rainydays's manga / #twisted(8)

kaname meets a writer who he finds solace in after his brothers death, and learns that the writer has been having dreams about his brother. honestly a mind fuck (literally). overall a creepy story that makes me feel gross at the end, what with the incest, ghost sex and the writer fucking a literal high schooler.

child predator christ is revisited by the traumatized man he groomed as a child, throwing his life straight into hell truly a fucked up read, i feel bad for literally everyone except for christ. wish there was more for the ending, though, that felt a bit anticlimactic.

space pirates loot a ship run only by an android, live to regret it when the 'host' wakes up. an uncomfortable but ultimately interesting read, i think it ended at a decent place but i wish there was more.

kou kills his brother sanehiko, but wakes up in the hospital to be told that his brother saved him in a car crash. so starts a sexual relationship in which kou questions if the changed man before him is really his brother. started with an interesting premise (albeit very dark), but makes less sense as the story progresses. i understand that sanehiko was replaced by another man, but i dont understand WHY those people did it in the first place.

an eldest son imprisons and manipulates the father that never cared for him in his own form of obsessive love, after the death of his brother and mother. one of akabekos darker works, yes its really fucked up and weird but pretty compelling from a psychological/horror perspective, on top of great art there was interesting insight into topics like child neglect, fanaticism, manipulation, etc.

a man takes his wife on vacation to restart their lives after their sons death, though his meaning of 'restart' turns out to be very literal. there is discourse over who is at fault, i'd say both husband and wife were quite awful in their own ways. gotta give props to the artist for making everything so detailed yet grotesque, the story was really creepy and though the ending was weird, it still felt in character.

hard to read, though realistic in execution, applause to the author cause i think they captured the long lasting trauma and instability caused by csa well. sensei can go rot in hell.

i feel like this was adequately creepy with pretty good art, just the fact that there was a lot of fluff and the stories cut off too early!