Oh no I agree, I was mad as fuck at shizuma with previous update, but now that we’ve seen the whole thing I just feel like they’re really toxic for each others ^^"
Like, I love them, and I hope they can grow up and progress in a more healthy way but…
The way I see it, shizuma definitely lack awareness & he really need to learn to balance his job and private life better. I get working as a vet is demanding but plenty of people manage to work just their amount of hours with a few extra without sabotaging their family life. Sometimes he needs to say no.
I also feel that knowing Minato has untreated trauma, he should take it more seriously (adapt a little or sometimes it feels he entirely overlook it )
And if he can’t do that then I definitely feel considering Minato’s needs, they’re not a good match.
As for Minato… well, he’s self-aware. It’s a good start. But he should definitely see a therapist. The way he react to some stuff is not normal and his lover shouldn’t have to shoulder and accommodate so much or else he goes mad. Some stuff that are here can’t heal completely but they can improve.
lmao yes, i love them both but minato was in a shitty mood, ruined their date, physically and somewhat sexually assaulted shizuma and when shizuma asks what made him so aggressive and pissed he says "you smiled at someone else", 100% understandable to ask "that's it?" because it is absolutely abnormal to react like that because of a smile. that reaction is unhinged and not easy to comprehend lol??
"shizuma is insensitive", please. if their roles were reversed, everyone would call minato's jealousy obsessive and red flag. i mean it was even minato's plan to become an obsessive top that binds his lover with "pleasure" (still the worst thing in this story so far, how can anyone take that seriously)...ppl just pass it off because he's the uke and bc they identify with him more
The reaction to these couple of chapters is why, even though I agree Shizuma has his flaws and isn’t a saint, I think people are cherry-picking and being overly biased to minato either because of his trauma, or they can relate more, or they just like him more than Shizuma.
Like it’s insane how even after these chapters, people are more pissed off about the story making minato “look bad” and shizuma making light of minato with the “just that?” comment, yet no one seems to give a shit about minato almost assaulting him or the author justifying yuka’s cheating on shizuma and essentially making shizuma victim blame himself by saying he deserved to be CHEATED ON????
Like people saying they hate the “just that?” comment and that it was brushed off too soon. Keep that same energy for minato almost assaulting Shizuma then. Cause with that same logic, shizuma brushed off the assault too soon too and just laughed it off and got horny again.
I’m not trying to say Shizuma doesn’t have flaws. These whole couple of chapters emphasized that both of them were in the wrong. But the fact that people are more triggered by the “just that?” comment than the constant emphasis that Yuka was justified in cheating on shizuma, really makes me feel like people aren’t being as objective as they claim they are.