The most recent chapter is about farm village with foreigners (you see where I’m headed with this) and they’re black number one, there noses are super pronounced as a way to “differentiate” from the Koreans (wtf?) and one of the bully’s is black (ofc a black guy is a villain, playing into caricatures, they make mention of him being Ethiopian like that adds anything??) the TRPA gets involved and the teacher is from East Harlem (I’m literally from Brooklyn, dub Harlem tf) he uses racism as a way to combat racism by 1. Calling black people, blacks/blackies 2. Calls him a fxcking nxxxx. That was the worst thing I’ve ever read in my entire life whoever proof read that and the author as well. Like why did we have to villain the black guy just to get a point of r@cism across??? We could’ve used colorism and talk about SA vs EA discourse but come on now… so many other things
oh yeah FOR SURE. Especially since Korea is such a radical conservative country, pushing the white savior complex with blue eye blonde hair half European fxck. Like ok Asians go through racism, but it’s SOOOO prevalent with white people since THEY STARTED IT FIRST???? But colorism is wicked that anyone pale is more attractive and pure than something darker. Never thought I’d see a minstrel caricature in broad daylight on a manhwa I’m reading on mangago. Knee slapper
There's another story that's a japanese manga where one of the characters use black face to commit a mass shooting. it's also a pretty well known manga too and it's on this site. A lot of this stuff isn't even really hidden. I see it pretty frequently. Maybe not in bl or other romance genres, but in the shounen/seinen genres (and maybe other ones but I'm not too sure) it's actually pretty common. Same with homophobia, and that counts even for yaoi
It's messed up lol
Keeps you on your TIP TOES. One of a kind BL book that definitely touches on many topics with the LGBT community. Stigmatism, getting older and being traumatized from younger experiences and how when you’re young your perspective on things will be different from how you remember it when you are older. So happy something like this was made because it’s a life lesson in a nutshell, reads like the 10 years where I loved you the most and is quite bittersweet. 9/10