Tanin ni Naru Kusuri

[MangaDex]

 

[Xunder]

Finally someone uploaded it

 

[Steelbuck]

Smut value aside, this was actually VERY interesting from a metaphysical or existential standpoint.

 

[Morgan_911]

I wonder why this does not deserve the Yuri tag, because of genderswap? And horror? Please....

 

[beep_repair]

Everything by DATE is just the worst.

Like Living with Slime, this series invites us to become sexually excited when miserable, self-loathing creeps (in essence) murder the attractive young girls they obsess over. Though DATE's snuff-by-possession theme is softened here, it's still present, and the attempt to present it as something erotic and "interesting" sticks in my craw. Tanin ni Naru Kusuri is a sex fantasy about boys playing with the corpses of girls they've killed -- at risk [cue Twilight Zone theme] of becoming girls themselves.

There's probably a good horror series in that premise. Unfortunately, our author seems to share with his male characters the inability to perceive women as people. Nothing here suggests that the girls' lives might matter in any way. They're just bodies fitted with one or two stereotypically "female" behaviors. No one even notices they're gone. The narrative insistence that the victims really are just disposable objects adds to the story's ghoulishness, but robs it of any other appeal it might possess.

In my view, this series aims for and fully earns the "horror" tag. I'm tempted to argue that "girl's love" and "yuri" are undeserved, because most of the characters view themselves as men in skinsuits. But I doubt many would agree, and I don't care one way or the other.

Bottom line: this sucks and I hate it.

 

[Eezyville]

This is done degenerate shit and all but what I really want to know is what happened to the body of those guys?

 

[thesupremextream]

Everything by DATE is just the worst.

Like Living with Slime, this series invites us to become sexually excited when miserable, self-loathing creeps (in essence) murder the attractive young girls they obsess over. Though DATE's snuff-by-possession theme is softened here, it's still present, and the attempt to present it as something erotic and "interesting" sticks in my craw. Tanin ni Naru Kusuri is a sex fantasy about boys playing with the corpses of girls they've killed -- at risk [cue Twilight Zone theme] of becoming girls themselves.

There's probably a good horror series in that premise. Unfortunately, our author seems to share with his male characters the inability to perceive women as people. Nothing here suggests that the girls' lives might matter in any way. They're just bodies fitted with one or two stereotypically "female" behaviors. No one even notices they're gone. The narrative insistence that the victims really are just disposable objects adds to the story's ghoulishness, but robs it of any other appeal it might possess.

In my view, this series aims for and fully earns the "horror" tag. I'm tempted to argue that "girl's love" and "yuri" are undeserved, because most of the characters view themselves as men in skinsuits. But I doubt many would agree, and I don't care one way or the other.

Bottom line: this sucks and I hate it.

In this case, I dunno if this is snuff by possession. If it was, the original creepos possessing these girls would also die, too. A better analogy might actually be a fusion dance like in dragon ball where the original body and the possesser both fuse. As a result, the one doing the possessing now has many of the memories, personality traits, and conscious desires of the original while being more of the brain in control. Conceptually, it's a more interesting take on the idea of possession.

 

[beep_repair]

In this case, I dunno if this is snuff by possession. If it was, the original creepos possessing these girls would also die, too. A better analogy might actually be a fusion dance like in dragon ball where the original body and the possesser both fuse. As a result, the one doing the possessing now has many of the memories, personality traits, and conscious desires of the original while being more of the brain in control. Conceptually, it's a more interesting take on the idea of possession.

I get what you're saying about DBZ-type fusion. It's an interesting idea, and I agree. Something like that does seem to be happening here.

The male possessor's consciousness is altered by possession, absorbing the thoughts and memories of the woman possessed. But he (the possessor) is still self-aware. This remains true even if he comes to believe that he actually is the woman he's possessing.

Meanwhile, the woman's consciousness (the independent self-awareness that previously occupied and directed her mind/body) just disappears. And in a certain sense, we are nothing but consciousness. That's why I called it snuff and got all worked up about it.