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Saki having the shittiest life possible: Me not having enough counterspells in my deck to save her:

The fact her mother turned on her is fucking awful but it's actually very common. Many people who get assaulted by their father/father figure and try and confess that horrid thing to their mom very often are shunned and kicked out

"All Saki ever wanted from everyone in her life was acceptance. Saki would go to the ends of the Earth to make people in her life happy, but no matter how far she went, they always wanted more. Saki fought for acceptance in a world that constantly rejected her." i hate how much this hits close to home

Saki's story is even more depressing because of how realistic it is. Shit like this happens to young girls far too often and this story hits extremely deep.

There's a REASON why I accept the josuke ending as the Canon true ending of this

When you have to forcibly believe and cope that the fan-made Josuke ending using Crazy Diamond to fix her is canon just so this girl could get her life back and move on from all the trash she went through is something I've never done with any other story lmao 💀

To be honest with yall, this story is sad and horrible to me not because Saki died, not because all the stuff that happened to her, but because I can easily imagine something like this happening irl. Well, I guess you don't even need to imagine something, there are some really sick thing happening every day

To me, it's a sobering deconstruction of the (gag) "deflowering" genre of eromanga, and insight into what would happen to those girls in real life. It forces you to confront that twisted narrative and see them as real people.

This accidentally became a cursed tutorial… Can’t believe this is how I learned the basics of Magic

The optimist in me still rejects the heaven theory. She gets better she gets better she gets better she gets better she gets better she gets be-

Ending concept: turns out Saki had a red behelit the entire time and she sacrifices all the bullies and folks and becomes a new member of the godhand because fuck everyone in that story except Saki

I think the worst part of this manga is that it's semi-realistic. Sure, a lot of things have been blown over-the-top and hyperbole. But the synopsis of a shy schoolgirl with potential slowly spiralling down this rabbit hole into what she is at the end of the book can and already did happen in this world. When I found out that Saki recovered and had a kid. Whilst I was initially confused on how she could've recovered from all of that, I just went along with it because picturing any other ending is just too heartbreaking (ignoring the glasses on the bloodied floor).

The final panel of the glasses doesn't exist, it ends with her getting her life together and having a daughter. You can't tell me otherwise.

Good video but you forgot the part where Josuke healed her with Crazy Diamond and Saki lived happily ever after

I'm a 6ft2 hairy muscular guy and your speech at the end of the video made me tear up. I had never seen the story through this lense yet it's so evident. I too am like Saki. My whole life people have wanted to show me affection and care and I've always rejected them, convinced the hatred I have for my features and face were the way everyone feels about me too. Just to end up sitting alone and wondering why no one cares about me. Sometimes I have flashbacks of high school or earlier moments of my life and realize such or such person talking to me out of the blue was them geniunly wanting to interract with me and befriend me. I assumed I annoyed them as much as their presence would annoy me. This is the thing about me and so many other humans. We spend our life craving for love and complaining about being lonely but then anyone talking to me will repulse me and I will innerly wish to be left alone

This isn't a hentai, this is phychological horror

I want a doujinshi where the maiden finds a good spouse, has lots of kids, grandkids and great-grandkids, and loves to 100 with a happy, peaceful life.

I contest that Emergence is not Worse Than You Think, but instead the Best Story You Never Want to Read Again.

The darkest part about this story is that, this actually happens, happened and will continue to happen in real life. This world is just too cruel.

This would be a beautifully written tragedy about how people can take advantage of others and use you if you lack confidence as well as a lesson on peer pressure, addiction, and the need to fit in...if it wasn't posted on n-hentai for people to tickle the pickle to

This story makes me genuinely upset that Saki died at the end of it and it hurts so much to see someone so kind and innocent taken advantage of and die by people that she use to call friends. The story isn't happy nor does it ever let you think that's what it is, and I have a feeling that the author either wanted to make you sad as fuck or wanted to try telling us that when you see someone in need help them. So, I will say three things. Fuck everyone in that Doujin. Don't treat people like Saki like they're shit and try to make the world a loving and caring place where we all try to help each other instead of ignoring one another, because that's how Stories like these, can actually happen to some who doesn't care about themselves and put others above them.

The worst part of this manga is that not only heard and read story's just like this way before I even heard of this manga but I probably know people who had gone though something like this. And were I live in nyc. You see people who remind me of her. some of them get good endings and some just dissapeared

You forgot the part where it's revealed to take place in Morioh and Okuyasu and Josuke find her. Josuke heals her with his stand Crazy Diamond and she lives happily with her daughter, remembering the kindness of Josuke and Okuyasu that night.

yeah, ShindoL said he wrote Emergence because of his experience living in the US. I believe it, because it's a common story. It's a story you hate because it's a real thing. I've read some messed up H, but they're usually so divorced from reality that there's just no way to associate them with reality. This one, you get because you've heard about it on the news, or with friends, or heard about that one cousin states away.

Fun fact the the Mangaka of Metamorphasis said in a podcast that he planned the story to be much more depressing and a bit more darker but his editor made him cut it out.

Imagine a mom who is supportive of her child until her dad attacks her and now blames her child who is obviously way weaker than him meaning she literally couldn't fight back well enough without any sort of weapon

The fuckers who've been hurting Saki throughout this story do NOT deserve the human classification

this taught me how to play magic edit- i am bawling. what the _fuck_ is this doujinshi. i went into this thinking "yea i could probably handle this, its literally just a hentai manga lmao". it was not *just* a hentai manga it was a fucking test for my psyche and my morals and how i see the world. i will never be the same

so this poor child is just tortured endlessly and then doesn’t even get a happy ending

After reading Metamorphosis a huge take away I had wasn't how Saki should have been vulnerable and put herself out there, it reminds me of my own story to some degree. I just wanted to be a kind person. A loving person. And I was forced into a lot of things because I never really had a chance to develop my voice and there's a lot of messed up people out there. It's true, I thought I was lesser, I thought I was boring, but that started somewhere. Somewhere at home. She was just a kid too. Looking for acceptance isn't wrong, trying to find your crowd isn't wrong. Someone took advantage of her trying to figure herself out, and it kept happening again and again. She was just young and being gaslit and forced until it was too late. I see the girl with the glasses in the mirror, and I hate how I can never go back to being that kind selfless girl anymore. I don't blame myself. I don't blame Saki. I thankfully didn't get as deep into the same issues as Saki, I never sold myself... but I have a lot of issues with PTSD. I still am just sort of waiting to not be here anymore because I just feel so broken... I hope more people look at this story and see the circumstances around her as the problem. Great video by the way, I like how you explained with MAGIC cards. Ugh I need to go watch some fluff or something.

Never in my life did I expect I would be sitting in my room watching half an hour of a guy explaining the darkest hentai I've ever read in Magic the Gathering terms at 3:02 am

Fun fact: There's a page drawn by the artist where Saki comes into a room, blonde and tan, to film the story of Emergence. She comments on how she hasn't had her hair black in a long time, having to dye it for the part. She's shown being instructed on how to snort the fake cocaine they were using for the production, and being checked on when she coughs from doing it wrong. She's being complimented on her, ahem, "happy adult fun time" facial expression. The Josuke ending is great of course, a heartwarming and inspiring refutation of all the cruelty that the story put her through, someone coming into her life for just a moment to show her that her kind heart is not misplaced and saving her from the pain she'd endured for so long. But I think that the "film" scene I just described is a bit more impactful to me, purely because it was drawn by the artist themselves. As if they were as horrified by what they had created as everyone else was, and so they decided to add a framing device to try to soften the blow. It feels like a sort of micro-redemption. I'm probably overthinking the intentions of the artist, I don't doubt that for a moment. It would've been better for everyone if the story had never been written of course, but I take comfort in the knowledge that it was, in the end, just a story. In-universe and out. Let's all do our best to make sure it *stays* as just a story. Be kind to people.

God you explaining each "turn" and "condition" is like watching a 20 count car crash in slow motion with the force of going 120MPH. And all the occupants are your friends and family. With you on the sidewalk. On your birthday. Then you get left with all the fee's. Great narrating man ;-; 👍

I hate Saki's parents so much

I had a similar experience as saki, parents that say that loved you but never will even tho you wanted them to love you, an abusive ex that used me and sexually assaulted me to lose my virgnity and using drugs, after the break up I was drunk so that I can cope the fact it was all my fault and that I ruined everything. Turned out that it was not, there was a part of me who started seeing the things as it was and I was out of touch of reality because a person used, abused and assaulted me and I was weak. I am now trying to recover and heal from this abuse, my friends and mutuals are on my side and I'm very grateful of them. It's gonna be hard but I can't do nothing except being optimistic. I clicked this video because i read years ago and it was fucked up so I wanted to know the story again and I've never felt so close to Saki as I was years ago. I wish what happened to me and Saki should never happen to anyone alse.

i think the worst part about this is at the end of the day, _no one loved saki._ she didn't even love _herself._

...wow, can't believe I want to write a fix-it au for a hentai manga now.

I think something that makes this story in particular so shocking and very important is that it exists as a complete subversion of many shitty hentai tropes. Where something in some other hentai would be a main working premise, would be fetishized and sexualized, in Emergence it walks through what it's really like. In reality, Emergence is much closer to what would really happen to someone who experiences the things many write in hentai.

I remember reading this. I first heard about it and thought “it can’t be THAT bad.” But curiosity took me in, I was disgusted upon reading it at first. However, morbid curiosity took over and I HAD to see how it all ended. Mainly because I felt bad for her and I was once that person who just- wanted to fit in. Have that acceptance and even know I struggle with some of the same personal issues as Saki. I went from disgusted, sad, angry, worried and going through a lot more emotions. I GENUINELY though the moment with her daughter mean someone DID call for help. That one of those horrid people that beat her at the end realized what they did and called for help. Or that maybe the man called for help/ someone to at least move her away, thus seeing her condition and calling for help. When the glasses appeared I broke down sobbing. Even in this video I wanted to cry again. I’ve read a few hentai before, some stuff I could tell was shock value. But it didn’t read like a normal hentai to me. There was NO ENJOYMENT. It felt gross and wrong the entire way. As much as I want to believe other endings, the og one sticks and I know it’s the true ending.

I feel like it's both a trauma fetish but also a story about hwo women in general are treated. The author drew her sexualized in every single panel when they didn't have to so it's obvious it was made to appeal to horny ppl, it's that simple- but I wonder if the author wanted more? Would reel in ppl with the smex but then show them the true horrors of womanhood.

using the magic analogy was brilliant and hilarious love your stuff man

thank you for the level of kindness and respect you show to saki, even though it's a fictional character in a fictional story. for a myriad of reasons, when i read through this manga, i genuinely couldn't finish it, and had to ask my husband to finish it for me to tell me what happened. it was just... too triggering in a lot of ways and too much for me. i've been binging your videos a lot lately, and not to get *parasocial* about it, but i think you're a very good person, and i'm glad there are more people like you in the world.

While this entire series is explicit in nature, I've always thought of it as an actual manga with explicit activities strewn throughout it than an explicit series meant for people to get their kicks out of. This whole series devastated me when I first read it and the fact that the creator went back and made a "haha hey guys it's all just a movie nobody is actually hurt!" ending kinda goes to show just how brutal this was. There's a lot of fucked up stuff out there in terms of NSFW, from Asanagi's more extreme works to the guro and snuff categories that are seemingly only there for the most depraved, but 177013 really, really REALLY sticks out due to how hard the impact hit. A third impact, if you will.

I think this is a really important story to be told. It's so easy to see drugged up, strung out, homeless people and think "they're not like me, that could never happen to me" - but the reality is, they *are* the same, they're humans who went through things. I think Saki at the beginning of the story is very relatable. And every decision she makes, makes sense in the moment she's in with what is happening around her. I hope people take from this story empathy for people like Saki, people who've been beaten down by life and are just doing what they can to survive.

I would be hard pressed to say a lot of the storytelling in emergence is objectively good. However I believed the topics depicted in this story are important ones and this is the only story I found that talks about this stuff in any sort of good faith. I am very appreciative of you explaining the story in the way you did. I think it is hard to do what you did even talking about this very taboo subject.

I just started watching this and I feel as though im in for one of the wildest rides of my life.

dude, this was the heaviest game of magic...I've ever witnessed. Phenomenal job with this one.

Honestly what is most haunting about this story is that it happens in real life. Every day. It hurts.

i thought that ending with her child was the actual ending of her life but watching the ending from this vid made me realize.....nahhh i was happy a few minutes ago wtf man

i read this a few years back, it still honestly haunts me. thank u for saving some people's mental health

One of the heartbreaking part about this whole story was the fact that this could happen to anyone. It's sad that this is the case because it meant that not everyone was able to get out of that state and that terrible part of their lives. Just thinking about how this happened to such a young girl is already painful but it gets worse knowing that a lot of young girls have this happen to them.

The josuke ending and the movie ending helped the pain of reading it but the canon true ending of it still haunts me.

19:16 : Pointing out at this moment, the dude there tells her she had more value than now back in his first time (He was her first "client"), and he starts telling her she looks way less innocent than before, and she looks like she's just brainwashed by his "boyfriend", which possibly marks the beginning of Saki regretting her past self. I think the author could have exploited more this state of regretting her life choices to rip even more the guts of us all, poor readers, but heh, it's not like it wasn't already the most disturbing story I ever read by extremely far...

Oh, an incredibly upsetting story! Using Magic to explain it was a stroke of genius. And I say that as somebody who was a teenager when Magic first came out and never really got it.

The hardest part about all of this isn’t just reading this… it’s realizing there are so many people, whom are living this horror daily.

I don't even know magic the gathering but damn thats such a unique way of retelling the depressing story

Thank you for your kind commentary on Saki, she got taken advantage of 😔

I can feel the depression and PTSD through the screen

I didn’t realize it was gonna be psychological horror not hentai. Well I’m truly horrified.

This feels like the most perfect tragedy. I got sick in the stomach, I was sad, heartbroken, outraged at all these people, hoping she would be all right. But the world was a cruel place for a kind heart with poor choices desperately looking for love

As a woman I really love Emergence. The art is beautiful and the scenes are portrayed in the same way most H do. Saki puts up the same futile resistance as the vast majority of the H girls, resistance that the readers freely ignore bc they O Saki Os in most scenes, and yet, the autor refuse to let the readers enjoy the scenes. Shindo L make his readers uncomfortably aware that they are passive witnesses of Saki's tragedy. A tragedy far to common in H plots, Corn plots, and real life

honestly, i feel like the manga "Juujika no Rokunin" is a direct answer to emergence. In a world just as cruel, what is there to do? what options are there really? the answer? *kill. them. all.*

Imagine stumbling upon this manga on accident and not knowing what you’re getting yourself into…

You know what's the worst thing about this manga? That all of this can happen to someone and has to some extent.

That scream felt real, and was a completely appropriate response

I found you after watching your absolutely IMMACULATE CSM video, and I just gotta say you deserve way more subscribers. Your production, scripting, humor, etc. is off the chain. Keep it up and I promise you’ll reap the rewards in the future, especially with this much passion behind it! Btw, I know it probably would have ruined the tone but this video really could have used your happy outro music 😂 It’s sort of like drinking a chaser after downing a shot of depression-flavored Everclear.

i think by definition if a hentai fails at getting you in the mood and instead kills your mood it by definition isn't a hentai

Worst part of reading this is i had friends from high school who quite... had got it going on like saki. The only difference is that they are alive with their children. I don't know about the fathers of these children. I remember her calling me that it happened to her, but she had no choice. It was heavy to take in, but it was too late for me to even do anything. The other girl was it was her choice, but it kept getting worse for her.

Fuck, I've tried to forget this story, I couldn't believe it when I read it. Props to you to make an introspective dive into this madness. Stronger human being than me for sure. Love your content!

Moral of the story: Don’t take those GODDAMN glasses off

This is SAD really she was totally doomed from the start.

I have a hard time believing those classmates are the same ones that tried to reach out to Saki… But jeez, this is a hentai? I know people get off to some messed up stuff, but whoever gets off to this is a monster!

I can’t remember a lot from this dojin but I really wish her parents did more to warn her about men like hayato . Like I understand parents wanted to shield their kids from topics like that but not having a conversation at all could do more damage Like she was naïve because of her parents negligence to have conversations that parents should have with their children and their lack of connection with her. Tldr her parents are shit and responsible

I was wondering if you were gonna burn the book. I’m glad you did. I’m sure hentai is more than non-con but most of the hentai I’ve seen is more violent than healthy hanky panky acts. As well as I feel this manga punishes her because she wanted to be “more feminine” she wanted to dress better and be more social.

Me joining a shitty life competition and my oponent is Saki:

I want to write a manga au which begins with the panel of her crying to her mom, and the story continues with her opening up to her mother about the events so far. Her mother, holds back her tears and reaffirms her support to Saki as she realised that her parenting was at fault. She then teaches Saki the importance of discerning kindness and naive thinking, and asks her to think about what she wants deep down. They spend the night together and while Saki is asleep, she cries heavily and this sharpens Saki's resolve to change. When she is confronted by the boys for the picture, she decides to move schools rather than please her classmates. She moves to a new city where she finds a junior who is facing a similar issue, and the story is how they arrive at a proper solution.

Evangelion being the first anime that I watched and this being the first hmanga that I read, both being binged at about 2 AM, truly has formed me as a person.

Gota praise the Magic analogy here. Reall skillful in avainding the nasty bits. Also ty. I am now crying all over again 😢

It's too bad Josuke fights the stand user responsible for this atrocity off screen, but I'm satisfied with seeing him save her.

Not me drawing poorly made art in ms paint of an adult Saki and her daughter being cute and happy and wholesome together to cope with whatever the shit I just witnessed

The reason this hits home for me so deeply is becuase i almost became like her.

I've been avoid any review of this "art" for a long time and said to myself that I'll get the courage to read it one day on my own. But every time I about to read it I asked myself "Would I be better off just not doing it? Is it even worth the risk?". But now I'll just gonna grit my teeth and push through. Maybe I will be worse of than before but maybe afterward I can learn something from it or atleast from your effort. So in the next few days I will be reading it little by little and see what the result will be. Best of luck

The author could have ended the story at the dream and everything would have been fine, but NO, he HAD to make that last panel to really, completely, and utterly destroy our emotional and mental state.

I really appreciate the graphic used for the stronger addiction card and the description 19:26 _Its only "too long" until you catch up_ it made me laugh and was the only thing that kept me from crying throughout the video. It's also just all to true, lol.

Mack, let me just preface this by saying that I love all of your videos. That being said, I can’t watch this one. I cannot experience this story again. I’m not strong enough.

i remember reading this a while ago then going back couple months later to make sure the whole thing wasn’t a weird nightmare

Ain't never cried to a doujinshi, DEAR GOD this was insane

I cant believe i just learned some Magic the Gathering basics from a video essay about hentai. Fr tho, i felt myself shaking several times through the video. Ive heard about this manga before but never actually read it. I just cant bring myself to do it. The story is beyond sad, and it depresses me to think about happened to Saki. Thank you for this video, and how kind you were to Saki as a character

"try not to fall in love with your abuser challenge [impossible]" i felt personally attacked

So I didn't know what Emergence was before I started watching this video and now I'm sad.

Being explained this in M:TG terms was way more bearable then how some others dodge demonetization.

I had to give a like, what it must’ve taken to read that entire story holy shit. My heart goes out to ya.

This channel is criminally underrated

So I read this insanely young, I had no business reading this tbh. In my naivity, I thought saki lived at the end this entire time. That somehow she managed to get her happily ever after and someone saved her. Now I gotta cope with the reality she and her baby died like a dog in the bathroom alone and scared. Even more ironic when I almost ended up like saki but managed to get out cause ONE person was there for me. It makes me so sad knowing how one person can change your life.

Damn, I ended up almost crying at the end of the video. This story is so sad, and this video is very well made, you sir have earned my subscription. Edit: watching this again and it still holds up and hits hard.

I think stories like these matter so much because I think they’re real and should be told but it also makes me realize how much I take my life as is for granted. It makes me extremely saddened that stuff like this happens. What I’m saying is, count your blessings, and maybe even hug a loved one too when you get the chance.

Never in my life I tought I would spend more than 30 min watching a video explaining a fucking hentai, but here we are. You did it. You're probably my favorite youtuber at this point if you managed to make me do that. Congratulations, I guess...

legit started crying at the end when you screamed i dunno it released smth i had held onto for very long

I'm just glad that a certain stand user was nearby to save her at the time. That's canon, it's in the lore.