What if someone approached writing about such world seriously and took it all the way?
This is such manga.
This work is exceptional, odd, unusual and kinda defies classification.
At a glance, it is a slow paced school life manga about monster girls in school, however, as the series advance, it touches many mature topics, provides a lot of thought-provoking material (even for an adult), and also deals with very serious and very creepy subjects.
This is not a simple ecchi work, and even though its artwork is cutesy in many cases, it seems to be most suitable for adult audience.
Detailed MAL-style rating below.
Story: 8/10.
Someone wrote a world with monster girls, monster races (or "demi-humans"), and went all the way doing that. There's 127 chapters, and 16 volumes, there are complex topics dealing with world development, history, and politics.
There are adult topics too, sometimes, unexpected ones. Aside from school life the work deals with complex subjects, including discrimination, war, history, politics and so on. I didn't see it coming.
It also occasionally touches horror-level material, creepy stories, displays violence and even "fridge horror" (where you realize something is quite unsettling/terrifying after the fact).
There's also nudity in it, although most of the time it is hard to say it is sexual. Meaning it is not quite an ecchi work in most cases.
Art: 7/10.
It has rough sketch-like feeling. It is hard to find something to comapre it to, but I'd say it resembles, somewhat, "Dead Dead Demon's Dededededestruction", "Propeller Heaven", and in some cases works of Junji Ito, although Ito's work displays higher level of skill. Cute character designs, backgrounds are okay.
Characters: 6/10.
Charaters are okay, but the focus of the series seems to be mostly world building, and characters are sorta lost in world building and occasional (or not so occasional) weirdness in it. They have their assigned "roles", but they're not typical steretypes, and that makes them more lifelike.
Enjoyment: 6/10.
Liked it. Not sure what I expected (monster girl school comedy?) but I found the work captivating and thought provoking due to world building aspect. In situation where it touched more mature and creepier topics it resembled Junji Ito and Wakusei Closet. Although it didn't quite went all the way into horror territory.
OVerall: 7/10.
I recommend it. This is an incredibly unusual title with incredible amoutn of effort put into it. It does seem to occasionally get preachy, but watching a world unfold you (only to discover that comapred to our it is both similar and quite alien) is very interesting.
In a sense, it reminded me of "Heterogenia Linguistic" and perhaps "Honzuki no Gekokujou". Those two mangas had somewhat similar feeling to them, as in they had a world being treated seriously.
