Ogeha
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Pretty good. Adorable, disturbing and terrifying at the same time.
On a sidenote, author's other works are all over the place, genre-wise.
On a sidenote, author's other works are all over the place, genre-wise.
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Weird but somewhat enjoyable I guess
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I was waiting for them to fuck or something, happy that didn't happen.
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Well, that was weird
Pseudo happy ending is also weird. Kinda would have liked it if it wasn't that case.
Also, why does that one girl like the MC? They never talked for a longer period. Maybe it's just the appeal of a sociopath.
Also, why does that one girl like the MC? They never talked for a longer period. Maybe it's just the appeal of a sociopath.
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If they never really talked then she may have just thought he was hot without knowing about his defective personality.
If they never really talked then she may have just thought he was hot without knowing about his defective personality.
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I'm not sure I understand the point of this manga now that I've finished it.
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.
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.
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.
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That cover is really unsettling
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Main character straight up sociopath
Story is pretty weird but somehow it's unique and I liked it 😀
Story is pretty weird but somehow it's unique and I liked it 😀
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As mentioned before the MC is a sociopath. FC is imo design-wise disgusting, something about her is super off-putting for me, personally.
@Bainhardt I was also hoping that she would evolve to her final form.
I am also super curios what that would have looked like, would she be a fully grown woman with wing arms? It's kind of sad that the author didn't include the design in at least the notes.
Kiji was such an unlikeable character for me, that he spoiled the storyline. I'd rather see Ogeha set free from her 'guardians' and Kiji. It would have made more sense imo to go the horror route with him being as he is.
I am also super curios what that would have looked like, would she be a fully grown woman with wing arms? It's kind of sad that the author didn't include the design in at least the notes.
Kiji was such an unlikeable character for me, that he spoiled the storyline. I'd rather see Ogeha set free from her 'guardians' and Kiji. It would have made more sense imo to go the horror route with him being as he is.
