moody_bish's manga / #Twisted(3)

Had the time of my life! I enjoy the consistency of the plot and how it circles back to where it started. The last translator is right, fiction that entails toxic relationship must be kept as is. There is nothing good from wishing to have the same. These two are broken and can only heal together. They are aware of their crimes against each other and the holes they must work on to fill. I enjoy the quiet panels because the artists are expressive with their characters. The ending was predictable but refreshing and satisfying. I enjoyed everything about this and how nonromanticized it is.

Yui had run away from a neighborhood nii-chan just before they had sex. Instead of fear, he grew up in regret for having run away. Thus, he goes back in search for his nii-chan. However, the gentle nii-chan has grown spiteful of him and was intent on making Yui keep his promise not to run away. The story unfolds to darker pasts and entangled human relations because nii-chan is just a broken man who trapped a boy to prove society that his juvenile love with an adult man was true.

1. An idol meets an unexpected male fan thru a one night lover show where he has to sleep (literally) with a fan for a night. The idol ends up offering sex because he was attracted by his fan. 2. Left with his father's debt, a re encounter with a rich kid who made an offer to do whatever he wants in exchange of being paid until he pays his debt. 3. Divorced overseas which pushed him into a drunken mess, he wakes up in a room, kidnapped and told to be with his kidnapper for 25 years until he loves him back. Turns out, his kidnapper was kidnapped for 25 years and has "fallen in love" with his captor (Stockholm's syndrom) and it was his fault. When they were kids, he was almost kidnapped but pointed at aonther kid which saved himself but caused his present captor to be kidnapped by a pedophile. Nonetheless, his captive's revenge was nulled by his unintentional efforts to teach him about adulthood/independece and was returned to society. When he realized the truth upon waking at the hospital, he returned to his ex-captor and promised to he with him, without being in captive. 4. A tragic domino effect that started from a scientist who cloned his dead lover but could not be satisfied by his clone so he committed suicide. The clone made a clone of the scientist and projected what the original scientist kept demanding from him, violent sex. In the end, the cloned scientist somehow regained "his memories" and chased after him