Since he first drugged him, it is. You don't drug someone you want to be with if it's not mutual.
On the contrary, I think it is Stockholm Syndrome. He kidnapped the bank teller and when the bank teller expected him to be cruel to him, Riichi wasn't. Well, he was but it probably didn't seem that cruel to the bank teller because he probably imagined a whole scene of hellish torture.
The title is literally called hostage. Why cant there be a dark fucked up yaoi without people trying to turn it into a healthy fluffy and mutual relationship? FFS. I think I could create a yaoi where the seme literally eats the uke alive by the end of it and somebody will interpret it as him being so in love that he wanted to become one with him.
Why can't people interpret it however they like without some bystander hysterically flailing their arms at them, telling them how wrong it is to analyze it, looking for deeper meaning?
They can. However I dont think its a coincidence that every time someone tries to look for a deeper interpretation for dark and twisted yaois they attempt to get rid of the twisted nature of the story. You rarely if ever see dark interpretations.
The problem here is that the mangaka wanted to depict this as fluffy, as is often the case with yaoi.
If this had more chapters, the seme would be sweet to the uke for a couple of days, then the uke would ask for the same treatment as before. Now when the seme does that same stuff, it's acceptable because it's the ukes wish.
It's easy then to make a "fluffy" story. If we of course ignore the fact that the uke suffered a personality breakdown and that the seme is a manipulative b!tch (which, we of course will , since it's yaoi ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ )
Yeah... Like I'm ok with aggressive love but this really did cross the line. That and if you're going to write fluffy don't have the couple start off as a rape, rape isn't fluffy. BDSM is fine and all, but this isn't BDSM.
I think it adds to the twisted nature of this story. Riichi is obviously a very disturbed person. He robs banks for fun and casually kidnapped a man just so he can drug him with an untested aphrodisiac he bough off the black market and rape him. The fact that the bank teller sees him as a love interest is the fluffy part and also doubles as the disturbing part.
oooo, yes, yes ! You write it, I'll read it !
Not bad, very cute. I would say that it's wasn't Stockholm syndrome because there was not once did the Uke try and keep the Seme from touching him. The thing is they were both board with their lives, but the Seme took the wrong path. When the two grew to close the Seme gave the uke up but in the end the Seme went back to the uke because he wanted a clean start to be happy.