Gonna need a love notebook to fall on my head out of nowhere STAT. Also, I’ve read some shady AF things on this site, but Mortal Kombat Kama Sutra takes the cake. (⊙…⊙ )
What are the other shady things you’ve read??
That machine translator kept translating the watermark so I legit thought that
‘ FREQUENT MOLD FISH FREE SHARING
FISH FORBIDDEN TO MOVE“ was very important to their relationship dynamic lol.
AGREE, i was like "oh shoot that's a watermark"(╯°Д °)╯╧╧
I shoulda realized when the scanlator was getting preemptively defensive. Shu is 'waiting' for Maki but doesn't communicate this at all. Just refuses to sleep with Maki while forgetting he used to casually insult his exes and accept mouth favors from male friends right in front of Maki. So of course Maki is confused/ insecure. And Shu failed to protect friends that SA'd Maki not once, but twice and THAT'S the catalyst that pushes him to be intimate with Maki? No amount of violent retribution and post grape aftercare is gonna redeem Shu. And they have no chemistry.
REAL thank u I s2g the author has a genuine rape fetish like, there's infinitely more time spent on that that any sort of "romance"
Actually, when this stuff is included and as graphically as it was it IS because it’s the authors fetish and the manga is for that kind of audience. I’ve learned that over time bc I was like why does this happen so much in Japanese manga?? Then I looked into the artists and have seen authors literally say they included it as fanservice and enjoyed drawing it. I think non Japanese audiences fail to realize the extent to Japanese culture around fiction and porn. I mean a mainstream anime for little girls that aired on tv had a literal elementary schooler dating an adult male teacher bc that is the extent to which they believe anything goes in fiction. That anime? Cardcaptor Sakura. Their reasoning is little girls get crushes on their teacher so it’s fanservice for kids. 1. Kids do not need fanservice like that. 2. It so unsafe bc some kid seeing that has it normalized for them and it opens them up to be easily abused by adults. That kind of thing would never be allowed to air on tv for kids in most countries. Much less be at all published.
you’re right! okay, you just made me feel better about hating this manga. thank u.
A perfect little combo of spicy and sweet! Art style is great and as Ursula the Sea Witch puts it the 'Body Language' is fire. Only con is it's too short.
It started out so promising (tsundere alpha and clueless omega) and then just spiralled down into a rapey omega-verse free all. Throwing in a brother (yuck) not to mention child-grooming elements (brother getting attached at 10, forcing young ML to watch sex). These are all choices the author didn't have to make. Not to mention how ML talks about MC in his head and out loud? And the only good thing about the ML is he's a florist.
Art/ character design is gorgeous, but it bothers me that Kaoru spent all that time trying to hold off on ‘going all the way’ (signifying opening up and fully trusting ML) and author rushed it and put the dramatic beat to the short extra at the back of the book. Not to mention half the extra focuses on the convenience store clerk.
Jin may not know he's doing it but the bestie was for sure violated. The guy was crying and in pain and asking for it to stop. So even if the Jin wouldn't be considered the perpetrator, author leaned a little too hard on dude's discomfort/ pain, which makes it read a lot like a thinly veiled rape fantasy.
In a way, yeah, Misaki was grapes, but definitely not by Jin. Neither of them understood what was happening and it must have been so scary for him, is that called "thinly veiled grape"? I had no clue
It's actually rape lol. The worst part is that the rape, initially, was unbeknownst to the perpetrator, but it's still that. Super weird imo
Promising premise because I love second chance love but Takanose doesn’t deserve the ML (or anyone) at all. In chapter one he slept with him up until the morning of his wedding day to another person. Except twenty years later, he’s still wishy washy AF with no boundaries, letting anyone do whatever they hell they want with him (even ML) and doesn’t pull his head out of his own ass to wonder why his high school lover came back to him. Smartest person in this bunch is the woman who divorced him.
Right, his wife was right about divorcing this impotent ass even after she was probably forced to get married too( it was arranged marriage) and I hate some bl FEMALE fans who think about only balls and hating on female characters like “u annoy/ruin our gay ship u witch!” Like lol (sorry I went kinda overboard)
that's one of my pet peeves, the girl could do something as innocent as fall inlove with the wrong guy and moving on and still get hate from certain female bl fans
Damn right! The ex wife was probably the best character in this whole mess! And she wasn’t even a main character, which says a lot about this messy plot. Now I want her story tbh XD
The fact that Shinjae cleaned his apartment before he was gonna [redacted] was such a good detail and made me weepy. The way they were a lifeline for each other was really sweet.
I do like most of these author's works but also feel like there should be a Lil warning about the implied relationship between a younger ML and his master in a flashback. It's like ten panels at most and is important to the story but a heads up would have been nice cause it gave me the ick.
This! Its a huge trigger and tbh if i had known i wouldnt have begun this story
For sure! Also side note— just saw the votes— who downvotes trigger warnings?*rolls eyes emoji* I always read the comments before I start the story even if mild spoilers because I’ve been burned way too many times by some of these stories
I think ill have to start doing that as well. This is the second story by the same author i go into without warning and get traumatized they are beautiful stories, sure! But also very heavy and definetly not for everyone