Ano Toki Tasukete Itadaita Monster Musume desu. - Ch. 31

[Al_Azif]

Author ragebaiting this hard. Something happened IRL didn't it?

 

[DungeonsDragon]

Spoiler: Chapter 33

The Washio faction girls, the snake girl, and Frederick—the annoying guy with a crush on Claudia—enter Julius-sensei's private room. Inside, they discover the typewriter used to write the accusatory letter, along with what appear to be incriminating documents against Julius-sensei. Just as they're about to leave, Julius-sensei catches them, steps inside, and locks the door. As Frederick confronts him, Claudia approaches Julius-sensei and hands over the documents they found—she's under his control.

Thanks for the chapter!

Thanks for the heads up. Will avoid this until maybe chapter 42 and hope things have improved.

 

[DaBlackMamba]

Spoiler: Chapter 33

The Washio faction girls, the snake girl, and Frederick—the annoying guy with a crush on Claudia—enter Julius-sensei's private room. Inside, they discover the typewriter used to write the accusatory letter, along with what appear to be incriminating documents against Julius-sensei. Just as they're about to leave, Julius-sensei catches them, steps inside, and locks the door. As Frederick confronts him, Claudia approaches Julius-sensei and hands over the documents they found—she's under his control.

Thanks for the chapter!

Oh cool, it gets worse. Fuck this manga

 

[TrueGoddessReincarnation]

Yeah this story is just not good, idk what the author is thinking tanking it with this stupid ass "drama"

It was bound to be crap cause its school themed. I was just here for the monster girls myself meh.

 

[Pokeroots]

This is a terrible turn. Not even because of the story idea, or the characters' actions(the characters are acting BAD here, though), but because of who we're seeing it through and what we know. Last chapter we had a setup for a flashback arc, which was the natural way for the story to go; we don't know much about Washio's past, even though its important and the entire foundation of the manga.

The manga's story is a mid-life crisis. The point is that the main character feels like he gave up his shot in life, especially since he was summoned here as the legendary heroic hero. We didn't know much about how that all came about, just that it did. The pivotal moment seems to be around the monster girls, who were just regular-ass monsters when he saved them. The dude threw away his life for them, but they come back to remind him that he didn't waste his shot, he did something good.

So its a little weird for them to suddenly become a problem, and even weirder that they let him leave and believe him when he says what he said, and the weirdest that we're now following the MONSTER GIRLS on their quest for the truth. They know the truth. We don't. We need them to tell us what happened, not for them to find out.

Washio may have had every reason to walk out, we don't actually know much about the events that took place; but the monster girls sure as shit do. He saved them. That's why they're so attached to him. They know the facility they were in, they know what he did. It's even clear in that Washio is tailoring what he's saying; rather than saying he magically brainwashed them, he says "I tried to hide but you guys came and found me, if I knew you were going to do that I wouldn't have helped you." Rather than saying that anything about what he's accused of is true, he's instead saying that the only problem is that they came and found him.

There can, honestly, be a really compelling reason for Washio to be acting the way he is. He did, after all, basically give up on life. We see his depression apartment in the first chapter. He may have been laying low because he made very powerful enemies, and by saying what he did he'll keep scrutiny away from the monster girls and needs them to hate him so they don't follow and get into trouble. He can be facing the fate he's been running from here, or just frantically burning bridges behind him so that nobody can follow him where he goes. There CAN be a reason for this. Washio and the monster girls would know it, but we don't.

No matter what, though, this is a terrible turn for the series, unless this is the prelude to an axe; in which case it's a terrible turn because of the axe. There are so many more characters to see and so much more to learn about everyone and everything. Having something this dramatic and conclusive happen while we're still kind of in an exposition and build part of the story is premature. Everyone isn't in place yet, we don't know why Washio's doing this, we don't know who or what he's up against or what lies are being told about the past because we don't fuckin' know anything.

I honestly love the idea of this manga. It's pandering as hell with the big titty monster girls, but there's an emotionally resonant core here. An isekai'd guy who rebelled against the cruelty of the world he was summoned into, but fails and becomes a shmuck instead of anyone important has a real pathos to it. It's an engaging idea, and the things he threw his life away for coming to find him and convincing him that he isn't a failure, his life isn't over, and he has a lot to give is a particularly great setup for satisfying growth and exploration of the setting.

I honest to god don't understand how this arc is as big of a fumble as it is. I don't know how anyone thought it was a good idea, unless they were desperate to subvert expectations and shake things up. Especially since we haven't even introduced the full god damn CAST yet. We saw SO many more monsters in that classroom, that's SO many characters to look forward to, and we've seen MAYBE 3? Cmon man

Yeah I see people shitting on the characters ever chapter but IMO they're very well written characters that have issues and trauma... Everything about this series has been great other then the execution of it at points

 

[Lite_Inc_Bold]

"i'll wait" sorry but this feels like maybe it's getting an axe hence the sudden turn of event

 

[favine]

Spoiler: dumb

seems like in tne next chapter, the dude shows elf giy he has some potion to control monster girls. So bro was just hitting her dragon girl with the hot Cosby... This shit is dumb.

Yo this ass

 

[absoluteAquarian]

Spoiler: Chapter 33

The Washio faction girls, the snake girl, and Frederick—the annoying guy with a crush on Claudia—enter Julius-sensei's private room. Inside, they discover the typewriter used to write the accusatory letter, along with what appear to be incriminating documents against Julius-sensei. Just as they're about to leave, Julius-sensei catches them, steps inside, and locks the door. As Frederick confronts him, Claudia approaches Julius-sensei and hands over the documents they found—she's under his control.

Thanks for the chapter!

Fuuuuuck and here I was, slightly less angry after reading the TL for chapter 32 on the kappabeast site.
I'm still holding onto the hope that this shit gets resolved soon, but the outlook ain't looking great.

 

[CupOfHotTea]

i hate weak protagonist

 

[uelydnar]

my prediction based off the the next chapter

Spoiler

The other teacher who is the pharma teacher has a potion that "tames" monsters (revealed in the next chapter. He is probably using it to control the dragon girl. How the manga will probably go is that the professor poisons the rest of the girls with the potion (because they go investigate his office), and washio is going to have to come back somehow to save them. All and all really poor story telling and I really dislike how Washio just accepted the blame. Really puts a huge damper on the series. Maybe Washio is also being mindcontrolled? But the author really seems to be grasping at straws on how to make the series "interesting" instead of using good storytelling. Ah, I see what someone posted for chapter 33, I guess it really is going in that direction.

Still, poor writing. The goal-less antagonist really isn't a good writing style

 

[chusetto]

Stupid ass drama in my titty comedy 🤪

 

[Squidco42]

Agree this series is moving at an awkward pace. To fast missing a lot of setup and some necessary background exposition while at the same time moving slow for the arc they are now throwing us into.

The core idea seems great but the delivery is such a fumble.

It's so annoying because this story has a lot of great ideas and set them up in a way that the reader is wanting more. Sure, it's generic as all hell, but it's still interesting at the end of the day.
The way this plot is just structured feels like someone jumbled the storyboard and no one double checked to see if it made sense.

I really have no idea why the author decided to just cut back to present day rather than just continuing on the flashback.
Also, I'm still so confused about the main antagonist motives. Like he clearly brainwashes people, but what's his end goal? Does he really just hate Washio that much? Which begs the bigger question, WHAT DID WASHIO SENSEI DO?!

 

[Mangamoz]

The likes on the official raws in yanmanga are plummeting like crazy in these past chaps.

This arc may be a manga killing arc if the author keeps this shit up.

 

[radstylix]

Ya know what, this chapter is a lot less infuriating than the previous ones. Those really rubbed me the wrong way.

But oh boy, like what the other comments said, there HAS to be a good, no, amazing payoff for this shit to sacrifice ogling big badonka monstergirls. Being a fellow amataur writer, and from my experience reading other manga... chances are it's probably gonna be a shit payoff, but we'll see. Heck, part of the fun of reading manga is seeing if the amateur author will turn it around, or they don't and we drop it once it becomes too unbearable too read.

Anyway, the payoff has gotta be:

• Washio redeemed
• Washio's past explained
• Washio's real skill/power revealed and he gets some respect
• Drako's behavior explained
• What is the deal with that new teacher? Why is he doing this to Washio and the monster girls? Perhaps he's related to the person who died?
• That "new" teacher and the PTA gets their comeuppance
• Drako redeemed?

As for Drako, there's just one unwritten rule to writing a cute girl in manga, and that's to not make her do anything that will make the audience hate her. Depending on her reason, the audience can forgive her, but sometimes even if the reason makes sense, the action is just stupid or vile that it's unforgiveable. Personally for me: Nino in Quintessential Quintuplets drugging Fuutarou two times, and Ushigome from Kuzuhana-san "passively" betraying the MC.

If this series is stupid enough to use being brainwashed, well... 😅

Not to mention, the amount of annoying characters (elf teacher, that "ace" student... and Washio) just keep piling up without them getting their just desserts or something to balance them out. There aren't enough good moments nor monstergirl fanservice to counteract them.

And forget the girls being the problem, it's Washio. Washio being spineless not only with himself, but now with the girls. Truly truly unforgiveable. It really has to be a humungous payoff, and I'm sorry, I really don't think we'll get that here.

 

[Squidco42]

Ya know what, this chapter is a lot less infuriating than the previous ones. Those really rubbed me the wrong way.

But oh boy, like what the other comments said, there HAS to be a good, no, amazing payoff for this shit to sacrifice ogling big badonka monstergirls. Being a fellow amataur writer, and from my experience reading other manga... chances are it's probably gonna be a shit payoff, but we'll see. Heck, part of the fun of reading manga is seeing if the amateur author will turn it around, or they don't and we drop it once it becomes too unbearable too read.

Anyway, the payoff has gotta be:

• Washio redeemed
• Washio's past explained
• Washio's real skill/power revealed and he gets some respect
• Drako's behavior explained
• That "new" teacher and the PTA gets their comeuppance
• Drako redeemed?

As for Drako, there's just one unwritten rule to writing a cute girl in manga, and that's to not make her do anything that will make the audience hate her. Depending on her reason, the audience can forgive her, but sometimes even if the reason makes sense, the action is just stupid or vile that it's unforgiveable. Personally for me: Nino in Quintessential Quintuplets drugging Fuutarou two times, and Ushigome from Kuzuhana-san "passively" betraying the MC.

If this series is stupid enough to use being brainwashed, well... 😅

Personally, I have no hope for this author being able to turn things around. I think the author has done way too many mistakes to correct the ship, so the best he can do is to make sure to crash it in the safest way possible.
This arc has just been a mess. The readers are constantly left in the dark with little to no light to help guide our way through the story. We know very little about ANYONE'S motives as well.
This arc feels like an arc that should at least after 1 or 2 more monster girls gets introduced. Washio finally understands what it means to be a teacher once again.
I do have to say though, this manga is one hell of an interesting trainwreck. I have never seen a manga flounder like this

 

[radstylix]

Personally, I have no hope for this author being able to turn things around. I think the author has done way too many mistakes to correct the ship, so the best he can do is to make sure to crash it in the safest way possible.
This arc has just been a mess. The readers are constantly left in the dark with little to no light to help guide our way through the story. We know very little about ANYONE'S motives as well.
This arc feels like an arc that should at least after 1 or 2 more monster girls gets introduced. Washio finally understands what it means to be a teacher once again.
I do have to say though, this manga is one hell of an interesting trainwreck. I have never seen a manga flounder like this

Unfortunately yeah. Still, as an amateur writer, reading bad series like this helps other writers avoid their mistakes.
Too bad for the cute monstergirls though...

 

[CurlyBruce]

Yeah the more I read the more I can't give this a pass anymore. The villain is being portrayed as far too omnipotent for how little he's actually done to earn that level of infamy. All we see is that he somehow how Drako (and Claudia seemingly) under his grasp somehow and spoilers for next chapter indicate it's something mundane which just further begs the question of how the fuck they got controlled.

Washio is acting woefully out of character unless the author always meant for him to only be taking care of the monsters due to some repressed guilt over whatever happened in his past. The flashback we got seems to indicate that maybe his bro in the army was the one who wanted to care for monsters and due to his death(?) Washio took up the mantle because he feels responsible or has regrets and that was his coping mechanism. Except we've seen how he behaved prior to this arc with the girls and he seemed genuinely happy to meet them again. It wasn't until the accusation of his past that he suddenly went BSOD and started lashing out saying he never should have saved them. They've assassinated Washio's character and I don't know how they are going to recover from this. You can't handwave it away with the same "mind control" excuse because it just leaves a plot hole for why he needed to go through this convoluted method instead of just mind controlling Washio to quit on his own.

The narrative is a fucking mess at this point with characters behaving like completely different people, contrivances to let the villain come across as all powerful with zero effort, and even the lore dumps haven't really paid off at all since they keep edging us with nonstop teases. They killed Drako before she was even properly introduced. What the fuck happened? The resolution will likely be some cliche shit like Elf-sensei finding out evil rapist guy was behind everything and going to find/confront Washio and bring him back. Elf will berate him but in earnest this time and Washio will give the rest of his backstory to justify his actions only to eventually come around and rush back to save the girls with some well placed verbal bitch slaps by the Elf. The villain will likely have an unsatisfying resolution, likely the monster taming juice was conveniently the exact thing the research facility Washio destroyed was experimenting with and in the process of rehabilitating the monsters he found a way to counter it. Plot contrivances abound!

They jumped so many sharks with this arc and we didn't even get a fucking shark girl with big titties to at least make it enjoyable.

 

[Ezlsnow]

Brainwashing is one of the plot devices I hate alongside time travel and multiverses. It's just a tricky genre to tackle so unless you have a good use for it, this shit will just burn down.

Since Washio is out of the scene for now, it's up to the students and maybe that elf teacher to get him back. But if Washio does come back, what'll happen? They'll just reinstate him but still retain the previous status quo and mock him as a lowlife? Honestly, a part of me wants his name to get cleaned but he goes on a journey/change professions instead of coming back to the school, although that won't likely happen.

 

[Kikaibaka]

This manga is another example of the dangers of letting an untalented author cook. There are bits and pieces that COULD have come together to make a great manga, but they instead decided to keep throwing shit at the wall and hoping something stuck. Should have focused on at least beginning to resolve Washio's PTSD before throwing in a fucking mind control arc and having him removed from his position to boot, because as of right now the only reason people want Washio back is because every other character besides the girls is somehow worse than he is(and there is the slightest hope the story will stop devolving into a bigger dumpster fire than it already is with his return). Maybe he'll do some soul searching while he's gone and come back a slightly better character?(who the hell am I kidding he'll probably be even worse next time we see Washio)

 

[Squidco42]

Unfortunately yeah. Still, as an amateur writer, reading bad series like this helps other writers avoid their mistakes.
Too bad for the cute monstergirls though...

This is a great lesson on how stories fail. It's such an interesting failure that you can't help but dissect.