Metamorphosis (manga)
Metamorphosis (Henshin) is a 2013 hentai manga.
Saki Yoshida is shy, friendless student. After graduating from middle school, she decides to make more friends, transforming her own image. Soon,after her first day in school, an older guy called Hayato flirts with her and Saki falls head over heels for him. Before she realizes it, she has lost her virginity and is getting addicted to drugs given to her by her boyfriend. And things only get worse from here...
Inspired by Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis(hence the name and dark plot, and similar theme about transformation). Infamous for its ending, that is known for making hentai readers don't feel that turned on any more. At all. Maybe, because, it's a little too realistic.
Written and drawn by L Shindo, serialized by Comic X-Eros on Japan. Published digitally by FAKKU Books on November 10, 2016.
- Compensated Dating: Saki engages on this to gain more money to buy fashion accessories. Let's just say the limits between "dating" and "prostitution" are crossed quickly.
- Downer Ending: Saki dies on a dirty bathroom along the baby in her belly, forgotten and alone.
- Drugs Are Bad: Saki's growing addiction to more and more drugs don't helps her at all, allowing her to be abused or giving "service" without never being paid. It reaches such a point she chooses drugs over cash as payment for her "services". She untimely dies of an overdose of cocaine.
- Driven to Suicide: Saki decides to take an lethal dose of cocaine at the end of the story.
- Dying Dream: Saki has one of living with her infant daughter on a better future.
- Friendless Background: Saki has one as result of shyness. Trying to get friends only sets her on an worse path though.
- Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted, and Saki feels very, very guilty about it.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Saki's mother judges her husband was "seduced" by Saki and scolds her over the incestuous acts between the two instead of, you know, calling the police.
- Love At First Sight: And portrayed very negatively. Saki kisses, has sex and consumes drugs with a guy she met for the first time on the same day.
- Meganekko: Saki at the beginning of the story.
- Rage Against the Reflection: Near of the end, Saki looks at herself on the mirror of a bathroom and crushes it in impotent rage.
- Parental Incest: Saki's father rapes her, over and over again.
- Slut Shaming: Saki finds her school desk vandalized with offensive language for having sex with boys on her school after being blackmailed.
- Teens Are Monsters: A group of teenagers beat up and rape a homeless, pregnant Saki at the end of the story.
- Your Cheating Heart:
- Saki prostitutes herself with an older man, cheating on her boyfriend Hayato, but by this point Hayato is such an obvious bastard that we doubt anyone cared. And, in fact, he barely cares about her having sex with other boys in her school later. Or with anyone that gives her money for sex, by the way.
- Saki's dad, technically, by raping his own daughter.