He's Expecting, Vol. 1

3.5

I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about this one. It wasn't a complicated read or anything of that nature. I believe I have issues with the execution a bit.

Men have the ability to get pregnant. Based on context alone, men and women can get pregnant interchangeably. (?) There's an attempt at social commentary on the implications and assumptions made on those men who choose to give birth to the babies. There's commentary on how women feel that male pregnancy will lead to rights and programs birthing people should have received to begin with. There's even commentary on how women can be just as callus or insensitive as men have been pegged to be when their partner is suddenly pregnant and neither is happy about it.

The manga begins with the Main characters pregnancy and later branches out focusing on individuals that have come in contact with him at one point. It's a six degrees of separations type of thing.

Although I could understand the threads that were being weaved, I felt they were clunky. I don't know how else to explain it. The transitions were not the smoothest and some of the stories needed to be fleshed out a bit more. Especially the last married couple.

Thank you to Netgalley and the Publisher for allowing me to read and ARC in exchange of an honest review.