Whoa. Are you seriously pulling the "he liked it too much" card? You are aware that he was drugged, right? And that orgasm during rape is a physiological response and not uncommon. Next you'll suggest it wasn't rape because Akihito didn't get pregnant. Dislike Akihito for being heedless and too trusting, but let's don't stoop to slut-shaming him for having an orgasm during a drugged assault.
Again, you sound like a jealous woman. Move on. Asami has.
girls, I mean al of you, chill out, I expressed a personal preference. A story with only one good character wouldn't be able to live so long. I might be wrong - it is a chat, after all, it's easy to et the wrong impression - but it seems to ma you take it all to a personal level, and it's not the case. It's only a proof of how good the mangaka is, when different people find different reasons to love the plot.
I have no idea what's on the mangaka's mind, but I had the impression that she achieved such a great success she had to go on incessantly without the previous inspiration. I fell like I've been misunderstood - I wasn't trying to slay any characters, it's only good when different people find different reasons to love the plot. For me, Fei Long character was a more intense one back then, than the others actually are, because of his troubled past AND present. He's considered to be a man of honor, but "honor" is really something else. It's not easy to reply the impact of a character like that, and requires a good writer to abandon such a strong figure. Then, we could discuss what makes a manga "popular" I sometimes thinks that as far as it goes from reality, the better it is. The characters who tickle the "romantic" view of the readers surely are those with the highest success - even though n reality there's nothing romantic about them. To read others people's reactions is very interesting, to me. Very interesting.
Posts like yours are the reason I still come here to read the comments section every now and then, because they give me a new insight into the characters or, for lack of better word "food for thought", making me look at things from a different angle. I really like the way you think here and I think you "get" all those different layers to the characters.
Quite right, none of knows what the mangaka is thinking. As far as we are concerned, it's really only guess work. And it really is one thing I have been often wondering about: Why, out of all these characters, did she give Fei this rather detailed background story? Sure, it was necessary to lay the foundation for the relationship between this triangle relationship between Fei - Asam - Akihito three years later, no doubt about that. And it was certainly necessary that way and it works. It's still interesting though, that we never got a bit more of a background for Asami or Akihito. I get it with Asami: Sensei keeps him in the "mist" or the "shadow" on purpose, it adds to the whole enigmatic, mysterious aura. But there was no need for that with Akihito, yet we still know fairly little about his background (other than his friends - and we haven't seen them in ages). So those are questions that alwas leave me intrigued.
Oh, and for what it's worth, I didn't feel like at all you were trying to slay any of the characters. I like what you said: It can only be a good thing, when different people have different reasons to like a story. As long as we can all agree that we like something about it, that our reasons for liking it are all valuable and that there really is no problem and we all have a common denominator. :)
My one and only reason to go on with this story is Fei Long. I adore him, he reminds me of someone. Of course the manga itself is a masterpiece, but it's kinda laborious after all this time, for me, and the story is like loosing attraction to my eyes… but I'll hold on, because I can't miss Fei Long, whenever he might come back. If I ever felt in love with someone else's character, that's him. Thanks for the update to Ch. 3!