I know the questionable consent should bug me more but the author made MC so naive and submissive it feels more like child abuse whats happening here. After all, MC is never really thinking about being sexually attracted to ML, rather he idolizes him and frames everything in the context of their relationship as teammates.
You cant get around the ickyness of rape by infantalising a character so much that they become oblivious of the abuse. That only makes the victim read like child or mentally disabled person.
Animal-trait stories are cute enough (not that I really understand people who go crazy over cat ears on people) but I just absolutely cannot get over the problem that when they run around in their "animal ears and tail" state they have two sets of ears.
My brain hates it so much.
How do the connoisseurs of this art unsee it?
I ... Have to give it to this story. Did not expect that he just runs into a rando that happens to be actually this "mate".
What's happening to my tropes?