The MiA author is definitely a sex pervert (the volume extras leave no question of this), but children being put through incredibly fucked up dangerous body horror situations because most adults in the setting are useless and/or evil is like half the point of the story. It really does need that.
The fanservice stuff, on the other hand, is either just Japan being Japan, or further playing into the lost innocence theme above. I think one can convincingly argue for it being a little bit of both or entirely just the former, but it almost certainly is not entirely just the latter.
I got up to leaving the place with the tall woman and the maid boy switched to the manga and iirc found it was more egregious but got as far as the next creepozoid that was keeping some melted girl in a briefcase or something, it just got to the point where it felt like it was trying to be pedo bloodborne and the mysterious fantasy never ending hole in the ground became less enticing. I’ll stick to amigara fault for holes to crawl into.
I made it through some bad stuff, but ejected at some point. The last arc I remember they visited something like a waystation and had to kill someone? Memory is fuzzy. Don’t recall what made me drop it.
Shame, because the art was cool and I liked the world. Artist 100% a creep.
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I really wanted to like this one. The setting and story setup were really good. A fine example of “it really doesn’t need this”
turdas@suppo.fi 4 weeks ago
The MiA author is definitely a sex pervert (the volume extras leave no question of this), but children being put through incredibly fucked up dangerous body horror situations because most adults in the setting are useless and/or evil is like half the point of the story. It really does need that.
The fanservice stuff, on the other hand, is either just Japan being Japan, or further playing into the lost innocence theme above. I think one can convincingly argue for it being a little bit of both or entirely just the former, but it almost certainly is not entirely just the latter.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 4 weeks ago
Yeah. Out of curiosity though, how far did you get into it?
(Not that it gets better in this regard or anything)
Grass@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I got up to leaving the place with the tall woman and the maid boy switched to the manga and iirc found it was more egregious but got as far as the next creepozoid that was keeping some melted girl in a briefcase or something, it just got to the point where it felt like it was trying to be pedo bloodborne and the mysterious fantasy never ending hole in the ground became less enticing. I’ll stick to amigara fault for holes to crawl into.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I made it through some bad stuff, but ejected at some point. The last arc I remember they visited something like a waystation and had to kill someone? Memory is fuzzy. Don’t recall what made me drop it.
Shame, because the art was cool and I liked the world. Artist 100% a creep.