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.
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).
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.
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.