History Manga / Himenospia

** Nagisa urging Himeno to become a Queen at their school's rooftop is very reminiscent of the climax of ''Arachnid'', where the Boss revealed her true identity and [[JoinOrDie ridi]][[YouKilledMyFather culous]] [[WeCanRuleTogether demands]] to Alice on their school' rooftop. [[spoiler:''Yes'', Nagisa's true character is almost the same as Yoriko's.]]

** Himeno is one of Alice Fujii and Ai Kuramoto from ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}''. She combines the miserable backstories of both characters, Alice's looks and personality and Ai's mind control powers. However she's an ageless wasp person with parasitic powers like the Boss was instead of a tricky spider or an ant with sex powers.

** Serena's character design is from ''Majo ni Ataeru Tettsui'', but she has a significantly different personality and a role very similar to the Boss from ''Arachnid'', as she is an ageless superpowered girl who's been controlling the United States' politics for over a century. Her not-so-friendly rivalry with Himeno and her backstory involving poverty and thinking her ability is a divine gift is also reminiscent of Dinoponera.

* PlotInducedStupidity: Despite knowing Niho is highly suspicious, Himeno has the supposed traitor Mizu beaten up and disproportionately guarded for no reason and then enters a police car with Niho. Himeno does have Aya there to help with the interrogation, but the officer who's driving is male and turns out to be [[TheMole on Niho's side]]. It doesn't go well.

''Himenospia'' is a 2017-2021 seinen manga written by Creator/ShinyaMurata and illustrated by Yanai Nobuhiko. It was published under the monthly Gekkan Hero's magazine along with his other story, ''Manga/KillingBites'', but following the end of ''HERO'S'' in late 2020 both moved to the magazine's website ''[[https://viewer.heros-web.com Comiplex.]]''

Of note is that the series is largely a reimagining of Murata's ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'', which is something that went full circle when a certain someone was later introduced in ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}''...

* RestrainedRevenge: Niho [[WhipItGood whips]] Himeno eighty-four times as payback for her stinging Jiro to death that many times the previous year, [[InvokedTrope remarking]] "an eye for an eye" is really meant to restrain excessive retaliation (but really... Himeno did that [[CycleOfRevenge to avenge her mother and friends to begin with]]).

* BaitAndSwitchLesbians: Himeno gets herself an UnwantedHarem but does nothing with it as the brainwashed girls are barely developed as characters. Serena has a VillainousCrush on Himeno but is completely fine with trying to kill her, Niho [[spoiler:is killed after almost embracing her brainwashing-induced love for Himeno]] and Nagisa [[spoiler:[[BuryYourGays perishes]] during the end after a DyingDeclarationOfLove for Himeno]]. Some ''yuri'' series this is...

** Like with Serena, [[spoiler:Nagisa]]'s backstory also has call backs to the Boss from ''Arachnid'' such as her using brainwashing to force her parents into a murder-suicide. It is then said she got rid of [[UpToEleven all her relatives]] to conceal her own existence.

** Mizu Adachi grew up under extreme neglect and emotional abuse, and grew so used to it that kindness became poison to her. When she first meets Himeno, who unwittingly made her mother a nicer person, she immediately attempts to [[KnifeNut stab]] her to death.

* PantyShot: Frequently when scenes frame Himeno or the other wasp girls baring their crotch stingers.

* AlienAnimals: [[spoiler:The red wasps are of alien origin and for some reason meddle with human society by creating the mutant queens. This is only loosely revealed at the very end, with a wasp scout watching over the Earth and then flying away to parts unknwon.]]
* AllAbusersAreMale: In chapter 22, Fujimoto and Mizu talk about how women would be peaceful without men being a source of conflict for them. Nevermind all the bullying on Himeno in the beginning and Rushia neglecting Mizu out of selfishness. The following scenes also downplay this by showing that even in the wasp girls' seemingly peaceful matriarcal hives, a bloody power struggle between Himeno and Serena is inevitable.

** Niho gets Himeno at her mercy after [[spoiler:killing Aya]], and then reveals she's actually [[spoiler:Jiro Kuroda brought back to life by a brain transplant. Himeno unknowingly had her archnemesis right under her nose for months]].

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The premise involves female humans being mutated with long wasp-like stings coming out of their wombs. Some of them secrete the pheromone Queen substance like bee and ant queens do to mutate and brainwash other females. Don't think too much about how any of that works or about the viability of transplanting a middle aged man's brain inside a female highschooler who had been deceased for several days.

* AuthorAppeal: It's about bugs again, but with a focus on wasps. The narration funfacts reach their usual OnceAnEpisode tendencies as it goes on. And the plot revolves around master-slave relationships, which were a regular subject back in ''Arachnid'' and ''Caterpillar''.

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Women stung by Himeno retain their autonomy and personality but turn completely loyal to her and will do anything to spread her rule. Himeno is understandably disturbed and hesistant at first, but is forced to swiftly establish an autonomous region within Japan to keep the government from acting against her and her close friends.

** Serena's character design is from ''Majo ni Ataeru Tettsui'', but she has a significantly different personality and a role very similar to the Boss from ''Arachnid'', as she is an ageless superpowered girl who's been controling the United States' politics for over a century. Her not-so-friendly rivalry with Himeno and her backstory involving poverty and thinking her ability is a divine gift is also reminiscent of Dinoponera.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Niho and Himeno hugging each other on the cover for volume 7 alludes to Niho being unwillingly in love with Himeno due to her odd circunstances, but the two don't get that friendly as Niho is shaken back to her senses by Oonuki.

** Jirō used to have an inferiority complex over being literally named the second son of his family until he fell in love and learned to trust others. Then his family's death in a terrorist attack staged by wasp women left him with nothing but an obssession to see them wiped out from the face of the Earth.

* DenserAndWackier: The story, which is already about superpowered wasp mutants, quickly retreads some of the most bizarre plot points from late in ''Arachnid'' such as a variation of its zombie apocalypse (the threat of it, at least) and a schoolgirl who's an ageless shadow dictator, and then follows with a person who's presumed dead being resurrected via a BrainTransplant. Then in the very end, it turns out [[spoiler:the red wasps are aliens]].

** Nagisa is quick to understand how Himeno's powers work and to suggest her to create an utopic nation. She also gets a bad feeling when Himeno and Aya are about to interrogate Niho but leaves her be. [[spoiler:Those are signs of Nagisa manipulating Himeno for her own purposes despite caring for her one way or another.]]

* GunsAreWorthless: Himeno beats Jiro on a quick draw match and brutalizes him with her venomous stinger, but otherwise the wasp girls are very vulnerable against groups of heavily armed soldiers. This is especially notable considering the throwbacks to ''Arachnid'' -- for example, the Media ants from that were muscleman who got easily beaten by a cybernetically-enhanced highschooler in physical combat and the Media wasps from this are musclewomen armed with goddamn gatling guns who make mincemeat of their opposition.

Of note is that the series is largely a reimagining of Murata's ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'', which is something that went full circle when a certain somebody was later introduced in ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}''.

''Himenospia'' is a 2017-2021 seinen manga written by ]creator/ShinyaMurata and illustrated by Yanai Nobuhiko. It was published under the monthly Gekkan Hero's magazine along with his other story, ''Manga/KillingBites'', but following the end of ''HERO'S'' in late 2020 both moved to the magazine's website ''[[https://viewer.heros-web.com Comiplex.]]''

''Himenospia'' is a 2017-2021 seinen manga written by Murata Shinya and illustrated by Yanai Nobuhiko. It was published under the monthly Gekkan Hero's magazine along with his other story, ''Manga/KillingBites'', but following the end of ''HERO'S'' in late 2020 both moved to the magazine's website ''[[https://viewer.heros-web.com Comiplex.]]''

See also Murata's ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'', which this is, in many ways, [[RecycledInSpace a reimagining of]].