Practically yea, but unlike it being romanticized or completely unrelated to the plot, I think it shows what pressure can do to a person or in this case our MC and how ill and addicted our ML is with his weird attraction towards the MC. Reading the whole thing adds on to why or what is happening. In short, the rape scene or chapter was ment to be uncomfortable, displaying struggles of each character. But that’s js my thought
I completely fw with how you think, this is an excellent analysis it’s just that i really hope this is also what the author is thinking and it’s not torture porn garbage like passion or jinx, last question tho is this worth the read?? i heavily fw the art sm i’d feel bad if i dropped it
In all honesty, this is an amazing read. But I must warn you, this is a noir bl so it has heavy sensitive topics covered and soon to be covered (like rape and pedophilia). so if you can handle such topics and can understand its need of political structure then its an amazing read. It also has an absolute interesting plot so its up to u if u wanna read!
This manhwa obviously deals with a lot of heavy topics. If you can't handle that, then protect yourself and read something else x
there's a difference between reading something with heavy topics and putting a rape scene between characters you're clearly meant to root for with no warning whatsoever. not liking that a manhwa suddenly jump scared you with rape between the main characters doesn't mean that you can't handle heavy topics. i have no problem with the author adding grooming and CSA to the ml's backstory as it was actually handled well, without being graphic or undermining it. but adding a graphic rape scene with no warning nor anything that shows what a horrifying crime it was is different. it's treated like it was just rough sex and it's a dangerous thing to add, as it can warp people's understanding of sexual abuse. i've already seen many people say it wasn't rape, and the fact that the manhwa didn't portray it as anything worse than rough sex surely doesn't help.
So im on ch 21 and isn’t this practically rape? No verbal consent, no preparation, bleeding and he kept going despite ju being unconscious, I haven’t seen a non con tag at all this just came out of nowhere wtf?, this suck so much I really liked this manhwa bro