by those *new seasons* u mean cherry blossoms after winter right?
Wait what stories are doing that adding new chapters just to put assault in bc thats actually crazy. But I feel it’s pretty obvious when reading. If the assault is treated as just some passing thing with no real impact on the character’s mental health, personality, and course of story (other than to be used as a device/some weird romanticized catalyst for a completely ‘healthy’ relationship where the assault is not treated seriously at all from the author’s perspective) then it’s probably just some fetish thing.
Sexual violence isn’t new, it’s true when it comes to all media- especially manga/manwha. But I felt like for a moment there we were getting plots with characters that felt NORMAL not CRIMINAL.
Now it’s like we’re almost circling back to authors becoming gratuitous with SA and not using it (for lack of a better description) as an underlying catalyst or plot point to generate developments.
Stemming from that, where do we as a community draw the line in differentiating when it’s sensible and when it’s a clear fetish cash grab?
I’m seeing works I’d thought wrapped up ages ago spawn NEW seasons just to have non consensual elements introduced out of otherwise well rounded (or even wholesome) storylines.
It’s odd and I wondered what it said about the industry.