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Ano Toki Tasukete Itadaita Monster Musume desu. - Ch. 1
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I think that's the story hint. He saved a bunch of monsters from experimentation and taught them some things. Then, years later, for some reason there's oddly powerful monsters who can take a human form and nobody knows why they would do such a thing!
I'll read it until even I can't handle being this pandered to though
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Not only are neither of those being exploited in this narrative as presently written (which is important in its own right), my point was that you're reading a fictional story. "But think of the real life" is such a stupefyingly aggravating point of consideration for a narrative that's so blatantly removed from real life or its considerations.
You were specifically talking about the story without referencing the author-- not that the distinction is sufficiently material.
The "age gap romance" trope-- adult/minor or otherwise-- is neither particularly unpopular nor poorly received, putting aside that there are writing conventions used to better appeal to the readership.
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No no no. Monster Girl is old fashioned. Modern girls call em Demis now. 😆
Anyway, ig we'll eventually get the rest of the monsters in the early chaoters appearing as we go huh?
Anyway, ig we'll eventually get the rest of the monsters in the early chaoters appearing as we go huh?
If you're going to talk about power, you have to consider the setting. Within the setting, the dude's basically an adjunct who lives alone in a shitty apartment who everyone hates, thinks is a loser, and bullies because of it. He was a rising star and hailed as a hero like 20 years ago, but something happened and now he's... not. The monstergirls, who are the focus here, are seen as powerful and interesting varieties of monsters. They're held in high regard and one coming to the school has caused it to be showered with gifts and grants, as people seek their favor.
There's a power imbalance here, but it's not really tipped towards him. The fact that the first one can just choose him as a teacher shows you how much power she has. As her teacher, he does have authority over her, but she actively sought that and considering the influence that gets thrown around to court her, she could likely have him dismissed on a word.
Here you reveal your problem: you're not actually engaging with the story as it is. You're engaging in a story you made up because you want to think the author sucks. They may! I know nothing about them! But 'falling in love with his adolescent students' isn't this story.
The core is easy to see: 20 years ago the dude threw away his shot at life to rescue monsters from some horrible experiment. Clearly nobody else cared about these beings, but he did. We don't know why he taught them or much of anything about what occurred, but he saved them and had contact with them. He never thought anything lustful about them at all, they were creatures that he saved and accepted as worthy of life. He doesn't say a thing to their "I wanna marry the teacher" stuff, which he probably took as children being enamored with an adult figure as well as, yknow, their literal hero.
Somehow those creatures grew up, became incredibly magically powerful, and are now coming to find him. They're adults, he's working at a university, and they were already some kind of grown when he rescued them, so chronologically they could be in their twenties at this point, who knows.
See, this isn't a student/teacher fantasy. This is a specific fantasy of doing something good and it coming back later to help you. It's not "my hot student" it's "okay so that talking octopus I saved 20 years ago can somehow turn into a hot girl and has come to find me."
I like older male/younger female age gap romances, and they're very hard to find outside of Shoujo/Jousei/Smut. The idea of someone who's given up on life and love being re-invigorated by the love of someone younger than them is a very fun and satisfying idea. But most of them are very predatory, because the other fantasy is that of an older man sweeping in and lifting you into a life of luxury/adulthood. The inherent problematic nature of that doesn't really matter in that fantasy because they're the prey and like that.
You don't have to read it, you don't have to like it, but I think you're being unfair to the author and the manga.
This is awful. Why wouldn't the author make this story take place when he was a happy teacher of cute plushy monsters? All this trauma. The MC is the servant of awfull people, everyone bullies him, his job is pathetic, his life used to be so much better. The real problem is there is no going up from here. If MC starts succeeding that's terrible, because that means he's succeeding on behalf of terrible people. Earning the praise of those brats is worthless, the teachers are people you'd want to not be admired by.
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Yeah, we aren't old. We just become... more mature.
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This will be a read I'll enjoy. That opening scene was so adorable I kinda hope they go more into the backstory
I hate when they go with the trope "He doesn't recognize me"
She's literally nothing like what he remember not even one thing resembling an octopus aside from the earrings which still doesn't matter
I hate when they go with the trope "He doesn't recognize me"
She's literally nothing like what he remember not even one thing resembling an octopus aside from the earrings which still doesn't matter
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Well... I'm more into older female/younger male age gap romances, myself (though, I ultimately like either). In those, there's often a pressure for the younger male to prove himself as having at least a maturity parity with the older woman, so many double as coming-of-age stories. Otherwise, I definitely find it fun to watch an old woman be rendered into a blushing schoolgirl by someone she wouldn't have normally considered on account of his youth.
Something that isn't acknowledged by a lot of people I see that explicitly dislike age-gap romance, is that both reader and author are acutely aware of the issues inherent in age-gap romances, and they expect (subconsciously or otherwise) for the author to address those concerns in time for the genesis of the intimate relationship. They're aware of the power imbalance issue, and they expect for the normally higher-in-status party (e.g. the teacher, the boss) to be established as earnest or otherwise fundamentally unwilling to take advantage of his status. They're aware of the maturity gap, and so they expect for either 1) the older party to be as immature as the younger party, or 2) the younger party to become as mature as the older party.
In my perception, I think never attaining maturity and status parity means that the relationship can't gain additional dimension... which still suits smut and porn.
I definitely like the sound of this premise, but I don't think I've seen a lot of it. Maybe it's more common for older male/younger female...
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I think it's intentionally vague. Pieces of him teaching low level monster, the destruction of what was apparently a school, him trying to make sure his spider student was safe, then spider taken to some lab to be experimented on. Then as a mage he seemed to storm the labs and rescue his captive students.
It was all scattered in flashbacks but you can start to piece together the what's. We just don't know the why's or how's upside of "monster girls are prestigious".
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