Gay for the Gay God's manga / #Twisted(251)

Sex was hot, but also really concerning. Foreplay is important, kids!

This reminds me waaaay too much of Harada's Niisan and I am so uncomfortable.

This is one of those manga that has that weird snowfall feeling, like everything is quiet and it's just you and your feelings. As a survivor of abuse, I applaud how that relationship is not romanticized. It's fucked up, but both members in an abusive relationship are people, and we tend to forget that because it's more comforting if we separate ourselves from abusers.

This is what rape is actually like. Good on Harada for depicting it correctly. This manga doesn't faff about with the weird yaoi tropes of "gentle rape" and "rape to love": this shit is straight-up rape. The part with the stapler makes me flinch every time, too. Just... Oof.

This story touches on mental illness in such an interesting way. It's beautiful and fucked up all at once.

Shiro apparently gets a new name (Sora) in the extra, which I like: he leaves behind his past life completely, name included. Tora is a good man. And Sora? I empathize with him. A lot of times, it's hard to figure out how to trust someone, especially after abuse. One of my favorite things is seeing people like Sora struggle with putting themselves back together, because I understand it. And I love partners like Tora, who challenge their partners' perception of themselves. I wonder if it's because I've survived so much abuse that I read manga like these, where a person who is so much like me gets "saved". I think I wanna get saved, too.

This is kinda fucked up to me (well, all omegaverse is), but especially since it's the whole rape->love trope. I dunno. Art's nice, though. Story is typical omegaverse.

This is really interesting. It's stockholm syndrome, and I love how they both admit that, in a sense. I like how this manga acknowledges how fucked up the situation is.

This is so messed up. I love it.

This is fucking lit. I love the dynamic.