TheMidnightower's manga / #dubious enjoyment(3)

I'm usually not a big fan of these kinds of stories but I appreciate this one because it's actually really well done. It's not torture porn or overdramatic or full of charachters that are making completely madcap choices. One half is trying to be helpful and distancing himself because of understandable reasons and the other half is rightfully messed up, was deprived of the support he should have gotten, and desperate for connection. It's understandable why one can't disengage when the warning signs are present and the other is incapable of properly handling his emotions. Not really eager to see how this plays out but interested to see if it maintains this kind of subtle nuance throughout.

Okay so, something about this worked for me earlier since the plot seemed like a more realistic and less extreme take on the whole being locked up thing, and I didn't dislike it early because the MC was cunning and straight up a crap human. It becomes evident things are pretty weird pretty early on but damn the twists that this one takes means that we get an actual goddamn plot petty good at nailing the psychological aspects while the characters make it hard to take the stakes seriously, which keeps it weirdly light. It's good but in a way that I have very mixed feelings about it.

Dark, but interesting. I kind of like the fact that the sex scenes are more psychological than actually all that hot.