otakulys's manga / #rape(198)

To be able to appreciate this at all, you need to put on your Yaoi Land glasses, where stalkerish behavior is romantic and rape is like a firm handshake. If you can get past that crap, the art is good, and the story is cute if not predictable. The seme is incredibly hot, which is my main reason for continuing reading. If you're bothered by things like easily forgiven rape or rape to love, don't bother with this story. But if you, like me, can occasionally set that irritation aside, it might be an enjoyable read.

I don't mind non-con when it's treated as the horrible act it is, but the fact that it's easily forgiven always disgusts me. Otherwise, this would have been a rather sweet, if not a bit odd, collection of stories. The rape is only in the fourth story, though, for those trying to avoid that.

I read this ages ago, and it's still as weird as I remember. It is indeed strange and very disturbing, but I wouldn't say it's the most shocking thing I've ever seen. Maybe I've been reading yaoi too long. Rape is so common in yaoi, but maybe the fact that it's portrayed as awful and traumatizing, instead of the first stages of romance, and because of the bestiality element, people are horrified. Oh well, at least it's pretend.

I really liked this at first, because I hoped, despite having read enough yaoi to know better, that it was going to be about the main character getting with his love interest after overcoming the psychotic bully who was abusing him. The moment his attacker was given some development, I knew this was going to have a typical Yaoi-land ending. To be fair, as far as rape forgiveness in yaoi goes, this is absolutely not the worst I have seen. At least the uke was upset for a while, and even later, the seme wonders if the uke is still scared after what happened. But it's still annoying as hell. I don't mind rape in stories when the rapist gets what's coming to him, or at the very least doesn't end up in a relationship with his victim. But that's often not how these things go in yaoi. Still, I liked the manga enough to give it four stars despite the rape to love. It's pretty and emotional, and it's *almost* realistic, outside of the sexual assault and coercion.

Don't you just hate it when your grandpa binds your soul with a doll in a spiritual marriage? Don't worry, though. This is Yaoi-land. Anything goes. This story is kind of disjointed and all over the place. It isn't the worst thing I've ever read, but the plot points were very choppy, and the reveals were formulaic. The art was okay, but the plot itself was kind of dull and rushed. I may have liked it a tiny bit more if it weren't for the weird rape-to-love elements, but I dunno. Two and a half stars, but it won't let me do halves.

Kind of a strange story. More than kind of. I need to read it again, but if memory serves, it was around a three or four rating to me.

Guy rapes kid to get back at the chick who didn't run away with him years ago. Kid, of course, is madly in love with him for no reason. (I mean, Yaoi-land reasons, but that's pretty much the same thing.) This is a scary-unhealthy "romance" which, of course, is never addressed as such. If this were real life, that guy would have murdered his lover or gone to jail for something, I'm sure.