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Lolita: Ikenai Tawamure
Mako and Satomi, two high school girls, always talk about boys. Satomi is already having an affair with her tutor, Kobayashi, and has already experienced sex. Feeling left behind, Mako heads to Harajuku, a mecca for teenagers, hoping to lose her virginity. There, she is picked up by a cool college student and has her first time in his room. However, the man then forces her to take clients for him...
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Mako and Satomi, two high school girls, always talk about boys. Satomi is already having an affair with her tutor, Kobayashi, and has already experienced sex. Feeling left behind, Mako heads to Harajuku, a mecca for teenagers, hoping to lose her virginity. There, she is picked up by a cool college student and has her first time in his room. However, the man then forces her to take clients for him...
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