Himenospia

I hate when a good enough set-up uses its premise well for only 1/4 of the series. Briefly, Endou is a girl whose life is horrible. Bullied (to a very illegal degree, which cartoonishly shouldn't be possible), abused at home (that one is pretty realistic and disturbing), but with a very positive outlook to endure. You got your suffering character, boom, let's give them POWERS. How will they use them? How will everything turn out? Evil? Good? Stupid? The limit is the sky. We've seen it before, it can work, it can make use of it in interesting ways. Even if it's one of those power fantasies.I was in for the ride until I stopped caring after chapter 5. Not that it bored me, it was just a matter of waiting for the scan, so I decided to put it away. It ended after some time, and the rating didn't reflect my opinion on it. What happened? I think the writer legitimately gave up. What seemed like the endgame happened really fast. That's a quality that's part of some of my favorite series. Where will we go? How will we go? New characters, faces, opposing sides, quite nice for an arc, but when they start getting into a critique on society, I started to check out. There's this element here, a constant comparison, hatred, and very intense perspective of men. I find series that deal with feminist themes fascinating, since it's something I always look out for in good writing and representation, this wasn't it. Bordering on misandry, the series makes an enemy of men in a very blatant manner. Every enemy is men, even the women who clearly oppose the main character, are treated well because “they wouldn't do anything bad”. Other times, the men are seen as slaves, as playthings, there's probably only two who're okay, and one is unhinged. I began to simply tolerate it, maybe it'll get better, but again, the writer gave up. One moment simply decided to ruin everything. (SLIGHT SPOILER) Let me quote, “I transplanted my brain into one of your kind”. This isn't an advanced world, it's just today. (END OF SPOILER) From then on, it all went bonkers. This brain transplanted person from man to woman decides to torture the protagonist, BOOM lets put them in hypersexual bondage leather. A squad of soldiers supposedly were trained so hard they became bigger than the biggest humans on earth, without mention of any artificial thing being done to them. “They trained really hard”. Everything was chucked out the window just to introduce another weird ass point. And the constant bombardment of sex appeal in the worst ways possible. I don't think I wanna see a tortured girl in glamorous angles, or a person fighting for their lives while their ass in on display. Instead of investing the audience, it seems like an attempt to keep attention, when the thing is so ridiculous that it demands attention in general. The plot gave up, and it's a short series, mind you. Is the art good? Sure, I'll give it that. The detail on the insect elements is incredible. The faces have this strange realism in them that fits quite nicely with the vibe. Not much else to say, it worked fine. I wish it was more of “don't take it too seriously”, but it clearly wasn't. There's a very failed attempt at showing how characters act, or how science works. Many times they go on these rambles about how biology works a certain way, and it tries to create a logic that doesn't add up. Along with too many other problems, even for a short series, I don't see anybody liking this, other than just wanting to read trashy stories. I'm just sad that it had an interesting premise and themes entirely wasted. 4.2/10. To finalize it, the characters all have grand motives with the stupidest ways to do them. Not even funny, just stupid.