Vyn's Favorite

Maya does a 180 and changes to be a better person/partner for Nemu. I don't like labels and if I was to judge someone in real life, I would judge on who they are now and not who they were. Maya is a good man. Everyone deserve a second chance.

When we first meet Maya, he is a toxic person because he is a spoil rich kid that when through his parents having a bad divorce. His dad left them and he had not seen him for years. Maya's Mom, he talks about her but it seems she is not at the house often. A Kid with no parental guidance falls into a bad crowd. It is Nemu that pulls him out of that.

With Nemu, Yes, he did blackmail him. Yes, he did sexual assault him. Yes, he did coerce him to do sexual things. I don't know what he was thinking but i can tell he like Nemu when he did and did not know how to express himself. He likes a man which is new to him and this man does not pay attention to him but being scared of him. When the girls throw themselves at him. I am not saying what he did was right because the blackmail, rape, and sexual assault are hideous crimes. I am not say what he did was okay, I do wished the beginning was different. It is hard to tell how much Maya tried to get his attention because he did purposely "bump" into him the the teacher's office.

With that beginning said. Maya does coerce him and then Maya makes loves to Nemu. He is gentle, he lucubrates and prepares him, kisses him on the neck and lips, Has Nemu laying down on his jacket, asks if he is okay in one point. On page 30 when he said Nemugasa would be a moment a lover would said the other name. Maya was not brutal and I have seen some comments that makes him like that. This is not like the rape that happens in "Maki-chan wa kara to sex shitai." Maya caused a lots of new emotions in Nemu. Nemu was overwhelmed with emotions but Nemu could had fight it or reacted differently like gut-wrenching sobbing. For how I understand Maya from the rest of the Manga, I believed he would had stop if that happen. In a doujinshi from the author, Maya says, I never intended to force you into things... if you didn't want to, you could have told me...." in a different situation and after they started to date for real. And Maya has demonstrated he can't handle Nemu crying many times and wants to stop it. But I do take into consideration we don't know that much about that state of mind Maya is in at that time of the blackmail and he was not as attached to Nemu at first then later.
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/yasashiku_shinaide/tr/153500/page/2/

Also, Nemu was scared but when push comes to shove, he will stand up for himself. At any time he could had said no and lied to the teacher when asked about cheating, if that happen. Later he slaps Maya, he has scolded him, yelled at him. Nemu did not do any of this their first time. He was blushing/turn-on/embarrassed the whole way through after Maya asked him to masturbate. He went along with it and no thoughts about how he did not want to do it. He is over come by emotions when Maya touches him but did not react like he did not want with it. Maya could misunderstood Nemu actions and thought he did want it happen. Maya did coerce the blow job but Nemu only resisted before it happen. He could had fought it but he comply thinking how to do it instead of not wanting to do it or being forced into it. Maya had to teach him how to do it right and went back to it without resisting. He kind of seemed willing. Page 33 he says Maya, in Japanese it is just "Ma.." another place a lover would say others name... Not "no" or "stop".
the no on page 18 is actually "no way", the no on page 27 is actually muri meaning impossible. the no on page 34 is muri again. and where Nemu said hurts, it hurts. he said "i" in bubble and the next one is "ta" meaning it hurts but not what they put.
Nemu never acted traumatized, did not flinch when Maya grab him and dragged him. They meet Akira and later Akira is shocked when hearing the truth which means he did not pick up on anything the first time the meet which happen less than an hour (assuming) from when that happen? The second time Nemu came and he ask Akira would he help him study and it was Maya that said Nemu had a scholarship before Nemu could said it. Maya may had force him to go to the study sessions but it was to help Nemu and Nemu freely come after that. His forcing/possessiveness, was a toxic way of saying I like you. Maki from the manga I mention before is traumatized and his lover has to work with him.
When he is exposed for cheating and Maya gets him from the seven bar, he willing continues without being blackmailed. Later when Maya listens to Okino's story about almost being raped. The realization of what he did hits him hard, it really affects him and gets all depressed. When he asks about that he asks "that was rape wasn't" and Nemu answer was "huh?" and later in that scene Nemu said there was nothing to forgive, he already forgive him.
After read this many times, and getting to know the characters and how it done. I know Maya blackmailed and coerced a few things but I don't think rape was really one of those things. It does appear that way and kind of setup that way but taking everything into consideration I don't think it was. Maya did things wrong but he was a toxic person then. Now he is a good person cherishing Nemu and being a better independent people. He is maturing with the help of Nemu. So why hold the past which is only the first chapter, maybe adding the second to some, against him. Nemu change Maya into a good man. SO I think Nemu picked a good man. That happens to be a pervert and has an appetite of a bottom pit with sex.