You might be right, but rape fantasy IS a thing. I’m not saying it’s good or bad, it just is a fact that rape fantasy is the most prevalent one (mainly in women, in fact).
Plus here, it’s not a matter of Stockholm Syndrome. Falling in love with your rapist is not the same as rationalizing your captivity and suffering by convincing yourself that your captor actually does all these bad things for you out of love, and erasing all their flaws. Most of those yaois with victims falling in love with their rapists are not Stockholm Syndrome.
And the last thing is that there actually is a feature in Japanese culture (and others), where women (or those with the female role) discharge themselves of responsibility by acting as if they are unwilling when they are not. Thus the notion of rape is a bit more blurry in Japanese culture than in Western culture (for better or worse).
Iam agree with you . This manga used to be one of my favorites, but now i re- read it I ve been thinking about the rape , the manipulation and Blackmail and the me right now i cannot find the romanece anymore. （￣へ￣）
About falling in love with a rapist, well I am concerned . You see one of my friends is a hard fujoshi for years. She told me that she was raped by her employer and my friend was really affected . The rapist continued for a long time even he hit her many times and my friend was afraid to lost her job so she could'nt go ro report him . She told me " If this continues I don't know what to do if I fell in love with him like in YAOI mangas, 'cause he's married" . I was in shock .I am not a therapist or sth but I assume that is a way to avoid the reality or as a xomment before it is cultural. ╥﹏╥
Oh my god, that's so fucked up. That's what shity plot like these romanticizing rape does to immature yaoi fans. Your friend has gotten way too engulfed into the unrealistic yaoi fantasies and is mixing up the concept of what's right or wrong, doubting herself to that extent where she's scared she might fall in love with her rapist. I really hope she stays strong and gets justice. May her rapist gets caught red handed and pays for his sins.
Exactly I am agree with you. I was ok with rape in yaoi but no anymore. I am glad that many authors have been changing this rape plot in their mangas.
Seriously, does every seme needs to be a rapist and does every uke needs to have stockholm syndrome? This is seriously getting boring. Just so you know, a human never falls in love with his/her rapist. Because rape is one of the nastiest and cruelest mental+physical agony one can ever go through. It brings you nothing but creeping depression and hatred. It's high time yaoi manga really needs to change this filthy concept. This is most probably the 50th time I'm seeing the same concept....what a pity.