When you read manga, or consume any piece of media, there’s usually a take away from it all. There is no take away from Mai-Chan’s Daily Life. There probably wasn’t meant to be one, as much as the positive reviews try to shoehorn one in there. If you go into Mai-Chan’s Daily Life and expect some sort of meaning, you will be very disappointed.
I can’t think of a single quality this manga has that makes it worth reading. The art? It’s not bad, but it’s not great either. You can certainly find better art elsewhere. The characters? Flat, static, and boring. I don’t remember a single character’s name, with the exception of Mai. Pacing? All over the place, subpar at best, and atrocious at worst. The manga jumps from scene to scene, with no flow or cohesiveness whatsoever.
And finally, the plot. The story is about Mai, a teenage girl who has been sex-trafficked by some unnamed organization, into a mansion where she is tortured and brutalized by clients. Throughout the story, Mai is amputated, beat to death, disemboweled, burned to death, stabbed and sliced to death, decapitated, raped, and abused in every possible way you could think of. That’s it, that’s the entire plot. Oh, she’s also killed by a tiger, somehow.
Overall, the only way you could possibly enjoy this manga is if you were into blood, gore, snuff, rape, shota, loli, torture, cannibalism, amputation… and more! Fortunately, I am not into any of that, so you could say that Mai-Chan’s Daily Life is not for me. Contrary to what edgelords say, there is no deeper meaning to this story, there’s no character development, and there is absolutely nothing valuable about Mai-Chan’s Daily Life.
Garbage fire of a manga,
1/10