A safe for work amateur review on Jungle themed works for adults

Honestly, the first film in James Cameron’s Avatar series has a large (yet rather indirect) influence on a crapload of sci fi works with humanoids from the 2010s onward. Sometimes it’s because it’s one of the costliest films ever made. Sometimes it’s because there aren’t as much unfortunate cultural implications in some of its then contemporary competitors, helping their values relevance to last for a longer time than Avatar 1 itself, which is alright if at times cringeworthy. 

The Totem Realm is a gender bending spiritual successor of it in some ways, even though it’s a story made for an adult web toon market in mind. Ironically, its own author has done considerably more research on a couple of iconic Central American and Southeast Asian buildings than on the peoples who built them. As a result, one such building is very well done, while the Indonesian inspired fantasy ladies and dudes are stereotypical and generic as hell, despite the skin colours and hairstyles being rather fairly diverse by South Korean standards. 

Mind you, there are a couple of unfortunate implications, such as some of its resident dudes being nasty bullies especially to foreigners and vice versa, as well as the very chauvinistic Machismo behaviour of its main leading man named Shaka, a dude who does a lot of things that are knowingly cringeworthy to his girlfriend named Sera, even though he surely means well. 

As in most other trashy romance focused web toons, most of the web toon’s guys surely are fairly huge and very muscly, if thankfully not as drugged out steroidal as a crapload of Mainstream American Superheroes throughout history, which is surely saying something.