It explains
It doesnt justify
I understand that he also was a victim and that hes not ok either. I just dont find him pitiable or likable whatsoever. What i dont get is how some people dont like the senpai. Hes great, he helped haruki get back on his OWN feet. Senpai needs appreciation
Exactly! It's an explanation but his horrible actions of manipulation and rape will NEVER be justified.
Nah my purpose is not to justify, just to point out how creatively the author has woven a psychological plot. I'm am a literature student so i really notice these kind of things.
The characters are so delicately developed that they seem hyper realistic in terms of their psychology. I mean you know why they're acting the way they are acting, nothing is out of the blue or magically occurs. Everything has proper cause and effect. Everyone is a victim one way or the other.
I think you guys are all ignoring the very psychotic essence of the darkness of this story.
It is not just a dark story about one sexual assault victim but TWO
You guys aren't understanding the reason Hikaru is crazy is because he has been sexual abused as a child many times, teachers , maids..alot of pedophilic action did happen to him too. He's just as pitiable as Haruki.
How could you expect him to be sane after child abuse? Just look at him here
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/kokoro_o_korosu_houhou/mf/v02/c017/45/
He's definitely not okay either! He's broken too! He reached that point of broken that haruki is in present way back in his childhood when he was supposed to be just a baeb. He felt utterly betrayed by his mother too, she was supposed to protect him. I pity his mother too, she didn't deserve this. As a matter of fact nobody deserved it. Everyone was tragic except for hanabusa. He made a conscious choice to evade doing something for Haruki back then and that is why i cannot like him as much either.
Simply villanizing hikaru as an extreme is not doing justice to the psychological artiste of this story. You are supposed to see him as a victim sexual abuse too, turning out to be an abuser. He's supposed to be a tragic villian, not some evil king of a fairy tale, rather a real tragic antagonist.
I'm not saying this because i think what he did was okay but only because i want you guys to see his actions as that of a mentally broken person too.
That would do both the artist and story justice. Coz only then will you be able to see the real psychological appeal of these characters.