Propaganda BS

I'm sorry but this comment is so fucking funny

Mermaids aren't real and thus there is no "reality" in which they are just as intelligent as humans. The author can choose any kind of mermaid to write about and this is the kind she chose. Just as any story can do whatever they want with mermaids. All countries and cultures have different stories about them and people can pick and choose what parts they want in their stories or fully create their own mythology.

The author is also likely a woman as most female-targeted mangas are. This story is not some super evil ploy by the patriarchy either, it's just that artists are subconsciously influenced by their reality and by other media. People can have fun and not everything has to be out to et you was a woman. In this story we even have a self-sufficient mermaid society that only uses men for sex to make children before abandoning them to live by themselves. The mc falling in love and choosing to go against her culture isn't evil, it's just a choice she makes.

This story is also obviously influenced by the little mermaid so saying this is a super radical take on a mermaid story is fucking wild since it follows the footsteps of the most popular story about mermaids.

Everything about this comment reads that you didn't like the story but had to pathologise why and then make it everyone else's problem. You don't need to like a story, you can even take issues with actions made by characters, but to accuse the author of being a misogonist who is promoting forcing women to give birth and submit and claiming this story is a massive ploy by our governments to indoctrinate us it wild

I think OG cpmmenter speak from the original legends - and yes in those legends merefolk is a wicked one, and the author clearly didn't take over from those legends anything.

And yes its very repulsing that MC having the intelligence and behavior like a child, it having same disgusting pedo vibe, this is why I didn't read after I saw some spoilers.

Here go the pick me crashing out—it’s not even worth entertaining this nonsense.

Go lick ur man’s left shoe however much u want, nobody’s stopping u. Don’t let the door hit u on ur way out cya.

Bro what? You're the one leaving since you dont like the story, which is fine. I just pointed out how weird it was to put all these preconceived notions you have onto the story, it was quite a bit of projection. Also I'm ace so im all good, no interest in men (not to say that you would know that, but its another instance of you projecting this weird idea of all women who has a different view from you being slaves to the patriarchy and perpetuating it).

As I said in my original comment which I doubt you read or understood, it's fine to hate the story and express it. What is weird is to project that hatred back onto the author as some moral failing on their part and assume the worst of them because they chose to make an adaptation of the little mermaid. Melusine is not human, she has no human morals or understanding. To her Kieron acts like a child who knows nothing, not the other way around. It's all about perspective. And she also doesn't act like a child, she just speaks childishly since she doesn't know the language or culture, and naivety is not a crime. A full ass child isn't going to be asking to have sex so she can abandon Kieron and raise her own child.

Hate the story, love the story, read it, dont read it, whatever. You can analyze it and point out things that you think reflect certain aspects of society that you disagree with, but dont come here and claim this is cynical propaganda done to influence women to want to have kids. That is both unproductive to actually fixing issues that literature can unintentionally have due to author bias and antithetical to actually taking down a patriarchal society by attacking a female author reinterpreting a popular story. Solidarity with all women, not just those who you have slight disagreements with when it comes to taste in literature.

I wasn’t replying to u. Also, ur not empress opinion, it’s MY review, deal with it. One thing’s for sure, I ain’t reading all that.

Respectfully, there is no such thing as a "In reality mermaids were..." That is a bias you have, not a fact.

One of the oldest stories that depicts what we can consider to be mermaids is the story of Atargatis, an Assyrian Goddess. Her story is pretty much: Fell in love with a human male, accidentally kills him, and jumps into the water, becoming a mermaid. In another version, it's because she fell in love with a fish and turns into one and there is one where she has a kid with a fish and is ashamed of it. Which negates your whole "Intelligent" argument.

Atargatis could be said to be the first recorded mermaid story (3000 years ago) and an inspiration for the most well known story of The Little Mermaid (although there is this whole other speculation about the author, Anderson, being gay and writing the story as a reflection of his life and love for his friend Colin). Funny enough, this story too ends in the mermaid sacrificing herself for love.

I believe you are actually confusing mermaids for sirens when you say they are far more wicked. Sirens are the actual origin of "wicked" mythological creatures who have enchanting voices that lure sailors at sea and drown them. You can reference this in The Odyssey where they make an appearance. Sirens and Mermaids started being equated to one another around the rise of Catholicism and the Medieval Ages through artwork. I suppose this is where the confusion began and people started conflating the 2 distinct creatures as one. But they are not the same.

Gradually, the image of the siren and mermaid are meshed into one and the stories began to describe mermaids as both good and evil omens depending on the author and the time period.

In the east, China has a merfolk in the Di people, Korea has a diety mermaid who guides sailors, and in Japan, the mermaid is a mythical creature that provides immortality eating it's flesh or even is described as a yokai and evil being in more modern stories (Detective conan murder episode).

So really, there is not an "In reality" mermaid that we can definitively use to describe what a mermaid is supposed to be. It is up to the writer and what they want the mermaid to be.