- #1
A fairly fun smutty read; though it can't make up it's mind if it wants to be p*rn, or have a proper story - you'll often go through stretches where it's one or the either. Good luck trying to read a chapter for "literary purposes", only to get 20 chapters of world building, character development, and plot progression - only to get hooked wanting to know what happens next, and then be plot blocked by 10 chapters of s*x.That said, I enjoyed the story quite a bit actually, it does start slow, but really picks up by the second volume, though there are some oddities to it (spoilers obviously) :Spoiler
- Like no one gets really annoyed that the original boy who was the MC was essentially mu*dered so he could be a better s*x machine. He had his personality replaced by someone else's... Yes, the body is alive, but if the personality and memories are wiped, how is that really different than mu*der?
Some time later the story tries to clarify that "both souls" are there, but people should have been upset at some point in the story before then.
- The character Saori is shown to be a fairly abusive mother who physically ab*ses her child, and mentally ab*ses her too by isolating her and showing clear preferential treatment to her other child... but this is all later swept under the rug as her being nothing more than "stern".
This character has great development later on and has one of the most fun plot threads though.
- Oh and the daughter she's abusing? She's shown in one chapter to be attacked by a manifestation of some sort that is attacking her sexually - but this is never brought up again.
- The scumbag rival villain boy (I forgot his name) is probably considered to be the villain by most, and acts in a manner to make others miserable, but seems to not be too heavily punished. He just gets a bit embarrassed.
- Meanwhile the sl*tty girl (layla? Liela? whatever) who simply liked fooling around, but unintentionally caused problems by doing so, seems to have quite literally gotten her brain melted.
It's a shame too, because I think the character arc of her realising the harm her floozy lifestyle was causing and wanting to settle with a singular guy and appreciating the monogamous culture of the country she's in (compared to the sexually open country she's from) is a fun character arc... it just leads to a seemingly gruesome end for her.
- We never really find out the ultimate fate of either of these characters though? Does floozy girl still live after the brain melting, or is she now a vegetable? Did scumbag guy turn his life around, or did he stick to his scummy ways?
- Speaking of scumbag guy, he ultimately didn't respect women because he felt the women didn't really respect the men... and the story seems to prove him right. MC was an experimental test subject to make him a better stud, the boys are taken away from their mothers and raised on ipads (I wonder why the boys have behavioural problems?), boys/men are purposely made to have a very hard time meeting each other, if a boy is politically problematic (such as advocating for male rights) they are essentially put into a bubble where their influence cannot reach others (something that doesn't seem to happen to women).
There just seems to be a string of examples that show the men being treated more like zoo animals rather than human beings.
- Occasionally this sci-fi future world will have fantasy quasi religious mumbo jumbo thrown at you - which doesn't seem consistent or important to the story given the setting, but then suddenly the very last chapter seems to imply that it actually might be quite important... maybe?...
- The ending is fairly good and satisfying, but that very last chapter (or the last part of it) blows.