Ogeha

[Admmi]

Sincerely in the beginning his attitude was kinda unsettling, but in the end it was a pretty cute story, not bad.

 

[travelingBrine]

ur completely right !! sorry for replying to a comment that was made so long ago but the entire time I was hoping Ogeha wouldve evolved with the help of her alien cohorts or something. I really didn't like Kiji as a character and the other characters were more interesting than him. His 'love interest' was more interesting than him and he kept calling her filthy. It was weird and gross, and tbh I just wanted to know more about Ogeha rather than see Kiji call her filthy just for existing.

I'm not sure I understand the point of this manga now that I've finished it.

Spoiler

Is it a romance? If it is, the ending of "unsympathetic guy dates something that's basically his pet" doesn't really do it for me. If his suicidal character arc was gonna resolve itself just because he found something that depends on him for survival, he shoulda gotten a house plant. What is it about Ogeha specifically that taught him to value his life? I'm not clear on that.

Ogeha is cute and all, but she's essentially no different from a baby duck that imprinted on him. It's surface-level sweet, but there's not enough depth to this relationship for it to serve as the focus of the manga. Even the closest moment we have to Ogeha making a decision or forming her own belief - the ending, where she is moved to action by Kiji's apparent sacrifice to save her - is difficult to contextualize because we don't know anything about her true nature prior to this. We literally see her birth and, presumably, every moment of her life after that, but we're not shown anything about what she feels or believes other than what is taught to her by Kiji, other humans, or her alien cohorts. She "lacks character" in maybe the most literal sense I can imagine. She's too impressionable to serve as anything more than an object in other character's story arcs.

It wouldn't have made much thematic sense, but near the end I was already rooting for Ogeha growing to her full form or something and destroying the world. I just wanted the aliens to win for the hell of it, I guess, lol.

Like, it's an interesting read, and the art is great. I don't usually feel too strong a need to analyze stuff too deep, but something about this one felt like it was really close to being great, and I have a hard time figuring out why it feels like it fell short instead.

 

[02_tan]

hmm bad ending i think

 

[Sticcersy]

Damn. I must be stupid. I don't get this manga. Visually the Ogeha is appealing. The design looks cool and I can see why it looks like so. But man, I uh. Sort of dont understand it.

 

[BgBdJon]

Someone posted a single image of this on a different app and it inspired me to hunt it down. It was worth it. Ogeha is adorable, despite what the author says. I wish they had flushed out Kiji's background more, so we could understand his psychology better but you don't get that in real life. People are who they are. A lot of people seem to dislike Kiji, which is understandable, but what would your reaction be to a giant egg in a park surrounded by dead plants? You would have called the authorities and Ogeha would be dead. His childlike mentality inadvertently saved Ogeha and she inadvertently brought some light and caring back into his life. Trying to see this from the perspective of two humans interacting is what, I think, ruined this for a lot of people. Very unique story with a unique combination of cute and grotesque. Wish there was a chance of a continuation.

 

[siapelo]

7/10 I keep wanting for more. A planet-scale domination, humanity's wipe out operation. But nah, so nah.

 

[Management-Man]

wow the mc is rrly a sociopath... but still intresting story i guess

Sociopaths are people with uncontrollably violence emotions. Kiji's a psychopath.