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PaperclipPerfector  1d ago (text post)   810 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for April 25, 2025

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Redo of Healer, -1. What about the promised secondary sexual characteristics? The series is surprisingly chaste, preferring to clumsily tell instead of showing even when whatever is happening is within the range it considers acceptable. It's not "hentai with a plot" at all, and there's hentai with better plot out there.

Huh, either I'm a bit more squeamish than you (very likely), or the anime is quite a bit different than the manga adaptation (also likely). As an example, in the manga, (if I'm remembering correctly) there is a part of the story where he takes one of his (lesbian) abusers, partially paralyzes her, and sets a bunch cannibal zombie guys on her. I wonder if the anime didn't cover that, or if they didn't depict it as explicitly.

I wouldn't recommend reading/watching it, though.

Yes, the scene where she has to keep the zombies more horny than hungry is in there, it's the show creators that are squeamish. It's one thing when you say, "I don't want to watch that" and avert your eyes and another when they say, "well, no one would want to watch that" and cut away. This only highlights how much of an edgelord the writer was, because when you excise all the grisly bits, the story can no longer shock you and you can plainly see how mediocre it is.

I wonder why it's reportedly so popular with women.

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