As far as I remember, "Murry and Lewi" is strictly non-h.

Ergo - off to "misc" this goes.

And no - partial nudity present on page like that one should not count in this case, imho.

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What a throwback to the late 00's, next thing I know I'm gonna see Abstract Gender uploaded

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Ignoring the major lack of updates (sometimes taking months or years to update on the site which hasn't been updates since December 2021) there are two things I dislike/am annoyed about with this comic.

One, the Sorceress who transforms our main characters is clearly from Naga's earlier works. The issue with that is the Sorceress is also batshit insane and can seem very dark compared to the tone of the rest of the comic. Her backstory is literally that she too was once male, enslaved by an evil wizard, eventually turned the tables on him, but was also driven insane by this experience. She now is trapped in her own realm and abducts people for personal pleasure which involves various forms of forced physical transformation, mental alteration, and sexual torture. Also part of her backstory is that, while she apparently uses magic to slow down her aging, she also possesses her slaves/prisoners when she notices any sign of her current body aging (and transforming the new body to personal preference) while leaving her last host as a inanimate statue or other object so they can't protest or fight her later. Also her original body is a statue in her garden suggesting she was subjected to similar at some point. On top of that the same story that bring ups the possession thing also implies that some of the people transformed into anthropomorphic animals by the Sorceress are eaten with mention of a cow anthro apparently being possibly turned into steaks if not giving sufficient milk anymore. This comic seems to be intended as a lighthearted gender bender comic, but has that background from the author's other fetish stuff that would clearly be incredibly grimdark if not into that sort of fetish and even then it can be horrific.

Two, there's the massive mood whiplash of the slice of life gender bender comic having a point where it gets into discussion of someone who was forcibly transformed into the other sex later committing suicide then just going back to slice of life stuff. This not only drives home how horrific the Sorceress's actions were, but the fact that it's also indicated in that same conversation there are far worse fates than simply being transformed into the opposite sex like being turned into clothing which also undermines the drama of that scene as well. I even get the impression Naga tried to backpedal on the drama stuff after how badly received the "guys who were forcibly transformed with one becoming a girl and others being clothing and the girl committing suicide" thing as it never comes up again.

The backstory and indication of "And I Must Scream" (and cannibalism apparently) scenarios in the background if you know about Naga's other stuff contradicts the slice of life, comedy set up that it attempts. The Sorceress fetish setup and related isn't that bad on its own. It's when trying to play that seriously and dramatically in a slice of life comic that it becomes a problem. There's nothing wrong with a fetish story where fucked up and horrific things happen, but trying to play fetish stuff that would drive someone to insanity or suicide or forcibly reprogramming someone's mind, or actually eating them for drama comes off as horrific and tonally dissonant from the rest of the work more than anything else.

Even the Sorceress wouldn't be as bad if she were clearly set up as a major villain within the comic who's punishment/curse is disproportionate to what her victims have done, but the comic doesn't really do that.

My point is context, setting, and background matters for how events within a story work with each other. If a writer handles a fetish based story wrong the horror of the situation can outweigh other aspects even for people into that fetish.

Reference:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150415000000*/www.nagasden.com

Last edited on 10 January 2023, 08:04.

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