Herb Breaks Through

Introduction
Herb Breaks Through is an original, full-colour English Ranma hentai manga (adult comic); the 11th book produced by Ranma Hentai Books, released in September of 2007.

Storyline and Contents
The Story:

Best check your love of the 4th wall at the door, because like the Out of Character series, this book is having too much fun being ridiculous to care!

Dragon Prince Herb of the Musk Dynasty, another girl-spring-cursed character from the B&W manga whose story arc was never made into anime episodes, is busting through reality into the Colour Plane of Ranma dimensions! Cool (weird but cool)! Of course there's some problems with that. Herb seems not to have brought his/her colour with her (also any clothes, and apparently came from a point in the manga before “her” curse was unlocked). Is she going to be the most gothy Dragon Prince(sse) in all the Colour World? Will she be cast for a role in Twilight?

Fortunately Colour seems to be contagious; something you can catch through physical contact. Of course, the side-effects are equally strange, not to mention sexy. Being colourized is an orgasmic experience, and seems to send Herb's powerful dragon-descended ki powers haywire in an explosive way (generally destroying any clothes she might have had on at the time). It also wears off. After some experimentation (in more than one sense) Herb learns that the duration and intimacy of the contact with a colour-person seems to determine how long she can keep her own colour. Now she's desperate to find a more permanent way to keep her colour, and isn't picky about which girl she has to force herself on to get it!

Naturally, acting this crazy and out of control can only lead to Herb-chan “getting it” in ways far beyond what the Nyanniichuan cursed boy-prince had in mind.

Cast & Activities:

Featured Characters (those who have sex in this issue):

Herb

Nabiki

Ranma-kun

Ryouga

Mousse

Other Characters (Those not (significantly) sexually active in this issue)

Akane (but nude for a few pages)

Kasumi (has one line)

Character combinations (in order):

Herb + Nabiki

Herb + Ranma + Ryouga + Mousse

Sexual practices:

Much fanservice (precisely 5 pages of 28 where no one is naked)

Lesbianism (with toys)

Gang-bang

Background & Release
The 11th book from RHB, Herb Breaks Through was released in September, 2007, sold and distributed online through Deep Star Books. It is NOT YET archived for viewing & download on the RHB Defenders site.

Production
Lineart by:

God of Chaos

Story and colour by:

SHADE

Editing by:

Deep Star

Reception
A selection of reviews can be found on this book's entry of the Original Projects page of the RHB main site.

You may also wish to peruse the full listing of reviews for this book in the RHB's Forums.

Trivia
•This comic was inspired by the film "Pleasantville", which deals with a similar concept of black and white characters trying to adjust to life in a color world.

•On page 9, Herb is seen wearing a DoCo t-shirt. This is a reference to the band comprised of five female Ranma 1/2 seiyū.

Shade and Deep Star purposefully inserted this easter egg in order to foreshadow DoCo's subsequent appearance in A Ranma Christmas Story.

•This is the last RHB project to be colored by SHADE.

•On page 7, Ranma observes that Herb looks like a "goth vampire". Indeed, Herb's condition mirrors that of a vampire.

In her black and white form, she looks drained and ghostly pale. When she has sex with someone, or "feeds", she becomes fully colored.

Unfortunately, this effect is temporary. It wears off after a certain period of time, and Herb must feed again to regain her color form. This constant reliance on sex to maintain her color condition is not unlike a vampire's need to feed on blood periodically to retain their human features.