July's manga / #Incest(4)

Hmmmmm, I'm a little torn on this manga. There are some things the mangaka does really well, and some things they don't. I liked the conflict of having a father-son incest relationship seriously addressed, so the reader can sympathize with their taboo relationship, but I also feel that everything was resolved far too quickly and easily for such a controversial topic. And we never get to see how they lived the rest of their lives, do they tell their loved ones or do they keep it a close secret? I liked how time travel was a closed loop, to prevent the most glaring errors that occur in time travel fiction. Basically, in a closed loop, any changes made in the past don't affect the future because it has already happened, hence leading to the current present. Some things I don't like were: I don't understand their unfading attraction to each other, for something as taboo as father-son incest to occur, it would have been more convincing if the son loved the father for other qualities besides being cute and the father loving the son for being the only one he could talk to, it seems too superficial for me...there's 6 billion people in the world and there must be some deeper reason as to why those two are perfect for each other right? Also keep in mind, they loved each other for 22 years. So it needs to be more substantial, is what I'm saying. Because the manga tackles things like the ridiculousness of societal norms and railing against life itself, I know it's capable of being deep when needed, but it's not there. Also I don't like how much younger the father looks in the present compared to his son. It really, really bothered me. At least make them more similar in age... He looks like he's a teenager and his son looks like he's thirty something years old, when it's the reverse. I also don't like how the son calls his father by his first name. That irks me to no end. I don't care if you're in love with your father, but you definitely must follow the norms of addressing people, especially if there's a possibility of other people hearing you. It would bother me less if he didn't call him by his first name initially, and was only allowed to use it when they resolved their feelings for each other, as a sign of intimacy... Then that's better. They tried to explain it in the side story, but I don't buy it, especially for when the son just returned from the past. Still not appropriate to call your father by his first name, and you don't even know if he remembers you from the past...Anyway, this manga handled a difficult subject matter decently, so I do approve of it overall.

Very dark, twisted incest BL. Art is amazing for this short story. It ended on a surprise twist. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's short, and not great. It has lots of taboo content, but the art is atrocious, so it doesn't really do anything to help this already controversial manga. Story is basically non-existent. Seems more like a shock-factor manga than anything. It's not even the most disturbing thing I've read. Skip!

Part of the "Immoral Sex" BL anthology, but out of the three stories which are currently translated, this, along with "Poison and Sex" and "Monster Throne," this is the weakest of the three. It is also the shortest and very rushed. The father lost his entire family except for his eldest son, who he believes is a result of God's curse. The son is inexplicably in love with the father and rapes him everyday. It doesn't go anywhere and there's no resolution or conclusion. Very lackluster. Even the smut was boring. Art was very simple and below average even for a BL.