[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1 Introduction: “Hey, can you tell me about your dream?” It has been 10 years since the emergence of “insects” that feed on people's dreams and give their hosts supernatural powers. Daisuke Yakuya meets a girl named Shika on the train on his way to school, and they are strongly attracted to each other. However, Shika is a fugitive from a top-secret government facility that houses “insect possessors“. The Special Environment Protection Secretariat ord...
I started off with a really good feeling about this, but that evaporated pretty quickly. It had a lot of interesting elements to it, a lot of ambition, and a lot of potential, but the author was just not skilled enough to pull it off. In particular, I feel there's a really weird disconnect thematically - one of the protagonists doing awful things, while not being portrayed as an awful person, and that not really being examined in any way.
Spoilers because I want to have a bit of a rant:
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