It's disturbing but it's not glorified at all, it's shown as how it really is in real life.
I'm currently crying as I type this because I dugged up an old trauma that I have and I'm somehow comforted. Being a victim and all, this made me feel like I'm not alone. For me, nagisa is a great representation of a victim because I felt exactly as how he did during those dark times in my life. His narrative resonates with me.
He really resonated with me when he said that "I have been robbed" while opening up about his experience, and he felt better when given 1000 yen for compensation, developing a mindset that it wasn't so bad if he's compensated, when starts to go along with it asking as he gets compensated as a way to comfort himself (but deep down he feels filthy because he had no choice); or when he questioned if he was wicked/if he had something rotten in him since birth and it's causing those monsters to be tempted to him. Coming from a victim that's been blamed countless times for what I experienced, there once a time I ended up believing it myself that it was my fault, that there was probably something in me that cause people to not see me as a human, I felt emptiness in my soul.
The storytelling is awesome, you can tell that it's told from a certain perspective that doesn't "tell" to make people comfortable but to "tell' by making the readers see what truly is happening even if it's uncomfortable, It's making the readers see the bitter truth of reality. Just because it's hard to hear or it makes you upset doesn't mean that it doesn't happen in real life.
Sending hearts to fellow victims out there, I hope you can still see the beauty in life.
It's disturbing but it's not glorified at all, it's shown as how it really is in real life.
I'm currently crying as I type this because I dugged up an old trauma that I have and I'm somehow comforted. Being a victim and all, this made me feel like I'm not alone. For me, nagisa is a great representation of a victim because I felt exactly as how he did during those dark times in my life. His narrative resonates with me.
He really resonated with me when he said that "I have been robbed" while opening up about his experience, and he felt better when given 1000 yen for compensation, developing a mindset that it wasn't so bad if he's compensated, when starts to go along with it asking as he gets compensated as a way to comfort himself (but deep down he feels filthy because he had no choice); or when he questioned if he was wicked/if he had something rotten in him since birth and it's causing those monsters to be tempted to him. Coming from a victim that's been blamed countless times for what I experienced, there once a time I ended up believing it myself that it was my fault, that there was probably something in me that cause people to not see me as a human, I felt emptiness in my soul.
The storytelling is awesome, you can tell that it's told from a certain perspective that doesn't "tell" to make people comfortable but to "tell' by making the readers see what truly is happening even if it's uncomfortable, It's making the readers see the bitter truth of reality. Just because it's hard to hear or it makes you upset doesn't mean that it doesn't happen in real life.
Sending hearts to fellow victims out there, I hope you can still see the beauty in life.