Ahhh... We won't find a middle found here, since it's entirely a cultural thing.
Here in France, it's not , you'll be sanctioned differently for coercion and rape, if anything at all. Rape is strictly defined by the forced insertion of something in a non consenting person's body. Even sexual assault is considered lightly and perpetrators are barely punished for it.
I don't know how it goes in Japan so I can even less have a definite opinion on this matter.
Well which aspect then? XD
I mean, words have definitions and even if you choose to ignore the legal aspect, rape is still the action of penetrating someone's body without their consent, coercion is convincing them to engage in an action with violent/questionable methods, and on a totally personal level, talking to me without my consent is totally raping my ears as You're forcing your voice inside my ears when I clearly do not consent to any kind of interaction x')
So the legal aspect seems to be the more objective lol
I blocked this person, I don’t think they’ll be able to interact with my comment anymore. That troll was definitely trying to get a rise out of rational people like you and I (probably because they have nothing better to do with their life) and I have little to no tolerance for shit stains like them blowing up my notifications. Thank you for your efforts to correct their dangerously false narrative on such an important and sensitive subject.
Why do so many manga writers jump start their characters "relationships" with r*pe?! The majority of manga readers are women & most us rightly aren't comfortable seeing sa being normalized & turned into the foundation of a relationship.