Maybeblue's manga / #Trauma(17)

The story was already pretty good but the last chapter got me good that alone made the whole thing 100x better, perfect writing, 10/10

Some things are very original and well developed but some are just unnecessary and rushed, so even if I definitely liked it, I'm frustrated cause I know I could have liked it a lot more. I'd say I liked Chihiro's personality the most cause he's probably the only character ever who's simultaniously a dom top with a soft side, has a degrading kink AND sadistic tendencies, and it all works surprisingly well too! It's incredibile how all those things never clash, props to the author. What I think could have been avoided is the sexual harrassment in ch.1, but I guess everyone could see it wasn't meant to be a painful or traumatic experience for the mc, so I'm not mad at it per se. I even get how that scene served it's purpose in the plot, but at this point if you need such an overused trope to start an enemies to lovers arc it just feels like lazy writing to me. Now what I didn't like was the thing with the kidnapper. It's not too forced to put a traumatic experience like that in the mc's past but it doesn't make sense for a kidnapper to be that mean to a kid for no reason. And it makes even less sense for the same guy to go out of prison and kidnap him a second time for what again? They should have at least given a believeable explanation as to why he's so pissy, something like he's somehow related to their family and is jealous of the mc or sum, but to just leave it at that is pretty half-assed. The art is super pretty. It's a 7/10 and I'm being generous for the masochistic/sadist seme, would have been a solid 9 with more effort in the developement of their relationship and a backstory for the kidnapper