Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #shotacon(6)

Its hard to enjoy a story when you feel one half of one of the couples is a pedophile. Even worse when the father doesn't intervene simply because his son is happy. He didn't even have a discussion with the young man seeing his 12 year old son. There is some comfort in knowing that they intend to wait til the boy is 18 for sexual intimacy and had not gone this far even by the end of the book.. but still its just plain creepy for an adult to date a 12yo. Oka kun was someone I felt a little sorry for as he took on many burdens and I don't think his "father dearest" was someone really good for him. For me, I think the whole story was overshadowed by the pedo couple, making it hard to feel good about any of the characters.

The first story was the best of the bunch with the piano rivals falling for each other. Then moving into the shotacon with his little brother was less enjoyable, and the rapist playwright was the worst by far. Should have made that one suffer. The difficulty with shota is that you know the kind of adults who chase pre teens are creepy loser pedos so even when well drawn, its just cringeworthy.

I enjoyed the story of the two otaku, there was no power imbalance or huge age gap to make things disturbing. The last story is another matter, from the public rape to later being ok with the rapist. Life isn't that naively simple for victims of sexual assault, especially when you're young. These kind of stories are ones I hate, even more so when the reconciliation is so darned easy.

Cute related stories that were enjoyable (except the vampire story..that was a real non event).

Even in the realm of fantasy, shotacon has too many cringe moments for me to enjoy. The lines between predator and prey are totally mixed up and the seme is a bad bunny who shouldn’t be living within blocks of any school zone. I ended up skipping to the end

I loved the first two couples. Friends to lovers is one of my favourite story lines (first story) and the second pair were so cute, especially the sensei’s puppy like reactions. No need to read chapter 6 if shota ruins your vibe, but there is a little follow up of the other characters at the very end that was sweet.