Comments of Like the Barren Wasteland

Of course there's rape, and it's forgiven with no real apology by the end

HOT LOVE NEED MORE

Interesting one shots are always best except rape though since now he is going to change his name and everything he will live with seme forever , where no one can know he is alive but these semes get this much determination to become so rich so they can get their ukes in their arms where does this determination come from oh yah love is strong lol anyway it's was nice read .

Lord William Preston and Lord Chris Clouder engage in a duel. Preston is shot and falls off a cliff, everyone thinks he's dead. But Clouder has rescued him and secretly taken him home. What does he intend to do with his defeated rival under his power?

such a short story but full of feelings, truly amazing

A seme that built his way to the top and got uke while at it

CURSE ONE SHOTS!!!!!

A guy who lost in a shooting fight becomes the fuck boy of the one he lost to.

I sm sorry why there is fucking rape in every yaoi I mean I do like it but I donot like when uke is so useless who cannot do anything i mean i would have liked if he tried commit sucide 2 or 3 times and than fall in love

Short ... but a good read

Just ok. I hate when the victim fall for the rapist with no real inner struggle of remorse.

It's true - William was raped. But somehow the way he fell in love with each other was like a remedy to that dark situation. The are both simply delightful.

Shot, powerful and good.

Not enough angst.

Refer to Pg.17
Disgusting seme. Doesn't like women with high self worth and calls Lady Beatrix loose for trying to seduce him but he himself has no moral compunction about raping some guy. This is a big problem with a lot of female oriented manga where prospective female or male characters who may be rivals in love to the protagonist are treated this way by the protagonist's love interest. And apparently the author and the readers find this blatant sexism justified and entertaining.

This is worse than the prevalent rape plot that everyone's complaining about. At least, in that case the understanding that the rapist actions are wrong are implicitly understood and we know that at some point the rapist is going to regret or explain his actions or at least try to seek some form of forgiveness from his victim.
However, that's not the case with the protagonist's competitors who, for the benefit of the protagonist's weak ego, are severely disparaged and disrespected for certain qualities such as their wealth, success, pride, ambitiousness, shrewdness, high sense of self-worth.
Why is it so when these qualities are clearly accepted as desirable and if a protagonist happens to possess any of these qualities they get treated as a rare gem in the story but their rivals aren't treated with the same regard? Because if acknowledged, they will outshine the protagonist who is either written as dependent and weak or is just not as good because "they have yet to fall in love" and get their partner to do the heavy lifting. Also, in contrast to female or uke leads who are the opposites, the rivals generally possess traits similar to the male lead or the seme and interact with them as equals. These tropes are fairly common; (follow the pattern of: male- female or uke- rival)
prince-commoner-princess, male school idol-average girl-female school idol, smart-dumb-smart, pretty-average-pretty, arrogant-low self esteem-arrogant, sexually confident man-shy virgin-sexually confident woman/man (poor girl or guy gets called a slut whereas no one gives a damn that the male lead is all over the female or uke lead. No they find it cute.)
Since the rival outshines the female lead and challenges the uke for "who's the most awesome", apparently she needs to be brought down a peg or two because well, she is a woman, how dare she get in the way of the protagonist, and most of all, how dare she claim to love the man when she stands on an equal or higher footing with him and doesn't need him to fill every aspect of her life. Apparently, romance cannot be written between equals. Which is why I hate the genre especially in Japanese media. But I am eternally grateful to Japanese media for their prevalent and beautiful depiction of bromances- great love, trust and respect between equals, exactly the opposite of the romances.
Akatsuki no Yona is indeed a rare masterpiece of the shojo genre because it is a shojo which hasn't let the characters overwhelm the consistency of plot and the world building and has the most amazing female shounen genre-ish protagonist. While a lot of shojo manga have tried to create a shounen-ish protagonist with her own dream to conquer, own path to tread and battles to win e.g. Akagami no Shirayukihime, they have been unable to keep it up for long enough to establish it in the plot and keep returning to "if you are a girl, you must fall in love and readers need to know every damn detail of it" nonsense far too often.

Already included in: Myuzu no Gakuen de Aou

Lord William Preston and Lord Chris Clouder engage in a duel. Preston is shot and falls off a cliff, everyone thinks he's dead. But Clouder has rescued him and secretly taken him home. What does he intend to do with his defeated rival under his power?