Ariest's manga / #rape(20)

I'm so disappointed with this story. I really like the art and definitely fell in love with the uke. But the romance is so damn toxic and abusive all bc of the seme, but the author has the audacity to blame the victim instead and try to make a romance out of it. Just no.

There are some good elements, but the story is just too toxic and includes so much rape that never even gets properly addressed, called out, punished or emotionally resolved for me. I don't know why so many yaoi authors decide to let their characters get raped or almost raped for no reason at all. Like if you want to include something so traumatic, at least have it serve as a proper plot point or character development arc. Dropped after ch 18.

The story is mostly good. It deals with some pretty heavy and mature subjects and how they affect the characters, which I like. But I find it absolutely unforgiveable how the author not only places a random rape scene at the very end, but even portrays the rape victim as getting hard from it. The assailant had stopped being a plot element for 20+ chapters at that point, so why did he have to come back just for that? It was completely unnecessary. I'm tempted to give the story 1 star just because of that. It's disgusting and ruined the story for me. But since the rest of the story was well-written I'll give it 2.

Don't even know what the point of this story is. It certainly isn't romance, and I'm not seeing a setup for a psychological study of the human mind here either. So that leaves... sexualizing mass-murder and rape... yeah I'm out. Disgusting story, disgusting author. Dropped and regretting ever reading a single chapter.

Extremely rapey for no good reason. Like literally, for no reason. None of the rape incidents affect the plot, some of them even feel silly or unrealistic, and the victims all carry on as if it never happened. Which just makes it pointless and disgustingly sadistic. I hate when authors do that more than anything. It feels disrespectful to real-life rape victims and just makes readers uncomfortable for absolutely no reason. Actually the author doesn't just wrongly use rape as a plot device, they straight up fetichize it too. Literally has one of their characters get drugged and raped by a rando, just so he can be all wet and loose for the ML in the next chapter. Like wtf... I'm so disgusted. I like most of the characters (especially Noah and Phil), they're funny and interesting, but the rapeyness of the story is just not it. Dropped at ch 30.