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Ikeda Masaki, called Ikeuchi by his friend, is a college student living alone with his little sister, Minami, who is in grade school, after their father suddenly left one day leaving only a note behind. After thinking about dropping out of university to work and support himself and his little sister, Ikeuchi was encouraged by his best friend, Kanda, who currently has a job after dropping out himself, to continue his studies, and if ever the need arises, Kanda would be there. Ikeuchi believes that even if misfortunes come, as long as he has friends and family, they will be happy.
As time goes... More...
As time goes... More...
Ikeda Masaki, called Ikeuchi by his friend, is a college student living alone with his little sister, Minami, who is in grade school, after their father suddenly left one day leaving only a note behind. After thinking about dropping out of university to work and support himself and his little sister, Ikeuchi was encouraged by his best friend, Kanda, who currently has a job after dropping out himself, to continue his studies, and if ever the need arises, Kanda would be there. Ikeuchi believes that even if misfortunes come, as long as he has friends and family, they will be happy.
As time goes on, Ikeuchi gets any part-time job he can get to pay the bills. He eventually forgets Minami's birthday, but is saved by Kanda, who not only remembered it, but bought a gift that the little girl really liked. Ikeuchi notices strange behavior on Kanda's part sometimes, however, he pays it no mind.
One day, Ikeda gets a job that requires him to leave home for a while, so he asks Kanda to stay with Minami. Kanda intially furiously refuses, telling Ikeda not to depend on him all the time. When Ikeuchi is about to leave saddened, Kanda reluctantly changes his mind. After he finished his work at a hotel, Ikeuchi returns earlier than expected because he believes that his little sister is missing him, as she called him to inquire about the time that he will be coming back. Since it is late at night, he does not phone her when he gets off the train, but heads straight home instead.
Ikeda goes to Minami's room as soon as he walks in, and knocks on the door. She is surprised that it is her brother, and when he opens the door, Minami screams hard for him not to enter. What Ikeda sees there shatters everything he believes in . Less...
As time goes on, Ikeuchi gets any part-time job he can get to pay the bills. He eventually forgets Minami's birthday, but is saved by Kanda, who not only remembered it, but bought a gift that the little girl really liked. Ikeuchi notices strange behavior on Kanda's part sometimes, however, he pays it no mind.
One day, Ikeda gets a job that requires him to leave home for a while, so he asks Kanda to stay with Minami. Kanda intially furiously refuses, telling Ikeda not to depend on him all the time. When Ikeuchi is about to leave saddened, Kanda reluctantly changes his mind. After he finished his work at a hotel, Ikeuchi returns earlier than expected because he believes that his little sister is missing him, as she called him to inquire about the time that he will be coming back. Since it is late at night, he does not phone her when he gets off the train, but heads straight home instead.
Ikeda goes to Minami's room as soon as he walks in, and knocks on the door. She is surprised that it is her brother, and when he opens the door, Minami screams hard for him not to enter. What Ikeda sees there shatters everything he believes in . Less...
Type
Manga
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Associated Names
My Only
モン・スール
モン・スール
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Latest Release(s)
v.1 c.Omakes 4-5 by THMMY Scans over 11 years ago
v.1 c.Epilogue by THMMY Scans over 13 years ago
v.1 c.Omakes 2-3 by DFCG & Arienai! over 14 years ago
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v.1 c.Epilogue by THMMY Scans over 13 years ago
v.1 c.Omakes 2-3 by DFCG & Arienai! over 14 years ago
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1 Volume (Complete)
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Average: 5.8 / 10.0 (238 votes)
Bayesian Average: 5.86 / 10.0
Bayesian Average: 5.86 / 10.0
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Year
2003
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3 Month Pos #3593 (+69)
6 Month Pos #4459 (+483)
Year Pos #6532 (+806)
Monthly Pos #1665 (+166)
3 Month Pos #3593 (+69)
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Year Pos #6532 (+806)
List Stats
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Clearly misunderstood
by Oobaka-san
March 14th, 2016, 3:46pm
March 14th, 2016, 3:46pm
Rating: N/A
I've seen comments on here that claim this manga is promoting pedophilia and claiming that it's trying to portray a 10-year-old girl as being mature enough to consent to sexual relations. I would suggest these people take a closer look. Yes, the girl is portrayed as either mature or jaded, at least in comparison to her father and brother who are clearly shown to be more than a little lost when it comes to raising and supporting others. But it never claims that the girl was right or in her right mind to have tried to get her brother's friend to have sex with her, or that the guy was in any way right to have done so. In fact, it makes it rather clear that her biggest reason for wanting to become romantically/sexually involved with the man is because he called her "family" and in her mind "family" is someone who's never around and provides food but doesn't care beyond that. The moment he called her "like a sister" she turned hard, and when she meets him again much later she goes on about starting their "relationship" back up and trying to handle things, and concludes it with "so please don't leave me alone" with lost, desperate eyes. And it's also made clear that the guy himself realizes this, realizes that he'd taken advantage of a girl's desperate search for attention and a "love" she'd feel secure in. In the end, I'd say the author made it quite plain that the girl had some maturity but was still very much a little kid, that her actions were the desperate attempts of a little kid to get attention with nowhere near the understanding necessary to even approach "consent", and that thus this is a tragic crime that was committed. Just read some of the author's other works and you'll get a good idea of her view on pedophilia. One of her other works I read had two girls around this girl's age trying to work up the courage to run away from their father who'd been sexually abusing them both; said story ended a lot worse than this one.
Perfect for an in-depth analysis
by Communist_Rob
September 8th, 2011, 10:41pm
September 8th, 2011, 10:41pm
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
I can understand why there are so many negative reviews and ratings for Mon Seul: the vast majority readers view manga as a superficial source of entertainment and thus do not seek to derive anything greater than its ostensible value.
In that sense, the content of Mon Seul would not be very appealing and no reader would be able to sympathize with the immorality of Kanda's actions. The plot is nothing special and all the characters are flawed to the extent that even an optimistic ending would hardly justify the toils they struggled through to reach that point.
However, from an analytical perspective, Mon Seul would serve as excellent material to deconstruct and examine. If viewed as a piece of literary work and not as pure shallow enjoyment, then Mon Seul is rich in themes and content that mirrors the realism of our current contemporary society. In that aspect, this mature piece of work is thought-provoking and rather highlights some important issues.
Don't waste your time if you're looking for something lighthearted that concludes with a happy ending. You won't find any of the sort here.
In that sense, the content of Mon Seul would not be very appealing and no reader would be able to sympathize with the immorality of Kanda's actions. The plot is nothing special and all the characters are flawed to the extent that even an optimistic ending would hardly justify the toils they struggled through to reach that point.
However, from an analytical perspective, Mon Seul would serve as excellent material to deconstruct and examine. If viewed as a piece of literary work and not as pure shallow enjoyment, then Mon Seul is rich in themes and content that mirrors the realism of our current contemporary society. In that aspect, this mature piece of work is thought-provoking and rather highlights some important issues.
Don't waste your time if you're looking for something lighthearted that concludes with a happy ending. You won't find any of the sort here.
great psychological drama
by takitogr
August 29th, 2009, 10:49am
August 29th, 2009, 10:49am
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
the way i saw it, the story or the mangaka doesn't try to justify or make pedophiles seem right AT ALL...just tries to show things the way characters feel them no matter how repulsive or immoral they are or how much of a demented state of mind you'd have to have to see things this way...yes, it's wrong but the story is one from the characters' point of view and how they see it according to what their life experiences and more life traumas had been until then....your experiences in life especially negative ones can make you see things in a different light than the morality side of things..as was the case with the lil' girl not having any care or affection when she's so lil' and ending up searching for affection in a very wrong way...demented as it may be it is very realistic...i believe that it's a very good study of the dark side of human psyche and tries to show mainly what bad things can happen while growing up in a modern dysfunctional japanese family and alert of the dangers...that's how i received it actually...not a pedo story but a tragic psychological drama about a dusfunctional family in japan....it was very powerful...really enjoyed it
too bad it has such a low rating...more people deserve to read this...it's just a bit bleak and dark that's why not many ppl like it
i loved the way the mangaka is drawing hair for some reason
too bad it has such a low rating...more people deserve to read this...it's just a bit bleak and dark that's why not many ppl like it
i loved the way the mangaka is drawing hair for some reason
Among People, Anything Can Happen...
by cecropiamoth
November 20th, 2011, 11:33pm
November 20th, 2011, 11:33pm
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
...including the stuff in this manga. The brother has been hurt to the core by the divorce and then the father's abandonment, followed by having to take on a crushing workload. The sister has been hurt worse by those two prior abandonments, because, as I've read many times, children react to abandonment with terror and self-blame. She finds a desperate last possible way of assuring herself a reliable kind of parent, and goes for it. The brother reacts personally. Effectively he's been abandoned AGAIN, by the only family member he had left. Caught between his horror of now not being number 1, or even very important, to that last family member, and his disgust at the betrayal of trust by his friend, he goes into a kind of ecstasy of self-pity, and desire to wound all those around him, from which he may never recover. As for the friend, he most likely had always felt the desire that he acted on after resisting it for a long time.
Anyone who's felt abandonment during a period of their childhood will recognize the desperation of the child and the self-pitying world-hatred of the brother will realize that this is the kind of thing that can happen in a passage of extreme misfortune in life. Since we are, in terms of what motivates us, primarily emotional creatures, when our emotions become too dreadful to bear, considerations of morality and duty cannot stop us from going kind of nuts.
This is how these forces might well play out.
... Last updated on August 22nd, 2015, 6:36am
Anyone who's felt abandonment during a period of their childhood will recognize the desperation of the child and the self-pitying world-hatred of the brother will realize that this is the kind of thing that can happen in a passage of extreme misfortune in life. Since we are, in terms of what motivates us, primarily emotional creatures, when our emotions become too dreadful to bear, considerations of morality and duty cannot stop us from going kind of nuts.
This is how these forces might well play out.
... Last updated on August 22nd, 2015, 6:36am
Really good, but there's room for improvement.
by monkeyvoodoo
September 20th, 2010, 2:31pm
September 20th, 2010, 2:31pm
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
This was recommended to me by someone who wanted my opinion on it. After coming here and finding a rating average of ~6 (at the time of this writing), I was about to pass it up, but then i noticed it was mostly great ratings, and then a bunch of "1"s. Then I noticed the genre contained "loli", and it all clicked. People were offended. Which means there's a good chance this is a real story with actual depth, and it's probably significant in some manner.
I was not let down by any means. This was really good (though a depressing read). The only reason it didn't get a 10 from me, is I feel like it needed more than 5 chapters to tell the story properly. The story could probably easily span a few volumes. That being said, it's a great story that (if you can get past the social taboos) actually makes you stop and think about things from a different perspective.
tl;dr: Excellent, yet provocative story.
Also, though this has nothing to do with the manga itself, the typesetting is horrific. Also, the translation's English could be a bit better.
... Last updated on September 20th, 2010, 2:42pm
I was not let down by any means. This was really good (though a depressing read). The only reason it didn't get a 10 from me, is I feel like it needed more than 5 chapters to tell the story properly. The story could probably easily span a few volumes. That being said, it's a great story that (if you can get past the social taboos) actually makes you stop and think about things from a different perspective.
tl;dr: Excellent, yet provocative story.
Also, though this has nothing to do with the manga itself, the typesetting is horrific. Also, the translation's English could be a bit better.
... Last updated on September 20th, 2010, 2:42pm
It's good, BUT...
by Criminal Intent
March 31st, 2009, 10:44am
March 31st, 2009, 10:44am
Rating: N/A
The comment below me is right. Everything else deserves a 7 or better, but the morals of most of the chararecters in the story aren't exactly "balanced". This is one of those stories where something treacherous happens to the hero and throughout the rest of the book everyone spends the whole time telling them "ZOMG YOUR A DRAMA QUEEN!!!!", when in reality he is the victim and is just trying to make sense of it all. Albeit he does get annoying, but he also has a very valid reason for being that way.
... Last updated on March 31st, 2009, 10:45am
... Last updated on March 31st, 2009, 10:45am
Mixed feelings...
by yumemiru
August 30th, 2011, 2:13am
August 30th, 2011, 2:13am
Rating: N/A
This is a huge moral dilemma. I'm very disturbed by this one(morally, at least). It's unbelievable that this kind of thing could occur willingly between two people such as Kanda and Minami. It's especially mindblowing on Minami's part. I really disagree that this manga is trying to justify statutory rape. If that was indeed the case, then *SPOILER ALERT*Minami and Kanda would have had a "happy ending" *SPOILER END* I find the characters of the brother and the father to be very believable. There are all sorts of people out there and this kind of thing is totally plausible.
In the end, I see a giant cause and effect pattern occurring with each interaction between the characters. The divorce impacted the whole Ikeuchi family as a whole, resulting in different negative results. It weakens the father's self-confidence in his role as the breadwinner of the family. It lowers the brother's belief in "family", which causes his lashes at the father. It serves as the reason why Minami is more "mature" than other children her age. And then when the father loses his job, the whole family setting goes into a downward spiral; Minami basically seduces Kanda, and this serves as the main moral dilemma of the story.
Another thing I found really interesting was the character of Kanda. He's really...confusing. The mangaka portrayed him as this generally "good" guy. We can see scenes in which he genuinely cares for Minami. At the same time, however, he took Minami's bait and went for the kill. Is this a case of pedophilia or a case of love defies age? I can't decide; if he really loved her, then why did he leave her?(because he feels that it's "wrong"?); and yet if this is simply pedophilia, Kanda seems really deeply emotionally invested...
Man, this is just really disturbing. I don't regret having read this though. Well, not too much.
In the end, I see a giant cause and effect pattern occurring with each interaction between the characters. The divorce impacted the whole Ikeuchi family as a whole, resulting in different negative results. It weakens the father's self-confidence in his role as the breadwinner of the family. It lowers the brother's belief in "family", which causes his lashes at the father. It serves as the reason why Minami is more "mature" than other children her age. And then when the father loses his job, the whole family setting goes into a downward spiral; Minami basically seduces Kanda, and this serves as the main moral dilemma of the story.
Another thing I found really interesting was the character of Kanda. He's really...confusing. The mangaka portrayed him as this generally "good" guy. We can see scenes in which he genuinely cares for Minami. At the same time, however, he took Minami's bait and went for the kill. Is this a case of pedophilia or a case of love defies age? I can't decide; if he really loved her, then why did he leave her?(because he feels that it's "wrong"?); and yet if this is simply pedophilia, Kanda seems really deeply emotionally invested...
Man, this is just really disturbing. I don't regret having read this though. Well, not too much.
Not that well-crafted
by VampireBanana
July 18th, 2011, 12:27pm
July 18th, 2011, 12:27pm
Rating: N/A
For such a topic that aimed to be taken seriously, it felt more like one of those Asian dramas where everyone tries to "deal with the topic" but ends up lashing out at one another. Furthermore, none of the characters were very complex and it was a bit too simple: soo everyone of the cast has some "problems" in order to create some strife in the story.
And imho, it feels very wishful and more like one of those generic lolicon eromanga you read(except without the sexual scenes). And also, very contrived too 'cos pedophiles don't behave like that at all: from what I know, they desire children for all their life and not suddenly. If people want a far more realistic approach to pedophilia(and if you can tolerate BL/yaoi), try A Cruel God Reigns. And actually, it felt more like this was a shoujo manga than a seinen. -__-;; Plus, even if someone matures a lot as a child, there had to be warning signs beforehand but there were none.
... Last updated on July 18th, 2011, 12:58pm
Spoiler (mouse over to view)
However, in reality, very few adults would take the advice of a child to heart and run away just 'cos it was suggested. And in reality, no person would sleep with a child just 'cos he or she "seemed" a bit like a woman or had been in contact with them for a while: I'm sorry but they have to desire the child sexually or they need to have a sliding scale of morality. But nothing was shown or built up for any of these characters so there's very little to base on.
And imho, it feels very wishful and more like one of those generic lolicon eromanga you read(except without the sexual scenes). And also, very contrived too 'cos pedophiles don't behave like that at all: from what I know, they desire children for all their life and not suddenly. If people want a far more realistic approach to pedophilia(and if you can tolerate BL/yaoi), try A Cruel God Reigns. And actually, it felt more like this was a shoujo manga than a seinen. -__-;; Plus, even if someone matures a lot as a child, there had to be warning signs beforehand but there were none.
... Last updated on July 18th, 2011, 12:58pm
Hard to Read
by Molenir
June 15th, 2009, 8:14am
June 15th, 2009, 8:14am
Rating: 3.0 / 10.0
This is a hard one to read. A little girls yearning for affection, a grown up guy taking advantage of that. And the hurt feelings on both sides, as the betrayal sinks in.
Others have commented on the art. It was ok, not outstanding, but not bad. The story however, and the lack of appropriate actions makes this a hard story to read, or accept on any level. The brother doesn't report the guy to the cops as he should. The rapist receives no punishment, and we're made to feel like the brother should allow the relationship between an adult and a child to continue, since thats what they both want. The story about the father, and his abandoning of the family is essentially a sidestory, that tries to explain some of the actions and attitudes that even still make little sense.
What it comes down to is, this is a statutory rape story, that tries to justify that rape. And it simply doesn't work.
Others have commented on the art. It was ok, not outstanding, but not bad. The story however, and the lack of appropriate actions makes this a hard story to read, or accept on any level. The brother doesn't report the guy to the cops as he should. The rapist receives no punishment, and we're made to feel like the brother should allow the relationship between an adult and a child to continue, since thats what they both want. The story about the father, and his abandoning of the family is essentially a sidestory, that tries to explain some of the actions and attitudes that even still make little sense.
What it comes down to is, this is a statutory rape story, that tries to justify that rape. And it simply doesn't work.
Amazing
by DorkFishOK
September 27th, 2011, 9:17pm
September 27th, 2011, 9:17pm
Rating: N/A
But I always find stories like this so hard to get through. It really shows the depth of humanity's flaws and it's disturbing but at the same time filled with important themes and such. I had the same hard time with Lolita which is an amazing book, probably the best writing I've ever encountered-yet there were some parts I found so hard not to reject humanity altogether. If you're like me, just... read it. Without any of your own judgement and biases to get in the way.
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