I have never agreed with someone more also your brave for putting this hear because the amount of times I've been attacked on this site for saying I don't like rape is wild
I understand where you are coming from. Although I'm an author (novels not manga) who does this to my mc. Not for a back story but to vent and cope with my past where I dealt with SA. I can't vouch for the other authors but some people projects their past on to their characters to cope or get over their past. Sorry, I'm not saying you're wrong or criticizing you.
I'm scared of getting attacked too honestly but its okay. I just wanted to put talk about it. Thanks for reading it
God I don't know what to say. You're right and I understand your point too. I'm really sorry you had to go through that. I think there are writers who understand the depth of it and do justice to it then there are some who just throw it in and never properly address it. I think that's where the difference comes in. But I get your point
yeah. Most of my mc's deal with abuse/r*pe or something of the sort but I don't romanticize it. Some do end up with their abuser but it's more like after a huge redemention (misspelled that) arc. Or they move on with help from their s/o.
I agree sooooo much and I'm glad you brought this up. I'm starting to see r*pe in so many new stories (and old ofc) as if it were a trope and romanticized. It got to the point where I have to take a break from manga sometimes. Ofc there's stories that use the topic extremely well and delicately but when authors use abuse casually or even as a comedic factor it disgusts me.
What's worse is when they add it in a romanticised way. Like when they think its cute that the uke says "no" and doesn't want to do it but for them it just means "YES, u want more".
Like that's even more messed up bcs there's none of the tragic past, abusive dad or debt.
Exactly its fucking disgusting. Old stories are notorious. And then there's literally every other manga here, new ones, that follow the same trope and somehow people are okay with it and are still reading it. Its baffling. I cant get myself to read it too and I just drop stuff like that.
bl is another level. Theres assault that's not even seen as assault. tlike every other bl has this story line where the uke is like no I'm tired and the seme doesn't listen??? I mean what even is this, is this supposed to be cute or romantic because its not.
Right and the fact with so many of these mangas the rape is so unnecessary and treated like nothing like you can literally take it out of the story and it would still make perfect sense but the author just wanted to draw the uke getting raped by some random for who knows why literally the reason so many of my fav manga quickly became mangas I hated like dear door it was brutal
Same but if I dare to put in the comments that I'm dropping it and disappointed by the rape I get torn apart made out like I'm the weirdo for disliking it bl as well as the whole community is absolutely wild
OMG dear door was so RANDOM, so unnecessary.
Literally crazy. Bcs the work was rly rly popular and well loved so it's not like they even had to follow the "trend" to be popular.....and all of a sudden he gets raped by some rando??
I genuinly think some of these authors have a mental illness.
THIS sometimes it just comes out of no where and I'm like wtf? That wasn't necessary at all? Authors must have a collective fetish bc there is NO reason some stories needed r*pe/sa (the best luck of my life, Rix Vanus, roses and champagne, Hosiks story) I could go on forever
I have PTSD from my past r@ape and abuse so I project it onto my characters. Is that bad??
NO but bad writing is bad writing
I understand that's your coping mechanism.
I hope u get better.
thanks
Y'all everyone who replied, thanks for it. I read something really bad yesterday and everyone was okay in the comments while my mind was buzzing. So I came here to rant a bit, I didn't think anyone would agree or engage. I feel better now after knowing that I'm not the only one who gets triggered by this and that other people also hate it. Didnt expect a healthy conversation on mangago. Have a good day all of you and thank u for replying
I really wish authors would stop using the r*pe trope. There's something deeply messy about adding a r*pe scene to a character's past to give the character depth. And I feel like it's been happening way too many times and quite often unnecessarily. Especially with child abuse. There's something very wrong with using r*pe to make your work popular. It's not a mechanism to cash on. I don't know how to explain it but I really don't understand how someone could use something so serious just so... casually. Just sitting and deciding what to use to make the main characters oast tragic and it's- dad who drinks, mom who left and a pinch of r*pe and bullying to garnish. Sometimes its necessary, sometimes it's just unnecessarily added to make main character the main character. I just really really hope that this would stop and people would call out authors like this because I know for a fact that someone who has actually been r*ped doesn't feel like they're a main character in a story at all. It's a painful experience, too painful to be used for going viral or to build a tragic past.