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Review: Monster Musume Vol. 1

Monster Musume Vol. 1 Monster Musume Vol. 1 by OKAYADO
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

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The synopsis seemed intriguing... I thought that since I enjoyed Sunstone which is literal lesbian bdsm that I wouldn't mind this manga... I was wrong...

I have three problems with this book: The story is shit, the characters are shit, and the nudity is way too obnoxious. Obviously this is just judging by the first volume so who knows, I'm *sure* these all miraculously improve in later volumes, but damn if I'm going to bother wasting my time to find that out.

I had heard of this series for a long time, but wrote it off as another stupid basic harem anime. (Well, I was right.) Then a couple weeks ago I came across a brief synopsis, that reeealllly piqued my interest: Monster Girl exchange program, all the girls tryna smash but if the main character smashes he'll go to jail, hilarity ensues. I dunno, something about that got me really interested in finally checking this out. Maybe there would be a way to properly execute that plot, but I don't think that is what this series does.

It's literally boring. It wasn't interesting. The girls are all so... Cliché in their devotion to the main character. They literally see him and for no real logical reason all of a sudden become DEVOTED to him. It's an annoying stupid fantasy that boys WISH would come true, but actually seeing it happen just looks extremely moronic.

I thought the nudity wouldn't bother me, but GOD DAMN is there a metric fuckton of nudity. I read a bunch of other reviews before reading this and I didn't believe anyone when they talked about the nudity. I should have. It's not like normal nudity that has a purpose, these irrational girls will literally just randomly lift up their shirts or just completely strip naked ALL THE TIME. Like every PAGE. Every minute was just like "Damn, another titty. Oh, another one. Another one. Holy shit calm down-- Another one!!! What the fuck??"

Has the author never heard of the great idea where you don't over saturate the frick out of a good thing, because otherwise you'll just desensitizes the audience to said good thing?? It literally just got so obnoxious. Also I really don't like how the author draws boobs and nipples in particular. The nipples look weirdly plastic and then the boobs were just shaped weird. Other than that the art was decent.

I literally don't know what's to like about this? Someone enlighten me? Is it really that great to try to pretend you're the protagonist?


Didn'tSmash/10 would not recommend.

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