there is just no reason children and sex should be in the same panels like bro this is gross
Personally I think it's weird you're actually associating the children with sex. Like yeah they're kids at one point in the panel, they're not having sex AS kids. They're adults having mildly consensual sex. Yeah I agree it's weird to have actual underage kids in a panel that also has sex, but as long as the artist isn't drawing them AS kids having sex or AS kids watching it I really can just ignore it cs I'm not worried about children bruh and you really shouldn't be either
I went back and in the last chapter they say they love him HE THINKS BACK TO THEM AS CHILDREN and the next panel is him giving them oral and having sex I mean the entire storyline is about a man who knew them as kids and decides to be in a sexual relationship so no I’m not “associating the children with sex” this entire storyline is based off pedophila and im pointing out how the author was showing that with the way they formatted the scenes the fact that the obvious pedophila/grooming is not throwing you off because “they are adults” is wild
The sleeping assault was still assault
The MC does say that it was still rape even though it was just the 2nd base (during his musings the day after in ch5), but excuses the ML because technically the ML is a "newborn".
Also, a lot of people irl (mostly men) does not consider it rape if there's no penetration going on and this is more prevalent in East Asian countries sadly. Heck, a lot of Japanese men (and women) does not even consider it cheating when the men bang a hooker despite them being in a relationship-- you can imagine what sort of shit is on the Japanese side of the internet that the ML "learned" from. The fact that he asked for consent before entering was a small mercy as it is.
Plot-wise, the somno thing became a factor why the MC's belief that the ML does not really knows what he wants solidified. I hope the author expanded on it more though but it was rushed at the end. Maybe if this had 2 volumes, the pace would have been nicer.
The way I’ve never really enjoyed GLs but the fact that this isn’t a GL is so frustrating if I see a man I don’t even know if i want to continue like this would be such a great GL whyyyyyy