Umibe no Q
Q on the Seaside

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The word I would use to describe this manga is ‘Effective’.

Characters (8)

Every character has their moments and their actions make sense. Everyone feels very human… except for the alien pet. There are LGBTQ themes but they aren't to the point of hindering the story, instead, it propels the story and is incorporated very naturally.

Our MC is cute and a little bit stupid, actually, you can say that for all the characters. Our MC is incredibly earnest… and incredibly stupid.

The characters are very simple, maybe a bit too much so. But I can't bring myself to hate that. A lot of people are simple, it's effective.

Art ... (9)

Cute, Clean cartoonish style. I'd describe it as shapely. The lines are bold and there's cohesion between every panel, page, and volume. The panel spacing is also shapely and flows the story along neatly.

Seinen is said to be a mix between Shoujo and Shonen, in that case, this is the most effective Seinen art style. Don't fight me on that, I said what I said.

Story (10)

Simple and effective. The pacing is very good.

I mean… It's good, what else is there to say?

It starts off good, but the moment the dog slug splits, the story suddenly has to juggle the obvious implication of an anti-slug breeding out in the wild, the redemption arc for a LOT of really shitty people, a romance arc, managing the original dog slug's reproduction, and wrapping all of this up in two volumes. And frankly, it falls flat on that front. The ending boils down to a Deus Ex Machina, and a "ooo, we're mysterious and beyond your comprehension".

Almost everyone kind of just sucks here. FMC is the least unlikeable out of the lot. But everyone around her is some variety of ... shit. Her "friends" constantly insult her, and leave her out, everyone in her club constantly abuses her, and her own brother is an annoying brat that eventually gets his own sister attacked by an old man, and their house burned down. At the story goes on, a couple of people apologize, and the mega bitch from the club actually has a redemption arc, but it sounds like the story wants us to lump individual characters atoning with everyone atoning. Like, if mega bitch is nice now, then all her problems in the club must be resolved. And if one of her bitch "friends" apologizes exactly once, then they must both be clean now. The story even has the audacity to have the second bitch friend call the first one out like she wasn't ALSO doing the exact same shit. And they're just "friends" in the end like nothing happened.