Salmon

DrakeParker Aug 30, 2022

5.3

OVERVIEW/SYNOPSIS Shion Suzuki is a 12 year old in his first year of High School. After school him and his friends conduct a "sperm jump" competition to see whose sperm lands the furthest after rubbing one off in the school hallway. Shion as the returning champion wins once again. He then meets his mom for lunch where she surprises him that she has a new husband Hiroshi Masterba (yes, really).  We then find out that Hiroshi's mom is pregnant with twins and that they're moving to a different prefecture. Hiroshi Masterba 's first day at school is frought with bullying from his peers mostly due to his new last name being eerily close to masterbate. After his first day of school he runs down to the town river and throws his name tag into the water and after that proceeds to masterbate into the flowing waters. However against the laws of science his sperm sink to the bottom and impregnate salmon eggs lying on the riverbed.  THREE YEARS LATER Hiroshi is bullied relentlessly by Gingi Ito with his only friend being Iku Samon. Later that night after catching his parent do the nasty in the dining room Hiroshi runs off in anger to the river and to his surprise a Salmon-human hybrid jumps out asking for help. Scared Hiroshi runs but the hybrid chases after him on a bicycle after catching up the salmon hybrid asks Hiroshi if "he knows who his father is." Confused Hiroshi says no but then the salmon shows him Hiroshi's name tag. Thats only the first chapter. LOL. Anyways to my review. The artwork is unique to this certain style of seinen manga similar to early 2000's horror. Although I am not a fan of it I know there is a certain crowd of people who do.  Although the premise was interesting to a certain extent I just felt like certain parts of the story was just forced upon the reader like the plentiful panels of young kids masturbating that could get people arrested in the west if it wasn't luckily censored, lol.  I know it was a plot device but maybe if there were fewer panels or if the characters were slightly older than 12-15 years old than I would see the plot relevance more but to me I feel disgusted and found myself scrolling past these panels.  Now is the story interesting? To an extent. Is it unique? Definitely.  P.S. Also be warned of chapter 8.