Tsuki no Ko

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From CMX:

Will a half-mermaid, half-human girl bring an end to the feud between humanity and the mer-people — or bring about the destruction of all life on Earth? As a merman named Shona is returning to his birthplace to spawn, he meets a young human, Jimmy, who suffers from amnesia. Together, Jimmy and Shona set off to find the missing girl. Will they be able to avert a mysterious prophecy, or will finding the secret of Jimmy's identity delay them enough to set Earth on the path to destruction?

Type

Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

Moon Child

Moon Child ลูกชายพระจันทร์ (Pirate)

Moonchild

ลูกชายพระจันทร์ (Pirate)

月の子

月の子 MOON CHILD

月之子

月光迷情

달의 아이

Groups Scanlating

Dragon Voice Project

Latest Release(s)

v.4 c.12 by Dragonvoice 19 years ago

v.3 c.10-11 by DragonVoice 19 years ago

v.3 c.8-9 by DragonVoice 19 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

13 Volumes (Complete)
8 Bunko Volumes

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

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User Rating

Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (97 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.37 / 10.0

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Last Updated

October 29th, 2024 10:02pm PDT - 7 months ago

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Genre

Drama Fantasy Gender Bender Romance Shoujo
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Original Publisher

Hakusensha

Serialized In (magazine)

LaLa (Hakusensha)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

CMX (Defunct / 13 Vols - Complete)

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Monthly Pos #1647

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3 Month Pos #3238 (No change)

6 Month Pos #5389

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Year Pos #5552

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Ottoman mermen

by SNOWBY
2 months ago

Rating: N/A

(I went back to buy this because I felt bad for reading scans years ago.) I was lured in by the pretty artwork and mermaids and wow I regret it. Moonchild is actually an interesting look at the psycho-dynamics of the trns movement. i.e. if you groom a little boy long enough, he'll become a beautiful, beautiful woman. It's very medieval-Turkish, but offensive to any civilized culture.

It even has mpreg.

IIRC the closest thing to a normal romance is a predatory, hulking older woman sleeping with a sociopathic, murderous teenaged boy.

I honestly think the author read about clownfish gender-changing naturally and rather than thinking "wow, that's weird" like any ordinary person, she turned it into a fetish. (Even the underage-gender-change-grooming is from clowns... I know, I used to breed them. But they also sometimes eat their live eggs and kill relatives who don't leave, and the only effective way to breed predatory Maroons is with semi-pedophilia. They're so emotionally toxic they can only be kept in pairs of two except for Clark's and Ocellaris. For the love of God don't use them for human love advice.)

The story ends with them trying to change history to fix a real-life historical event (after mpreg!) that is offensive to anyone affected.

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I might be weird,

by eyma
8 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

and this story is flat out weird, but it amused me. There are also a few scenes that I have wanted to see in manga, and I got to see it.

the 'psycho' scenes of the huge lady.. the double suicide

but, I would not say this as a "good" story overall.. my score is because towards the end of the story I had a laugh,..I was amused, as simple as that.

Read at your own risk.

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Good, original but weird.

by Shimma
9 years ago

Rating: N/A

I havent finish it yet, but I can tell you one thing: This sure is really weird.
But once you get use to it and begin to get a beber understanding of these series, you will end up liking it uniqueness.
Its a twist of the mermaid story, but the original one.
Is also very sad, because its obvious than its not going to end with a happy ending for every body.
Specially for one of the twins... I really pity the one who plays the evil. He was smarter, knew how to survive, so he always had to endure and be the strong one, while his brothers could play the innocent role. Such a sad character.

Still, REALLY weird. Im not sure If I dare to read her other famous manga.
And then they say thatuevery shojo is just the same...

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confusing but addictive

by moonmystery
11 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

This manga features a romance that borders on pedophilia --- in my mind --- and lust. Benjamin in her girl form is too beautiful---so beautiful that men overlooks whatever personality she may have. They all just want to get her in bed, basically. Nonetheless, the plot sucked me in. It's definitely worth a try. READ THIS 🙂

... Last updated 11 years ago

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Good-ish

by ChildofSecrets
13 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

After finally finishing it I'm actually a bit relieved more so than sad that it's over. However, I still did really like it (especially the plot overall). I do think the ending was a bit of a disappointment, but definitely not to the point where I regret reading it. And I didn't think the main female lead was as bad as others were making her out to be. Sure she had her share of flaws, but so did a lot of the other characters. Her strange and child-like personality developed her identity, it made her who she was. But apart from that, all the characters played a big role in the story - they were all important, so for that I think the mangaka did a good job of being inclusive. As for the plot itself, it was really complicated but I guess in a good way. It kept me guessing for a while, however by the end I couldn't help thinking "is that really it?" The whole story was so convoluted and depressing (near the end) so you'd expect so much more, or at least something more dramatic.. Perhaps by the end so much crap had gone on that the element of surprise and romance between the characters had escaped me.

But anyways, I liked the idea of it. It was pretty intricate as a whole. I enjoyed it, even if it had a lot of melodrama. I think what made this story good was that it touched on a lot of abstract ideas - such as the misinterpretation of appearances and personality, and also the plot was just really interesting in itself, though it could get confusing. And the ending wasn't that bad, just not what I was anticipating. It could've been better.

P.S. I may have liked this series more also because I've only read about 1 of Shimizu Reiko's stories. So maybe I had nothing to compare it to that I really liked.

... Last updated 12 years ago

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Mixed feeling

by HanaTenshiHimeko
13 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I got mixed feelings as I was reading this story. I read Wild Cats and Magic that both are written by Shimizu-sensei and I expected to have the same emotional impact like the other two.

First of all, it kinda did, but in a bad way. One of my favorite couple that I was rooting for....just made me depressed of how their ending turned out. It wasn't as bittersweet (in a good way) like I felt in Magic, but made me so depressed that I felt a bit regret wasting 4 hours of my life reading this series.

Second of all, the main character, Benjamin (or Jimmy), does NOTHING. Well, he tried, but does't seem it really add up compare to what other characters are doing. Art is pursuing his dreams, Benjamin's brothers are going toward their desire, etc. We can probably blame the fact that Benjamin is too little as a kid to do anything. Even if he is physically incapable of doing many things, at least the author should had done was to let his personality be more mature and become the binding point of the storyplot. So yes, I blame 50% of the story's downfall toward Benjamin.

Considering this is one of Shimizu-sensei's old work, I can forgive her a bit. So I have to give her kudos for the major improvement of storytelling and art.

Recommend to read? If you want to read it to waste time and/or read Shimizu-sensei stories because you like the other 2 mangas that I mentioned above, go ahead. But if you want a really good storyplot that makes you satisfied, don't pick this one up.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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what's wrong: the female protagonist

by monkry
13 years ago

Rating: N/A

Such a crybaby and useless. Only care about herself and her love. Do nothing but make people worry and busy.
The only good thing about Benjamin is her looks. That's all.
For real, until the end of story, she does nothing for the story progress. NOOOTHING.
This story progress because all chara EXCEPT Benjamin make movements.
For me, such a fail epic character for female protagonist for such an amazing story.
Amazing idea as you expected from Reiko Shimizu.
Heufff side-story about Shonach and Seth is more interesting for me.

... Last updated 13 years ago

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Beginning was amazing, and then the plot just became more and more fuddled.

by wenbo
15 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I'm very disappointed. I expected so much of this manga, and the ending completely disappointed me.

There were so many plot holes, and I feel as though the character development is minimal.

And the plot holes!

For example, what happened to all the amazing monsters that first appeared?

And what significance did "You are my moon child, come back" in the very first pages have at all? The mangaka just dropped the premise.

Didn't Seth and Tert tell Jimmy that him being with Art would kill Art?

How did Jimmy go from a junior high boy to a ten-year old? The triplets were the same age in the beginning of the manga.

What the hell happened to the dropped characters? Holly and Sonach's curly-haired girl just disappeared conveniently when the mangaka lost sight of the plot, just like the first lines of "my moon boy". And the grandma as well.

The entire Seth and Sonach thing ruined it for me. The minute they had sex, I guessed Seth would give birth to his dead child. And yet another plot hole; perverted, but important nonetheless. If two males have sex, that would mean Seth and Sonach conceived Teruto through Seth's anus...

And how disturbing would that thought be?

Amazing premise, muddled, ill-thought-out [is that a word?] ending.

Dropped rating from 10 to 7.

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