I don't normally find good reviews on MT, so I tend to read wikipedia, and with things like this... the talk pages on wikipedia. Your new review grabbed my eye, because I had just today read about this on wikipedia. While I've not seen/read the story, and I'm not sure I want to, my initial impressions, particularily given the manga author's comments on HER story, are that this is *like* a manga version of the original novel Lolita by Nabokov. It addresses a serious, taboo topic, and I suspect it does so well, from everything I've read.

You can write Lolita off as "child porn" as well, but that would be missing the mark (not to say that you're doing so -- on the contrary, I like your review). I think that's the case here as well -- there will always be detractors that cannot get over the subject matter, but there IS something here. I wouldn't hand out Lolita for reading in a grade school, and probably not a high school, but I certainly would in a college. The same here, I believe. I sincerely think the author is trying to face taboos head on, make people a bit squeamish, and discuss things.