Ik this has rape but like as a manga reader if I let that stop me like 60% of yaoi would be untouchable esp older ones like this you just gotta decide what to overlook tbh. Like yeah very unnecessary but the rest of the book is so good just erase chapter one from the brain and go on. There are too many highly rated recent webtoons with noncon for me to be bothered about this manga from more than a decade ago during a time when noncon was even more a staple and normalized in bl manga(as in it was almost unavoidable if youve been reading manga long enough). You can acknowledge rape is wrong while separating fiction and enjoying parts you like. I think this manga deserves its rating.
Ik this has rape but like as a manga reader if I let that stop me like 60% of yaoi would be untouchable esp older ones like this you just gotta decide what to overlook tbh. Like yeah very unnecessary but the rest of the book is so good just erase chapter one from the brain and go on. There are too many highly rated recent webtoons with noncon for me to be bothered about this manga from more than a decade ago during a time when noncon was even more a staple and normalized in bl manga(as in it was almost unavoidable if youve been reading manga long enough). You can acknowledge rape is wrong while separating fiction and enjoying parts you like. I think this manga deserves its rating.