Metamorphosis

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Found by other homeless people in a public park, she is raped while under the influence. The following day, Saki realizes she is pregnant again and decides to carry the baby to term, vowing to quit drugs and change for the better in the process. She continues her prostitution for money, at the expense of her baby's well-being. Now in constant pain, she resumes her heroin use.

Una inesperada iniciación en el sexo y las drogas hacen que la protagonista caiga más y más en un círculo vicioso del cual no saldrá nunca. Para sumar a esto, el querer ser aceptada por las demás chicas la lleva a cometer un error tras otro, así como cuando trata de "proteger" su reputación de sus compañeros de clases, quienes la vieron salir de un hotel con un hombre mayor, no hace más que hundirla un poco más en el fango. Y de explicitud va la cosa: Metamorphosis es un producto surgido de la male gaze. El autor no parece interesarse por explorar la forma en que la protagonista siente su cuerpo, sino que prefiere tirar por las poses exageradas, la desnudez explícita y los fluidos constantes, todo siempre girando alrededor de un cuerpo canónicamente bello y perfecto. No reflexiona sobre ello, tan solo lanza un caramelo a sus lectores (presumiblemente masculinos) para que disfruten de la sexualización de la mujer. No sé qué degenerado podría disfrutar de muchas escenas (porque una cosa es un fetiche y otra muy distinta gozar del sufrimiento ajeno más extremo), pero el dibujo no deja en ningún momento de reforzar el tipín de la joven. Incluso al final, antes de esas páginas de las que hablaba, se sexualiza un cuerpo que cumple otro tipo de fetiche. Now this story is still hentai, and so naturally it has its limits and the amount of graphic content is going to be excessive. I’ve seen a few people describe the story as realistic and taken as a whole it’s far from it. It takes a certain suspension of belief for one to assume that an individual at every step will make self-destructive choices, whether or not it is out of desperation or a genuine self-loathing. Not to mention, literally, every other person in this story is despicable and one abuse after the next is layered on with every interaction that she has with others. Despite that, there is value to the horrors that Saki experiences because there are pieces that ring true to actual victims of abuse.Karma Houdini: Every single person in Saki's life who enabled her drug and sex addiction and/or physically, emotionally, and sexually abused her, practically get away scot-free. Ironically, only Saki herself really ends up suffering the consequences of her own bad decisions and actions. LOL, 69: Played for Drama, as Saki Yoshida is shown to be attending her middle school's 69th annual graduation ceremony — eerily foreshadowing her fate of suffering under the sex industry. 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

Gyaru Girl: After she starts doing sex work to help pay off Hayato's debts, Saki goes for the ganguro look by getting a deep tan, bleached blonde hair, tattoos, and piercings. I’m also annoyed with the author deliberately tying this manga to Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” instead of de Sade’s “Justine,” because Saki has no relationship to Gregor. She is not a victim of society as she puts herself in these situations and does not extract herself from them. This isn’t slut-shaming but the unfortunate truth that porn plots have to lead to coitus in one contrivance or another. Thankfully, Metamorphosis is at least not that. Despite my qualms with its nature (which, as pornography, is inherent in its genetic makeup, and cannot be fixed without a total overhaul), I identify with Saki. We just want to be liked by others. We just want to have fun. These desires grow strong enough, and if we are not careful enough, those who thrived by taking advantage of others will sneak in and we will be stolen away, far far away from our blissful ignorance. It truly is a thin tightrope, one slip and it's all gone. Saki just wants something so simple, and she gets nothing. And it's not even her fault (not entirely anyways). I don't know of others who have went down the same path as she did, but I have heard stories of people whoring themselves out because of some shitty boyfriend, I have heard cases of people so desperate to get their fix of drugs that they are willing to do anything, and I have heard of people whose parents abused their children to the point that they are willing to kill themselves, because where else have they to go, when their homes are not the safest place to be. Having all of these tragedies pile up into one big mess onto Saki is not just a convenient plot contrivance, it is also an illustration of a person whose support system went to pieces, leading them down to their eventual downfall. The hobos, after gang-raping Saki while being high, turn out to be among the few people who can be said to be genuinely giving a helping hand to Saki, giving her shelter and decent food after she is left homeless. After Kumagai tells Saki that she has degraded her value so much, he decides to pay her a good sum of money which would be enough for her to eat a fancy meal... for free. It's only after Saki insists to have more because of her addiction that he gives her exactly what she wants, which is horrible.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.