Of course an elite gamer would also be an elite trash talker but, when one gamer girl griefs the latest newb she stomped just a little too far, he decides to get revenge. What kind of revenge that will be becomes obvious when a hulking lizard man shows up at her door. Her competitive streak gets the best of her, though, she starts treating this challenging situation as another one she can dominate.

Don't Feed the Trolls has story and art by Karasu Chan. English translation is done by Vic with and lettering by Vadim K.. Published by J18 (December 10, 2025). Rated M.

Content Warning: Abelism, Dubcon

Lucas DeRuyter
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Karasu Chan's Don't Feed the Trolls is one of those pieces of media that doesn't quite stick the landing for me, but that I could see being super popular with a lot of people. Written as an unbroken narrative across its 140 pages, the most striking thing about this doujin is how it iterates on tropes common in this form of media. Rather than being a Spirit Halloween costume of a gamer girl, our leading lady is actually slobbish and crass in many of her words and actions; while still being very cute in a dirty hot kind of way. Similarly, rather than the leading man falling into the reductive ugly bastard trope, he's a hulking demon lizard whose genitals just so happen to overlap with human anatomy.

The existence of hellish lizard men is never explained in Don't Feed the Trolls, and it uses a liberal amount of pornoworld logic and meta humor to keep what little narrative it has together. Said narrative focuses on our unnamed gamer girl protagonist griefing the unnamed lizard man protagonist so much that he travels to her apartment and has dubiously nonconsensual sex with her as payback. As the female lead is a hyper competitive “Gamer” though, this quickly turns into a psychosexual power struggle between the two that endures for most of the manga.

While the art direction of Don't Feed the Trolls initially feels a bit discordant with its subject matter, the more simplistic art direction actually makes it easier to suspend disbelief around the ridiculous developments and lends itself well to some top tier expressions and other visuals. I also want to shout out the work of Letterer Vadim K., who does an amazing job fitting sound effects onto a given page and using fonts that feed into whatever given sex act is happening. Given how busy, but effective, the panel layouts in Don't Feed the Trolls are, that had to be difficult and I'm glad Vadim went the extra mile to make it work so well.

As for the downsides to this manga, both of the characters are “Gamers” and, as such, are constantly spewing “Gamer Words” at each other throughout this story, including some ableist slurs. While, on the one hand, characters disparaging each other during a hate fuck can be super hot and drive up the intensity of a work in this kind of space, the language used makes me feel like I'm listening to two people flirt in a competitive shooter team chat. This dialogue made it really difficult to connect with or map myself onto either character as they are both so steeped in gamer toxicity, meaning I had a very hard time caring about either of them or losing myself in the story.

If you can overcome this element of the work, though, there's a lot to like! For instance, I really appreciate that the female lead has a visibly squishable tummy and isn't always drawn like a perfectly symmetrical sex doll. Don't Feed the Trolls also leans further into the monster fucking element of its premise more than I expected, and I'll always respect a work for getting freaky with it. In short, if you're stronger than me and able to overlook the self-admitted shit post energy of this doujin, you'll have a good time; but I'm left wanting for a less grating tone in the next entry in this series.

Lucas DeRuyter
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My brain must be so rotted that when I read the title of an adult book called Don't Feed The Trolls, I immediately thought that it's going to involve some kind of gangbang with actual fantasy trolls. But no, we're talking about Internet trolls and I can't tell if that's better or worse. I like that the book doesn't try to waste any time, breaking the fourth wall almost immediately like this was something out of a Deadpool comic with one of the most brazen excuses for a sex set up I think I've ever seen. The entire premise is just a clinically online gamer girl pissing off a monster troll on the Internet, he shows up at her house on the next page and they just have sex for the entire book. I can recommend this book just for the comedy and timing alone if it wasn't for the fact that the sex scenes are actually quite good.

This is a short story that definitely leans into the cartoonish and overly exaggerated features that personally I look for a lot more when it comes to reading Japanese adult books. I like when a story is able to play around with the medium a little bit and this was checking off a lot of boxes for me personally. There's exaggerated insertions, fun framing and incredibly expressive faces that really sell just how intense the sex actually ends up being. Considering that the sex is taking place between a normal size college woman, and a giant hulking monster, I feel like you have to play around with that exaggeration if you're really going to sell the intensity in a way that is entertaining as well as stimulating.

I think what really hammered home my recommendation is that the book never loses that sense of humor that it comes out the gate swinging with in its opening pages. Despite the fact that the entire seventy pages is basically one elongated sex that takes place throughout the course of a day, the characters never shut up in the best way possible. This isn't sensual or slow, it's primal and is probably closer to hate fucking. Have you ever gotten into a heated debate with a troll on the Internet, where you guys don't even know what you're fighting about anymore, but there's this competitive nature to the argument where the tension rises with every comment? This book asked the question “OK, but what if those people just hate fucked for a while?” While it can get a little intense by the end, I could recommend this both for its humor as well as its sexual proclivity.