I felt a silent "without you" after Geum asked whether he would be a good father. Honestly, even if Geum wasn't the best, if they were mortals, they could support eachother and make up for the others faults every step of the way. But knowing that the inevitable time where one is the only one your children can look to for help won't just be a few years, but a long eternal stretch,,,, phew man I'm gonna be sick
Why even bother adding such an emotional storyline between MC and his father if the ML isn't going to react to it appropriately? The author might try to bring it up later but that's just not natural, how can he witness someone in tears confronting their father and just go straight to sex. Absolute madness. I'd say he needs to get a job but unfortunately he is at work.
The title is so off-putting. There's a weird trend of comparing darker skinned characters to animals in manga and this one falls into the same pitfall. Captive "beast"??? It's one thing for the characters in-story to be racist cause, yeah, but the inclusion in the title just feels a bit icky and it becomes more than just an insult towards the ML, as it's now his primary identifier.
And before anyone tries to rip me off my soapbox for being too woke, this is exactly the kind of dehumanising language Europeans used to describe my people to make themselves more comfortable while they committed their crimes, I feel like I can comment on it.
Never forget, language is one of war's most effective weapons. Watch how Israeli media describes Palestinian people, listen to the words they use. "Beasts", "vermin" and "cancer"; all things that threaten order and need to be stamped out or controlled. The same language can be found in racial genocide after racial genocide. The Rwandan Massacre, The Holocaust, The Armenian Genocide, a pattern throughout history. Recognise it and call it out. Don't let them pull the wool over your eyes.
Article published by the United Nations in 2014: https://news.un.org/en/story/2014/12/485822
No you're so valid for this...first of these darker skinned characters never pass the paper bag test, and they always make them slaves... there's a bunch of slavery romantisation, some are so horrendous they don't even reach the white saviour troupe...Just a bunch of racist authors who's brains were also eaten by misogyny cause they can't write an actually consensual sex scene to save their life
While this is true, I think we should be careful not to make this out to be an issue only found in manga, as even though it can be more subtle in manhua and manhwa, it is still present. Victims of a crime can still become perpetrators. Trust me, sometimes my own mother says things so bigoted my jaw goes slack, and she lived through the Biafran War (another ethnic massacre). This is an overarching issue throughout this space. Once we start making it an us versus them thing, we have lost.
Because institutions have been pushing STEM subjects so hard as the "useful" ones, I fear people have forgotten how important being able to analyse words and infer meaning from them. Hitler never stepped down from his podium to personally strike down anyone, yet he is responsible for the deaths of millions; his words poisoned the heart of an entire nation.
Sympathisers for Charlie Kirk insisted he never actually hurt anybody. Though I wasn't necessarily wishing for his death, pretending that the messages he was spreading didn't have the power to incite hatred and violence is ridiculous. Freedom of Speech and Expression actually are NOT absolute rights (yes, there are restrictions y'all), and this is because those who wrote them recognised the harm they can cause.
People need to listen to what is being said. REALLY listen, because these people aren't really hiding who they are, or what they intend to do. They're telling us loud and clear.
well duh, korea and china also enslaved their own population. even now, there's modern slavery in korea where homeless and mostly disabled ppl are coerced and kidnapped to do unpaid work on some island in korea, with the help of the local government and local population letting them do it as if it's normal. and when there were olympic games a few decades ago, korea kidnapped "vagrants" (wether really vagrant and homeless ppl or by tricking and kidnapping regular poor ppl, from children to the elderly) and forced them to do construction work in preparation for the olympic. 2 birds in one stone, free labor and "cleaning" the street so they're pretty for the tourists. on china, i don't know particular moderm cases, but slavery of the common ppl was prevalent throughout its history, they don't even hide it in historical dramas and webtoons
the only reason i didn't also talk about china and korea is bc this particular one is a japanese manga, that's all
While these are facts, I was just trying to make it clear that I am not interested on addressing the actions of any one country, because my aim is to educate, not alienate. I want everyone to watch out for this kind of language in their daily lives, regardless of who they are or who is speaking. Once you start pointing fingers, people stop listening; that is unfortunately just human nature. And since my message is for both the perpetrators and the victims, I would like to keep it neutral. Ultimately, if we want people to learn we have to be careful with our words. You are free to do so under
P.S.: I am not trying to discredit you, public campaigns are actually just part of my academic discipline and I am a massive nerd.










The fuck? You couldn't pay me to open that door, Jesus Christ of Nazareth there is a MURDERER on the loose!!! Barricade!!?