Lauvil's manga / #Misunderstanding(34)

Akira once had a childhood friend named Megumi, who did everything together. But the two had a falling out and it's been a scar on her heart ever since. One day she goes to a mixer and meets a guy who looks exactly like Megumi, named Keichii, and the two hit it off immediately. Akira knows that the reason why she's so attracted to Keichii is exactly because he looks like Megumi and tells him right off the bat. But he's okay with that and the two of them enter a relationship. However, what Akira doesn't know is that Keichii is cool with her circumstances and his look-alike, because he actually is him. His friend was invited to the mixer but didn't want to go, so Megumi went in his stead. When Akira buys the lie and the fake identity, his selfish desire of winning her back comes in the way of telling her the truth, and so he enters the relationship on false pretences. Of course, Akira is bound to find out eventually, though. But ultimately end up forgiving him anyway... So, as most other manga - especially smut - it has a lot of internalized mysogyny. It includes classics like: - FL being a virgin, and this fact being a total turn-on for her partner - The ML being jealous over the FL telling him she spoke to a guy and promptly telling her: "no else gets to see you like this, but me" - "Tell me to stop if you don't want this" (instead of asking for consent before the act) - the ML borderline assaulting the FL (in the past) as way of "teaching" her a lesson about the dangers of men Other tropes: - Not recognizing someone despite all odds - Interjecting a secondary love-interest to create romantic tension between the main couple (this guy honestly being a better option than the ML. But ig writers just prefer toxic men) - Both characters misunderstanding each other's feelings, despite them being obvious I can't say that this is the worst smut manga I've read - far from it, as the bar is pretty low - but it's not the best either. So, even if I don't hate it, I don't particularly like it either. It has too much internalized mysogyny, the smut is avarage, and the ML is quite frankly a trainwreck. He's forceful, jealous, selfish and deceiving and the FL forgives him way too easily. Especially considering that she was completely transparent with him from the beginning, while he was literally pretending to be someone else. Should the FL have figured that out sooner? Possibly. But in the end it's not her responsibility, and she herself theorizes that she did now deep down but refused to acknowledge it.