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

[radstylix]

fucking shark girl with big titties

On a related note, Debby the Corsifa just dropped one with the latest chapter.
What's painful is that the author could've gone that route instead of this mess right now. 😅

I feel like the author wanted a serious story with the monstergirls, but is just too poor of a writer unfortunately. Probably too early for him to write one, or at least not without proper planning.

 

[Squidco42]

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.

Honestly, I hope they come to that conclusion. At the very least with that happening, everything will be wrapped up in a neat little package. Unlike what we have right now, which is just questions on top of questions with no clear answer from the story.

 

[shwiftyshfifty]

 

[radstylix]

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

Yeah.
But it's still not as worse as Imasara desu ga is still one of the biggest messes I've ever read. Like holy shit you gotta see it for yourself if you haven't. The very definition of a trainwreck story: a train going smoothly along the tracks, but SUDDENLY...

 

[lolfacesayshi]

Watch it be something like
"you made them like humans, that's kind of brainwashing"

"oh wow that's true, I did brainwash them"

"no sensei we came to love you on our own!"

"Oh so it was love, I didn't brainwash anyone" and then sunshine and rainbows flowed through and the entire town forgot about the rumours

 

[Squidco42]

Yeah.
Bit it's still not as worse as Imasara desu ga is still one of the biggest messes I've ever read. Like holy shit you gotta see it for yourself if you haven't. The very definition of a trainwreck story: with a train going smoothly along the tracks, but SUDDENLY...

Oh man, That one was.... it was something else.
Granted, that backstory was well done, but man, it was OUT OF NOWHERE.
You thought you were getting 50 first dates NOPE HERE'S PUNCH DRUNK LOVE AND UNCUT GEMS OUT OF NOWHERE.
Granted, after I got up from the whiplash, the story was actually pretty decent, but now, IDK where the author plans to take the story.
You are right though, it's definition of Derailment to a tee

 

[pukemonster]

Does anyone have access to the raw?? The raw is locked behind an app exclusive to Japan only.

 

[biologist]

I am here for age gap romance and monstergirl. What da heck is this?😤

 

[nibroc18]

"random" but is there any contrasting difference between brainwashing and therapy outside moral ones

Big one is that therapy is consensual (usually)

 

[Lite_Inc_Bold]

anyone forget about Dead Tube's author? 4.5 tatami mat is a fuuking mess that last chapter is so long to make a proper rushed end for getting an Axe

 

[Jakeh24]

There better be a good-ass payoff for this shit

There won't be

 

[UncleKaos]

I agree with many in here. it is... just outright stupid.. even a blind man could see Sensei is innocent. to BELIEVE the lies of thart creepo who is surely pouring rape drugs in his female students' drink.

and man up damnit. instead to be a walking punching bag.

and the dragon girl is SO annoying. no inner conflict at all? if she was brainwashed there WILL be inner conflict but no signs of that at all.. i call BS.

 

[JACGohu]

There better be a good-ass payoff for this shit

Whether or not there is, I feel Washio still needs to be gobsmacked for allowing himself to become a doormat.

 

[karmsand]

I thought that at least the principal would have known his past, given that he teaches despite being "shit level" and got assigned the monster girls, but nope he's clueless like everybody else

 

[chojinra]

Yeah, I read a “popular“ story like this once that shit the bed so hard that no one talks about it anymore. And it was a very similar situation of the author not being able to write believable drama.

This whole idiotic situation, even with the typical nail hammered down Japanese salary man responses, is about the same.

 

[W-Scarecrow]

What the fuck do they have on him that he literally agrees with everything everyone says immediately?! You could walk up to him and ask "Do you have purple skin and green hair?" And he'd probably agree immediately! The fuck is this author doing?

 

[Shamanfox]

"random" but is there any contrasting difference between brainwashing and therapy outside moral ones

Brainwashing is when someone is forcing a narrative to the point to get others to believe it, whereas therapy is more open-ended and encourages you to find different interpretations of things.

So basically if we’re going to make an analogy of it, therapy is about exploring and widen your views and options, whereas brainwashing is to close your views to as a narrow path as possible and not give any options for alternative interpretations.

 

[Pixelmod]

Bro I just wanted cute monster girls and stuff, this is depressing.
Like, even with the understanding that Washio wanted to live a simple boring life, he's just unnecessarily digging his own grave here.
What is this plot even...

 

[biologist]

Brainwashing is when someone is forcing a narrative to the point to get others to believe it, whereas therapy is more open-ended and encourages you to find different interpretations of things.

And sometimes thing that suck is still a thing that suck just like this chapter.

 

[Me]

Hol' on. Jackass Elf-sensei is the one who smells something ain't right? Am I going to have to cheer for this jerkface later?