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I remember Mely calling Hot Gimmick the manga of feminist shame. Moon Child is the manga of every kind of shame: an appallingly stereotyped character design for an African... er... alien mermaid, creepy gender politics, the absolutely tasteless use of a number of actual disasters, and incredibly, jaw-droppingly, appallingly sketchy adult-child interactions.
And yet the story is so compelling, I can't stop reading! It is like crack. Pretty, pretty, politically and morally horrifying crack! With bonus intriguing worldbuilding and gorgeous art.
I would not have thought the crack could get more cracky, but volume 8 has one of the most... um... unusual extended flashbacks designed to create sympathy for a villain since Jezebel Disraeli's encounter with intestines in Godchild 7.
If you've read that far, all I have to say is... WEEEN!
Teruto had to spear screaming alien moon fish so his siblings could survive! Woe! WEEEN!
I almost died laughing when it was revealed that Shonach was not speaking metaphorically when he said that all women but Benjamin looked like hideous alien monsters to him. And then Shimizu helpfully gave us Shonach's female alien-view for page after page!
Art/Jimmy-Benjamin: STILL SO SKETCHY AND DISTURBING.
Shonach/Seth: Still cute.
And yet the story is so compelling, I can't stop reading! It is like crack. Pretty, pretty, politically and morally horrifying crack! With bonus intriguing worldbuilding and gorgeous art.
I would not have thought the crack could get more cracky, but volume 8 has one of the most... um... unusual extended flashbacks designed to create sympathy for a villain since Jezebel Disraeli's encounter with intestines in Godchild 7.
If you've read that far, all I have to say is... WEEEN!
Teruto had to spear screaming alien moon fish so his siblings could survive! Woe! WEEEN!
I almost died laughing when it was revealed that Shonach was not speaking metaphorically when he said that all women but Benjamin looked like hideous alien monsters to him. And then Shimizu helpfully gave us Shonach's female alien-view for page after page!
Art/Jimmy-Benjamin: STILL SO SKETCHY AND DISTURBING.
Shonach/Seth: Still cute.