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Jan 10, 2026
I just get angry when I think of this. I don't expect bad people to get their comeuppance in every story I read, you don't even have to make comment on it, I don't think there needs to be a character that wiggles their finger and says: "that's bad, you shouldn't do that". But I'm just confused what the intention is here, that those people who would make those types of comments don't matter, because it's your life, and even if there is something in your life that others would consider deviant, or perverse, abnormal, staying true to your feelings is what will ultimately
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fulfil you in life, but this story has a pedophile in it, two actually, the friend of the ml, and the teacher that gets a student pregnant while she was still in high school, maybe it is just that the author doesn't consider sleeping with high school students to be that big of a deal, that it is not a deal breaker but that still just makes me angry.
I just don't think it's on the same level of getting back together with someone who cheated on you, or letting your husband cheat outright, "what a mess of a group we are" is our final commentary on everyone's situation, and I don't think everything here can be classified as simply "messy". I specifically mean the friend around 25, who had his "first trip as a couple" with someone as their "high school graduation gift", someone who he had met 3 years prior, so someone on their last year of middle school, I assume this was shown that our ml doesn't have a strong sense of morals.
What confuses me is why are we then presenting the story as if we're dealing with tragedy. It's fine if a story has bad people, but on a metatextual level, why is the story being framed as if we're supposed to care about the wellbeing of these people, "I refuse treatment and yet", "we laugh over trivial things", "all we can do is cherish the present", I don't care, I don't care for their tear filled reunion with marveling gazes and shoujo sparkles, "This kind of gossip has spread all over the island... but now I can brush it off like it has nothing to do with me", I don't know maybe they should listen, it's not like every gossip is wrong, at least listen to the law when they say not to be with minors. The characters may not care, but I feel the author should. When everything is dismissed, handwaved away by the characters it feels like everything is excused with a "well its our lives, you can't tell us what to do".
That's not even getting to the structural problems, the pace is horrendous, this is specifically bad in this story because there is so much drama packed in so little time; we jump around so much we don't have time to settle with the new situation in someone's life before we move on to the next. There is no satisfactory conclusion to any plot line because they have no time to be developed, nothing has depth because there is only so much you can say if you need to immediately move on.
There is no reason to read this, there is no angle you can use which gives you one, the unconventional mindset of the characters is made uninteresting by its shallow exploration, they are not people you can really root for, there is no meaningful commentary on their actions. There's just not much value in this work.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 7, 2025
Characters & dialogue are the reasons why you read a Yoshinaga story, in these stories we get overviews of the multiple lives of this relationship between Tamaki and Amane, across different eras, genders, ages, etc. calling it overviews not to say she is glossing over them but that they are showing us what we need, and they are enough to stay with us as valuable and memorable pieces of storytelling. What I like the most about her character work is how reasonable these people are. They are hard to pin down with a single adjective, especially ones as common as nice, good, or bad. They
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make decisions based on their interest at the time, instead of how they could have been described in a character sheet, or if there is a conflict, we understand why their personal character led them to lie, to be cold, or to hide. I believe, and I think Yoshinaga may as well, that as humans we have a general tendency towards "nice", towards generally avoiding conflict, and towards generally looking for results where we can make the most people happy, but at the end of the day, humans are humans, and life is life. We can't live ideally, but we can try to make do with what we have. Total satisfaction in one's life is already a difficult mountain, accruing another soul in your journey, even your most cherished one, might inevitably end in tragedy
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Apr 6, 2025
Bruh who cares. Whenever these characters do anything in their virtual world i just can't keep out of my mind it's just WoW, it's just a video game. Who cares what they do, why are they talking about it like it's such a big deal, all the tension disappears whenever I remind myself that from an outside PoV they're just playing a game in their phone. They take it so seriously and for what, just log out bruh. There are not non-pvp areas and no moderation. Their only way of moderating is through pvp. Why is there a doxxing cannon lmfao. It's just so serious
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and it never earned that. These aren't nitpicks because so much of the tension is dependent that we care about what happens inside the game, there is tension in the script but I just can't forget that IT'S JUST A GAME, why are they yelling? what's scary about it, do they lose their character? don't they just re spawn, it's fine, it's just not a big deal, half the movie is just silly, it's too silly, it's just not a big deal, it's fine. There are parts of the movie that don't revolve around the game but they're just undercut by the silliness, like why are the story lines of parent loss and parent abuse sandwiched between a story line about a wolf being really good at pvp? And it just feels shallow when they do try to tackle those serious themes, "oh there is a dad who is abusive and he RAISES HIS FIST, but he's actually scared and literally runs away if the child doesn't immediately cower". PARENT ABUSE IS SOLVED. What are we doing here?
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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Mar 13, 2025
“This is a story about war, set in a vague place and time, depicted through the medium of a dream”
Who better to describe it than the author. This dreamlike quality she’s talking about is not an offhand remark. There is a pervasive uncanniness through which we see the mutilation and the disease and the hunger, it is not simply that our p.o.v. is that of a teenager; a strange separation is felt between matters of war and matters of girlhood. This, you will first deduce, is how the image of the titular cocoon is invoked, through a deliberate denial and attempt to escape
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reality. While this is true, to reduce it to just that would be disservice to her intentionality. After all, a cocoon is simply one stage of a cycle.
Machiko Kyou is a fantastic artist. The casualness of her signature style of minimal dialogue and drawing is not there to minimize the brutality, the white space doesn’t hide what is unsightly, it takes our possibility to see anything but. The inner monologue of our main character is lucid, aware of the dwindling of life around her, and yet, between the butchery, she’s never let to forget that every face she sees burn is one of a callow school girl, now forever to be frozen on fantasy, memory, or as she would say, dream. A dream of girlhood cocooned inside a war. These are the two main motifs of the story, the stagnant dream and the forceful cycle. To hatch is to change, and to leave. Both are interlinked. The staging of war forces the cycle to move forward, as the dream of girlhood is what may spin the cocoon together and allow larvae to live.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Mar 4, 2025
It was just a premise, a high concept premise, it was a good premise. It just didn't go beyond that. People say that it has the hallmarks of cancellation, and it's certainly possible that it was axed, but I fully believe if that was the case, the author only has himself to blame. I believe what drove people to this work were two specific points, first the relationship, and second, the "eternal" part of the time loop, because this loop started randomly and seems to have no real way of escape. These are interlinked, and it is the latter where the conflict, and such, the
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development, lie. I don't think the author knew where he was going when he promised this darker element, I don't think he should have done that. He understood that this is a horrible and scary fate, but that's as far as its depth went. He was unable to craft a psychological profile beyond the adjective "afraid". There is no attempt to linger on these feelings, to explore, to overcome, to make peace with it, to surrender to it, or even to defy it. The defiance they do show is shallow. It is more a point of shock with their gory deaths and big cries of desperation. The way the structure is set up, we don't have a serious story line that carries for more than a single chapter, they don't have time to sit with their fear because as soon as we get to those last pages where this darkness creeps up, the story just resets. He tried to do a little too much, he knew that this could be interesting but not necessarily how. I think this would have been a stronger release had it just ignored that part and stayed as an infinite, romantic, slice of life.
"Yes, they have been alive for ten million years and they still act the same, here is them eating ice cream :D"
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Feb 19, 2025
Poor quality. Meandering plot, showered with technicalities and history forgetting to ever present a character. MacGuffin doll that stays silent because the author couldn't stomach adding personality to this world, and just as the story, semi-sentient. Impossible to care for. A draft that never had an editor. Embarrassing this was published. Akira derivative. An exercise to move the hand. The only value this provides is names, trivia. A stain in their careers. You, like me, didn't read this because someone thought this had standalone literary value. You saw the names. And because you value their work and artistic identity, it will all be better if,
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just like I will, you forget this ever existed, a bad dream that never had to happen. Sometimes not all ideas are worth expressing. Nothing in this story works. Nothing is cohesive. No character knows more than history. The author's idea of world building is name dropping religious sounding names. Amateur quality
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Aug 27, 2024
It's only good if its the first piece of fiction you've interacted with. The most typical of trite children stories. This will never be someone's favorite. It masks the lack of storytelling skill with enthusiasm and passion for the subject at hand, "isn't literature awesome!". It's world isn't vast like it pretends it is, the quirks of different races are nothing more than the same old stereotypes you see in any typical school setting, she's fiery, she's stern; the world building only serves to write a wikipedia entry no one will care to read, not to tell a story, that's why the information is presented
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either through narration, or through non-diagetic encyclopedic like entries. The goal of our protagonist is to become a kafna, the obstacle, their own ineptitude, what do they have to do? we don't actually know. A written test is currently our hurdle, the contents of which are unknown to the audience, this is our only measure of accomplishment
There are no stakes, there are no penalties for failing, and we don't even see him try to improve for more than 5 panels, and I'm not exaggerating on that,he just says to people that he really really needs to. To anyone that can answer me, what happens if he keeps failing? what happens? does he get kicked out of the program? no, because the teachers are understanding and wise and good, so what is he fighting against? himself? he's an eternal optimist so that doesn't work. It's like the author wanted to create the idyllic world they've always had in their mind, but they forgot they were writing a story. A student was set up as a rival for two panels and got immediately told off by the wise old lady. Only in the latest volume do we get a shadow of an antagonist, after 30 chapters; does that not sound that bad? remember these chapters are an average of 50 pages, with some that go well beyond that. Do we actually get anything concrete that involves Theo? no, it's still just set up, it's still just at the teasing stage, remember promises about a grand tale were made, since the beginning, and they're still being made now. Imagine a regular-lenght manga taking 100 chapters before a glimpse of an obstacle. It is tedious
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Feb 15, 2024
It's ok, if you like the concept you'll probably like it. It's a story of bullying, isolation, and other similar themes that all could be contained in the phrase "bad highschool experience". It is as subjective as it can be, the art depicting those feelings at their most maximalist, their inner world will be spread over the page evey other page. To me, it feels way to over the top; i understand that's the intention, to represent those situations and thoughts as how they felt at the time, not to be subtle or subdued for the sake of making a more realistic story. I think
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it sometimes comes off as goofy, they're so dramatic all the time, everything is dialed up to 100 all the time, even when they're just doing nothing and being normal, it is framed as the most important normal moment of all time. If you know what you're getting into, you're gonna like it 👍
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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Jul 30, 2023
I appreciate this more than I enjoyed this. It is trying to be something, something a little different to your typical 2 character manga. I'm not entirely sure it quite accomplishes it at a level where I could call it a good story.
Some stories can have quite unrealistic relationships, in terms of closeness, love at first sight, drop everything to be with this person you just met, uproot your life completely because of this dude, that can be quite overwhelming. This does the opposite, but veers too far in its own direction and goes back to feeling too strange and frustrating. They want to be
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close, they want to be together but they respect each other's boundaries; they respect them too much, and their relationship ends up feeling limp and unfinished. Its progression chapter-to-chapter felt unfocused and pointless. Overall it feels unfinished. Overall it needed more drama, more conflict, to challenge the characters, and it felt like the author didn't know how to add that here because they made the relationship so very delicate that if it was poked too hard it would simply evaporate, but if that really is the case, is that something worth caring about?
The art is amazing, though. Just by the art alone, I think this is worth reading.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Jul 12, 2023
I love when shojo is full gush. All the sparkle, heart-eyes, roses on every panel. And here is on a seinen, imagine that.
I am asking you to give it one chapter, in the first chapter you will know exactly if you're going to like the story. The premise is about a girl who grows lizard-like features on her body when her emotions bubble up. The high jinks that ensue after this are what you'd expect, the scenarios that come to your mind right now will probably happen
In this work you will read a well crafted romantic comedy with a charm that you only find
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with... passion (?). I'm not sure how passionate you can be about something so.. wacky (?). It just feels like she's having fun. She has so much confidence in her jokes; panels that are used as just punchlines are given care and detail that feels beyond what most authors would give it. I can see her hunched over the same drawing for hours and stopping a few times to giggle at it.
There are constantly new elements that are introduced to the story to keep it fresh but it's early in the story to see what kind of payoff they will actually have. So far I don't mind because really the strength of this manga is in the comedy and the relationship that was established early and has steadily been developing. So far anything else has really been just noise and setup for supporting these two elements. I don't mind, I just don't know if any of these extraneous elements will go anywhere. This is not a slight against it, if she tells me this was just used for a chapter and will never be brought up again i will bow down and marvel at her wisdom
I love it, its just great.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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