otakulys's manga / #dark(197)

Beautiful art, but it was just a rape fetish story. It had the humiliation and the mind break and everything. Just not for me. It was weird when it cut to the next shot and the kid is just dead. We didn't even get to see the fallout of that, but suddenly the captain is just horny for cock. I don't get the mind break kink.

Super fucked up, lol, but too short to have a full impact. Maybe I'm grateful for that. I would be more upset if I watched them fall in love and saw them separated. But this story leaves out a lot of information, like why they weren't together, why the mermaid was caught, etc. It makes it less effective, which is fine. It would be more upsetting if I cared and was invested, lol.

He has good ideas now and then, and sometimes I really wish he'd explore them more. Ultimately, his execution is just too clunky to be satisfying. He often either jumps around too much and too quickly, or he completely draws everything out for far too long. It's a shame, because he could do something really interesting with some of this, but it never really pans out.

So Itou didn't write this one, which explains why it isn't so jarring and clumsy, but the ending was still weak. I liked the creepy imagery of the people in the bath house though. That's such a freaky thought.

Eh, that's sad. That one guy was hot.

I don't know if I read this before, but I guessed everything from the start. It was weird, I kept feeling like maybe I had read it, but I think it was just because I'd read the author's other work. Either way, I was hoping for some interesting twists, but I just got what I expected.