Ogeha

A manga about an expressionless boy capturing an alien humanoid insect and keeping it.

This manga has a really disturbing tone. The boy who finds the alien creature is just a complete sociopath as he doesn’t freak out about finding a humanoid insect and just brings it home and calls it Ogeha because she looks like a disgusting version of an ageha butterfly.

What proceeds is basically a kidnapping and confinement story as the boy doesn’t even bother to take care of Ogeha until she almost dies from malnutrition. And since the boy broke the egg sac prematurely Ogeha comes off as a child who knows nothing and only receives food on the whim of the boy. When Ogeha’s guardians try to steal her back she’s developed such an attachment to her captor the story ends with her returning to him. It really comes off as a creepy story of Stockholm syndrome. A shame because the overall design and look of Ogeha by Oimo is unique.

~dakazu