Can’t blame you on how EXTREMELY ROCKY this manga started. If I read this book I would've agreed with you on how this is tolerating sensitive topics that…really shouldn’t be glorified or as if it were nothing.
I can’t even try to defend this manga and I won’t try (〜￣△￣)〜
A lot of BL mangas during these times focused on such topics for some reason, so it was unfortunately the norm. Despite knowing how bad it was going to be, I’ll give you props for trying to read and understand the odd liking for this book ^^’
no yeah I get it'll get cute at the end and whatnot, and I know it was probably more socially acceptable to joke about that kind of thing literally 20 years ago, but it was just a struggle lol
I completely understand not being comfortable with this series. I'd thought I'd mention that his homophobia stems from him being sexually assaulted by a male professor in the prequel manga challengers.
As far as going to America, he doesn't trust his brother’s fiance because his thinks kurokawa (the partner) who's in his 30s Is taking advantage of his young brother tomoe who is 18ish. Not that any of this is an excuse, just wanted to explain.
As for senpai always saying no, it turns out it's quite common in Japan to be more indirect during sexual stuff because of their culture around sex being taboo (i may not be explaining this part the best so feel free to disregard). It's hard to explain but I agree it gets tiring to see. The first two sexual encounters between senpai and Morinaga were SA but after that it was consensual (by senpais reasoning)
This certainly isn't an easy read for new readers which is why the bulk of us got into while we were much younger so we kinda grew up with this lol. I imagine I wouldn't be able to read it if I just found it as well
oh word I didn't have that context I haven't read the prequel lmao
ty for telling me king I appreciate it
<3
Kurokawa is only a year older than Souichi, so he's about 26 at that point in the story... That's still a 8 year age gap between him and Tomoe but still... he's not in his 30s. (At the current time in volume 15 he would be 29)
Ahh my mistake! thank you for correcting me, I misremembered that haha
alrighty everyone I'm up to vol 4 chapter 2
and I'm gonna be so real I just can't
I can't read this anymore
I'm not trying to be a hater or anything, it's just my personal opinion, and you wouldn't be wrong for enjoying this
but I personally just couldn't read it
Ok first of all he's literally homophobic
it's hard enough to read it when society's homophobic regularly, but for the uke to be homophobic? Blatantly, unironically, completely seriously homophobic.
Like as someone that's experienced homophobia, it's just hard to read his literal hate speech about queer people ALL THE TIME
Like the first time it's like "haha gag funny he's homophobic and gay whatever"
but like every chapter?? "you homos" "it's disgusting" GENUINELY wanting to go to america just because america legalised gay marriage? that's just weird and hateful.
Secondly!!!!!!! Literally assault??
REALLY REAAAAAALLY DUBCON
like the con is so dub I'm having trouble even considering it con
I get that the uke is tsundere and there's the whole weird thing about if he really wants it or not and he can be blackmailed 'because it's him' but hello??????
I can't imagine liking someone so much only to assault them.
Again, it's just hard to read when the uke is just constantly begging for him to stop and saying no all the time.
I'm sure it gets cute eventually, and again this is just my opinion, but grrrr this is just a hard read.