Reviews for Kodomo no Kodomo

You ever just, like, read or watch something not out of unironic enjoyment, but because you want to see how the absolute train wreck before you ends? That's this to a tee. The art is ugly and messy, the plot is insane, the characters are often unsympathetic and make decisions that make no sense to any rational human being, and yet you're supposed to find at least parts of a story about a 10 year giving birth to a child sappy and/or heartwarming. My verdict is to read if you want to roast the hell out of this with the group chat on the discord,but don't expect to this to be an actual underrated gem or whatever.

This one wasn't classified as seinen for nothing, so if you're expecting a cute story, then pass. But if what you search in manga is a collision of ordinary human's life and society issues, that's one pretty unique read. It's trashy sometimes and heartwarming sometimes, just as a life of nasty, low-educated but still pure in heart kid looks like. This is also the only manga I know which deals with "gender-neutral" popularizing teacher and describes the flaws of both having and not having sexual education. This is the atory where naive and undisciplined kids have to decide the adult questions because...the adults sometimes behavejust kiddish! This might be a shocking story at some plarts, because it does describe ugly things together with important and heartwarming and at the point I'm writing this, it's scanlated only up to half, so it could go much worse or much better from this point. But since the conflicts of the story are promising, I await an interesting resolution to them. 9/10, in advance.

Really weird with questionable messages. Everything seemed to be within the tone of the work until weeks leading to the point the girl gives birth where a bunch of elementary schoolers all kumbayah and decide to help out (including boys in 90's japan who are somehow not misogynist or gross about the process of giving birth or raising children) I'm not sure why a young girl giving birth is seen as a good thing. "If you're pregnant then that means your body is meant to support a pregnancy" NO SHE ISN'T and this is coming from an adult, how the hell can you say that? Her pelvisis not wide enough to survive childbirth.

I'm also disappointed with the handling of the feminist character who had a mental breakdown and then got pregnant for no reason at the end.

The work seemed to set out to challenge the misogyny and oppressive gender roles of 90's Japan but because its childishness and idealism somehow seems to end up reinforcing them.