Oni ga Deru ka Ja ga Deru ka
Out Comes the Devil. Out Comes the Snake.

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No idea why the other guy disliked this manga, it was pretty obvious from the beginning how it was going to end and id assume that's how most people would like or at least expect it to end although it did feel a bit rushed near the end. Its not a super great story and the main character is an average harem protagonist with no outstanding traits but overall it was a fair manga with some pretty funny parts and some likable heroines. It's worth a read if you are just looking for something simple and quick to keep you occupied on a boring night.

I dont really want to get into the specifics of this manga. Very straight forward. Guy finds out he's a youkai and is brought to a village where his mother is from. No male youkai besides him so theres conflict on who get him between the girls. But this is a typical harem MC, who is a weak limp dick p**sy. Everybody that has read this wanted the same outcome. But as you can probably guess by my score, you can tell weather or not that happens. If your interested on reading this, go for it. But you'll be sorry you did when you finish ... it.

The right message for the wrong genre.

The premise is MC is kidnapped into a village of Youkai (monsters) to make babies with them, him being the only one who can. It pits MC and the harem of girls who eventually come to love him against the shadowy institution that is the village mothers and their uncompromising demands on their grandchildren.


One will wonder after reading this why this manga was written in the first place. The MC is given a near-godly opportunity to have his own monster harem, this being the first time any girls took an interest in him, but he adamantly refuses. This seemed ... really silly at first, but sometime around chapter 30 it clicked. Harem is, in the first place, a way to qct out wish fufillment, to have the power of multiple lovers in one's reach. This harem took that power away by making the MC powerless, at the whim of forces outside his control. Thinking about most harem, this is the situation any one girl of the harem finds themselves in. Why so many girls love one unremarkable guy almost feels like they're being forced into the relation by a higher power, in this case the mangaka. As such, Oni ga Deru provides a critique of harem as a whole by making the male MC similar to a female side characters of other harem stories.


Otherwise, the story felt like it really lacked direction for most of the plot. The ending was very anticlimactic, a disappointment really. the MC was a total pain throughout the entire story. The anti-harem message of this harem story is ambitious. But, the story falls flat. By having a weak, indecisive MC like most harem and by having so many girls fall for the MC for no good reason, it falls into the same pitfalls most harem does. As such, its critique of harem provides no good alternative from the story. In turn, this makes the message feel lime virtue signaling rather than a genuine attempt for fix harem. Harem is fundamentally wish fulfillment, specifically a power fantasy over near-helpless girls or ladies. By having critiqued this fundamental without having provided an alternative for harem, it committed self-suicide.


3/10.