Lauvil's manga / #Noncon(71)

Ah, the magical aphrodisiac that turns rape into pleasure. Classic. I really disliked everything about this story, but I'll list my least favourites: 1. Hikari's ex-bf got off scot-free, despite tricking women and selling them to human trafficers. No jail time, no beating, nothing. He went unpunished. 2. Multiple rape-scenes with the ML as the rapist. First while Hikari was drugged so she couldn't say no properly. Then later he rapes her again just to prove that he won't sell her off and doesn't need her to keep her virginity. 3. Despite being raped, confined and genuinely scared of Nero, she still manages to fall in love with him. I mean, I get that if you're in a scary place where you have no control over what happens to you, then it's natural to grab onto anything that makes you feel safer. But then she should've realized it when she went back home, sought out a therapist and put it all behind her. But nope, she went back to the rapist. Also the whole "he raped me, but he's still kind and gentle" bs she spouted... No. Just no.

I'm seriously fed up with the trope of a naive FL who can't say no. But even more, I'm tired of the trope of a ML who's selfish, arrogant, emotionally unavailable, doesn't respect the FL and forces himself upon her. The whole arrangement was really icky. Like girl, have some more self respect. And dude, grow a conscience. When she feels like she has no choice but to sleep with you, you're basically raping her. I honestly really wanted her to just stay in the shared apartment. Mitsuki would've made a much better ML. Their chemistry was much better. They had fun together, had common values, and connected really well. Mio seemed a lot more confident and relaxed around him and there was no inferior/superior dynamic between them. It was all healthy and balanced. He was also kind, thoughtful and caring, didn't try to force her into anything, didn't take advantage of her and respected her. Basically the complete opposite of Kouichi.

So, I dropped this when the ML raped the FL in chapter 3. That was simply too uncomfortable. She might've been all "it feels good", but I just can't. A man who would rape his girlfriend in order to force her to tell him something is absolutely and utter TRASH. Like, how about TALKING instead? And making the FL like it when she's being raped did not make the rape scene less uncomfortable. In fact it was the opposite. It normalises rape and I ain't down with that shit. The story until that scene hadn't even been that good either. It was quite bland, clichéd and predictable. So nope, nope, nope, nope, nope. Ain't reading this trash story till the end.

Omg, this is too stupid to read. Clichéd, overly dramatic, completely unrealistic and rape/attempted rape used over and over as a plot device. I think I might've lost braincells from this shit.