These guys are finally in tune with the other's emotions. But, instead of building an understanding, they're literally tearing each other apart. (￣∇￣")
This is too toxic. But, i still want them to find happiness, hopefully with each other. ┗( T﹏T )┛
'T/N: The word for 'taste' also means 'smell' and we all know this lecher meant taste.' I laughed way too hard at this!! Thank you for all your hard work translator, and for also inserting those double meanings so the integrity of the language and scene isn't lost.
Who da fuck is 5'10'' in 6th grade? Did his growth spurt just accelerate. Σ( ￣□￣||)
barron trump is, and I was 5'6 in 6th grade so
omg, he is. Though you dont really notice it with his parents also being really tall.
Damn it, why did i read his name as 'USA' and not usa. Σ( ￣□￣||)
Hetalia(⌒▽⌒)
I just short circuited.... ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄. Fuck, i wanna keep meilli to myself.
Tony stark....bruce banner? ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄
woohoo you hit the mark
The seme resembles Steve Rogers a bit too much...so would the uke be Tony Stark? I dig it ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
oh em gee when i saw the seme that's what i thought '' oh hello there captain america''. Uke don't resemble Tony much though sadly q.q
Actually Steve DIGS it. (=・ω・=)
Wait, so is she the one who payed waf to spy on connor and simon since their college years(⊙…⊙ )? I always thought the person on the other end was a simon fanatic, some old shit trying to grab dem young ass. Damn...she staged this whole thing: simon's contract with a company who pimps away their artists, breaking connor's fingers so he wouldnt have a chance to enter simon's world and perform with him, claim pregnancy to marry connor for herself.......fuck you Veronica!! (╬￣皿￣)凸 I just want my babies to be happy....them suffering through depression and drugs but still pulling themselves together for each other.... （/TДT)/ , please let them be happy. They fucking deserve it!
Also, having sent those images to connor's parents!! Fuck you Veronica!! Simon lost his only mother figure because of you!
don't forget paying the WAF to destroy Cafe Live so Dark Heaven would be jobless and Simon would be pressured to take the solo contract she paid off the skeezy old Chief to offer.
Oh sHIT you're right. I mean this bitch just went from fucked up to really fucked up to KILL IT WITH FIRE
This is the only shoujo that hasn't made me cringe even after diving headfirst into the flames of yaoi. Mori kaoru, thank you for this wonderful work, and for respecting the culture of 1800s central asia. Your attention to detail, and unbiased storytelling makes this story truly authentic which is hard to come by these days. Also, thank you for the extensive research you put into this work, it hasn't gone unnoticed and please keep doing what you do. The world of Otoyomegatari and ALL its characters have left such a huge impression on me, I am glad I took up this manga. ^-^
Some shoujos are really good. BUT you are right: this manga is AMAZING and SPECIAL for many reasons.
This isn't just "shoujo". It's high quality manga, I'd even call it "gekiga". In other words: real Art! Shoujo is manga for girls, and I'm an old guy, and I can't get over how good this is. I bet I'm not the only non-girl Kaoru fan. Hail lady Mori Kaoru sensei!! Anybody agree? (all say yes)
My husband loves this manga too and he's not even a manga reader . He saw me reading this and in his own words,"I'm addicted!" He starts reading other manga now and trying to get his Dad to read this manga
That's what I mean. Names like shoujo or shounen or yaoi are referring to one specific fragment of the readers public. Like Dance music or Country music. Really GOOD manga are like Mozart, Bach or Beethoven: anrybody who loves beauty and art, will love those.
Mrs Kaoru is one fine artist, one of the very best.
I hope she doesn't ruin her health working too hard, so she can enjoy her work and our admiration for a long time...
So, this one-shot features rape. Nothing new. Yaoi feeds on rape. I dont know why, but authors seem to think love can't blossom w/o rape. Well, that's fine too. It's their opinion. Nothing wrong with having opinions. The problem with my statement: I have just normalized rape in yaoi. Moving on, authors also seem to think rape is not a big deal, since all these victims recover almost instantly. Hence, rape becomes a means to an end, w/o it our MCs wont have their happily ever after.
Now, I get the whole 'It contains rape, don't like, don't read'. I am not a fan of rape, no one should be: it's a violation of the worst kind. But, I don't shy away from it. If a manga features it and handles it delicately, I especially love that work. It not, I am rather indifferent, I just ignore it so I can get to the better aspects of the manga/ manhwa.
But it just occurred to me, if rape was normalized on the big screens? How horrifying is that notion. So if it isn't fine on there, it shouldn't be fine on here. Especially when its handled so dismissively. Art imitates life, and life imitates art. There are consequences to such portrayals and we shouldn't let it slide.
However, I have noticed that many authors are moving away from this trend and have produced wonderful heart-wrenching mangas/ manhwas. So, i still have hope.
Also, there really isnt anything one can do if an author decides to feature rape, its their creative freedom. It's a waste of breath to condemn them. However, its within our abilities to encourage authors who don't feature it or at least not dismissively. If there is enough support for these authors, others are likely to follow. After all, its simple supply and demand.
My final thoughts on this manga: It really hurt to read this.
I agree, and while most understand that rape is not okay and people don't just get over it like it was nothing. Younger people do read these, despite it being adult content. I've seen on another manga featuring rape a person say "it's not rape because he liked it" and that is my biggest problem with normalizing rape in this context. It's hard to feature rape in a manga and have EVERYONE understand that this type of fictional rape doesn't represent reality, yes most will understand but the few is concerning. I pretty much have the same reaction to rape in manga at this point. It does nothing to/for me. But beside the fact the controversy on rape itself, hasn't the whole rape to move the story along gotten stale? In most manga it's boring and predictable at this point, so you would think we would have dropped this by now.
Change takes time, but at least its happening. Also, you did bring up something I wanted to address, but decided not to: 'Younger people do read these'. Now I am not pointing fingers at 'young' people, I am only drawing from my own experiences with yaoi. When I first started reading yaoi, I was 15-16. I was quite sheltered, and didn't really understand rape. The thing with these mangas featuring rape, they don't outright declare it as rape. It's implicitly understood by the reader, that 'no means no' and this is rape. I didn't know that, so when I would see the victims say 'no, dont...' etc. I couldn't take it seriously (also the author's portrayal didn't help either). I thought they were declining to have sex because they were of the same sex and not that it was a physical violation of their body. And my thoughts were almost always: don't worry the seme (I don't want to generalize that the seme only do the raping, but back then that was the case) will take care of you, and see you like it, now was that so bad. So yea, I had such moments and only slowly did I realize how fucked up I was. So to those justifying rape in manga, 'yo, its fiction, so chill', you've already been influenced by yaoi's portrayal of rape. You are justifying something that is morally wrong. Regardless, just remember, there is a very thin line between fiction and reality.