Fandom name: Starving Anonymous What medium is it and where to find it: manga, complete at 7 volumes; published in ebook and paperback in the US by Kodansha, findable via less legitimate sources where you'd expect
A summary (try to avoid major spoilers): In a sweltering, overpopulated near-future Earth, main character Iie is an ordinary high school student until the day when he and a friend, along with an entire busload of other people, are kidnapped and carted off to a secret underground facility where they discover that humans are being fed to monstrous aliens to appease the aliens and allow the rest of the planet to live. Along with a few tenuous allies they meet in the facility, they have to race to find an escape and a way to bring down this grotesque system.
Content warnings: lots; it's a horror manga aimed at adults. Contains a lot of explicit violence and gore, including dismemberment and monsters eating people; forced weight gain; m/f and m/m sexual assault in an institutionalized forced-breeding setting; cannibalism; human experimentation; body horror; less explicitly shown f/m incestuous child abuse. I think that's all the major ones.
Why you like it: the chemistry and understanding between Natsune and Yamabiki, two of the main character's allies, just sing to me. Neither of them is fully human for different backstory reasons and they're just so good at meeting each other where they are and recognizing how to make their potentially horrible powers into a path forward, and they are SUCH good candidates for hurt/comfort with everything they go through.
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Starving Anonymous (Manga)
Date: 2021-08-18 04:49 pm (UTC)What medium is it and where to find it: manga, complete at 7 volumes; published in ebook and paperback in the US by Kodansha, findable via less legitimate sources where you'd expect
A summary (try to avoid major spoilers): In a sweltering, overpopulated near-future Earth, main character Iie is an ordinary high school student until the day when he and a friend, along with an entire busload of other people, are kidnapped and carted off to a secret underground facility where they discover that humans are being fed to monstrous aliens to appease the aliens and allow the rest of the planet to live. Along with a few tenuous allies they meet in the facility, they have to race to find an escape and a way to bring down this grotesque system.
Content warnings: lots; it's a horror manga aimed at adults. Contains a lot of explicit violence and gore, including dismemberment and monsters eating people; forced weight gain; m/f and m/m sexual assault in an institutionalized forced-breeding setting; cannibalism; human experimentation; body horror; less explicitly shown f/m incestuous child abuse. I think that's all the major ones.
Why you like it: the chemistry and understanding between Natsune and Yamabiki, two of the main character's allies, just sing to me. Neither of them is fully human for different backstory reasons and they're just so good at meeting each other where they are and recognizing how to make their potentially horrible powers into a path forward, and they are SUCH good candidates for hurt/comfort with everything they go through.