binge read the whole thing. i have conflicted emotions towards alex. i related to some of his issues but a lot of it couldve been manipulation and thats how he was supposed to make you feel. clark was also interesting, his weird hobby made alexs condition even worse and i feel that if alex stuck with han and kept doing therapy it couldve turned out differently. my heart aches at the ending. han deserved the best out of them all and he got the worst ending. i’ll definitely reread knowing how this plays out. a lot of people believe that the ending was satisfying but i feel like it couldve all been avoided.
i love scenes done like this, it feels so warm idk??? maybe its cause im listening to frank ocean rn but communicating and also being intimate will always sell me. even better that theyre fixing the miscommunication they had.
they have me laughin out loud all the time, instead of finding them ridiculous i think their personalities are perfect for each other and its endearing to see them act like this. they dont have boundaries and say whats on their minds and they had to work to get to this point. very happy for them.
feel like some of you didnt understand the ending, it was mafuyu realizing he can move on. he doesnt need to think of yuki constantly in everything he does. he has music to remember him by and knows he has ue. which is why he said the line at the end about sex. the same scene happened with yuki but this time with ue. the whole manga was mafuyu grieving and trying to move on; if you still think he doesnt love ue the same way he does, you’re blind.
ikr i agree fully! i found the ending wholesome n kinda funny lol
i hate that they brush over the fact that the guy raped kuzuya multiple times and use it as humor. and yes i know its harada but like why do we jus ignore the weird shit that harada does in their mangas. rape is such a common theme in every single one of their stories and its dealt with horribly. and yes i also know that a lot of bl has that issue its not just harada but like thats literally the problem. why is it so common and treated so fucking badly
Same it made me mad when i heard about kazuyas school life and his rapist.
It's because we know it's Harada that everyone takes it lightly. Not everyone is gonna get offended by things that are happening in a manga where a stone statue literally makes things appear out of thin air and the two main characters are dumber than a sack of bricks.
ur proving my point though. like because its harada its excused and used as comedy
it was disgusting
it think it’s more like it’s because it’s harada that’s why people can look at it and not react the same way as, say, if it’s depiction of rape in another manga. harada’s works are pretty niche, so you won’t expect it to actually impact how a lot of people think and feel about something. rather, it’s more like most of the readers already know that whatever goes on in harada’s works are wrong, or at least should be. harada’s works aren’t romance nor ordinary bl, so when reading it, you don’t exactly judge it the same way as you would other, more “normal” bls. for example, when reading other manhwas and mangas with rape, i find them distasteful because they try to include rape in a normal story, passing it off as romance, and completely just normalizing it. in this manga in particular, things are just so bizarre i don’t even know what to think anymore so i just suspend reason ahaha also i think it’s pretty neat how a lot of time harada’s works actually open a lot of discussion on morality because she’s so unforgiving in whatever she wants to write and draw lol
I’m not feeling it either those scenes. But this story is apparently a crack at all the yaoi tropes.
A dark comedy of some sorts
I’m thinking the common rape theme in yaoi esp when it’s depicted as love
The point is Harada doesn't romanticize rape.
As I could see in other tons of BLs, rape is often romanticized and used as an excuse to start a relationship or to make an het boy become suddenly gay.
An example?
Idoku Shinaide from Nekota, has the seme literally raping and handcuffing the uke (an hey boy) and blackmailing him.
But the uke didn't report or got away from the seme, he fell in love with him to the point they became a couple with rings. (like, wtf)
Harada is more psychological, as you can see in Color Recipe she doesn't romanticize the rape (in fact, uke doesn't fall in love with seme), but it's involved in the story in a different way.
harada does deal with it differently which i like because its not romantisizing it. but im just not comfortable with the amount of rape in their stories. u know what i mean? like i know what im getting into but god damn
it is pretty interesting how her stories are written and portrayed and i love most of her works but its the rape initself that bothers me not neccesarily the creator because its such a hard thing to read and i know what im getting into when reading hardas works but the amount of it is ridicilous. its in almost every story that theyve made and its so common. its just distasteful and makes me sick.
i hate it when stories make it into a love aspect or ignore the affects that rape causes to someones wellbeing and like physical attraction to others. a lot of bl mangakas act as if its a plot point and its disgusting. i do enjoy the comedy in this manga of course but not when it comes to serious topics such as assault. even if thats the point its just ughh no
Yes, I understand
It's difficult to accept and deal with their work, but at this point I think they're making a sort of parody of what BL is
i do see that a bit
Ifkr, tbh this is the only Harada's story I can actually read ((just because there're actually a lot of light and funny humor in it and not as fucked up as the other stories)) ykwim
mhm mhm
so funny