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"Cautionary tale"
I haven't heard that word since I had to speedran through Emergence twice a year ago. If anything this manga and Metamorphosis have some stuff in common, so your apparently overthought interpretation might not be too far off the nail. We still have quite a lot of material to cover, so it wouldn't surprise me if it ends up that way. Kinda fucked up because as I did with Meta's MC, I like Misora quite a bit after all stakes in this manga are always so fucking high. Even when apparently no bad consequences occur thanks to Misora herself
Having said all that and coming from the perspective of someone who found it hard to digest the first few chapters, I would say that the low score of 6 is not a matter of quality in the story nor the art but it's content. It's just because it depicts rape and there are a whole fucking lot of ugly bastards when people just want some material to jerk off. And even if you have the specific kinks to beat the meat to a specific chapter on here most people would still will find it hard to do so, or the next page the action would suddenly get turned into a fucked up mess, going out of their way to gross out the readers. So, the message or the situations characters go through get the spotlight over just plain erotica even when those "I wanna give my readers some hot-stuff" moments occur. The testimony to that is this comment section, always trying to make sense of this thing over the usual "Fuck, that was hot" we'll get on your average ecchi/smut manga.
So, hear me out: Tsugumomo and this series are actually pretty similar, they even share some of the tags making both series infamous and yet Tsugumomo manages to keep a score over 8.30. I'd like to state fourth crucial points for now: The first one is just that the amount of erotica in Tsugumomo is just much more... Which is only true in an stadistical level as it has been running for way much more time. The second one is that the author managed to stablish a power system that lightly relies on sexual intercourse but it's actually interesting without that. That makes readers forgive all the fucked up situations characters are made to go through. The third one is just that the main character in that series could be considered a self-insert to a certain extent. And the fourth one and maybe the most important of all of 'em... It's a battle shonen with high elements of fantasy set on the real world while this series is a realistic setting with exceptional individuals going through hard situations entirely possible IRL, stuff that could happen to you and me.
Maybe the word I'm searching for is escapism. I don't get much of that from here and people generally consume media looking precisely for that escape. It's different if you get grossed out in a horror story or a fantasy setting. That can't happen. With this we get this constant sense of "Maybe this is actually happening"
"Cautionary tale"
I haven't heard that word since I had to speedran through Emergence twice a year ago. If anything this manga and Metamorphosis have some stuff in common, so your apparently overthought interpretation might not be too far off the nail. We still have quite a lot of material to cover, so it wouldn't surprise me if it ends up that way. Kinda fucked up because as I did with Meta's MC, I like Misora quite a bit after all stakes in this manga are always so fucking high. Even when apparently no bad consequences occur thanks to Misora herself
Having said all that and coming from the perspective of someone who found it hard to digest the first few chapters, I would say that the low score of 6 is not a matter of quality in the story nor the art but it's content. It's just because it depicts rape and there are a whole fucking lot of ugly bastards when people just want some material to jerk off. And even if you have the specific kinks to beat the meat to a specific chapter on here most people would still will find it hard to do so, or the next page the action would suddenly get turned into a fucked up mess, going out of their way to gross out the readers. So, the message or the situations characters go through get the spotlight over just plain erotica even when those "I wanna give my readers some hot-stuff" moments occur. The testimony to that is this comment section, always trying to make sense of this thing over the usual "Fuck, that was hot" we'll get on your average ecchi/smut manga.
So, hear me out: Tsugumomo and this series are actually pretty similar, they even share some of the tags making both series infamous and yet Tsugumomo manages to keep a score over 8.30. I'd like to state fourth crucial points for now: The first one is just that the amount of erotica in Tsugumomo is just much more... Which is only true in an stadistical level as it has been running for way much more time. The second one is that the author managed to stablish a power system that lightly relies on sexual intercourse but it's actually interesting without that. That makes readers forgive all the fucked up situations characters are made to go through. The third one is just that the main character in that series could be considered a self-insert to a certain extent. And the fourth one and maybe the most important of all of 'em... It's a battle shonen with high elements of fantasy set on the real world while this series is a realistic setting with exceptional individuals going through hard situations entirely possible IRL, stuff that could happen to you and me.
Maybe the word I'm searching for is escapism. I don't get much of that from here and people generally consume media looking precisely for that escape. It's different if you get grossed out in a horror story or a fantasy setting. That can't happen. With this we get this constant sense of "Maybe this is actually happening"
