Responses
"I don't mind assault so long as it's handled well" what does this even mean lol
It means I don’t immediately shut a story down or stop reading if assault is included in the narrative, but instead look at the context within the story and how the author utilizes the trope in their work. Is it just a cheap tactic to have the main couple bang or is there more nuance/is it “handled well”. The best BL example is Back To School, the mc is assaulted, but there is No forgiveness and it shows the mental toll an assault can have on a victim.
What is with the trope of the uke falling for the rapist seme just because the rape was eventually “gentle” one time. Like, they didn’t spend ANY quality time together, uke asked basically 0 questions about his deceased wife. He doesn’t do anything to protect his daughter even when it’s obvious he’s being stalked.
Stalker plot goes nowhere, could write the daughter out, change dead wife to any other family member leaving a debt, and the plot would not change. Also chap 3 confirms the first rape scene was pure spite on the seme’s part. And he’s not going to have a redemption arc bc he’s been magically forgiven. Uke falling for seme makes 0 sense, we don’t see it happen, he just randomly starts loving the seme. UGH why did the old man yakuza story have to have bad writing! I don’t mind assault in manga so long as it’s handled well or there’s an actual redemption, but this one just had waved it away in chap 3 like it didn’t matter.