The way I picture it, this manga is the final hallucination an intoxicated homeless guy is having while he’s dying in some rainy gutter. Not going down alone, dreaming of taking what’s good with him, corrupting what could have avoided the taint. His life may have been a failure, he may not be worth anything, but he’s dreaming of corrupting others who would have live happily if they hadn’t crossed his path.
Ahem. Putting a cap on my bile sac. In Gokujou Seikatsu, an ugly middle-aged loser, living a sad life with his wife and daughter not even talking to him, finds renewed interest in life when he rapes his newly married female neighbour, blackmails her, mindbreaks her, and in the end he gives up on his job and rapes+mindbreak his wife and daughter, living the life and happy with what’s become of him (╹◡╹)
Somehow, I was fascinated, because:
– (1) the manga was bad, not lame kind of bad, but over-achiever kind of bad. Whatever could have failed, failed. If the mangaka, Bai Asuka, had told himself from the get go “I’ll write a story that sucks super hard”, he wouldn’t have managed to write Gokujou Seikatsu, you see the idea? And, also, I was fascinated because
– (2) against all odds, in the midst of the ahegao, the facepalm sequences, and the dozen scat pages (huge warning issued), to my surprise, many panels were exceptionally well drawn. I’d have expected the art to suck all along, but, no, not at all
Sorry for the wall of text. Proceed with caution, going by probabilities, you’re going to hate it lol.
Release credits are for Fated Circle, commissioned by DeYeti, thanks are an order!
By the same artist, I also share Boku No Kaasan Wa Yuujin No Mesuinu (205 pictures), Ochitsuma (201 pictures), Madoromi Toromi (276 pictures), Hametorare (252 pictures), Kaigo Dorei (208 pictures), Mama Koubi (219 pictures), Shokurei (229 pictures), Swap Slave (212 pictures), Youbo (243 pictures) and Sinful Mother volume 1 and volume 2.
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