If you've been reading manga for any length of time, you've probably encountered some version of the hapless, yet relatable, loser protagonist. He's a guy with no friends and a weird hobby, or the woman who looks super cool and together on the outside, but when she steps inside her apartment, the place looks like squatters have lived there for years. We are meant to relate to this person, functioning in adult society - even if only marginally - but really only barely holding it together.

Likewise, if you have been reading manga for a long time, you've undoubtedly read your share of sexy-intruder manga, as well. A protagonist suddenly has a sexy alien/superhero roommate, or finds a discarded sexy robot and 8 volumes later has a girlfriend. It was a standard for porn manga back in the day. In Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android?, we get to explore this same rom(?)-com sexy time scenario. But this time…the protagonist is a woman.

Does that change anything? Not really. It's still a pretty standard porn trope. On the positive side, Akane is a reasonably likeable character, despite her drunken sloppiness, which is laid down pretty thinly as a personality. Nadeshiko is, in many ways, more developed as a character, as she has a pretty clear personality, even if that personality is “trying to get Akane to have sex with her.” There are a few funny bits, and the translation by Casper Kazor is meant to be funny, as Akane avoids topping Nadeshiko to a pathological extreme.

This last sentence is my only real complaint overall. This is tired comedy trope - a sexbot at the home of a single, adult person with a sex drive, but they won't just have sex with it! Hilarious! That said, it is not the characters' fault they live in the unfunniest sit-com situation. Kazor's comedic translation is good, but when breasting boobily is the comedy, it doesn't always land right.

Nadeshiko otherwise being sentient and sapient makes the sexbot aspect even more problematic. This bot feels emotional discomfort, she gets lonely, she wants Akane to penetrate her to ownership and is distressed that Akane won't. If she's that much of an intelligent being, then it is also deeply problematic that she's a servant, sex or not.

On Akane's side, we also learn a sliver of her background that might lead one to think that, maybe, she's asexual? But no, moments later we are given to understand that she's just…shy. But, hey, this a comedy, just ignore these intrusive thoughts.

Because this is not a one-shot throwaway porn manga but a series…there is a mystery! Once Akane realizes that she has drained her bank to buy Nadeshiko (shoo! shoo! intrusive thoughts) she tries to return her, only to find the company and the site she purchased from have disappeared! What is Nadeshiko? Where did she come from? How is she so vastly more advanced than any other AI, even that at Akane's own company?

The art here is actually quite good, which is really important when we are meant to understand that Nadeshiko's breasts are extremely pretty and soft and squishy. Akane and Nadeshiko are drawn with acceptably moe faces, that blush often, and have bodies that are, if not exactly the same, quite similar in structure and size. If there was a twist at the end that Akane was a malfunctioning sexbot, it would absolutely be plausible.

One last foray into the translation. The night I read this manga, I was also watching a murder mystery that centered around sexbots. (Weird coincidence or is this my life now? We may never know.) In the mystery the sexbots were, of course, called sexbots, so when I saw that Kazor uses “sexaroid” in this manga, I smiled. We've all been iredeemably changed by anime in this room, haven't we?

Overall, as a lesbian sex-fueled sexy romp, Does It Count If You Lose Your Virginity to an Android? is very sex-fueled, in a horny teen way. It's an easy read, likable characters and with so little plot, expect more “Akane is just a bottom, get over it” shenanigans.

As a bonus, I the days when a manga like this would have been the best yuri we got all year. In 2025, it's not the best…but it also isn't the worst yuri thing we have on the shelves. If this series, which has been serialized in Comic Yuri Hime magazine since 2021 is your jam, you've got a lot to look forward to, as Yakinikuteishoku has announced that it will be getting a short anime adaptation.