Red_Keys said: I am really disappointed with this.
Someone else's disappointment is (like) music to my ears. ;p
Red_Keys said: It's giving off major Dokuro-chan vibes. Making it brutally violent and painful.. but also sugar coating it, making him into some sort of weird perverted creep who enjoys it. What the fuck? Literally, he enjoys it because she is.. moe? Come the fuck on.
Dokuro-chan as in the brutally cute slapstick series? Well, it doesn't really matter. What matters though is the likeliness that he was already quite the masochist long before all this imoeto-cannibalism even began. He simply enjoys being hurt as proven by how he would solely meet their father every once in a while to get their allowance if nothing more than to become his personal punching bag, seeing to it that his imoeto would be out of harms way. In short, he’s already been sacrificing himself—absorbing every ounce of pain and punishment for his sister for a very long time now.
His finding his imoeto to be extremely cute all the while she's eating him is nothing more than some sort of 'rewarding' feeling for him and the sacrifices that he's been constantly making. I mean, what do you want him to do-- focus his mind on the goddamn excruciating pain he must be feeling? He'd rather think of nicer stuff-- such as focusing of how extremely happy his imoeto appears/looks as she sinks her teeth into his flesh-- in ways of reducing the suffering if by even only a little.
Red_Keys said: And Moe imouto-chan's guilt is all gone now. What the fuck is up with that?
I wouldn’t say it’s all gone. Simply put her hunger must be more prevalent-- 'dominantly consuming' than whatever guilt she’s feeling. She just can’t help it if her being/having emerged into a monster has become like a second nature to her—prioritizing her hunger over everything else.
Red_Keys said: They could really have expanded the whole aspect of him suffering incredible torment and sacrifice, and her suffering incredible guilt, making both characters a lot more sympathetic, and therefore relatable and making the audience care more about them. But nope. Gotta add little chibi faces and flowers to make it super kawaii moe moe.
It’s cheap/inferior (writing) all right, but let’s not forget—it was labeled as 'shounen' for a reason.
Red_Keys said: And then what the fuck is up with his friends? This kid has literally been abused by his father, has a glaring scar on his fucking face, as well as all over his body, and they just casually nonchalantly bring up his father in conversation saying "I don't think it's a good idea to concern yourself by that type of person." ... umm, what the fuck? Who the fuck would say that? The guy fucking abused them, and still does. "Concern" yourself? And where the hell are the police in this?
Wrong choice of words perhaps? Under the context, concern would likely mean involve as in “stay away from that man”. Otherwise, I’d agree that it’s not exactly the greatest advice a friend could give-- as if he doesn’t realize that himself already.
At any rate, you’re naïve if you think the authorities would believe the word of a child over the word of his/her parent(s), esp with the seemingly respectable-enough father that they have, and let alone without so much as an evidence. Needless to say that his glaring scar is nothing more than circumstantial (evidence) even if it’s a fact that his father was the one who caused it without any reliable witnesses (who isn't his sister).
If I have to analyze and read into it any further, it’s either they’re that afraid of their father and what he’s capable of doing to them should they do report him, or that they worry on how they would support themselves financially without him or if he was ever to be incarcerated.
Red_Keys said: And then the oh so kawaii scene where she friend grabs her boobs. Gotta have that in there. Character development. *sigh*
As they say-- the plot thickens. Lmao XD
Red_Keys said: This so far has been extremely off-putting. I really feared that it would go down the rout of facetious pain and suffering, making it all cutesy and moe. I can't tell if it's supposed to be sympathetic, funny, horrifying, cute, or what. It's just..awkward, unrealistic, and annoying.
To reiterate, it’s a seinen concept in a shounen presentation and therefore one could only expect the expected. You would simply have decide on how you’re going to approach reading/watching it. Personally, I would agree that it’s a mixed bag of sorts genre-wise, but after getting a feel of its first 3 chapters, I’ve decided to continue reading it with utter disregard of pathos, or to be precise—I’m reading it to satisfy no more than my sadistic tendencies.
Red_Keys said: I'm not sure how I feel about the anime any more.
You really must have had such high hopes when you first heard of this, didn’t you? Personally, I could give a rat’s ass about the anime as I have no intention of ever watching it.
Look what you've done-- you pretty much scared off other potential 'posters/commenters' with your outburst. ;p Normally, I would absolutely agree with most of what you've pointed out, but since it's come to this, I need to give some semblance of hope for those who might still be interested in continuing with reading this series. ;_; |