#(Isabella his brain is gonna taste like shiiiit by the time he's 12 he's got depression)

[fullscoreshenanigans]

One thing that I appreciate about TPN is that it never revels in the horror of the act of systemic medical rape that occurs within the farm system, which easily could stray into being very gross and fetishy given how IVF isn't even around for a century by the times canon kicks off, but given the target demographic for the series we're originally confronted by the horror that is the demons commodifying children's bodies for consumption that provides dual upfront‚ visceral terror at the prospect of being impaled in the heart and then eaten, and a haunting‚ lingering despair at the dehumanization they've been subjected to.

(Chapter 181.1)

Dehumanization that turns out to be completely unnecessary with the discovery of the evil blood, but that the ruling class actively works to maintain out of selfish decadence and entitlement. It's something that I appreciate the series being so upfront about, to the point where that commentary overrides my mixed feelings about the anthropocentrism of the demons striving to maintain human levels of intellect as the pinnacle of their existence.