
For anyone who is concerned: this comic features very heavy and serious moral dilemmas. Things like, incest, rape/ non-con, forced reconciliation of rape, abuse, genocide and polyamory. Now don’t get me wrong, this manga is a masterpiece. However you should be made aware of it, in case you have traumatically experienced such.

So as a legitimate criticism, the author straight up made the main character too unlikeable. And I don’t mean in the sense that he’s annoying, he’s genuinely a bad person with no redeeming qualities so we can’t root for him. If he had a motivation/ awareness of his toxicity we’d be able to hope he gets better but he literally doesn’t, so we just hate him instead.

I don’t quite think that’s true though. The main character does know he’s toxic, he’s admitted to it many times in this last chapter even (how he held a gun to Alex’s head, cheated on him, etc) i do agree he’s not a good person but i don’t think he’s irredeemable. He has many problems he needs to work through and he doesn’t understand his own feelings and how to convey them to Alex, but i do think that can be solved. Cole’s main problem is that he is extremely self conscious and is scared Alex will ultimately hate him if he expresses his thoughts, but i don’t think that’s something to hold against him. He also has a right not to want Alex to be a sperm donor, alex did ask him and he should have been prepared for Cole to say no and have a conversation about it instead of just getting mad and walking away. I think they both have problems and it’s not fair to solely blame Cole for it all.

Ew. Don’t say that. Do not lump him in with everyone with a mental disability. Also he literally said “there’s something cool about cutting” it was incredibly disturbing that he thought of it that way. And what I mean by irredeemable is that he never learns from his mistakes, he doesn’t grow even after acknowledgement. How is a reader supposed to root for a character that never changes?
Usually I’d just say the uke is annoying or the seme is stereotypical but the only way they can get away with an actual abuser and his pussyfoot bottom is if it’s a choice to redeem them next season. seme acts so childish and nobody ever checks him ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭