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yea after they finally made up i really thought it'd get better but then it was just more rape...idk why every bl needs to have it bruh... like you said there are times when it can be used meaningfully for sa rep but it's always so excessive
Rape is inexcusable in every sense of the word and its extremely annoying to see it repeated in manhwa after manhwa. HOWEVER. What turns a good story into slop is not the inclusion of rape, its how the author treats it and addresses it that matters. There is nothing wrong with including toxic characters or morally gray ones or whatever you want to say, the second something becomes slop is when an author glosses over the rape an noncon and treats it like it's normalized. There are multiple examples of good SA representation in manhwa, to disregard this one simply because of its inclusion while KNOWING its toxic and even slightly psychological doesn’t line up. What determines this become a drop for me (key word: FOR ME) is if the author glosses over it and acts like its ok. Once again, something can have dark storylines, themes, and elements as long as it treats those elements with the seriousness it serves.