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Sorry, didn’t mean to dislike (￣∇￣")
In real life today, Ujuri would go to prison and Lamudan would have to be treated because of heavy trauma...may be stock holm, surely some ptsd and many other issues because so much crap happened and took everything from him...
I really am not enjoying this. I keep reading thinking, "Surely it's *supposed* to be a horrible situation for Lamudan and we're going to see clearly that this is not meant to be a typical love thing" but now with the addition of the 'rogue older brother' trope, it doesn't appear to be happening.
This was just awful. The whole thing. Except the art, sadly it's really nice art wasted on a terrible "relationship." This guy sets up the whole entrapment situation so he can essentially kidnap Lamudan, and drugs him repeatedly to turn him basically into a sex slave (in the extra when L wasn't cooperating he's like "I thought I wouldn't have to do this anymore but oh well" and gives him more drugs). At no point does he treat Lamudan like he is an individual with a mind and will of his own, or give a single shit about what Lamudan actually wants. Yeah, how romantic. Lamudan should kill Uruji and escape to find happiness somewhere far away from his shitty "husband," and his shitty village.
If that IS how the story ends (or something similar) then I retract, it's not a typical story in that case and the exploitation and manipulation everywhere Lamudan turns is actually kinda well done. As it seems at the moment, though, it's an atrocious attempt at a love story that should have been allowed to die as a single volume.
Why bring in the older brother? To try to make readers forget Uruji's awful character by making his brother even worse? Hopefully there's a plot twist, Lala enlisted the bro to bring Lamudan back, he helps L leave (even if he's only doing it for some reason of his own), and Uruji can curl up and cry by himself until he finds someone new to trap and exploit.
Okay, personal opinion rant over!