I've said this before on this site but I really think Japan as a society tend to romanticize selfishness and self-destruction. Whoever has these personal issues in a story always get to act however they want, hurt the one they love in the process, and get no flack for it. Is it like an internalized longing to be as they are and to be understood for it and suffer no consequences? I think so. Idk maybe it's just meee
I've said this before on this site but I really think Japan as a society tend to romanticize selfishness and self-destruction. Whoever has these personal issues in a story always get to act however they want, hurt the one they love in the process, and get no flack for it. Is it like an internalized longing to be as they are and to be understood for it and suffer no consequences? I think so. Idk maybe it's just meee
Do y'all notice that a lot of Japanese bl manga seem to be written with the same pattern?
- Innocent uke falls in love with experienced seme
- Experienced seme has personal issues
- Those personal issues cause problems in their relationship, so seme pushes uke away/breaks up with him
- It's the uke that chases seme and they end up together again
Please tell me some of you notice it too because I've been reading Japanese bl mangas for years and more so recently and have been noticing this pattern so much from different bl manga authors that I thought I was reading from the same author.