Mercenary gets onto Abu Bakar's lorry, and asks him to drive, saying he's an undercover cop.
The Mamak and Black Suits gangs continue to chase after him, when Abu Bakar, a former "raja mat motor" (King of Bikers), decides to use his skills to get rid of them.
So with the Mamak and Black Suits gangs off their tail, Abu Bakar takes Mr. Mercenary to a safe place: the police station (LOL).
Mr. Mercenary is caught, and that's the end of "Impossi-Durian".
Next up, "Something Begins" (Title is parody of Batman Begins).
Kiddy, whose parents get killed one day, decides to train himself to fight evil. After training for years, he wants to choose his secret identity, when he sees a bat.
It appears that he was about to choose a bat to represent his secret identity, but then a durian falls and kills the bat.
Later, the pirate king of movies is visited by Kiddy, and we see that he chose for his secret identity to be represented by a durian.
His name: Durianman.
Forgot to rotate this image, and can't be bothered to :PHe fights by using headbutts, because of his spiky helm. But that's all we get to see him use. There isn't even a durian mobile.
In the next few pages, we see the pirate king of movies all tied up, with a durian left behind in the scene, and that ends "Something Begins"
The next story, "Keeper of the Grave", is so bad, I don't want to talk about the story. I shall let the ugly (but detailed) art, and lameness of it all talk for itself.
And I refuse to show any more than that.
This doujin was done by TeamWorks, and I purchased it for RM6. When I saw the cover, and browsed through and saw Durianman, I thought it was worth a shot. But by the time I reached the last page, I wanted a refund. I could have spent that RM6 in better ways, like buying more of
Kid chan's art!
I will now be even more weary of Malaysian doujins.
Since no store anywhere seems to have an image of the cover of Rumiko Takahashi's Rin-Ne #4 posted, here it is:
