Yes, this is popular for the story and world perspective but it’s insanely dark and also very explicit, gory and can be traumatizing to certain viewers.
Just because it’s “critically acclaimed” doesn’t mean we can’t call out how disturbing it is.
The manga is 100x worse than the anime. They censored so much they can in the anime but it’s uncomfortable knowing the mangaka uses his fked up fetishes and inserts them into his stories. He’s well known for being a borderline creep. I won’t mention them since most of it is already posted on Twitter now. However, the subreddit is another cesspool too. They blocked people for mentioning he’s a pedo and how bad the manga is.
Anyway, the mangaka has a Twitter account too. There was an instance before where a fan said, “your manga is already so amazing without showing little girls n**ed, there’s no need for all of this” and he said no and I don’t care.