the concept of guideverse is kind of lackluster to me, from what I usually see from guideverse manwhas, it's very traditional(?) in a sense that it reinforces roles of a heteronormativity of "strong masculine person" and " weak and feminine person" or in this case guide and esper which I find very concerning. Also I don't like how guides are somewhat useless other than to keep espers in check, like what do they do with all that energy they sap from espers? do they just purify it and bam they have all that stored energy or what?? They are portrayed as mostly weak and not very helpful other than the thing they are naturally able to do which to me is kind of weird especially when you consider the underlying heteronormativity within guideverse which is kinda ironic how guideverse is usually in BL. Also, arent guides also said to have superpowers??? So surely they must have some sort of way to contribute other than to just guide??? Also the villain to me, is very 1 dimensional and kind of cartoony in a sense. We don't really know much about him as to what drives him to make the city guard be the number 1, like thats it? that's not really a strong ambition to do allat inconvenience. Bro couldve done something else other than be a massive dick and the ex boyfriend was mentioned once just came out of nowhere, I completely forgot about him until he showed up LOL. I genuinely love it when ukes are cute and feminine but only in looks, if their personality is completely dogwater and their character is so helpless to the point where they have to have someone else help them which leads me to another point I don't like in Guideverse. Why are guides allowed to go in dungeons with no minimal defense system?? Like they can't even do anything to protect themselves and they're all huddled in one place and from what ive seen, not that much espers protecting them and isn't that like kind of a hazard??? ANDDD if theyre sooo supernatural, why are they literally just normal people who can calm espers down like???? that's not really supernatural, like yeah you can stabilize their power but like erm??? that's all?? Being a guide sounds like being someone's innate therapist who stops people from being self-destructive and stopping them from also being destructive to people around them, is that their superpower??? A therapist & counselor for the actual supernatural LMAOO????
Regarding the first part of your comment
I think it's just the typical bl/yaoi fan mindset (not yours but the authors)
Because to me I've always found the guideverse similar to omegaverse and now since you've brought this up, it's made me realise omegaverse is the same way
I think it only started to change when people found the concept of "a bulk strong guy" can be capable of being an omega
Idk if it's true but I only started seeing guideverse recently so I always assumed it was a new trope/genre?
Recently as in late last year though lol but given how long all the other tropes have been out then I consider it recently, but correct me if I'm wrong about that.
So I've just always thought that if we gave this enough time to age it'd become similar to omegaverse in that aspect. We're going to start seeing roles reversed. "Bulk strong guy" is the shy timid guide while a "feminine" person is the esper with the bold personality
(I also think I might've gotten the roles reversed sorry LMAO)
After seeing several comments with similar opinion about Guideverse. I realized, I probably don't have this impression because my 1st encounter was with a Shou Esper/Sentinel and a Gong Guide (both were OP. Gong was not a delicate guide and Shou was anything but meek).
The manga in question is "a guide to reincarnation" btw if someone is curious.
this would've been such a hot yaoi milf manga if he wasn't a PEDO
Wasn't he a kid too lmao. He was 14 tbh.
And the seme was 8
bruh no way ur justifing it bc that was a 7th grader and a 2nd grader. that is horrible in terms of maturity wise
Kota your new found taste in men is absolutely garbage, however whatever makes you happy ig
I hate hate HATE the second couple, I breezed through that shit the moment i start feeling the ick; I could not stop chanting "k1ll y0urs3lf" towards the jerk beta, I want that man D34D IN A DITCH! Who gives a fuck with your inferiority complex, that ain't a reason to taint those around you with your vile, disgusting, sorry sack of bullshitery. Nagisa I love you but goddamn, u have to get your ass away from that good for nothing, waste of space who does not give a single drop of care about your wellbeing.
OMFG RIGHT?! shit pissed me off so bad
I cannot get over their goofy ass proportions, like I don't see MC as a child rather they look like they are an extraterrestrial
i wish gay people were real
but in the clurb, we all gay
advanced humor
TRYNA STRIKE A CORD BUT IT'S PROBABLY A-MINORRRRR (2) this has genuinely been one of the reads that left me covering my mouth from gaping and my eyes just literally wide open. What the actual fuck is this shitshow, like I fully knew how bad it was, but like morbid curiosity got the better of me. Even if the story changed the ages up, it still would've been bad because literally from the first chapter it was
DAS KRAZY ???? (I highkey have the same issues like yuma when it comes to self worth
so to me, if this twisted sense of love/obsession came to me, I would welcome it with open arms. I would overlook all the things that should be considered alarming as long as they would want me, even if it means he'll lock me up because hey, atleast he wants me right?)
erm... get help?
Hey sweetie..this is just a reminder..real life situations are completely different and more dire..ik you have a low self worth..but I promise you there are a lot of people who would you properly and you are more then you think..much love from a stranger
There are a lot of people who can love your properly and in a healthy way**
this story is trying to get me to inherit diabetes from my dad istg