For any of you that know the manga Cage of Eden, this series runs with a very similar scenario where students are stranded on a deserted island that's inhabited solely by monstrous creatures. Given their new predicament, they must ban together to survive in any way possible. Unlike CoE which was overall pretty good, I've finally come to the conclusion that this series is an absolute abomination thanks to the most recent chapter that came out today.
Before I get into that whole mess, I want to bring up the fact that I'm very much not into series that are very big on ero-guro (eroticism + grotesque imagery/depictions mixed together). Dead Tube is a major example of this subgenre that's apparently quite popular amongst a number of readers. I would've found it passable enough to be a decent read, had only its writing not been such trash, where almost every character was secretly a sadistic dickhead all along and this apparently would be some kind of big twist! Personal feelings on that particular series aside, ero-guro can be pretty nasty since that's what it tends to strive for, yet I'm convinced that there are ways to make it at least readable. Not sure if Murciélago would fall into the subgenre, yet either way, it's definitely one of my personal favorite series to read.
Now coming back to this trainwreck, I'm going to recap what happened in the recent chapter, and no I won't be spoiling anything if you bear with me on this:
The group of students travel down a dark path in the woods looking for shelter.
Main girl gets kidnapped by a single guy without anyone noticing, and he proceeds to molest and eventually rape her.
Two of the students stop him halfway through with a single wack to the head, yet the guy's barely injured as he's able to make a wisecrack about how the two students should join in and make it a gangbang.
Main girl who just got raped immediately puts her feelings of being violated aside to try and warn the group about something she realized earlier before she was kidnapped.
Random girl slaps the main girl and says she's being rude to their teacher, and won't let another girl explain how main girl HAD JUST GOTTEN RAPED.
Everyone continues to bicker and be complete idiots, with that being the end of that chapter.
I wish I was making this all up. There's a chance things will be addressed later with this current chapter, but as of now, I'm really pissed off to see just how fucking incompetent this author is, as to make such batshit crazy characters that are so devoid from reality, and above all else get away with some absolutely disgusting behavior that's never given proper justice. I liked the main girl and a few of her friends to the extent of them being at the very least decent human beings, yet the fact that so many of these characters are horrible people that get away with a lot of bullshit just makes this unbearable. I'm sure there are people that love these kinds of stories, but mind you, I'm not exactly a masochist that enjoys seeing this kind of repugnant tripe.
Surely it was very much similar to Cage of Eden right from the very start with its concept, so I hoped that it would've managed to bring something new to the table; yet this was definitely not what I would've ever hoped for. I'd love to come back to this someday and see things improve if at all possible, but then again, I probably shouldn't get my hopes too high like I initially did when first picking up this nonsense...