manganiME's manga / #rape(47)

Girls are becoming killers. We see the protagonist, a rich high schooler, driven to display The Medusa Syndrome (blanks out and becomes a killer) when placed in a dire situation. But what is this syndrome and what will happen to this girl sent to a woman's prison with other sufferers of the syndrome? (Prepare to be frustrated, I think, by an unjust system blaming the victim.) There's some annoying, typically gratuitous ecchi content and mature content/violence/nudity. Rape trigger warning.

Giving up on this. I can't stand the abusive, rapist, cold seme. I guess he is supposed to be traumatized and part-monster, but he knows better. He's just a jerk.

If Hikaru doesn't die or end up in prison or kill his mother and then himself, then this can't end happily for me. Evil, evil kid. And I hope there's help and healing for Haruki. Guy's broken. Just totally broken.

I'm giving this five stars for the artwork and some interesting characterization, but I totally cannot be on Taichi's side with his insults and his raping of Naoto while saying demeaning things. He has a dark side. And all the romance in the world cannot justify demeaning and raping the person you supposedly love. I can hope Taichi learns and grows and becomes someone who is trustworthy and trusting, because the person he has been makes me think he doesn't deserve ANY life partner, certainly not Naoto. But I still enjoy this art a lot and hope Sensei makes sense of this relationship mess, because in real life, I'd tell a Naoto to RUN AWAY from Taichi.

a story of rescue and finding family kicks off....with a wish and a kiss. This is not an easy BL to read. The younger of the main male characters is a damaged young man--orphaned, either fostered or adopted, currently homeless, not paid for work, treated abominably by patrons (raped, drugged), and treated unkindly by coworkers. But he wants his life to change. Enter a single father, a widower with a cute but uncommunicative little girl who takes a shine to our malnourished, abused young man.