something about this manga always just makes me come back to it. it’s so raw to put it in the simplest terms. There is no sugarcoating, there is no fix to momo and how he is, there is no magical healing to his years of trauma. it’s just what he has become, wholeheartedly unfiltered, what so many people are like today.
And i’m not saying that like it’s a bad thing, i’m sure that one day momo could be better, heal in a way where his ideas of sex, love, and care are more typical and healthy, but from the way i look at it, this manga is just showing the first steps to his healing, him realizing that he can be different. Momo was a victim of his circumstances, just like his mom was, and there is no changing what he went through. but it’s important to be able to see that even when you’ve been broken down, when you’ve never even experienced true care for the first 25 years of your life, it is still possible to be happy one day.
Momo still has a lot to heal from, i mean he still goes by the name “momo”, his moms old work name, but i’m honestly happy that we didn’t see all of it. it’s nice to imagine one day where momo and the others , maybe 10 years after the manga ended at, where theyre all more healed, maybe where momo has finally gone to therapy.
But the story wasn’t about his whole healing journey, it was to show the outcome of abuse and how even when you’re out of it, it will still effect you. abuse is hurtful, its disgusting, there’s not enough words to describe the hurt momo went through as a child , it sticks to you like glue and it’s gross, but it’s *real*.
And this story is perfect at making you uncomfortable, making you look into yourself and think why do i feel so uncomfortable with a story like this. is it cause there’s uncomfortable topics in it, or is it cause it’s not clean and too complex for you to put it in a little box and forget about it.
This story gets you to think, all of haradas works do, makes you think of how most stories don’t just wrap up wirh a clean little bow in the end, with clear good and bad characters, a happy or a sad ending. it’s simply real, raw and crude, unsatisfying and true, just like how most peoples stories don’t end up. just real
something about this manga always just makes me come back to it. it’s so raw to put it in the simplest terms. There is no sugarcoating, there is no fix to momo and how he is, there is no magical healing to his years of trauma. it’s just what he has become, wholeheartedly unfiltered, what so many people are like today.
And i’m not saying that like it’s a bad thing, i’m sure that one day momo could be better, heal in a way where his ideas of sex, love, and care are more typical and healthy, but from the way i look at it, this manga is just showing the first steps to his healing, him realizing that he can be different. Momo was a victim of his circumstances, just like his mom was, and there is no changing what he went through. but it’s important to be able to see that even when you’ve been broken down, when you’ve never even experienced true care for the first 25 years of your life, it is still possible to be happy one day.
Momo still has a lot to heal from, i mean he still goes by the name “momo”, his moms old work name, but i’m honestly happy that we didn’t see all of it. it’s nice to imagine one day where momo and the others , maybe 10 years after the manga ended at, where theyre all more healed, maybe where momo has finally gone to therapy.
But the story wasn’t about his whole healing journey, it was to show the outcome of abuse and how even when you’re out of it, it will still effect you. abuse is hurtful, its disgusting, there’s not enough words to describe the hurt momo went through as a child , it sticks to you like glue and it’s gross, but it’s *real*.
And this story is perfect at making you uncomfortable, making you look into yourself and think why do i feel so uncomfortable with a story like this. is it cause there’s uncomfortable topics in it, or is it cause it’s not clean and too complex for you to put it in a little box and forget about it.
This story gets you to think, all of haradas works do, makes you think of how most stories don’t just wrap up wirh a clean little bow in the end, with clear good and bad characters, a happy or a sad ending. it’s simply real, raw and crude, unsatisfying and true, just like how most peoples stories don’t end up. just real