Henshin

Jun 23, 2016

ayami123

Recommended

Classic Shindol

A Person who wants to change,

but too clueless what's right and wrong

having a one dimensional parent doesn't help

well this manga is full of despair and coming of age
...

Open

Gift

Jul 17, 2016

MegaApple

Recommended

So, I happen to stumble upon this manga from a stupid Facebook page, and thought why not give it a go.
I'm not a manga reader(but an avid anime watcher), so this is still on of my early manga experiences.

Before moving to the crux, I'll address the technical things first.
1. Art was quite good. Faces were very expressive. And it made the disgusting moments even more disgusting (in a good way, of course).
2. Writing was nothing special, but was bearable.

Now to the plot.
* Saki is a socially reclusive yet a very naiive girl, and when entering in high school, wants to become more social-able. So ... she asks her mom to do some make-up and then she suddenly becomes the most attractive girl in the school.
* She then meets a guy in a shop, who invites for a drink, and her wanting to be an "adult", goes there. He forces here into sex, even gives LSD to her, and hence afterwards, declares her his girlfriend. She gives into his charms, and accepts her as his boyfriend.
* Then after hearing about ways to earn money by sex from her school friends, she gets into escorting, and that's when everything goes downhill.

Thoughts
1. So you now know it's "that" kind of story. The "decent-into-living-hell" kind of one. But the series of events and how they are unfolding and being presented, keeps the plot engaging. But since it's a hentai manga, it's interrupted by a lot of sex scenes.
2. OK, so something personal here. I glance a quite many hentai manga, because reasons.... but this is the first time I didn't get ... aroused... by the second chapter because of what was happening.
3. Awful things happen to Saki, very awful. Even though they may seem cliched, it is still very hard to sit through. And this continues on for 6 chapters, which is quite amazing to keep the reader engaging and disgusted at the same time.
4. But Chapter 7 is when it separates itself from other hentai manga. Without spoiling anything, all the horrible things that happened before all combine to make a big punch in the gut, and to the heart, that you won't forget soon.
5. It makes me scared that it happens to girls (and maybe even boys) in real life.

TL;DR :- One of the (surprisingly) saddest manga stories I've read as of writing this, and considering it is a hentai manga. I'm disgusted, emotionally drained, sad as well as a little scared after reading this. NOT FOR THE FAINT OF HEART.

EDIT : [SPOILERS] I've noticed something. Except for the obvious sexual pleasure, she doesn't show emotions or thoughts for her current situation, except for the abortion scene and at the end. You'd think one would break down and cry a little when one get's hurt, but even after all the bad things happening to her, she persists. She endures the pain for a good future with her boyfriend, until...

Open

Gift

Oct 20, 2016

ryanz84

Recommended

Beautiful. In many manga series, the character will experience the bad so that the good seems so much better when it comes. Realistically, some people just have completely terrible lives. The transition from seeking solace in life to seeking solace in death is beautiful and convincing.

Along the way, the reader is reminded that less fortunate people have unexplored characters and stories that are often overlooked. Many undeserving people are beaten down by life. Though the protagonist may have been naive, she tried to live with others and just couldn't stand up to the world by herself. She took a bad path in life, with no ...

Open

Gift

Oct 13, 2019

jiroutachi

Not Recommended

Contains spoilers, if you care.

I will be blunt: there is absolutely no value to be found in this.

Discussing Metamosphosis is complicated. People will claim it's a deep, thought-provoking, innovative, subversive manga, but when you try to criticize it based on these claims, suddenly it's only porn and you shouldn't be taking it so seriously. So I will separate this review based on these two point of views.

1. Reviewing Metamorphosis as porn:

If you believe that Metamorphosis is exempt from criticism because it's only porn and it's not that deep, I have news that you might not like to hear: nothing is exempt from criticism, especially not ...

Open

Gift

Feb 20, 2018

mardieg

Not Recommended

Really almost 8, i barely understand this.

SPOILERS ARE COMING!!!!!

So you are nerdy girl, then you change your appearance and few scenes later you are being drugged and forced, but this is H-read so you enjoy it instead of end the day with a trauma.

You fall in love with your raper, not ridicolous and dangerous idea its normal (sarcasm on)

...

Open

Gift

Nov 26, 2018

SacraLuna

Recommended

I see in a lot of comments in many websites of hatred againts Saki-chan, saying that she is silly, dumbass and she deserves all that things for her bad decisions.

I am going to defend Saki-chan from all that things. What happens is that Saki-chan is a TEENAGER, an insecure teenager that only wants to have a friend, to be accepted, like everyone wants to, how many of you did things in those years for liking others?

Everyone is making proffit of her kindness and innocence that, step by step, made that awful ending when she realizes that wasn't the way... A sad story

Open

Gift

Jul 15, 2019

cutespooky

Mixed Feelings

Well-written

Ok, I live for edgy/dark manga (and anything else really), so when I heard everyone making a big deal about this title, I had to read it.

My expectations were set pretty high because of all the hype surrounding the series, which probably impacted my judgement in a negative way, as it did not completely live up to that hype.

I love the premise of the story. It's definitely original and I haven't seen many other hentai that have tried to be anything other than mindless smut. Which I don't mind, but it can get boring.

However, this attempt at realism is also the series' downfall for me.

The ... main character's mindset towards life and other people doesn't make sense to me. How willingly she trusts complete strangers. How attached she becomes to these men who abuse her. How much she loves sex right from the beginning. None of this makes sense in a character coming from her background and especially for her age.

I guess we don't get to see much of her life before her descent into substance abuse begins. From what is provided, she seems to have a pretty normal home life. Her dad gets creepy when she gets a makeover, true. But, before then it doesn't seem like she's been through anything particularly traumatic or unusual.

Someone coming from an average background like that doesn't seem like the type to suddenly go all the way with an older stranger and take E.

And even if you are high, I really don't think losing your virginity like that would be pleasurable at all.

The reactions she gets from the drugs she takes don't really make sense. It seems to be written by someone who didn't do much research on any of the drugs used throughout the series. They just seem to be working with cliches surrounding the drugs in question.

Also, you don't really get to see the lowest parts that come with substance abuse. True, you get to see what she's willing to put her body through overtime & how other people ramp up their abuse towards her. But, you don't get to see her own personal mental breakdowns. There's not any exploration of the relationship she has with herself. If you're someone who is living that kind of lifestyle, those moments are a HUGE part of the cycle of addiction. The only thing close to that is what happens at the very end of the series.

I guess, as far as hentai goes, yes this one of the more realistic and darker ones out there that I know of. It's unique and refreshing. However, it could have gone further with it and made it even more messed up.

You could argue that 'hey this is hentai, what do you expect?' Maybe there needed to be the right balance of realism and fantasy. Idk, I'm not a writer lol. For me, it would have enhanced my experience with it. I'm not sure how other people may feel about that. It's clear this work has managed to leave a mark on people just the way it is, and that's the important thing.

Overall, I would recommend other people to read it. Not to get some insight on how drug addiction works in real life. Not to get off to either, unless you're full on sadist. Read it because you probably haven't read anything like it before & you're tired of reading the same old boring cliches in every other hentai/manga.

Open

Gift

May 28, 2017

cyaness

Not Recommended

This review may contain some spoilers.

"Emergence", as I've known it since I read a few pages months before it became so widespread, is easily one of the darkest and most depressing manga, let alone eromanga, that I've read. The outlook of it is very bleak and pessimistic, possibly to a fetishistic degree. It's not terrible, but I'm not saying it's good, either.

Beginning with the most attractive feature, the art is fairly good, with a distinctive style. It's very expressive, perhaps a bit too expressive, as I generally found it to bear a bit more resemblance to art that would better fit a more light-hearted and ... "mainstream" (i.e. not hentai) manga; however, this expressiveness did help some of the darker scenes to feel more "grotesque", making them less bearable than a more "standard", for lack of a better term, art style. As for the more anatomical aspects of it, while the proportions are fairly mild, the art is a bit more exaggerated than the average eromanga, Saki's body or poses sometimes looking downright silly in my opinion.

Moving onto the story, as you may glean from the synopsis, it's essentially the downward spiral of Saki's life after her high school debut that she changed her image for. A more accurate way to describe it may even be that it's a story that repeatedly beats Saki, and likely the reader too, down. The story is told in what could be called a chain of struggles and tragedies, each one involving sex in one way or another, understandable as it's an eromanga, and the degradation of Saki's mind (and eventually body). It's rather predictable in that things go terribly for Saki, though, of the manga I've read so far, it's unique in that the story is told from start to finish, going beyond where other hentai mangaka would leave off.

The writing is highly pessimistic in nature, and not above toying with the readers' emotions, for better or worse; personally, while I cried reading this, I admit that I'm susceptible to such writing methods, and will not guarantee anything. I found the ending more or less fitting of the manga, but I enjoyed a particular small moment of dialogue within the last few pages. Overall, though, I found the writing to be weak, and too reliant on easy gimmicks. While it was certainly tragic, since I've started thinking about the manga while writing this review, I've considered the possibility that an eromanga this sad is specifically so for fetish purposes, as simple shock value seems too simple.

As for characters, I feel as though there are no truly likeable characters in this manga. For a series that has the official English title of "Metamorphosis", the main character, Saki, seems to change the least in terms of characterization, remaining hopelessly naive even through the chain of tragedy involving her; many of the characters that you see less of in the manga show more change, in a few cases, very drastically. Even giving this manga the benefit of the doubt for being a hentai, no characters show anything beyond the role they were meant to fulfill, not even fleshing out that role beyond the bare minimum.

Personally, I did not enjoy this manga, and I primarily read it all the way through so I could understand what a few people I knew were talking about. Unfortunately, this manga was rather memorable, and further eromanga I've read have reminded me of this series, though I don't have any particular feelings about this other than regret.

I would recommend this manga for emotional masochists and those who like to cry, or, in the other hand, those who like to see fictional characters suffer beyond what is believable.

Overall, my experience with this manga was poor, and I feel as though it was trying way too hard to get a reaction from the reader, or that its tragic story was more meant as fetish bait than reaction bait.

To lighten this up a bit, in terms of hentai manga protagonist's suffering, Saki has nothing on Mai-chan.

Open

Gift

Nov 10, 2017

GG-Art

Not Recommended

Holy shit why is this manga's score even 7? let alone that, there are retards that would actually give this piece of shit a 10???!!! because "MUH It mAdE MeE fEEEEl BAUAUAAAAAAAAD" "iT mArKeD mEEE ""sO bRuTal"

Now for the review:

Story
It's pretty unexpected, alot of awuful things happen for no reason,each time the autor just wants something crappier for her, it should not be confused an autor's fucked up mind with an actual good story.
Also the last part where the teenagers appear was so "edgy", and made no sense at all the would be that cruel even less sense that the other characters. ...

Open

Gift

Sep 21, 2018

Xaractis

Recommended

Well, to be completely honest, I found a meme, got curious as to what it was and it lead me to reading this story. I've had a few hints and sort of guessed what it was going to be like before delving into this story. I was correct, but it exceeded my expectations and just kept doing down and down and down.

I must say this story had a very good impact on me and my thoughts of actual people around the world. Leads me to say that you got to be careful in your decisions as one thing can lead to another and you'll ...

Open

Gift

Apr 10, 2021

aizawaburrito

Not Recommended

God. This was absolutely disgusting. I genuinely wish I could go back to an hour ago when I hadn't read this. Also, MAL, where's your option for a zero rating? I think 1 is a little too high for this messed up piece of absolute dumpster fire garbage.

First of all, let's address this on the aspect of hentai. Sure, the art is good. The sex scenes? If anyone got remotely turned on by the sex scenes and even went as far as to getting off to them please STAY AWAY FROM ME. God. Do people actually find this stimulating? How can you, with any ounce ...

Open

Gift

May 28, 2021

TheAceAttorney

Recommended

This review will be purely based on plot, I don't review hentai/doujin based on sex taste, because it's all biased; needless to say, you shouldn't be reading this for jack material. If you are though, prepare to be massively disgusted and go limp immediately (Even for you well-versed in UB and MF tags).

STORY: [Full Spoilers; it's just 200 something pages so go read it and come back]
I'm going to be breaking this up into 3 Parts: The innocent stage, clueless stage, and the desperate stage.

INNOCENT STAGE (Experimenting and falling to social pressure; also the longest)
Metamorphosis follows the tale of Saki Yoshida, a social outcast in ...

Open

Gift

Oct 1, 2022

fidelinator

Not Recommended

Funny

Why is it that when something becomes popular for being unsettling to read or watch, it's usually the most "basic" and stale material ever?

A note before dissecting this terrible piece of work to its core, it might be the case that I am desensitized to works like this already, so I will not discount the feelings of others less experienced in the realm of "fucked up" manga, but seriously, this manga did not make anyone cry for a week as some may lead you to believe. I am of course not flexing my "hard stomach" here, this is just to give context and to not ...

Open

Gift

Sep 6, 2023

NoKOzKamui

Not Recommended

Roughly 200 pages of misery porn with no greater value beyond that.
The story, while not incomprehensible offers so little for the reader to extract from it that there really isn't any reason to read it at all past the initial shock value. No excellent characterization, incredible art, or thematic depth to be found anywhere within the work give little artistic merit to it's existence and as such I can hardly recommend it to anyone looking to read it for anything save the aforementioned shock value.

The only thing keeping this from receiving a 1 is that it is not artistically broken.

Open

Gift

Jun 20, 2021

Satyr_icon

Not Recommended

"This series was in part my attempt at seeing how much of that I could destroy — which is why I started off with a romantic comedy trope, just to see how chaotic I could make it from there." – Inio Asano on Oyasumi Punpun. This will be relevant soon.

Anyway, Henshin, or: How People Keep Trying to Find Deep Meanings in Porn

My first contact with Henshin was through those anime pages and groups on Facebook, where people would spend a considerable amount of time posting anime aesthetics, lo-fi hip hop, and displaying a rather unhealthy obssession with ahegao. That last part alone should have made ... me wary enough, but well, what's one more terrible manga to the list?
I should have known better than to fall for the "hentai with a plot" deception, but people kept bringing it enough to catch my attention, so I might as well take a look for myself.

The plot is very simple: a girl changes her appearances as a means to change her life. This one good decision led her to bad decision after another in order to get her into the most deviant and abhorrent sexual situations possible.
...that's it. That's the whole manga. To sum it up, it was the narrative equivalent of abusing/killing off the dog so people would feel sorry for it. It really has nothing going for it other than sheer shock value and emotional manipulation. And it clearly worked, considering how popular it got, but it takes little retrospection to see how bad it is.

Somehow, I've seen this manga being labeled as a "coming of age" countless times — only that, you know, coming of ages usually features growth, introspection and choices made by the main characters. The story wants you to believe it does that, but from the first page to the last, Saki never gets to be anything else than a vapid, empty character only meant for channeling sexual depravity, as if we didn't already have plenty of those around. The only kind of introspection she ever gets until the bitter end is things like "oh no I don't know what I'm doing" or "I loooove sex" (that's not hyperbole, she literally says/thinks that), which tells a lot about the choices her character is ever given: whether her actions are influenced by other people, drugs, or her unnatural craving for sex (always external factors, not once her own resolve), in the end it doesn't really matter: all of them are just excuses for her to get into more sex, and even if she is for a moment shown to be conscious that something's wrong, it doesn't really matter: she does it anyway.

Along the way, in those aforementioned anime pages and discussions, somehow Saki started being called the "female Punpun" (as well comparisons with other characters, like Shinji and even Bojack Horseman for some reason). However, even Inio Asano was conscious enough that a whole story centred around a sad boy being sad all alone in his room wasn't enough to engage people. What made Punpun interesting was his sprawling cast of side characters, that introduced all kinds of points of view and different narratives into the story. Although Goodnight Punpun has its fair share of snob cynicism and Punpun himself ultimately kept his self-destructive and egocentric personality, he was never given a shortage of options and paths to take. Through all his life he was introduced to both evil and good, irresolute and determined people, people that tried to help him and that only made him become worse. It was this diversity that made the story, the universe, and Punpun's character believable, even though it was all still so absurd: nothing was ever only black or white, there were myriads of colours that influenced its characters, and even though the story maintained a cynic and toxic look at reality, it always tried to keep some sense of narrative cohesion. This also reflects on the opinions people have about Punpun: some pity him, claiming he was a victim of odds, some consider him to be the absolute worst.

Henshin, however, does not have that: every single character is depicted as despicable and egotistical, always leading Saki into a even more disgruntled spiral of helplessness even if it meant acting in completely unrealistic ways (like a mother who's so oblivious she immediately believes her husband's claims of being seduced by their own daughter without even considering listening to her side of things), which makes the story completely unbelievable and dumb. Even the one character who shows the least bit of kindness does so as just a way for the plot to spit harsh truths and making Saki even more miserable. It tries too hard to make us care about her by introducing her to gradually more and more screwed up situations, trying to force a sense of shallow pity into the reader, instead of making us care by turning her into an actually believable character or give her the least bit of humanity. It's even sadder to see people deeming her as a "strong" character, when she does nothing but be carried by the plot instead of carrying it, which is not a demonstration of strong character writing, at all.

At first, I thought the art was being purposefully drawn to be as coarse and crude as possible to fit how horrid the whole idea behind the story was, and I've seen some people rise in its defence based on that — only, it wasn't actually doing that. By taking a quick check at the artist's other works, it seems like this is his actual style: somewhat bloated bodies, exaggerated anatomy, and themes such as humiliation and rape (even things like anthropomorphic sex roosters). It also constantly uses the 'ahegao face' (which might explain why it attracts so many edgy teens), so it's hard to defend that those scenes weren't intended for at least some kind of audience to enjoy (namely, Shindol's audience). It simply doesn't add up.

On trying to see how chaotic he could get from the simple premise of self-improvement, the author ended up with nothing but self-deprecating onanism — which seems to be all the rage these days, so it's no wonder it got so popular. People might throw the words 'subversion' and 'deconstruction' around it, but it does nothing of the sort, and attempting to find any kind of deep meaning in Henshin is just a roundabout way to not admit they enjoy a work that has nothing to offer but cheap shock and porn.
In the end, Henshin is just your average hentai doujinshi, only it's not really appealing unless you're into some really screwed up stuff, and it doesn't work as a story of any kind, so I got absolutely nothing out of it rather than disgust and a deep impression of lost time and that the people who revere it as quality story-telling should find better, healthier hobbies.

Frankly, I shouldn't even have that much to say about this and the fact that I do makes me a little queasy: it's a hentai, it's supposed to be mindless and stupid and generally not worthy of any deep analysis. However, the moment people start acting like it has a story to tell it might be judged as such, and the story it tries to tell is complete and utter shit.

Open

Gift

May 4, 2020

cobradragon4373

Recommended

Perfect. Disgusting. Captivating. Unreadable. Thoughtful. Atrocious.
Metamorphosis, or Henshin, is simultaneously one of the greatest and one of the worst manga I have ever read. A horrifying exposé on the depraved dark side of modern society- masquerading as a hentai manga- Metamorphosis is an experience you will *never* forget. It's a story you'll read, ponder for a very long time, and then never want to think about ever again.

Story: 10.
The plot of Metamorphosis is almost flawlessly arranged. An innocent girl's nightmarish spiral into a world of filth and disorder carefully laid out over 225 pages, Metamorphosis is impossible to put down no matter how much ...

Open

Gift

Nov 13, 2023

SasakiTouha

Mixed Feelings

Kinda of the points i gave to this manga is the simbolism i see. Those things that happends in this manga happends a lot in sociaty and it's sad, when i was watching, for some reason i didn't felt like it was sexualizing, but just warning how sociaty destroys woman in every way.
The art is good, and i think more the story goes the sense of weak get bigger.
i don't recommend this to anyone, the thing that makes me like this manga it's because i don't see it as hentai, but a sad real history. i cried all the expeareance.

obviously it will be some weirdos ...

Open

Gift

Sep 7, 2016

Vaenny

Recommended

Who said H doujins are only good for jerking off? This series right here proved that not all H doujins display sex as a pleasurable thing. It shows us how it can corrupt a person, it shows us how we can change.It presents a character who's so fragile that she gave into pressure just to fit in. I'm sure some of us feel that way, not feeling part of something and trying as hard as we can to fit in. But there are drawbacks to it: for one, we forget who we are and what we really want in life. Because of the pressure that ...

Open

Gift

Jul 28, 2020

Fichnal

Recommended

This manga for some reason cut so deep i love this type of mangas and story telling i love the all want to make a change but dont know how and it makes me sad seing people judge someone by how they look and other stuff and it makes me sad people being hateful towards other people and this really shows how bad drugs can be if you get addicted. i rate this 10/10 probebly will read again <3

The story hits deep and love this style of art and it was really enjoying to read.
it really is heartbreaking to see someone getting bullied/ pushed away

Open

Gift

Oct 10, 2020

Nebby524

Mixed Feelings

This... This story was memed so much that some people think that it probably isn't that bad. It's very bad! I was curious about it and my stupid curiosity got the best of me and I read it. It took me weeks to recover from it. It's just a downhill spiral. I want to protect Saki so much. It's not just the story. Almost everyone she has sex with is an ugly bastard. I thought people over exaggerated for how bad it is. Trust me. They are dialing it down. Don't read it, don't look at it, don't interact with it, don't feed it, just ...

Open

Gift

Henshin
Metamorphosis
Edit

What would you like to edit?

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

Write a Review
Reviews

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters

HenshinMetamorphosis Edit What would you like to edit? SynopsisBackgroundAlternative TitlesPictureChapters/VolumesPublishing DatesRelationsTypeExternal Links

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

Write a Review Reviews

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters

Henshin
Metamorphosis
Edit

What would you like to edit?

Write a Review
Reviews