Rope Guy over at BondageBlog came up with this particular erotic mad science manga gem in a recent post.

Rope Guy speculated — not unreasonably — that what was involved here was a cloning device of some kind:

I’m not sure what is going on here, precisely, but it does not look like she’s planning to let her clone-sister out of the vat any time soon[…]

My own read on this image was that it was inspired by a certain sci-fi horror movie of deservedly high repute. I commented at BondageBlog:

The setup here actually looks very similar to that for The Fly — notice the geometry of the pods, the fact that there’s another pod a few feet away, and the cables on the floor. Could this perhaps be a teletransportation experiment?

Don’t you wish you could read Japanese? I sure do. But even though I can’t, I can still commission knowledgeable human beings to do translations for very reasonable prices. Here are the results (keep in mind that in manga panels are generally read right-to-left):

Right panel:

物質転送の実験体になってもらうわ！

You will be used as a test subject for the transport(machine?)

Left panel:

ああ……僕って不幸…

Aaahh…I am miserable…

Well, that clears that up! (I hope our comely subject survives and does not turn into a fly…)