I am going to review comics with sex in them, and you can't stop me! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Mou can be read as a transition journal, albeit one given meaning through retrospection; we are told that V.A.L.I.S. Every human in the world of Dear Mother is created in this image, the contours of their form stretched like musical notes held alarmingly long. The title story, "Dear Mother", is the most traditionally-styled rendition of this theme.