I have always been wanting to read something like this, nay, I have been THIRSTY for this content! And god damn it! I have found it!

We all know how female body-parts have been fetish-ized over and over again in the AV-doujinshi industry. Y'all like kyonyuu on a kyashaa i.e. petit frame? No you say you also want her to be tall and kinda goth? It's at times revolting and blatantly horrendous how people, yes we who make up this world, have continued to seek the ultimate object of pleasure - and since this quest is never-ending, we have imposed our tastes, our fears, our grievances onto sth - and we have derived pleasure from them. Where is all this going to lead us? Hopefully not the utilitarian dystopia that Ghost in the Shell: Innocence showed us?!

The MC in this manga is PaPiCo - a 24 year old AV joyuu, who, as I described in the previous para, is gorgeous, to the extent that she is a symbol of quite a few modern day fetishes. She has a co-dependent partner, who is a NEET, good for nothing who resorts to abuse her when he feels she's hiding something from him. PaPiCo's family relies on whatever pay she receives from her AV satsue, and feels that she should stop doing the "shameful, disgusting" work she's doing. Yet, of course, they don't shy away from sponging off her. This situation, is an astonishingly accurate description of many AV joyuu's circumstances in the JAV industry.

Hiroyuki takes this MC, puts her in a staple yet fascinating impending doom situation and "conceptually resuces" this character. The symbol of our fetishes learns of her desire to protect someone dear, she learns what it feels like to want someone's company, to love someone perhaps. She is promoted to the status of a saviour in this world.

And let's not forget the super realistic art in this manga. Pretty much everything seems "rotoscoped" here. Although I'm abusing the term here, what I mean is that it's almost as if every frame in the manga is a real-life photograph that has been drawn over at places. This technique works realy well with the sci-fi, erotic content in the manga and the contrast between the realistic art and the outrageous plot parallels the clash in the "societal" role of PaPiCo and the role she assumes in this manga.

People, I tell you, reading Gigant is like watching a movie - yes, that's how good the composition is. Think Chi no Wadachi for example. That's almost how good it is. And it's not surprising that the other MC in the manga is an high schooler aspiring to become a film director.

This is a preliminary review. I'll return to write more about this.