I take it no one saw that documentary on host clubs in Japan. That shit is seedy as hell. The customers are creepy and the hosts are sleezy. Should everyone be treated human? Of course, but either the customers are delusional/crazy or they know what they're getting into and the hosts don't survive if they aren't money-hungry and manipulative.
I still feel bad for him, because everyone should get paid for the job they do. I probably would want to give up too.
I saw a couple of docus too and it screams of materialism, objectification, and loneliness. Lots of manga has had the host industry seen in rose-tinted lenses, maybe because it’s probably a wish fulfilment of sorts. After all, fiction (or at least some of them) serves as a temporary replacement to what is absent or missing in our reality.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk jkjkjkjk
Every time I see a host-club related manga, I always think of the documentary I saw. Although I can enjoy the story despite that, they're so far off from what a host club actually is that it's shocking. Definitely romanticized for the reader. But, in the same sense that managa seems to think Americans go around kissing each other, we think hosts are genuinely nice. You won't make it if you're nice. You have to lie, manipulate and (sometimes) cheat. And they do it in groups. It's quite awful. Now, not all hosts are bad people, but I'm betting if they stay long enough they turn so jaded they lose whatever morality they had when they started. Such a shame.
True. The typical host club business model is faulty, exploitative tbh (or at least what was inferred in the interviews) which forces the hosts to skew their sense of morality to climb the ladder. But thinking about it further, the host club business is both gross and genius at the same time. Despite being (generally) questionable, people still willingly pay (and millions of yen at that) and patronise them in the end.
Btw off topic, Rui reminds me of Taizo here: https://youtu.be/tV8OhAc3Zyc
But ofc Rui is more good looking though lololol
Omg. Hahaha. I completely agree on both counts! So funny.
Wouldn't it be interesting if someone took that and made it wholesome? I know a lot of people that would pay for that kind of service in the states.
Same! but i think it would be like a more relaxed, less weeb nightlife version of a butler cafe (and with alcohol!)
Would be pretty cool, I have to say. Would probably be an easy business to keep open too. Although bitches be crazy so there would more than likely be a lot of drama. Lol
it was apparent the author just wanted to end it and wasn't quite sure how. The last chapter wasn't even really an epilogue. I really kind of disliked the last half of this whole thing. Just steadily got worse. Predictable and boring and the climb had no deep emotion. Disappointing really, because I expected more considering how the first half went. But I get it. Its hard to keep up the momentum for a story if you've started another project or have other ideas.
...Kimi Ni Todoke. Popular, pure guy with a pure and kind of weird girl. So fluffy you wanna scream and frustrating to boot because of the misunderstandings. Lol. Love it.
I really hate it that women think it's okay to slap people just because they're women. It's still violence, it's still abuse. If a guy did that, the cops would be called and he'd be spending the night in jail but a women? Nope. They can get away with that shit. Not okay to slap someone people! I don't care how hurt or upset you are. Grow up and handle it like a civilized human being and an adult.
Exactly what I was about to say. If it had been a man slapping her everyone would be calling him an abuser. I hate it when they say that women can't be abusers or that violence between women is not abuse.
It's an ongoing issue that I don't think will ever be resolved, unfortunately. As soon as I see a girl or woman hit or slap anyone out of anger or spite, immediately whatever emotion I felt towards them turns to dislike and they lose my respect. I didnt like Achi anyway because she's your stereotypical get-in-the-way female character and I am certainly not a fan of yuri, but that slap did me in.
Imma go ugly cry now. Lol. My heart is so full and thankful to the parents. Even parents of straight kids aren't always that accepting.
Stockholm syndrome at its finest. Slow develiping--as it should be--so I think its throwing everyone off because we're used to manga where SS is very quickly developed and you sont see too many of the deviants misdeeds or abuse. This certainly has a lot of both. It's kind of icky to read, but I can see the development between the characters, slow as it is.
Sorry for the typos. It wouldn't let me edit.
I wanted to add that this is actually a rather accurate portrayal of developing SS, although it is still moving rather quickly. But the uke is struggling with his anger while his psyche is searching for a way to humanize his abuser so that he doesn't completely break. Pretty good, I think, if not horribly misleading in the title. Lol. Kenichi is way more than just "kinky".
thats all they could fish up? As someone who was bullied a LOT, I can contest that i don't hold it against my bullies. Not any longer. Its super unhealthy and people do change, especially after high school. In fact, you change the most directly AFTER school. I know it's heavily condoned in all parts of the world, but that's like a parent grounding a child who is now an adult because they realized that ten years ago it really wasn't the dog that stole their cigarettes. Or something like that. The news loves drama....i hate the news. Bjnch of gossip-whores.
Ah but they do. Which is why i stopped watching the news a long, long time ago. Its all negative and a lot of it is exaggeration or just outright opinion and lies. Thats not news to me. That's gossip.
it's a pretty serious issue in the korean entertainment industry. they go overboard with anything that could pull an artist down.
It happens a lot in Korea and Japan, actually. It just happened this past year with a rising kpop idol, whose name is slipping my mind. The petty stories like being gay, being a bully or stupid indiscretions as youths come out all the time. Mostly because they try to keep idols with these pristine images. There was this one that happened with Disney where one of the higher-ups said something over a decade ago on a social media site against disney that they dug up. Dont recall what it was but I remember thinking it was dumb as hell to report something that happened ten years ago thinking it was still relevant. If a person can go through drastic change in one year, imagine what can happen in ten? It does still happen, though.
I just want Miha to be happy and everyone to either stop using him and make it up to him (if they even can) or leave him the hell alone and let him go find his own happiness.
I feel like I'm reading the gay version of Yotsuba. I love this manwha so much. Makes me so happy.
I want shit to go down between He Tian and Mo already, though.