Tf???

i thought the same thing man, this would've been so much better without that part and it's literally not a necessity, the authour could've just picked a different sentence

but yk what? i just thought about it again after reading the other story sequel about the older brother, and i may not know the intentions of the author, but at the same time this could symbolize all the people and familys that actually do this exact thing unfortunately, they misuse religion to manipulate and exploit others

are they Muslim? i dont remember that ever being mentioned

I read this some time ago so I don't quite remember, and yeah you're right they never directly mentioned it, but since this storyline is based on 'arab culture' and also the way they are dressed + the one saying of the mc he always tells ml (ion remember what but I think something about God)

* suggests that they are either 'muslim' or religious in some kind of other way

How can be racist to portray abuse and gay people? Those situations (abuse) and gay people exist regardless of the ethnicity and the religion. The story was terrible, honestly, in plot and also because they were all sick in the head (except the victim) but to stretch it and say is racist...

I think you may have missed the point but I agree that it was terrible lol

exactly, the story was terrible, so why make the characters muslims? They could have just been nothing or unlabeled.

real

Because the author wanted to and because that happens in muslim communities as well as in any other one? Lol

but it happens EVERYWHERE. Why make it targetted specifically to muslims

You're just stretching because you didn't want to read Muslims in this situation. But that's life.

You dont get it. If this was actually about portraying abuse then they would have let it stay unlabeled. Racists usually put a label on bad actions to make others associate bad stuff with the race too.

you get it

You seem genuine and sound pretty young (forgive me if not), so I will give you my honest opinion. I've read yaoi for almost 17 years (that is not my age), and I have seen plenty of stories located in Arabian countries, as well as other countries or islands. I can confidently say that Japanese people are very ignorant of a lot of things, and yes, most of them can be described as racists and/or xenophobic. Because they simply don't care to learm about what they depict. Here, honestly, the only thing you have is a bad writer who also likes stories with fucked up charactes.

Authors that write this badly rarely give a lot of thought to their story to do what you claim the author did. I mean, is possible, but she's such a bad writer that I don't give her enough credit to do that. She sucks!! She probably thought it was exotic to add that nationality and didn't even learn about the culture. Don't think to deep when the story is this bad, is honestly not worth it.

But also if you cannot read gays because of your culture, because is a sin for your religion or whatever, then stop doing it and read heterosexual manga instead.

Thanks for agreeing w me !