I agree with you. Although I love yaoi manga, even when there are rape scenes in it, I feel like most people don't understand what rape and consent is, and that is really worrying. Especially since the rape culture teaches boy that it is an entitlement and that women need to be "careful"
what a load of bullshit
Well, this isn't even yaoi, this is porn.
I think if you're going to draw a rape story, you should draw it the way it really is, without making the victim "react positively in spite of himself" all of a sudden, as it so often is done. That strikes me as hypocrisy! A story about a real, cruel rape can be fun to read, simply because you can enjoy the fact that it isn't you who's the victim, since it's just a drawing! So why make it a bland, half-baked rape-but-not-really-rape? Many people fantasize over being raped. And manga IS fantasy, so why not do it the real way? If the drawings are good, no one will protest.
I really don't understand why you had to make this point, some people (such as my sister) enjoy this as it is. There is nothing wrong with the art or the way the yaoi hentai plot plays out. what you said was completely unnecessary and uncalled for. Not to mention the fallacy you just pulled by assuming that just because the art is good no one will protest. Might I just say that you need to think before you type and post
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Your sister likes it, good for her. I don't, I seem to be more demanding, as for the story line and the art work of a comic. And as Nyanko above here wrote: telling stories about rapes that turn out to be "liked" by the victim, in other words telling that rape isn't in fact a big deal, makes kids think it's normal. It tells them a bad lesson, and art shouldn't do that. Real rape is painful and humiliating; it should be depicted as such, not as a fun game. That's the difference between art and porn!
If you're going to draw a rape scene, tell it like it is. If it is good art, then people will admire it. If both the story AND the drawings are poorly, then only very undemanding people will think it's good because they can't tell good from bad, I suppose.
Just make your own comic.
Ha ha ha that's funny X-D
I've been making comics all my life, ever since I was a small kid. It's actually my job, and I'm an old man now, so I've really 'been there, done that'. That's why I allow myself to criticize some of the other comic drawers; if I couldn't draw to save my life, I don't think I'd have the right. But I actually am a LOT better than this mangaka, even if I say so myself. It's not even all that braggy a claim to be better than this; he/se is REALLY bad. Trust me, I know.
I have to see it to believe it. Post a link to your work please?
Oh! Aha! Nice to meet you, fellow Belgian! :-D
I didn't mean to be rude either, I truly was irritated by the lack of quality of this manga. I'm used to great art, from my Japanese colleagues! And also I suppose I'm a bit more demanding, because of my being a mangaka myself, compared to manga-readers.
You Flemish or Wallonian? Nederlands or Français?
Nice to meet you too. :) I don't think you have to apologize for what you said though. It's your opinion after all, and having an opinion is a right. ('Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression'. It's even in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights!) Not everyone will agree with it, but de gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum after all... (Sorry for the random Latin XD). I don't think you sounded that rude either.
Anyway! I am Flemish :) Dus spreek ik Nederlands :)
Oh, ye of little faith! okay, I'll throw some drawings on the cloud:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B9AzYu_Ng3mLNWFPYVg1OGRTTlU
No files?
you don't see them?
how about now? https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9AzYu_Ng3mLYTd1V1ZmblBFYVd3b1ZYajRWcDBlWWh3aDFN/view?usp=sharing
They are visible now though :) But you shouldn't doubt him, he's even included on stripinfo.be, which is a Belgian strip- a.k.a. comic database :)
That aside, @cyrano: I really like your art. It reminds me of some comics I used to read at the library where my mother works (she's the librarian) when I was younger (and had more free time to read).
Thanks, Akikochan :-)
I can't show anything that's published though. The publisher owns the copyright. These are just drawings, mainly characters of stories that are in the pipeline still, and sketches I made for people over the years.
I don't draw like most Japanese mangaka, eventhough I use a Japanese fountainpen-brush; my style is more gekiga than manga. But I've made normal Belgian strips too. Science fiction, historic, all sorts.
And I'm not about to stop. But I like to read the work of others as well, that's why I'm here. Still... somtimes me, the drawer gets in the way of me, the reader!
And I don't look at all like Cyrano, by the way! My hair is much shorter, and so is my nose! ヽ(`Д´)ノ
Nope. Do I need to log in or get special permissions or something? o_O
I'm a skeptic by default. And this being the Internet, there are a lot of people who blow hot air. Not liking art personally is one thing, but when you follow that up with "I can do better," regardless of whether or not that is actually true, it immediately gives me that reaction of wanting to see something to back the statements up. Not that I'm anyone to prove something to, I'm not saying that, but I will admit that if proof isn't shown, it doesn't bother me so much as I just assume that's all it was then. Internet boasting to people who just have to take the words for what they are.
Nope. Never mind. I see it. Definitely not my style/preference of art, but that's not to say that it isn't well done. I appreciate the detail. Thank you for sharing.
Tastes are totally personal, to each his own. I understand you don't trust just anyone who says something on the net, in fact it's a wise way to be: too many youngsters are cheated by liars and get themselves in trouble by being too dupable.
My best work is actually drawn on paper that's too large to fit under the scanner, so they're not into my computer but in the corner of my atelier, in a big cardboard artfile. I couldn't show them if I wanted, unless I'd find me an A3-sized scanner. Or took them to a print shop and have them photocopied, which would diminish their quality considerably.
An A3-sized Scanner?...I wonder if there are such to buy at all. It would be fun, I guess! Our pages are usually quite large, two A3-size pages put (in ladscape) on top of each other, and to be published they're shrunk into one A4-sized page. It allows you to make drawings in extreme detail, not like those sketches I showed you.
As to your artwork, I believe it, just based on the sketches. Sometimes I'm in the mood for more realistic-looking art, but usually I prefer to find artwork like this manga where I can just enjoy suspending my belief. From a technical standpoint, the art may not be perfect, but I personally also do not find it to be so unbearable I can't read it, which is all that matters when I'm reading something.
As a side note, I generally prefer more plot, but every now and then a PWP works just fine for when you aren't in the mood to really invest much focus on something. I seek out manga like this when I just need a simple way to unwind. I also prefer manga where both characters look (and total bonus for me when they both act) pretty seme. I don't know why. It's just my thing. Unfortunately, there's very, VERY few that fit the bill. (I admit this is not one of them so I skimmed past quite a few pages and only really read the ones that gave me what I wanted to see.) If I had the skill, I'd make manga for people like me, but unfortunately I can't draw to save my life. All I can do is write stories where the reader has to rely on their imagination for visuals and really, sometimes I feel like the audience for that is dying...but that's a different matter entirely.

People who can't draw bodies properly, shouldn't make erotic manga. The feet are horrible! And the story, if you can call it so, isn't very realistic either.
Even a male body upon whom sex is forced, isn't going to respond positively against the will of the boy. That is a physical impossibility. Fear causes stress and stress kills libido, even in a high school boy...
In short: this is a worthless manga. Sorry to say.