I went back to the oldest comments and made me miss those days when I started on 2009 as a manga reader. No wannabe weebs and just pure interest on the author's fictional artwork in shojo ai, shojo, shonen, etc. My friends would talk about these with me and instead of things like "the author is bad for putting this scene" (attacking the author and the story) and make it like some sort of politcal agenda, all we could talk was understanding the betrayal and coercion was bad and how we don't want that happening wuth each other if we do have relationships, but also we love how the author was able to portray the pain, longing, lies, and innocence of these plots that makes it feel close to us. Like, authors are amazing. I hope they don't get influenced by wannabe weebs and limit these expressions. It's people negatice mindset these days and lack of appreciation that is hurting them.
I went back to the oldest comments and made me miss those days when I started on 2009 as a manga reader. No wannabe weebs and just pure interest on the author's fictional artwork in shojo ai, shojo, shonen, etc. My friends would talk about these with me and instead of things like "the author is bad for putting this scene" (attacking the author and the story) and make it like some sort of politcal agenda, all we could talk was understanding the betrayal and coercion was bad and how we don't want that happening wuth each other if we do have relationships, but also we love how the author was able to portray the pain, longing, lies, and innocence of these plots that makes it feel close to us. Like, authors are amazing. I hope they don't get influenced by wannabe weebs and limit these expressions. It's people negatice mindset these days and lack of appreciation that is hurting them.