History YMMV / Himenospia

* FanNickname: Some call Serena a [[IncrediblyLamePun "Burger Queen"]].

** It is a plot point that trans women are women. For the purposes of gender-exclusive mutation and brainwashing, but women nonetheless.
** The real Shinzo Abe resigned out of health concerns in August 2020. A month later, his stand-in for this story is blown up sky-high in a terrorist attack and the chapter gets published online on September 11. Furthermore, the scene appears to be a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Luis_Carrero_Blanco the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco]].

* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: The story follows the same general plot of Murata's ''Arachnid'', but with a more serious tone and 31 chapters shorter. If you're familiar with ''Arachnid'', just how RecycledInSpace the story is can feel repetitive or fun to guess; [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks and on the contrary]], you might miss its flashy cast of characters, its fighting scenes and how all-powerful Alice was in comparison to Himeno, even though [[StoryBreakerPower that]] was a complaint acknowledged by Murata once ''Arachnid'' finished.
* LesYay: Only girls can join the wasp club... and the bonus posters for purchasing the physical manga volumes are mostly of Himeno getting hugged by the other female characters.

* ShockingSwerve: The red wasps [[spoiler:are aliens]]. [[NoEnding The End]].

** Trans women are women. For the purposes of gender-exclusive mutation and brainwashing, but women nonetheless.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The real Shinzo Abe resigned out of health concerns in August 2020. A month later, his stand-in for this story is blown up sky-high in a terrorist attack and the chapter gets published online on September 11. Furthermore, the scene appears to be a reference to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Luis_Carrero_Blanco the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco]].

* FoeYay:
** Serena molests and kisses Himeno either to taunt her or to pretend being friendly.
** Niho masturbates to her torture of Himeno and has the need to wear a dominatrix getup to whip her around. Himeno argues Niho must have fallen in love with her despite her intentions as a result of being [[spoiler:a fusion of Jirou's mind and Tokisaka's wasp-mutated body]].

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Himenospia'' was always known for being similar to ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' despite not being a FightingSeries, but it got really on-the-nose as it went on and from 2020 to 2021 it was published concurrently with ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}''. So the author essentially wrote ''Arachnid'' twice at the same time.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The story is set on an over the top WorldOfJerkass and the cast is filled with self-centered sociopaths out to destroy each other. Himeno herself grows darker and deluded during her time as a wasp queen; and no matter how she tries to fight back she still gets knocked around by people with way more experience and influence than her. A lot of the schoolgirls she stung and wants to protect end up killed as a result without receiving any real characterization. And unlike in ''Arachnid'' or ''Killing Bites'', even the campier aspects of the story don't lighten the mood much.

** The ending reveals from out of the blue that the red wasps [[spoiler:are manufactured by an unknown alien civilization, complete with a lone wasp ominously buzzing away into space. Cue the Giorgio A. Tsoukalos memes]].

* {{Squick}}: Something from ''Arachnid'' this doesn't have are female characters [[BringMyBrownPants wetting themselves from torture or fear]], so instead there's Niho [[EvilFeelsGood getting off]] to making Himeno [[PottyFailure suffer from food poisoning]].

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Himeno emerging naked from some kind of machine in the first pages of the story is never contextualized.

* HarsherInHindsight: The story begins with Himeno being forced to crawl naked around her school and it being recorded and spread online, with none of the school staff doing anything about it. In April 2021, a schoolgirl [[https://laptrinhx.com/news/body-of-japanese-girl-found-in-snow-reveals-history-of-bullying-though-principal-denies-it-ZrxEDn/amp/ was found dead in Asahikawa, Hokkaido]], and investigators uncovered the disturbing lengths of bullying and sexual harassment that led to her suicide after already jumping off a bridge two years before -- which the largely unpunished perpetrators were unrepentant about and that was denied as bullying by her school.

* HilariousInHindsight: ''Himenospia'' was always known for being similar to ''Arachnid'' despite not being a FightingSeries, but it got really on-the-nose as it went on and as of 2020 it is published concurrently with ''Manga/{{Blattodea}}''. So the author is essentially writing ''Arachnid'' twice at the same time.
* ItsTheSameSoItSucks: The author is known for writing multiple [[RecycledInSpace similarly-themed]] FightingSeries simultaneously, but readers familiar with ''Manga/{{Arachnid}}'' will quickly see this is outright a reimagining of various plot points from late in that story and with a smaller cast that's not as flashy or likeable. Looking for parallels between the two series can end up part of the fun, though.

** In Chapter 40, [[spoiler:Nagisa]]'s DyingDeclarationOfLove for Himeno is a genuinely heartrending scene, and yet the story ''still'' can't help itself from interrupting it to babble animal trivia about dogs and wasps being known to feel sadness just like humans!

* CaptainObviousReveal: The reveal of the "Sovereign" being [[spoiler:Nagisa]], on top of having some foreshadowing since the beginning, was quite obvious to readers familiar with ''Arachnid'' due to the story's numerous throwbacks to it.