Bruh don’t just throw around words like 'grooming' so easily. I blame Tumblr and Twitter for that though.
If you read the prequel, the story is literally just about how a grown man being friend with a kid for a karaoke competition—it's funny, it's dumb, it's that simple.
He didn’t 'technically' or 'subtly' manipulate Satomi to influence him. This dude just wanted to get good at singing.
Kyouji wasn’t even interested in Satomi in that way—at least, the mangaka hasn’t shown us any of that yet. And Satomi only realized (and is still in denial about) his feelings when he was already an adult. And that’s actually natural. People often don’t realize how much someone or something means to them until it’s gone. Satomi saving money for Kyouji to remove his tattoo and just parting ways with him but he is actually doesn't want that, thus that mystery hug.
i actually did read the prequel also ive been groomed so i kinda have experience sorry if the 30-40 year old guy met him when he was in middle school-high school and now college and now the guy is wondering if he likes him its kinda weird i love the mangaka tho i just like to have media literacy
Then you're just projecting your own experience to this harmless work. And that's totally fine, people do that all the time. While I don't want to talk about your past experiences.
It's kinda funny your definition of grooming is when an adult getting along with a kid even without malicious reasons. Whatever floats your boat then.
yess ::claps:: thank you for handily responding. agree with everything you said about the overuse of the term "grooming" on social media diluting it's actual meaning in common parlance (if you want to sound even smarter in the future you can refer to this phenomenon by its actual name: "semantic drift"), and your naming the projection that may be at play for OP. so happy to see people who talk sense on here, just had to give some praise.
agree! user justpassingby nailed it.
Damn the dislikes are crazy. Sorry ur getting jumped by ppl dismissing ur real life experience, there's no world in which a grown 40+ old man getting into a rs with someone he knew since middle school is NOT creepy. Hell even if they met as adults, Satomi is like 20 that's still way too young and also would be creepy *if* this story takes that turn (I'm hoping it doesn't!). I don't think Satoni is wrong for feeling that way, but if kyoji acts on it yeah it's done bro
Hey OP, I just want to say that I’m sorry your personal experiences have been dismissed by those three other repliers. It seems like they already like a lot of taboo stories so they would’ve been negative towards you regardless.
Although Kyouji wasn’t trying to be romantic towards Satomi, I understand why you might feel this way since the narrative was meant to be more ambiguous. Just make sure not to take those replies to heart.
Omghee, i didnt know god is here in the comment section telling people what not to do.
okay d1 reddit user
thats literally what im getting at like im not saying that he IS a groomer im just having media literacy
sorry guys im not the best at articulating my words so i shouldve clarified i was being more hypothetical in my comment but its okay
idk how to feel because the guy has known him since he was in middle school so he technically subtly groomed him but idk! i dont wanna say its okay cuz i dont think they shohld have a relationship with how they met and the age gap but