Sachi's Monstrous Appetite

This manga is about a middle school boy named Makie who has a crush on a high school girl named Sachi. The thing is that Makie has a scent that attracts monsters known as watari and Sachi is one such watari. Furthermore, she finds his scent incredibly appetizing and wants to eat him. However, she’s doing her best to live as a proper human, so rather than eating him she actually hangs around him and protects him from all the other watari that come after him. The primary focus of this manga is the relationship between Makie and Sachi. There was definitely an interesting concept herewith how she wants to eat him, but it was really half baked. It’s not really presented as creepy at all. Rather, all it is the standard relationship archetype with one party feeling they don’t deserve to be loved for being different and the other saying that they love them for who they are. I feel like that would work fine if it was only that she was a watari, but I think there should have been more angst from how she feels the urge to eat him. There were some interesting themes that could have been explored there that it just chose not to. Ultimately, their relationship was pretty generic without anything all that interesting to it. They both have character arcs of a sort, but they’re also pretty shallow. I don’t find either of them all that likable either. As such, it’s pretty hard to get invested in their relationship, and as that’s the core of the manga it’s hard to get invested in the manga as a whole. So, while their relationship does make progress and the ending of the manga is pretty decent in this regard, it still didn’t do much for me. Beyond that, there are a few overarching plot threads, the biggest of which is about why watari are attracted to Makie. However, none of them are fleshed out properly. This is heavily due to the lack of any world building whatsoever. Very little explanation is provided on what the watari are and very little really felt like it mattered long term. Rather, each encounter seems to be its own things with its own set of rules with essentially nothing carrying over. And it’s not like the watari are supposed to be completely mysterious. Rather, there’s an organization that seems to know quite a lot about of them, but they just seem to share only what’s relevant in the moment. We also learn absolutely nothing about said organization other than that they’re dedicated to managing watari. The cast other than Makie and Sachi are also incredibly underdeveloped, resulting in them being completely unremarkable and unmemorable. So when all is said and done, none of this contributed much to the manga. There’s a decent amount of comedy in this manga, though not enough for me to consider it a rom-com. I found it aggressively unfunny. The art I also wasn’t all that fond of. The designs and style when it comes to monsters is great, but the humans not so much. Furthermore there’s a clash between the two. Such a clash can work well in some manga, but this manga doesn’t have the right atmosphere and tone for that, so I just thought it looked bad. tl;dr: A really plain romance manga with a lack of substance to its plot and themes.

This manga was a different experience, it's not a popular manga that I know of, nor does it feel like one. The story is interesting, as well as its characters, it has few chapters but each one is long. When I finished reading it, I must say that I had two sensations: that ending does not feel like an ending, and that I´m not sure if I liked it or not, my rating is more objective; I really don't know if I recommend it. What I must rescue is the art, although it is not exactly my favorite, each panel feels full of dedication, and Ilike that.

I'm not one to read a lot of romance. Having some romance is expected in most stories, there has to be some kind of emotional hook, or why would you care. This is straight up a romantic comedy with a bit of monster action icing. I honestly was expecting far more monster that romance, but that is not what was here. It is definitely NOT Lovecraftian, and not nightmare inducing. It's cute, kinda funny, a little heart warming. Generally a nice tale of a couple of teens who like each other and are awkward about it. One of them happens to be a "monster" Don't getme wrong I didn't hate this, I'm not mad about reading it, but if you are looking for some horror monster stuff, like I was, this is not it. If you like romantic comedy/borderline slice of life, this might be your cup of tea.