That doesn't make it inherently exploitative in a way as a lot of this sort of porn is excluded from the site is written, but it's also, like. While I wouldn't go as far as to accuse it of being literal misery porn as the author seems to have put some level of earnest thought into the drama of it, I feel like that's kinda as far as it goes - it's a dark, uncomfortable tragedy that he wanted to tell, but I don't think he was trying to make a statement on hentai as a whole, and the fact that the protagonist experiences Surprisingly Realistic Outcomes seems incidental rather than metacommentary. So as someone who has actually read it, I don't actually think it's intentionally meant to be a deconstruction of hentai tropes. I'd hate to have to remove any work on this wiki that people find critically respectable (or at least interesting in a non-pornographic way), but at the same time I don't want folks to get in trouble for keeping this around. The end.īut that's just me - what are your thoughts on this?Įdited by number9robotic on Feb 2nd 2024 at 12:46:36 PM It certainly doesn't feel like a coming-of-age-story where sex leads to personal development in a way only sex can - the protagonist suffers a lot, then dies. And this is a subjective take, but I don't think Metamorphosis comes close to the heady thoughtfulness and moral introspection of that kind of work that warrants such graphic detail it feels like the lessons and moral takeaways that can be gathered from it seem incidental more than anything. Alan Moore is one of the most critically-acclaimed writers in the history of western comic books and wrote Lost Girls - a thoughtful, philosophically heavy book about the underage sexcapades of Wendy Darling, Alice Fairchild, and Dorothy Gale - which was critically acclaimed and touted as an "erotic graphic novel" against Moore's wishes, himself actively insinuating it being "pornography" ( true story!), and that book didn't survive the P5's inspection. Problem is though, still shitloads of graphic underage sex through publications of pornography, and that crosses a boundary for me. I do understand there being potential merits in the conversation people have of it being Porn with Plot and could be permissible as a really visceral drama/tragedy with intense sexual elements - there are a decent amount of valid entries that don't read as being written one-handed or overly-delving into the fetishistic depravity of the work - and I am aware of conversations about the work's author who for all I can tell was approaching it at least in part as an earnest erotic drama. There was definitely some eye for it being fetishistic and for tittilation purposes in some capacity. Second, unlike Berserk, Metamorphosis is definitively hentai - it was initially serialized in Comic X-Eros, a hentai publication, and published in Fakku, a hentai publication. However, the discussion kind of glanced over important details that to me raise alarm bells where the CP is concerned, first one being that the protagonist (the subject of a lot of graphic and uncomfortably violent rape) is like, 15? (average age of graduating "middle school" in Japan) I don't know my minutiae in what counts as "underage" in Japan but if she's being violated by her "classmates" and rendered homeless after being disowned by her parents, that conjures a substantial difference in tone from displaying graphic sex when compared to that of adults from a Dark Fantasy like Berserk. Now, before this page was added (originally in February 2023 before it moved namespaces in December), the validity of the work was conversed over in the P5 flag evaluations thread, and the consensus that formed there was along the lines of it being Porn with Plot, entertaining the idea of it being "a graphic Seinen" along the lines of something like Berserk. Metamorphosis is an infamous shock hentai about a middle school graduate who - as part of the storyline - is given drugs, has graphic nonconsensual sex, develops an addiction to doing sex while on drugs, is pushed towards prostitution, is definitively and repeatedly raped, and a bunch of other really other disturbing things before she commits suicide by overdosing on heroin.
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