YMMV / Booty Royale: Never Go Down Without a Fight!

• Come for the X, Stay for the Y: The manga is unabashedly ecchi, with ample fanservice and sex scenes, both yuri and straight. However, once it begins its tournament arc, it has genuinely exciting and accurate fight scenes, with behind the scenes drama and tension to boot. It never stops being fanservice, but readers may come to realize they prefer the action to the smut.
• Complete Monster: Dr. Ikezaki Gensuke is a celebrity surgeon who uses his public image, wealth, and connections to shield his sexual sadism from both the police and the Yakuza. Ikezaki is first introduced having savagely beaten Akihoshi Leia after hiring her as a call girl and then bribing her to keep quiet; Yashiki Kurisu heard of him similarly beating a worker at an extreme S&M club so badly that they banned him for life. After Misora breaks his left hand for the assault on Leia, Ikezaki first hires a hitman to attack her with a sword, then has her kidnapped and attempts to make a Snuff Film where he first rapes her, then watches as she's vivisected—and he admits to there being many prior victims buried on the mountain behind the studio. Throughout it all, Ikezaki remains unrepentant and utterly convinced he'll get away with all of his crimes.
• Crosses the Line Twice: During the hundred-man kumite, Sara tries to penetrate Misora with a strap-on dildo. What would normally be horrible given how hard Misora has been working to save her virginity for someone she loves, is made hilarious by the fact that some wise-guy wrote "Ginsu" on the side of the shaft. Never thought you'd see Phallic Weapon as an Inverted Trope, didja?
• Friendly Fandoms: Fans of Booty Royale tend to also be big fans of the Baki the Grappler franchise, and not for no reason—both have heavy emphasis on fighting, have staggering amounts of homoeroticism, feature over the top moves and hammy characters, lots of Shown Their Work, and aren't afraid of showing body fluids other than blood. Some Booty Royale fans have even called the series a Distaff Counterpart to Baki.
• Hollywood Homely: Applies to Leia and Kurisu. Despite both being reasonably fit, sexually attractive women in their mid-late 20's, they're treated as being undesirable.
  • Leia is considered past her prime because of her age (29), so she moonlights as a high-class callgirl and a "professional mistress" for middle-aged businessmen and sugar daddies.
  • Kurisu has it worse, due to her freckled face and biracial ethnicity (Japanese/American) which makes her unappealing to most Japanese men. So, like Leia, she part-times elsewhere to make ends meet.
• The Scrappy: Readers really hated Sigrun the fighting robot, who serves basically no role other than to be a Diabolus ex Machina in the Tournament Arc that basically comes off as Ass Pull to make life harder for the Amazon Brigade. Thankfully she doesn't get any further than the quarterfinal before Maomao smashes her.
• Spiritual Successor: Booty Royale has been fairly accurately described as a Distaff Counterpart to Baki the Grappler. Mangaka Rui Takato himself says in one of the late chapters of the series that Baki got him interested in martial arts (along with Saint Seiya), and like its predecessor, Booty Royale features a heavy emphasis on well-researched fight scenes and huge amounts of fanservice and homoeroticism.
• Woolseyism: The English translation has the occasional one: for example, Jeremy Friedman's line in the Japanese version about being one of the top five richest people in the United States is rendered by Seven Seas as "I'm richer than the electric car guy," referring to Elon Musk (who at time of translation was roughly neck-and-neck with Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos for richest man in the world).

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