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“Middle schooler Ryouta seeks the "perfect mother" in this psychological thriller about twisted maternal bonds.”
Mother Parasite
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6.56
16,983 rank · 1,850 readers · 10 favorites
Psychological
Suspense
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Synopsis
Middle schooler Ryouta seeks the "perfect mother" in this psychological thriller about twisted maternal bonds.
Ryouta Miki is a middle schooler who lives a happy life with his single mother. But his relationship with his mother is strange, as she is always afraid of causing the slightest trouble. Meanwhile, his classmate Kaoru Kasai is fed up with his overprotective mother, and feels that it’s his mother’s fault that he ended up bullied. But one day, Ryota starts talking to Kaoru for the first time after saving him from bullying... A psychological suspense thriller about a boy obsessed with finding the ultimate mother! (Source: Coamix)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 2 sampled reviews
2.5
/10
What 2 readers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 2.5
mode 1
σ 1.50
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Mostly aligned
σ 1.50 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.50
Running avg · Feb 2025 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 4 “Are you a fan of soap operas? Stories about people who don't act anything like real people, getting into ridiculous drama and over-the-top freak outs that'd be resolved in real life with a second...”
- 1 “I pushed through all 47 chapters released so far to see if anything remotely interesting would happen, it does not. Let me just point out the only good thing the manga has: characters' art. If I...”
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A Manga Publication
- Published Jun 2020 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M58928 catalog