Surprisingly enough, he isn't a Molester.
Molester Man is a doujinshi that is mostly from the point of view of a university student who calls himself Molester Man. The premise is that by a series of misunderstandings Molester Man was mistaken as a stalker and Hilarity Ensues. The story has a serious side too; its essence is the classic Rags to Riches plot being driven by romance. As implied by the story's plot, the reader sees Molester Man grow as a person and gradually move towards a happier state of being.
The doujinshi is based on a real story posted on 2ch in the VIP thread and adapted by Yokota Takuma (a.k.a YOKO) who was later also responsible for Bakatsun, Shuudan!, Straighten Up! Welcome to Shika High's Competitive Dance Club and the art in Onani Master Kurosawa. It has a somewhat unusual narrative as it's fairly common to have the majority of the chapters composed of texts.
There is a live action adaption of Molester Man; the link to it is here
although it's only available in Japanese as of January 2nd 2013.
There is also an unofficial and incomplete youtube adaption of Molester Man linked here. However it's only in Japanese as of January 14 2013.
Compare with Train Man (2004) (a.k.a Densha Otoko) whose protagonist is also socially awkward, albeit in a different way, and also meets a love interest through an incident. Though after the incident the protagonist from Train Man was seen in a much more positive light than the protagonist from Molester Man.
This series contains examples of:
- Ambiguously Gay: The male waiter.Male Waiter: You seem to have become manlier than the last time we met. Wanna do it?
- All of this was said while loosening his shirt although to be fair he wasn't completely serious. The question is if it was flirtation or just teasing/trolling.
- Apologizes a Lot: All of the main characters, but especially Molester.
- Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: Loli asks if Molester Man is going to "do something" to her when they're alone in her apartment, both sitting close together at the kotatsu.
- Art Evolution: Compare chapter 1 to chapter 21.
- Art Shift: YOKO often drew the characters resembling popular manga artwork style like JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Bleach, and Doraemon for comedic purposes.
- Back Story:
- Only mentioned by Molester Man but its pretty dark.
- Loli's relationship backstory is summarised by Molester Man; she has really good taste in men.
- Badass Biker: Kansai drives a motorcycle, which only adds to her appeal.
- Blatant Lies:Molester Man: Frankly speaking some of it made me so frisky it gave me an erec-err... I meant that it made me shake with anger.
- Blunt "Yes": Used by Molester Man in chapter 20 and it shows his growth.
- Can't Hold Her Liquor: Loli passes out drunk at Molester's apartment (she was already drunk before getting there) and throws up on his bed.
- Caught with Your Pants Down: Nearly happens to Molester Man in Chapter 10, when Kansai comes to visit when he's sick.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Molester Man has shown some mild signs of this in Chapter 1[1]
- Companion Cube: Sachiko. "She" is an onahole.
- Compliment Backfire: Molester Man tells Kansai "Kimono look good on girls with tiny breasts", leading to her indignantly asking "Who's a girl with tiny breasts?".
- Compliment Fishing: Kansai, when she's texting with Molester in Chapter 6.
- Cool Big Sis: Molester's Sister is pretty chill, though she only appears in one chapter.
- Corner of Woe: Molester Man. Naturally this includes his separate personalities in chapter 18.
- Death Glare: Kansai gives a pretty nasty one [2]
- Decoy Deuteragonist: Miss Understanding seems like she'll be the Love Interest and deuteragonist for the first 3 chapters. Chapter 4 reintroduces Kansai and she quickly takes hold of the bulk of the chapter. By Chapter 5, Kansai takes center stage and from then-on, Miss Understanding is relegated to being a background character.
- Dialogue Tree: After playing countless Dating Sims, Molester Man can come up with three possible answers in any situation (though he can't always pick the best one).
- Digging Yourself Deeper: Averted, despite the Compliment Backfire trope above.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Tsun and Boon from Yoko's next work, Tsunbaka, appear as background characters in a few scenes.
- Empathic Environment: In Chapter 1, it starts raining just before it got worse.
- Extra-Long Episode: The final chapter is 67 freaking pages, nearly twice the length of any other chapter.
- Extreme Doormat: Molester Man tends to think of himself as this whenever Kansai gets angry.
- First Girl Wins: Played with. It's not Miss Understanding, but Kansai who Molester ends up seriously falling in love with and ends up with. Oddly enough, though, she was only second by a matter of a few MINUTES.
- First-Person Smartass: Though molester man is a Nice Guy, he has his moments in later chapters.
- Freudian Slip: Molester Man accidentally says "Look, the reason why I didn't do Loli is..." before realizing what he said.
- Good Bad Girl: Kansai is implied to be one.
- Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Downplayed, but Molester notices that Loli actually says "gosh", one of the only times he's heard a girl say that IRL.
- Guys are Slobs: Averted, The only male room we see is Molester Man's and it's pretty tidy... perhaps not clean though.
- Harsh Word Impact: In Chapter 14.5, the 2Channel anon comments pointing out how he screwed up stab through Molester Man.
- Has a Type: Molester Man's type is Miss Understanding.
- Miss Understanding has a type but it isn't at all like Molester Man.
- Heroic BSoD: Molester Man plays this straight starting from chapter 2.
- Hollywood Glass Cutter: Molester Man wishes he had one when he can't see through the smoked glass door between him and a nearly-naked Loli.
- Horrible Judge of Character: Reversed as Molester Man orginally had a negative opinion of Glasses and Kansai, downplayed as both of the character's morality wasn't obvious and subverted as he ''independently'' changed his opinion.
- Hypocritical Humour: A meta example, that is unintentional, is by YOKO.YOKO: By the way, even if Sachiko is actually part of the original threads I am still not sure if it was right to include her in this manga. I fear that this may have turned into a real "masturbation manga" now.
- I Can't Believe A Girl Like You Would Notice Me: Molester Man can't believe a girl as hot as Loli is actually interested in him.
- Imagine Spot: Molester is especially prone to this.
- Internal Monologue: Half the text is told through Molester Man's thoughts.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: 'Michael Joudan', that is all.note
- Ironic Nickname:
- Molester Man, since he's not a molester after all.
- Loli, who definitely doesn't have a loli body type.
- I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
- In chapter 20, Molester chooses to never meet both Kansai and Loli anymore to preserve their friendship.
- Also Implied by Kansai while Molester was after Miss Understanding and when Loli appeared to have a chance.
- After Molester tells the whole story to Loli and asks her to make up with Kansai for Kansai's sake, she realizes that he's never going to truly love her, and she wants both him and her best friend to be happy.
- I Want to Be a Real Man: Molester has shades of this and even has an overbearing father to boot.
- Lecherous Licking: Molester Man licks all over Kansai's body when they have sex.
- Love Confession: In Chapter 14, Molester Man confesses to Kansai.
- Love Triangle: Molester loves Kansai, Loli loves Molester, and Kansai and Loli are good friends. Jealousy ensues.
- Master of the Mixed Message: One could argue that this applies to Miss Understanding, Kansai and even Molester Man.
- Missing Steps Plan: Molester Man's plan to confess his love to Kansai.1. Treat her to a meal2. Get very close with her3. Spend Christmas with her4. ???5. Profit
- A 2Channel user then correctly guesses that step 4 is "confess your love to her on Christmas".
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The thread made this very clear to Molester Man in chapter 12 and they didn't say it nearly as nicely as the trope.
- Oh, Crap!: In Chapter 1 after a crowd begins to gather around a pretty convincing Not What It Looks Like Molester Man says "I…I’m done for.”
- Only Known by Their Nickname: The whole cast.
- Otaku: Molester Man is not only a manga/anime Otaku, but also a snake otaku.
- Out of Focus: Miss Understanding though she does have chapter 16 all to herself and Molester Man.
- Pixellation: The onahole Molester Man orders is pixellated, though it's obvious what it is even without him saying so.
- Poor Communication Kills: What causes the main conflict.
- Porn Stash: Molester Man has one, somewhat of a subversion as unlike most fictional characters with one, he’s pretty nonchalant about it being discovered.
- Pose of Supplication: Molester Man does it almost every chapter, one time to Kansai through his cell phone (though she can't see him) to thank her for inviting him out with the girls.
- Raging Stiffie: Molester Man is grateful to Loli for giving him a blanket when he's at her place watching Gundam, since it hides his erection.
- Scary Black Man: Molester Man certainly thinks so, but it's just an overly pushy salesman.
- Self-Deprecation: Molester Man is prone to this, as well as Dismissing a Compliment.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Kansai in kimono.
- A Simple Plan: Will Molester Man ever catch a break?
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So Okay, It's Average: Molester and Kansai's opinion of the sushi place they go to. - Spit Take: Molester Man spits out some of his parfait in surprise when Kansai walks up to the table.
- Tareme Eyes: Played straight with Miss Understanding and subverted with Loli.
- Their First Time: Molester and Kansai in chapter 18.
- The One Guy: Not so obvious since Molester is the main character but it's true from the perspective of any other major character.
- Third Wheel: Molester Man sees himself as this in chapter 2 for a while.
- Trying Not to Cry: Molester Man plays this straight a lot near the end.
- Kansai also plays it straight in chapter 14.
- Loli plays it straight in chapter 11.
- And again in chapter 20.
- Tsundere: It's a rare male case, but Molester Man towards Miss Understanding which is demonstrated below.Molester Man (Thinking): GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE, B**CH!!! YOU FELT SINCERITY IN MY WORDS!? WELL, I FELT PRESUMPTUOUSNESS IN YOUR WORDS!! AND YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE CUTE LIKE OGURA YUUKO!!!
- Tsurime Eyes: Played straight with Kansai.
- Verbal Backspace: Molester Man, in chapter 21, really needed to think before speaking.
