This is the first time I want to delete a character from the existence of yaoi ...I want to Nii-chan disappear, for good. I want him being hit by a bus or an airplane falling over him. I really hate HATE that guy, because it's so close to reality that's disturbing and at least I want that fictional character pay for the psychological damage he's doing to Yui. I said before that I didn't have any interest to read another work from this mangaka but curiosity got me at the end and I choose the most disturbing one, I think. I blame latest updates option. And I don't read shota because NOPE, but then I said, it's Harada and maybe she's trying this in another way and HELL yeah, yes doing it, she's actually writing something related to what we usually read in the news and I'm just UGH!
She's like using yaoi to draw/write about that dark and tainted side of human nature. And btw she's being accurate about certain things (about how that pedo manipulate that child and later how cruel and disgusting he's being to get in some way his revenge). Maybe she's a psychiatrist and this is a way to vent all that disturbing reality she has to put up in her profession. Or she's very good investigating shit or something.
I know that probably this will turn in some creepy ¿love? story... but ok, I hope that Yui can make that fucking bastard suffer in a way (I'll try to get into this plot and go with the flow of it BUT I STILL HOPE YUI CAN MAKE THAT BASTARD FEEL HORRIBLE FOR ONCE)
Tbh i either want nii chan to die and yui finds a boy he likes that cares for him and they are both in love or nii chan ends up loving and caring about yui. Im srry im into this fucked up story and i get all giddy and excited. but if this happened in real life of course i wouldnt like that.
Oh, I'm not trying to shame anyone over their fiction--I read it. But I like your second option--falling for someone good. Of course, that's like her Momo stories.
I think part of why many of us of conflicting feelings about Harada's work is that like many yaoi/shota, the children are emotionally, psychologically, and sexually little adults. The stories are complex and compelling, and the art is beautiful--but we have to suspend disbelief about how we know real children are to accept these fictional children who want sex (and understand all it entails) and adult relationships. All fiction does something like that--but because of the raw emotional truths in the story and how close this feels to some real life situations, for many of us part of our minds balk at these things happening to kids--not because they don't happen, but because they shouldn't, and of course in real life, no kid is ever to blame or "looking for it". Because it's fiction, I can still read it, but because it involves a kid, it still makes me uncomfortable in a way doing horrible things to adult fictional characters does not. At least the story moved on to him being in high school. Still, I find myself wanting to protect this character instead of wanting to see him have sex, which is an odd feeling in yaoi.