I feel like y'all are the wrong audience for this. As someone who read lots of harada and similar artists work this is such a refreshing story. It's dark and it's supposed to be. If you're waiting for a redemption arc and then a fluffy happy ever after you're seriously wrong here. I think at this point it's obvious in which direction this goes. Jihwan is so well made. It's rare to find a character nowadays that's genuinly so unsettling. He is a total psycho who is, and this is the refreshing part, not being romantisized.
Having a rapist top and a helpless bottom is "rare and refreshing' LOL. This shit is in half of yaoi what are you talking about? This troop is so common it's tiring. Anyone is free to criticize as much as you're free to like it. Especially because it took so much good chapters before becoming the most basic rapist plot
I hate that people these days try to look morally superior by screaming but rapist! It's a fictional character. They can't hurt you and I find people screaming but rape bad just annoying as people who hate on villain characters these days. IT'S A STORY. NOT REAL LIFE. I think people don't understand the point of dark story plots and just want to scream because but rape is bad! If you prefer a fluffier happy story go read that. No one is forcing you to read this.
YES, RAPE IS BAD, NO SHIT, sherlock. That isn't the point of the story. The point is look at this crazy bastard and ho fucked up he actually is doing bad things to our MC. That's the point of these stories, it's just entertaining. It's not happening in real life and we don't need to dislike something just because our ML is a total BLACKFLAG.
People can enjoy fucked up stories it's not rocket science. It's better people enjoy fucked up scenarios in fiction than real life is not?
How is that morally superior to call a rape a rape? Forcing someone to have sex is call a rape, it's the definition, nobody is trying to be superior.
You find rape entertaining, good for you I guess, you're lucky because rape is present in most yaoi. But not everyone enjoys seeing chapters and chapters of someone being raped, abused and tortured, especially because in most yaoi rape is just treated lightly, it is used just to appear edgy and make easy chapters, but the consequences on the victim are always brushed off, like nothing ever happened and after a big of sulking, of course they will live happy together in the end.
I don't care whether you like rape, rapists or that you fantasize of being raped, the only thing is that you don't get to decide is what other people can or cannot complain about.
If the story was flagged as rape story, I would've never started it. But it cosplayed as a nice story for 70+ chapters with very good characters, before becoming like this and I have the right to hate it just as much as you have the right to like it.
After reading so much chapters I still need closure and I will read it until the end, and complain if I want to. If you're unhappy about it, don't read the comments
People enjoy the story for what it is. Rape here is not romanticized like it is in other yaoi. It's actually well done here our MC DOESN'T want it. He wants to get away from the ML. That alone does tell you something. Story can be dark and enjoyed and have dark subjects without it being romanticized. There is no shame in enjoying stories that have darker topics. You're not really listening nor worth my time so bye.
You are so close to getting it. I don't find the rape refreshing and I seriously can't fethom how you got that out off my comment. Most yaoi will romantisize or brush it off as you said, but here the reader can't do that bc the ml is just that fucked up. And if the rape is the part that is bothering you than as I said you're the wrong audience. If rape should be in stories at all or in which form is a totally different discussion. And enjoying a medium can come in different forms. Why do people watch horror stories or tragedies, this is a totally different discussion and not at all what I was pointing at
The again: I don't care whether you like rape or not, it's not my point.
Some people don't like it and you cannot tell people who don't like it to stop reading something they spent 70+ chapters reading enjoying the story and the characters.
Of course I'm the wrong audience for this, and if they put a trigger warning in the first page saying "this will be a love story between a rapist and his victim" I would've never read it. But that's not the case, and of course I will want to know the end now that I'm invested.
I'm still allowed to complain as much as you're allowed to say you like it. It's just basic, people who enjoy rape stories are always telling others to stop complaining or to go elsewhere, but no we have the right to complain, you should understand that not everyone has the same opinion, it's not so complicated.
And I'm almost sure rape will be romantized like every other bl, I'm ready to bet that they will end up together and be happy as if nothing ever happened.
@flo If I recall correctly he showed toxic behavior very early on and at least after the first season it should have been very clear. It's been how many chapters now that the ml completely lost it. I'm not saying the writing of the story is perfect tbh I have lots of things to critisize but the mood of the story is how it is so I think you either dropthe story if it's too much to handle or risk it and suck it up to see if there is gonna be a redemption arc, but then it's weird to comment non stop that the story is too fucked up. I also didn't mind people complaining at first but if it's after every chapter it get's to a point.
But I agree if the author glazes their relationship and makes it a "happy end" it would be pretty bad writing ngl.










It's been a while since I feeled this deeply for characters in a story. They're both so precious to me, I genuinly am scared shitless of what's going to happen to them . Please give them a happy ending and the chance to properly communicate. Their love and bond is so dear to me I can't stop crying. I just binged the whole story the last couple days btw so no one talk to me, I'm fucking sensitive right now T-T
Fr I love them sooo much