First she gets played and raped by an older guy when she's fresh out of middle school. Let's go over what happens again with some more detail. Now let's forget this assumption for a bit, and analyze Metamorphosis simply as a story, or as a more content/emotionally charged hentai.Īll you get, as I previously mentioned, is seven chapters of this girl being so miserable that at some point you just want this shit to end. Even if Metamorphosis tries to wear a social/industry critique mask, it is no different from the very thing it tries not to be. How can you possibly try to criticize the disgusting traps in which porn falls into by showing us these exact things? Can you really say that Metamorphosis made you think critically about the way you are consuming porn, or did you just masturbate to it, get a little sad, then went right back to some garbage doujin that has virtually the same content as this? The thought that people even masturbate to this at all makes me sick - and that's what is happening, that's what is gonna happen. This makes Metamorphosis completely ineffective garbage. At most, people will realize halfway through that what they're reading to get a sexual kick out off is fucked up and be like "damn." and then carry on, forget about it in a week, read yet another prostitution rape manga in a month. People will get off on those scenes of Saki being raped. People will consume Metamorphosis as hentai. And that's exactly what happens with Metamorphosis here: it's trying to set itself apart from other manga by provoking us to think about what we are consuming, but, ultimately, it's still what it is criticizing. It's easy to try to make a horror movie parody that ends up becoming the very thing it's trying to make fun of, for example. Here's something about satire/parody/critique that people don't often understand: when you're attempting to do this, it's easy to fall into the trap of the very thing you're trying to criticize or make fun of. Let's assume that Shindo L wanted to write something that would criticize the way people mindlessly interact with porn and are desensitized to the brutalization of women in it. It's meant to get so fucked up that you'll stop yourself and think "dude, what the fuck am I doing?" Well, let's assume that this really is the author's intent. It's meant to disturb you into paying attention to what you're sexualizing and masturbating to. The loudest claims in defense of Metamorphosis is that the manga is MEANT to be shocking and disgusting. Now here is where things start to get complicated. Reviewing Metamorphosis as something more: Some also say that it hits different as porn because Saki gets characterization and character evolution besides being cute, which makes me go back to point one - in this case, WHY are you getting off on seeing this shy and naive 15 year old that you allegedly care about as a character getting gang molested? Seriously get help.Ģ. I promise you it'll be more worth your time. Some people will also say that this is a great hentai masterpiece because it has something resembling a plot, to which I respond, trust me dude, go read an eroge instead. Unless, of course, you are into seeing young teenage girls being brutalized and raped by the most disgusting looking old men ever conceived for 30 pages, in which case I advise you to go to therapy and stay the fuck away from me, because what the fuck is wrong with you? I don't know what else to say here besides that there's no value in this as porn, because it's a disgust and shock value fest that no one in their sane mind could possibly find to be good masturbation material. None of the sex in Metamorphosis is sexy. It's seven chapters where this girl gets fucked by old men, playboys, prostitutes herself, is molested by bullies, raped by homeless men, by her own father, by her pimp. Sure, the art is nice (and this is literally the only good thing I can say about this manga), Saki looks very cute and I can't deny that the author is skilled at drawing sex scenes, but then there's this. Here's what this manga is: seven chapters about a 15 year old girl being repeatedly raped and abused. I mean, unless you are a sick fuck, there's really nothing about this manga that is stimulating or hot or sexy. And to me, Metamorphosis utterly fails as porn. If you believe that Metamorphosis is exempt from criticism because it's only porn and it's not that deep, I have news that you might not like to hear: nothing is exempt from criticism, especially not So I will separate this review based on these two point of views. People will claim it's a deep, thought-provoking, innovative, subversive manga, but when you try to criticize it based on these claims, suddenly it's only porn and you shouldn't be taking it so seriously. I will be blunt: there is absolutely no value to be found in this.ĭiscussing Metamosphosis is complicated.
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