Gricaseo's Topics (179)

It's a special merch collab. Theres literally liai 'cafe'-ish and Fargo posted it on Instagram and retweet the merch collab

i know it's official, but it's clearly ai

Totally agree

yeahh you're true about some stuff but have you ever thought that having those kind of dreams and stuff is part of the characteristics that improve the story and the characters or the development of the characters behavior inside of the story so a simple dream like that can basically affect the characters behavior and reflect that to the story soo yeahhh dont hate it too much HEHEHE its part of the story ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

Not really, you could take most of them out with little/no adjustments to the rest of the script and it wouldn't affect the story.
Also this is clearly not done for ~character development~ it's an excuse to have a sex scene, and as a sex scene, I think it sucks for the reason I mentioned on my original comment.

ohh yeaaahh well i guess you're right MWEHEHEHHE

I love nothing but character development. Well said

Regardless of Reo's internal motivations, the end result is rape. Even if "he doesn't know any better", Kuzuya has.never consented to it and it's still rape for that reason.

right rape is rape. and he clearly uses physical violence towards and knows its wrong so how come him using it under the context of love is suddenly better??? Kuzuya screams stop at the top of his lungs and cries everytime. You literally cannot get more obvious then that.

Yeah I know, and that's why I think the story is very tasteless in this regard, and just kinda shitty writing from Harada.
I still wanted to make that point because so many people were just blindly hating on him and calling him a sociopath or an evil monster, or even implying that he was aware of what he did and that's clearly not the case if you pay attention to the story for one second.
At the very least, not being able to interpret social interactions, and doing something awful as a result is clearly not on the same level as intentionally and knowingly doing that same thing.

Also I think it's funny seeing people hate on Reo so much, while there are countless of popular BL manga that also have what is indisputably rape, and where the attacker is clearly in full knowledge of what they're doing, and it's framed completely uncritically by the story, and yet everyone is like 'omg senpai so dreamy'
Junjou Romantica is an obvious example but there are countless others, many way more popular than this manga will ever be.

I'm 100% convinced people don't hate on Reo because rape bad, they just do because he's not the typical handsome seme dom they like.

He’s a rapist. You’re projecting on him when the author wrote him as a joke and for dark humor not as autistic representation. If she had you should be fucking livid that she portrayed autism as something that makes you easily become a rapist or just as reo for representation at all. It’s incredibly offensive and none of my autistic friends have ever hurt anybody like this and would frankly be disgusted to read your comment. This is the most ridiculous comment I’ve ever read in my life. You need to step back and take some time to sort yourself out because you sound like a dumb kid. You’re just plain wrong. I get you’re trying to think about things openly and artistically but you’re wrong and what you said is very problematic.

I think you’re wrong. I think in the comics you speak of people let it go because of a suspension of belief. I do not like those stories either personally. But I know people who read them ignore it because the author fames the story in a way where it is made purposely more ambiguous. Japan has a culture in yaoi that is played around with in this story where a man gets raped and likes it and keeps going back for more or forms an emotional bond with his rapist. Even here, harada tries to blur the lines at times. For example: the new guy thinking back on kuzuya talking about reo. The take away you were supposed to get was him saying eww I hate reo and then him implying he likes his dick and likes arc with him to a certain extent if he didn’t go too far and when it’s is implied that somebody else is pointing out he isn’t as resistant as he says he gets defensive with “no I didn’t say that, size doesn’t matter” etc. that is the subtext of a lot of the stuff with reo. Harada writes kuzuya to be like noooo in the moment and scared but also writes him as somebody who is so moral-less that we are meant to call to question whether or not he “enjoys his rape” which is the same shitty trope as the yaoi you’ve talked about. Rape is framed as love and passion in yaoi traditionally. People specifically are more anti reo because we are hearing English comments only. So western framing. In Japan this story clearly does well and there is not the same discourse in Japan as there is on an international but mostly English speaking site like this one. This story specifically is more offensive to western culture around rape and that’s why people are more vocal. People haven’t been able to sense love/care/romantic desire from his rape and so theyre less forgiving of it and see it as too brutal. That’s my opinion on why people are being more vocal in this story

This is in no way autistic representation you honestly sound like your projecting because you like the character but don’t want to see what he’s literally written as. He’s just a rapist who’s so gone in his own delusion that he refuses to see the truth people in the manga are even shocked by how he literally doesn’t realize or ignore that he doesn’t want him. Rapists especially get lost in their illusions and if they think they’re in “love” then they justify their actions

I agree with you and seriously, wtf is wrong with Japanese yaoi audiences/authors? I'm sure someone has or will write a paper on the subject, but I worry for the women of Japan who have romanticized rape so much. Not that it doesn't happen out here in the West, but I think enough of us have pushed back to question the old narratives that more and more people are starting to say "yeah, it's really not okay." I know differences exist everywhere, but I don't think you can apply moral relativism here. Murder is wrong everywhere, and rape is wrong everywhere. I hope that more BL authors and readers in Japan begin to show rape for the damaging act that it is. And to a degree, I think Harada actually does. Like was said earlierz so many BL would not even call it rape or gloss over it. In Happy Shitty Life, we are meant to empathize with Kuzuya and understand that HE knows it's rape and is constantly gaslit by everyone around him as dark humor. I feel like Botan-chan's interpretation of Reo's actions holds up a mirror to common BL readings of problematic situations, and satirizes it.

It has to do a lot with their views on fiction and their own culture around sex. For example, take card captor Sakura. A HUGE series. A series for kids. Well received, had made tons of money, is well promoted. In that series an elementary school girl genuinely has a relationship with her adult male teacher. Japan has a view of fiction should be about fantasy. Little girls like to have crushes on their teacher so this is okay for them to have in a show that caters to little girls because it’s about audience wish fulfillment. This would never ever be allowed to be written or portrayed romantically in the USA and especially to be marketed to kids. Real child p**** was legal to own until around 2014. Not drawings. Real cp. Drawn cp, even depicting torture and r*** ( only censoring now because it feels gross saying that stuff next to the word child) is still legal. Because it’s considered fantasy and not dangerous. That stuff is illegal in most other countries. Japan would be considered a first world country but it lags behind the others in terms of social progression by several decades. Discrimination, racism, sexism, and sexual abuse, stalking, suicide, mental health etc are all very lacking areas in Japan. Because of japans dominant culture and homogeneous population they have kept up their traditions and their values make social progress happen very very slowly. They are largely a right wing run political party. They have their own powerful right wing movements. Their beliefs and the way they address social issues is still very far behind a bunch of western societies. Sure it’s problematic to try to hold Asian countries to western standards but child abuse, abuse of women and men, abuse in general, is something that should not be allowed anywhere. Japans mentality is slow to change and romanticizes sexual abuse. You still see in even more “normal” or “straight” manga the man saying “he won’t be able to stop or can’t hold himself back”. This is still how they think there. They’re very conservatively minded and value their women and women’s issues less than men. Yaoi is a product of that mentality and standards forced upon japanese women. There are essays you can read about it. Yaoi was considered feminist. There’s a lot of history behind it all

I have read some, and I can see how women's pursuit of BL/yaoi manga can be considered feminist. And I HAAAATE the trope in manga of the bottom or woman saying "no, stop" and the top says "I CAN'T HOLD BACK" and it's supposed to be hot/romantic. I just wonder what it will take to change Japanese society to be more egalitarian. I studied Japanese for many years in school and when I was a kid wanted to move to Japan. Only as an adult did I realize that too many of my personal beliefs run counter to Japanese status quo for me to enjoy living there (on top of all the problems for foreigners successfully immigrating). I do hope for a.better future!

c'mon how could one believes that this is normal couple stuff = https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/happy_shitty_life/nbt/br_chapter-5682/pg-19/
https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/happy_shitty_life/nbt/d_v-1-chapter-3/pg-7/
it is so big, so exaggeratedly cruel that there is no level of mental problems which could justify his actions, this is pure stupidity for the sake of "comedy" even thought I don't find any of it funny at all.

I am completely in love with the art and obsessed with the two of them at this point

tbh I don't really care that much about them. They do have pretty good chemistry at least, which is frustratingly rare in romance/smut, but I don't find them particularly interesting or endearing on their own.
But yeah the art alone really makes it worth reading.

the artist gives the uke such good lewd expressions too. i agree the characters are kinda bland, but the sex is so tasty

EXACTLY MY POINT it is SPICYYYYYY

But his kinks mann, it's kinda dangerous. But still best boii