Ano Toki Tasukete Itadaita Monster Musume desu. - Ch. 28

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this manga is so wishywashy with its plot lol, I can't even get what it is aiming for but it is funny to read
It's not so much wishywashy with its plot as it is its tone. We actually have a pretty clear backstory for our man here. Got Isekaid as a 20-something, was the legendary magical mage of magic and the fated hero of all time, but then saw some sort of experimentation on monsters happening and did something to stop it. We don't know what. He then took the monsters that were experimented on away, taught them basic skills, and then left. We don't know why. He's now working as what amounts to an adjunct professor at a magic college when he was supposed to be the great hero of legend, because he left all that behind him.

It's very mid-life crisis, in a way. The guy looks back at his life and thinks he wasted his shot. He gave up his chance at fame and fortune. But the monster girls come into his life, and they're the strange creatures he threw away his life for 20 years ago. His life wasn't a waste. He mattered to people.

What's interesting/frustrating here is that we're seeing the fallout of events we know happened, but don't know much else. We didn't see what happened in the research facility, so we don't know how we should react to this information aside from vague doubt. Is this a past sin he's been running from, where he really did kill everyone in there and take the monsters, so he's felt conflicted? Is this a secret that shouldn't be out, because the idea of doing the experiments we saw is not something that anyone aside from a few should know about? Was he exiled and stripped of rank, or was he on the run? We don't know, and we're 28 chapters in and it has not mattered so we certainly didn't think it'd be vital information that'd seriously change the context.

So it's annoying, cause this is a core plot point that has just been ignored up until right this second. If the monster research thing was actually a big deal, we should've been aware that the existence of the monster girls and the fact that they came to see him was going to be a serious problem instead of the delayed reward for a good deed that its felt like.
 
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The problem with raising the stakes like this is they surely don't have the balls to make it a real armed conflict, it's either scaring them into submission or fixing it behind the scenes which brings everything back to square one, in the end this is all one can expect from a dumb school harem plot
 
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Guess the author is finally gonna stop the pretense that this is about cute monster girls doing cute things.

When in reality, the real story the author seems to want to focus on is the protag's depression and lack of self-esteem.

The girls are just bait eye-candy so readers stay.
 

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