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Naturisers
Naturisers

Several young people from all walks of life were, through various incidents, forced to become Naturisers against their will. Living in the same house in a strange mountain town, they fight off the forces of the menacing corpo-empire - Crimson Stardust. And yet, the other problems in their life - protecting their identity, overcoming their biggest flaws, tolerating each other in one household and resisting their existence becoming commodified - might be even harder than fighting for their life.


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TidyWire
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Just randomly decided to check this out because it seemed tokusatsu coded which is 100% my tempo, and I'm very glad I did. I've read all of the first episode in one go and it was a very engaging and well paced story that clearly has a lot of love behind it; sometimes you can just tell when something is a passion project and clearly this is something from the heart with a lot of lived experiences informing the characters and their dynamics across one another. The backdrop of the protagonist being a neglected daughter to a corrupt corpo is pretty unique I feel for a superhero and it felt very fresh, and clearly there's a lot of layers of lore in the background to go alongside that. I absolutely HATE the mother character and I feel I'm supposed to, so I'd call that a successful instance of writing for sure, but even then you take the time to offer some elements of humanity to her despite how deplorable she is for her actions. The younger sister is funny and really made me feel for her during *that* moment in the story.. Yume is clearly a complicated character that has layers of underlying trauma and stress which makes her eventual transformation very satisfying; like pent up rage from years of abuse flooding out And her henshin'ed design is very cool; I like the flower motif a lot. I'm curious to learn the lore as to what the maguffins are! Everything about this story did work really well for me, and even the visual comedy had me laughing a couple times like the inept guards pulling the "surround in a circular motion so we'll be shooting ourselves" gag or the part where Yume's eye slides down lol. (Nice usage of a repeat panel.) If I can add a recommendation I think there were a few moments where more use of onomatopoiea SFX for sounds like explosions or running; might help better express the severity of the danger happening or the texture of the environment etc. Your art definitely improves as you progress through this story! I'd assume you've been working on this a while? Keep it up! You can only ever get better by continuing. Thanks for the great read. I shall be following for more. :)