Okay so, I will be giving my honest review on it because a lot of people seem to be very media illiterate when it comes to “dark romance” tropes and this story.
Listen: You can make a dark romance trope, shocker, WITHOUT rape or molestation or downright pedophilia . That’s not normal. And if you are a proshipper or one of those “don’t like , don’t read” people theres probably no point in you reading this anyway because your excuse is just going to be “fiction doesn’t affect reality” when it has been disproved multiple times. I’m not trying to argue on the basis of proshipping so please just go. Don’t claim to be some psuedo-intellectual with that bullshit argument. I don’t want to further argue with people okay with rape incest pedophilia, okay.
So, Thats not to say to attack anyone who enjoys this. There are a bunch of comedic aspects to this story. There’s no point in attacking or harassing anybody, it doesn’t solve anything.
As a fujoshi/fudanshi (idgaf) who enjoys reading BL, even dark romance BLs when done correctly, you are able to create BL works without the need to make it about rape, one sided abuse where the other one is clearly suffering (in this case, the bottom). If you just read rape and pedophilia as “dark romances” it really says something about you morally as a person and how literate you probably actually are.
That being said, I found this funny at the beginning and when the guy initially kidnapped him, I found it very funny and interesting because of the over the top expressions, nice artstyle and humorous tone of dark themes played carefully.Then, it just went all into shit and kept being repetitive, and abusive and the bottom clearly expresses huge disgust, fear, loneliness. You see how he is being trapped and the top clearly uses him to his advantage. It could be considered alright if the bottom also had the same advantage, but he doesnt. He really does not. He is just able to beat and scream at the guy and thats it . Which yes this can also be done right and played well, if the bottom had an actual way out. But he barely doesn’t.
And one of the worst parts is the six year old act which Im so surprised nobody called this out for being so weird and downright pedophilic because the ML literally tries to continually get turned on even when this guy acts like a six year old. It’s extremely creepy and weird how he talks to him like a baby and still be turned on and plan to do lewd and sexual acts. That is extremely creepy and anybody who enjoys this, Im going to assume you’re just into pedophilia especially on a 6 YEAR OLD?? Mentality?? I dont know how someone goes and says “ yeah thats so hilarious” maybe the expressions and art can show its humorous, but please guys you gotta think beyond that. Enjoy comedy while understanding at least some shit happening.
Im tired of people misrepresenting Stockholm Syndrome especially in how shit they portray this case especially.
You can make a dark romance trope without one sided abuse. Shocker! Dubcon, Noncon is all rape, it’s so hard to find BLs without the no consent factor becayse thats not how love works at all. Good dark romances are able to manipulate factors of power dynamics, pushing boundaries while maintaining a both mutually sick twisted minds (I can recommend Shutline for example so far although its still ongoing) with mutual control, mutual abuse, mutual toxicity and mutual understanding of the fucked up dynamics of it all. Its a way better way of portraying dark romances as it allows wriggle room for a possibility of a better romance being able to be formed in these plots. Its an overall better writing strategy too. It actually enables you to think about the characters, dynamics, chemistry, etc: The only reason people and readers seem to be so fine about it because of the constant jokes around it. But if you really think about it this guy gets raped and its treated like its funny? This guy has to act like a 6 year old and still gets told to do weird pedophillic stuff and its funny? Wheres the joke? Whats the punchline?
TL;DR: This isnt a dark romance. Its just rape and weird pedophilia innuendos. I could give less of a shit if the kidnappers mentally unwell because rape is still rape. Make dark romances tropes not this one sided miserable abuse rape stuff dressed up as “comedy” “romace” . You can create dark romances with toxicity, manipulation, power imbalances, etc without the need for rape or this kind of abuse.
Okay so, I will be giving my honest review on it because a lot of people seem to be very media illiterate when it comes to “dark romance” tropes and this story.
Listen: You can make a dark romance trope, shocker, WITHOUT rape or molestation or downright pedophilia . That’s not normal. And if you are a proshipper or one of those “don’t like , don’t read” people theres probably no point in you reading this anyway because your excuse is just going to be “fiction doesn’t affect reality” when it has been disproved multiple times. I’m not trying to argue on the basis of proshipping so please just go. Don’t claim to be some psuedo-intellectual with that bullshit argument. I don’t want to further argue with people okay with rape incest pedophilia, okay.
So,
Thats not to say to attack anyone who enjoys this. There are a bunch of comedic aspects to this story. There’s no point in attacking or harassing anybody, it doesn’t solve anything.
As a fujoshi/fudanshi (idgaf) who enjoys reading BL, even dark romance BLs when done correctly, you are able to create BL works without the need to make it about rape, one sided abuse where the other one is clearly suffering (in this case, the bottom).
If you just read rape and pedophilia as “dark romances” it really says something about you morally as a person and how literate you probably actually are.
That being said, I found this funny at the beginning and when the guy initially kidnapped him, I found it very funny and interesting because of the over the top expressions, nice artstyle and humorous tone of dark themes played carefully.Then, it just went all into shit and kept being repetitive, and abusive and the bottom clearly expresses huge disgust, fear, loneliness. You see how he is being trapped and the top clearly uses him to his advantage. It could be considered alright if the bottom also had the same advantage, but he doesnt. He really does not. He is just able to beat and scream at the guy and thats it . Which yes this can also be done right and played well, if the bottom had an actual way out. But he barely doesn’t.
And one of the worst parts is the six year old act which Im so surprised nobody called this out for being so weird and downright pedophilic because the ML literally tries to continually get turned on even when this guy acts like a six year old. It’s extremely creepy and weird how he talks to him like a baby and still be turned on and plan to do lewd and sexual acts. That is extremely creepy and anybody who enjoys this, Im going to assume you’re just into pedophilia especially on a 6 YEAR OLD?? Mentality?? I dont know how someone goes and says “ yeah thats so hilarious” maybe the expressions and art can show its humorous, but please guys you gotta think beyond that. Enjoy comedy while understanding at least some shit happening.
Im tired of people misrepresenting Stockholm Syndrome especially in how shit they portray this case especially.
You can make a dark romance trope without one sided abuse. Shocker!
Dubcon, Noncon is all rape, it’s so hard to find BLs without the no consent factor becayse thats not how love works at all. Good dark romances are able to manipulate factors of power dynamics, pushing boundaries while maintaining a both mutually sick twisted minds (I can recommend Shutline for example so far although its still ongoing) with mutual control, mutual abuse, mutual toxicity and mutual understanding of the fucked up dynamics of it all.
Its a way better way of portraying dark romances as it allows wriggle room for a possibility of a better romance being able to be formed in these plots. Its an overall better writing strategy too. It actually enables you to think about the characters, dynamics, chemistry, etc:
The only reason people and readers seem to be so fine about it because of the constant jokes around it. But if you really think about it this guy gets raped and its treated like its funny? This guy has to act like a 6 year old and still gets told to do weird pedophillic stuff and its funny? Wheres the joke? Whats the punchline?
TL;DR: This isnt a dark romance. Its just rape and weird pedophilia innuendos. I could give less of a shit if the kidnappers mentally unwell because rape is still rape. Make dark romances tropes not this one sided miserable abuse rape stuff dressed up as “comedy” “romace” . You can create dark romances with toxicity, manipulation, power imbalances, etc without the need for rape or this kind of abuse.