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REVIEW: My Monster Secret GN 10




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PostPosted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 2:44 pm Reply with quote
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After that, My Monster Secret suddenly and awkwardly steers back into full farce mode, and we get some creaky chapters centered around comic conceits as fresh and poignant as “he doesn't know he's actually propositioning a guy in a girl costume” and “their teacher is middle-aged and also single.” My Monster Secret has always been a somewhat uneven manga, but it's been a little aggravating seeing the story's weakest and most mean-spirited jokes become some of its most enduring running gags.


Considering that these two running gags keep popping up again and again throughout the manga's entire run, I often wonder what kind of feedback authors get for this kind of stuff. Do Japanese audiences really still find "the teacher is in her late 30s and single" funny, to the point where the editor is telling the author, "oh yeah, that's good, keep putting that kind of stuff in"?
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