otakulys's manga / #rape(197)

Strange oneshot. It was too short and random to really make me sad. I don't understand what it was about or why that guy was there. Is he just some dude who likes little boys? Or was he serious about being a slave trader?

Yeah, this is pretty bad. There was nothing redeeming about it. I mean, it's a rare case of the victim not ending up with the rapist, but I'm not sure if it even really counts when the rapist is never held accountable, and everyone is just down with how things went. This mangaka seems to feel that sex just isn't sex if someone isn't forcing it onto someone. That aside, the art is awful, the storytelling is poor, the dialogue is confusing, and there's just no reason to read this. I don't know why I still did. I guess just because it's hard to find stories where rape isn't happening between the seme and uke. But man, it may as well have been with how shitty and shallow this was.

I'd have to read it again, but I remember it being okay. Gory and weird, but okay. I'm not grossed out by that sort of thing, but it probably would disturb most people.

Read this ages ago and don't recall liking it. It pops up on "disturbing" lists, so I see it over and over, but I'm not eager to read it again. Might try it eventually, just to be sure I'm remembering it correctly and my two star rating is accurate.

Pure smut, if memory serves. No plot, really, just lots of rape, but I'd have to read it again to be sure.

Sweet little oneshot where the victim of rape doesn't fall for his rapist. So hey. It's short, so it takes away some of the impact, but it's a nice enough story.

It was okay for what it was. I'm not super into bara, so the art didn't do it for me, but the story was... so-so. Some typical yaoi silliness, but it tried to at least address the emotional issues of the main character in the few short pages it had.

Wait, what? I'm so confused. I've read this manga twice before, and the ending is suddenly different. I swear that before, he raped his friend and then the friend leaves without them ever seeing one another again. It was heartbreaking and dark, and I liked that it didn't brush away the awful thing he did, just left its heavy presence in the absence of the boy he loved. There's no forgiveness for that sort of thing. So why does the end have a new part with him saying that they made up and dated? That makes no sense. Am I crazy? This is going to drive me nuts. Three stars for the original ending, one star for the ending they have right now. I swear I'm not making this up, but wtf.

The first story is sad and futile. The second story is interesting, but there's no forgiving rape, especially not so casually. No excuse for that shit. The last story is dorky and cute, kind of unfitting with the other two. It wasn't a bad read, even with its flaws. The translation is slightly off, but not so bad that you can't understand what's happening.

It bugs me how these stories are treated as cute, but it's fiction, so whatever. Pretty accurate with the predator stuff, the way a guy like that would swoop in on a kid. It's sad and disturbing, but sometimes I like sad and disturbing manga. It'd be better if the manga didn't seem to try to excuse it a little, though.