Raising an Eggplant Girl Using Online Polls - Ch. 18

[MangaDex]

 

[KensouADV]

So they're a completely illegal organization to harvest Alraunes for their medical capabilities? So, will our captive monstergirl be saved by the cops?
At least we know she would've liked a snake companion in the previous poll.

 

[JVick]

Don't tell me the humans are the bad guys? Wow.

 

[Chawder25]

Don't tell me the humans are the bad guys? Wow.

Whodda thunk

 

[Saizken]

As Always: Human Bad. Return To Monke.

 

[Pilomotor]

Don't tell me the humans are the bad guys? Wow.

 

[Jatopian]

Male mandrake spotted.

I wonder if the medicine thing is true.

So they're a completely illegal organization to harvest Alraunes for their medical capabilities?

Do we know they're illegal?

Don't tell me the humans are the bad guys? Wow.

What a clever and original twist. I sure hope it doesn't get repeated ten million times across the media landscape.

 

[KensouADV]

Do we know they're illegal?

It doesn't look like they had government papers to be able to hunt and extract natural "flora" from that forest considering their operation there.

 

[JamesBunny]

yet another translator falls victim to the poisonous monster!!!! i sure hope those guys don’t eat the mandrakes!!!!


it’s venomous… if you eat it is poison. if it attacks it’s venom

 

[NARESH4444]

Don't tell me the humans are the bad guys? Wow.

What a clever and original twist. I sure hope it doesn't get repeated ten million times across the media landscape.

The question always comes when I see these,what is the supposed alternative?

Sure,you've got plenty of entertainment media where the humans were actually in the right,justifiable,and had a better case going for them,but what proposed alternative trope can one use that describes the non-unified intentions between a sentient species and the most dominant sentient species on this planet?

It also can't be a trope that utterly prevents hostilities either,since that makes the whole plot irrelevant.

 

[Jatopian]

The question always comes when I see these,what is the supposed alternative?

Sure,you've got plenty of entertainment media where the humans were actually in the right,justifiable,and had a better case going for them,but what proposed alternative trope can one use that describes the non-unified intentions between a sentient species and the most dominant sentient species on this planet?

It also can't be a trope that utterly prevents hostilities either,since that makes the whole plot irrelevant.

It's tiresome when they try to rehabilitate the image of a literally murderous monster though.

And there's the context of too many self-hating humans in real life, too.

 

[NARESH4444]

It's tiresome when they try to rehabilitate the image of a literally murderous monster though.

And there's the context of too many self-hating humans in real life, too.

That's the thing,the differences between a real monster that takes an active role in causing harm compared to a species minding its' own damn business are easily bridged should someone interfere with the species.

If the subset of humans never did that,then the subset of the affected species would never become the truly monstrous subset,and the vast majority wouldn't take an active stance against each other.

But that makes a story not.

 

[JVick]

The question always comes when I see these,what is the supposed alternative?

Sure,you've got plenty of entertainment media where the humans were actually in the right,justifiable,and had a better case going for them,but what proposed alternative trope can one use that describes the non-unified intentions between a sentient species and the most dominant sentient species on this planet?

It also can't be a trope that utterly prevents hostilities either,since that makes the whole plot irrelevant.

The alternative would have been that she might have been just a plain murderer and the artist would have been able to make the audience hesitate in the polls between vengeance or trusting that she was in the right.

You know, something interactive like it was supposed to be.

 

[NARESH4444]

The alternative would have been that she might have been just a plain murderer and the artist would have been able to make the audience hesitate in the polls between vengeance or trusting that she was in the right.

You know, something interactive like it was supposed to be.

That then simply opens the question of why she became murderer.

Murderers aren't born,they're turned into them.

And that's assuming,if we use this plot point,that what she does is actually for the sake of killing and not for the sake of predation.

If she does it for the sake of it,then does she also do it against other mandrakes or only humans?,if its' the latter,then the reason she became a murderer is due to humans...

...being the bad guys.

Even if she does both,then her species would still be in trouble due to humans deciding that all of them are as bad as her,which would further decrease their numbers due to humans...

...being the bad guys,with justifcation.

If she only ever kills her own kind,then she wouldn't even be involved with humans,which defeats the plot without an extra reason needing to tacked on.

If she's a man eating predator,then them capturing her...

...would be the bad guys performing experiments on a wild species.

We haven't even been told why she killed the father,which is quite likely that he died protecting her from a subset of humans...

...who were the bad guys.

Alternatively,an accident or misunderstanding,which in itself is a common trope.

What if the father was a baddie?...the human was the bad guy...

No matter how one spins it,they're either equally bad,the humans did something bad(which is how this whole interaction can even occur),or you've replaced one common trope with another common trope,which defeats the whole point of this discussion.

 

[Jatopian]

Murderers aren't born,they're turned into them.

There's no reason for that to be always true.

And that's assuming,if we use this plot point,that what she does is actually for the sake of killing and not for the sake of predation.

Which would still be justification enough to kill or capture her.

If she does it for the sake of it,then does she also do it against other mandrakes or only humans?,if its' the latter,then the reason she became a murderer is due to humans...

...being the bad guys.

There are other reasons to commit murder. And even if a human or a group of humans did something bad, that only reflects on them, not all humans, so murdering humans is still bad.

Even if she does both,then her species would still be in trouble due to humans deciding that all of them are as bad as her,which would further decrease their numbers due to humans...

...being the bad guys,with justifcation.

This is better stated as not being the bad guys at all.

If she's a man eating predator,then them capturing her...

...would be the bad guys performing experiments on a wild species.

There's nothing wrong with that.

or you've replaced one common trope with another common trope,which defeats the whole point of this discussion.

No, that'd be okay, actually. Tropes are not bad just for being tropes per se.

 

[JVick]

That then simply opens the question of why she became murderer.

Murderers aren't born,they're turned into them.

And that's assuming,if we use this plot point,that what she does is actually for the sake of killing and not for the sake of predation.

If she does it for the sake of it,then does she also do it against other mandrakes or only humans?,if its' the latter,then the reason she became a murderer is due to humans...

...being the bad guys.

Even if she does both,then her species would still be in trouble due to humans deciding that all of them are as bad as her,which would further decrease their numbers due to humans...

...being the bad guys,with justifcation.

If she only ever kills her own kind,then she wouldn't even be involved with humans,which defeats the plot without an extra reason needing to tacked on.

If she's a man eating predator,then them capturing her...

...would be the bad guys performing experiments on a wild species.

We haven't even been told why she killed the father,which is quite likely that he died protecting her from a subset of humans...

...who were the bad guys.

Alternatively,an accident or misunderstanding,which in itself is a common trope.

What if the father was a baddie?...the human was the bad guy...

No matter how one spins it,they're either equally bad,the humans did something bad(which is how this whole interaction can even occur),or you've replaced one common trope with another common trope,which defeats the whole point of this discussion.

I was discussing the way the author threw the opportunity to use poll to do more than 'le cute girl & le self insert'. I'm not debating on a random manga website about the trope of the birth of murderers and sociopathics influences.