Don't think that just because something is popular it must be necessarily good. It's trash. Well-drawn trash, but trash nevertheless.
Read it! It's good!
It's like saying "eat trash, it's good" ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
It can be good for some people, but to most it's not.
How is trash even good for some people? It's trash lol
gotta get more creative with comparisons buddy
That's exactly right. How is Harada even good for yaoi readers? It's Harada lol (≧∀≦)
Yeah she's not good for yaoi readers, she great for us! Ever read Yatamomo?
Yatamomo...A little, skipped some chapters and pages because it said the uke was a sex slave when he was younger. So I dropped it fast. That was a big no for me, get that pedo shit away from me, especially the prequel. I only read what the prequel is about, found the description disturbing.
quite a shame that is one of her positive love stories I can understand dropping it for that but damn the main relationship has a very cute development. She doesn't explicitly draw anything sexual with him as a child it's really just implied, more is shown when he's older. Believe me I despise shota myself and it made me wary but it wasn't as hard to digest for me. 95% of it is about the main couple and is probably Harada's most healthy couple. If you're a CSA survivor tho just disregard what I said
Had to search what CSA means. No, lol, I'm not. Never had that happen in my childhood, I had a happy childhood ^^
Just because I wasn't molested as a child doesn't mean I have to like shota or pedophilia. The same with you, you don't like shota.
But just the mention of sex slave as a child makes my stomach turn. If you've read Acid Town, it has some mentions of that in the main character's past. I didn't like the subject matter but the story treated it in a serious manner, and not in a sexual way. I recommend you read it if you haven't read it yet, it's mostly a shounen ai but some other sidecharacters have some steamy scenes later on (those characters are adults btw).
Harada treats shota in a far more sexual, fetish type of way, even though it says it's bad.
Is Harada's work really that bad? Someone told me that Harada is one of the best mangaka... (￣∇￣")
Everyone has their own opinions. Some people feel appealed by her works, and some love her works because they're so twisted. Fujoshis have become far more desensitized these past few years it seems. I personally found 2 of her works decent, as in not vile garbage, and the rest are vile garbage. If you're not into extreme shotacon and pedophilia I recommend you don't read Oniichan and Sumomo. I haven't read them (thank god, but I've read the description and it was enough to disgust me).
Thanks for explaining and warning me about that. Really helpful.
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tbh I thought it was treated in a tragic way in Yatamomo didn't seem sexual at all to me, though sumomo was hard to swallow tbh I agree. Where did I say you have to like shota though? I simply didn't want to have this conversation with you if you were a survivor I don't want to trigger someone unknowingly. That would be a pretty fucked up thing to do so I was just making sure.
Harada is controversial for a reason, her stuff is not for the faint of heart but if you like dark themes you might like her
I see, that friend of mine is the type who likes twisted thing, so that's explained it. Thank you very much for all the help.
no problem (⌒▽⌒)
The cover looks too boring which makes me think so about the contents. But when I take a close look at this manga's popularity, I was like Σ(っ°Д °;)っ ; don't judge a book by its cover.