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I think it's too normalized I've seen some authors put disclaimers but I think Mangago itself should have an actual warning tagging system cuz sometimes I dive into a manga without reading them and immediately i feel sick

Sorry for the typos in the original post. I had to edit it. There seems to a bug in the site, where the replies disappear as soon as the OP is edited. Someone has to post another reply for all the replies to appear again.

I find Western webcomics are more likely to warn for triggers at the start of a chapter than Korean manhwa or Japanese manga. If there are warnings in the latter, it's usually added by the English translators and not the authors themselves.

You should also keep in mind that some of the legal sites that these manga/manhwa are being ripped from have age restrictions (or at least they used to). I recall Naver, Bomtoon, and Toonmic used to require age verification to read their mature series. I imagine the lack of warnings is also partially due to cultural differences concerning mental health and awareness.

If the official sites have it, then the uploaders here are not putting those warnings?

I am Asian, and I would really appreciate if authors and uploaders start considering mental health. I am not saying they have to put warning for all kinds of stuff. But rape, child related sensitive content should have warning. Child related stuff should not be normalized, period.

I think you've misread what I wrote. The official Korean sites do not have warnings. They have age verification and restrictions.

Oh. Got it. Thanks.

Then it's just bad if the official sites themselves do not have these warnings.

But even if there's no warning in the actual manga , there's many warning in comments.... But of course there's none on new manga so u have to wait for a while before someone post the warning in it

I partially agree to this. Yes we can get the info from the comments, but that does not always work. First it's not glaringly obvious which Trigger warning should be. Second, if the manga has a lot of discussion going on, then you might not find it on first page. And I don't know how many people actually go through all the comments.

But yes, someone adding the trigger warnings in the comments is greatly appreciated.

Painter of the Night _ Mad Dog _ (both ML were raped in their childhood.)

Thank you. I remember reading Painter of the night, but I don't remember any child r@pe in that. I think he was physically and mentally abused.

Any more suggestions?

Everybody has dark hair in Painter of the Night , obviously. (It's historical) _ and yes it is implied that if ML has turned out to be a sex addict (suffering from priapism as they say) in his adulthood, it is because his childhood was robbed from him, and that he suffers from the consequences of multiple sexual assault facilitated by his father (!) _ it's in the end of the story in the redemption arc of ML. _ the servant is the one explaining the history of the ML to the MC.

That's so messed up. Father doing that to his child is just... No amount of torture is enough for them. Why have children when you yourselves are going to abuse, r@pe or sell them into prostitution.
Sorry, I read it a long time ago, so I might not have read the later parts. I will check it out.

I don't know what you are trying to prove , but to me it's obvious that the authors are japanese or Korean or chinese so that means the majority of the population in their country ( where the story takes place ) are dark haired . The choice of various hair colours in manga is made only for aesthetic reason ( and to make the MC look outstanding so as to make the potential readers to want to dig in when they see the MC and the ML on the cover of the comic ! ) different hair colours help the readers easily distinguish between the many different characters in the story as well. The norm in these countries for children is to be born with dark hair. It's called genetics!!! _ characters that are not dark haired are implied either to be mixed raced, but more often are implied to have used hair dyes or so once growing up, so basically what I am saying is that the majority if not all and every characters had dark hair in their childhood because they are born from asian parents and they are characters written by and for asian people.

Now before saying that every author viciously chose to harm the ML because the ML was dark haired (is that what you are saying?) You could go ask every author , why they chose to make the MC look different than the ML, and why was the ML the one who had to have dark hair. (But again a lot of characters in those stories have dark hair, the other hair colour are the exception !) _ I guess that would lead to an interesting conversation ! _ I feel that you are angry with those authors for some reasons, but only the authors could give their own reasons (but again it's probably not '' racial domination '' and '' discusting fetishism '' if the authors are asians themselves and living in asian countries and writting for asian people ? It's just that all children have black hair !!! _

I totally agree with you that majority of these characters are not foreigners. Which is exactly my point, why would such high number of people in these countries dye their hair. If I am not wrong many work places and schools have strict rules against it. But all these manga clearly depict them being students and in workforce.

And how come predominantly only the people who dye their hair end up being uke, seme with tragic past, male characters in other genre with tragic past. Heck even women (leads) in hetero manga/anime end up having predominantly light hair, in countries with predominantly dark hair.

Now the issue I have with this is exactly with the depiction. Why are light colored hair considered aesthetic pleasing or why does MC look outstanding only with light colored hair or if you are saying it helps in distinguishing ML and MC why not have the light haired guy predominantly be the seme instead of uke.

These may look like small things but often times there are very deep rooted problematic reasons for these choices - like wanting to racial dominate due to past grievances or abuse, or severely deep seated insecurities where you are not comfortable in your skin.

You might say people are just reading it for fun, why bring up this at all? Many people are actually highly influenced by content they see in movies, read manga etc. These things have a very deep psychological effect on them unconsciously. Have you ever heard of White/Fair skin obsession. It's rampant in east, south and south-eastern Asia. Food for thought.

Note: I know Painter of the night has everyone with dark hair and hence why I read it. I am not saying all the manga have need to dark haired characters, but at least strike a balance where it's not just majorly light haired uke. Also create more manga with all dark hair being encouraged.
1. Because feeling comfortable in your skin is important.
2. Because may be sometimes letting go of past grievances is the answer. The people who abused your kin or ancestors are most likely no longer here. So there is no point taking it out on the people who are living now.
3. Because black does not represent men and white does not represent women. White is neither weak nor innocent. And you don't have to force yourselves to fit into these stereotypes.

Of course just me thinking this and posting about this is not going to change anything. At most a few people might agree. Majority would just think of this as a nuisance and ignore it, but I am stubborn like that.

Here seme got raped as a child by his own mother -
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/umbilical_sex/

Obsession with white/fair features is a thing. And it is exactly because the authors are Asian themselves I am saying this. Because this is a THING in China, Korea (ever heard of plastic surgery), Japan, Indian subcontinent, Indonesia, Vietnam and so on..

Also I think you misunderstood something. All my comments about disgusting author was about not condoning child r@pe, making the child in question say "Even thought he was not a good father and r@ped me, he is still my father." as a grown up, writing explicit child r@pe and severely twisting up genetics.

Honestly I have been reading/watching manga/anime for 2 decades, BL in the last decade. I am not a personal who is active on social media. Heck I don't even have any social media accounts except fb which I do not use. I opened this account very recently because I was done with this. I was hoping things would be better at some point.

Back in the day there was this huge disturbance in the BL fandom about height stereotypes. Because people were seeing that pattern, were sick of it and started raising their voice about it. So more people are aware and acknowledge that is a stereotype today.

Also about speaking with the author, maybe in the future. As I said I am not much of a social media person. But logically speaking, authors mostly only want to write things which sell. If I can't even convince people here of this stereotype, how can anyone expect that I can convince the author.

So yes, part of it is because I am pissed off, but definitely not at the authors but at their works. Except for one author (I don't remember their name) who I coincidently found wrote 3 of those problematic books (Those were her only works). When all her books have either child rape, grooming, teacher-school student relationships, child prostitution and severe abuse with out properly condoning them, can you really say I can't be angry. Otherwise, I generally do not look at the author name when picking up a book and do not care.

Thanks for you reply, but kindly read the request.

Sorry for the typos. Also I went of the tangent and deviated from my original request again. Sorry about that.

Anyway back to the point. Still looking for suggestions and would appreciate your help.

Any more suggestions?

I meant condemning not condoning. Sorry for the typo. I just realized it.