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The author is really focusing on the wrong things here.
MC died as a kid, the moment his friend (ML) died, that’s why mc act like such a kid in front of ML every single time, so much that it feels inappropriate, cause he never grew up since that moment, forever stuck.
This could have been a great chance to tell a story about growth, about letting go, about coping with loneliness, about learning to respect people around you and ultimately most important, respect yourself.
But nah, we got a story which predatory feels in intensified, 2 main leads that is ultimately incompatible but just too stubborn, too stuck in their own head to ever see the other person clearly, and even important side characters. Every single one of them is oozing selfishness in a discrete way. What a let down, everything feels out of place.
It gives Lolita book, the pdf was inlove of his gf of adolescence and only remind the young her in his memories which make him a pdf later on
Imo, the closest between the two is probably the selfishly blind obsession. But ultimately unfair to put the 2 together.
Yaoi, and BL written by girls and woman are rooted in the erasure of power imbalance created by gender, through that explore other power imbalance within personality, sexuality, social status,… and even sexuality and the embrace of sex. That’s why it is considered to be such a problematic spheres, because it is a journal of self reflection and self discovery through a fictional medium.
Lolita is a widely and massively debated work, and not because of the greatness or the lack of, of the content within. But rather because of the ambiguity within the author intention, and the mass interpretation of it. Resulting with, in my very personal opinion, it greatest value, the self reflection of the audience/reader during a specific phase/period of their life while completely devoid what the book and the author initially intended to offer. You can see yourself or a person current belief through their views of Lolita, fascination, uncomfortable, infatuation, absolute disgust, or disdain,…
While my view on them have both pointed toward self discovery. But ultimately, aside from both being created under patriarchy (like everything else cause we are living in it lol), Yaoi/BL is an effort to dismantle specific aspects of patriarchy for self discovery, and Lolita, is heavily entwined with all that fester within patriarchy.
Though, just my personal take on it.
Is the official translation posted by AkumaKira really official? The translation is so bad, pronouns mixed up, words that’s bite each other and doesn’t make much sense.