pidgeonreads's manga / #one sided pining(29)

By the same author as Kiss the Abyss, this comic takes the a very different approach. Our leading man is a pink haired sadist by nature and likely an undiagnosed sociopath with a good heart. After accidentally causing the death of his highschool classmates he is recruited by a system to travel worlds and stand in as the villainous characters. Cue: the love interest. In the original world they meet brothers but after living out his roll as the villain, the lead is perturbed to discover that this ‘brother’ of his has been able to read his mind all along and has developed a strange penchant for being bullied by him.

Absolutely hands down the funniest explicit comic I’ve ever read. Especially considering each pair gets only three chapters to cover an entire story, the two tales manage to combine really well and even the extra goofy bonus chapter made it all more enjoyable by showing the extreme contrast between everyone’s personalities.

tldr; surprisingly alright story? … for a manga with a completely unnecessary graphic rape scene ️ This manga is going to have me sitting up in bed for a few nights going ??? because I’m so confused how it was so good. I throughly enjoyed it despite the fact that it somehow also awful and disgusting. This could so easy have been a top ten favorites 5 star manga for me if the author had just ?? Not decided to include the vocalist getting raped and tortured. Like it wasn’t at all a needed plot point and contributed literally nothing. And it was so weird that my guy literally had to be nursed back to health and canonically developed ptsd symptoms from the trauma but the event was still treated kinda as a joke like ‘haha that was crazy’ and the mob boss guy still came to shows that they were pretty cordial. It didn’t really even make sense for the mob boss guy to do it. Up to that point he’d been presented as a die hard yuru fan so it made zero sense for him to throw that all aside just because the guy slapped his sister. Completely unnecessary and weird. Don’t get me wrong, the top in this manga was unlikable from the start and treated the bottom horribly but it made sense for the story and the bottom never complained. His whole thing was that he was happy to receive attention from the guy even if it was bad. The plot could easily have leveraged using the slap and how it made the top feel about himself as the thing that broke the barrier and brought them together. Could have even went with the mob boss hurting the top physically. But the inclusion of the rape was unnecessary and gross and ruined what should have been a solidly good story. Like I liked this pairing. They’re both stupid and insanely full of faults but they were funny and silly and a little adorable at times. I genuinely found myself laughing at the top struggling with being shorter and the honest realness of that last blowjob.