I feel like this a big miss. The smut is good yeah, but at what cost? I'm okay with delayed consent tropes and all that stuff we usually see in yaoi. I'm used to it. But more important, the authors have a way of making it look okay somehow in the end. The couple clicks, you see them happy, you are happy. And then you have stories like these, were the author crosses a line. Where is it? I don't know. I think it's really thin and you need to thread carefully your story not to cross it. But when they cross it, the one doing the pushing starts to make you feel uncomfortable. He turns creepy. Like the guys hounding you in real life. And that's not what we want. Specially when you are trying to absorb the reader into your world so much that they can surpass the delayed consent trope. If you fail, and your story evoques something different than what you wanted to, you end up with characters like Ryonosuke. "You can't say no". Taking advantage of another pervert missed opportunity to assault someone. (Had the story be threaded with more finesse we may have even taken that lightly). And then we have Maki, a character that the author used as a wake up call, except it didn't work so well as he pointed out also the readers everything wrong with Ryonosuke in an explicit way. Now there's nowhere to hide the character's shortcomings. They are there. And are not even solved by the end. To make matters worst we don't have Maki's story, which at this point I could count it as a blessing out of fear the character could be ruined by a half assed story. In the end, I cannot understand how can this story get above 8 stars
I feel like this a big miss. The smut is good yeah, but at what cost? I'm okay with delayed consent tropes and all that stuff we usually see in yaoi. I'm used to it. But more important, the authors have a way of making it look okay somehow in the end. The couple clicks, you see them happy, you are happy. And then you have stories like these, were the author crosses a line. Where is it? I don't know. I think it's really thin and you need to thread carefully your story not to cross it. But when they cross it, the one doing the pushing starts to make you feel uncomfortable. He turns creepy. Like the guys hounding you in real life. And that's not what we want. Specially when you are trying to absorb the reader into your world so much that they can surpass the delayed consent trope. If you fail, and your story evoques something different than what you wanted to, you end up with characters like Ryonosuke. "You can't say no". Taking advantage of another pervert missed opportunity to assault someone. (Had the story be threaded with more finesse we may have even taken that lightly). And then we have Maki, a character that the author used as a wake up call, except it didn't work so well as he pointed out also the readers everything wrong with Ryonosuke in an explicit way. Now there's nowhere to hide the character's shortcomings. They are there. And are not even solved by the end. To make matters worst we don't have Maki's story, which at this point I could count it as a blessing out of fear the character could be ruined by a half assed story.
In the end, I cannot understand how can this story get above 8 stars