munakata should have told chika right away about which university he was wanting to enter, cos keeping it a secret would cause a lot of grief. in real life, this stuff would be very upfront and you deal with the situation right there and then. it's okay for chika to be a little selfish....at least he understands that about himself, and even though he said 'don't go,' he knows he's gonna support munakata. hopefully chika finds his own goal and doesn't follow munakata to the same school just cos he's there.
he who snoozes loses....and if you don't get your sh*t together, taichi, you'll lose nao for good. stop being so indecisive, wishy-washy before someone who has no hesitation comes swooping in. i'm tired of seeing nao being hurt by taichi, when nao has never, not once, seond guessed his choice to be with taichi.
i would prefer for it not to be a threesome and for him to end up with subaru. but, yaoi is yaoi lol
i cried for him at first when he was begging kenji not to leave him, but when he got a new lover, and he figures out that HE lets them all become useless due to spoiling, then i have no sympathy for him. that's the type who is codependent on relationships. i know, i've been with someone who was/is codependent on relationships.
ah the rapist blaming the victim...AGAIN. i actually cried for yuu this chapter. i really want to stop reading this, but at the same time, i can't....i always want to finish what i started. *sigh*
Ikr! I don't like were this is going at all but it's too damn hard to just quit it halway through...
i cried at this, and i cry at the ones that depict the characters being outcasts for loving the same sex, because in reality, that's going to happen most of the time. i wish it could be like this for every teen who decides to come out, that no one should have to be ashamed for who they love, or live some lie to appease everyone else. i'm hetero, but i'm just like these parents, accepting of whether my kids choose to love the opposite or the same sex.
hitting, punching, abusing is not a sign someone cares too much or loves you...it's the need to control. i was in a relationship like that once when i was a teen, and that was the ONLY one. i am lucky in the sense that it wasn't extreme, and that it was only a couple of times, but it shouldn't have happened at all. 'I' shouldn't have let it happen.
You're absolutly right. But the one doing the abuse are often manipulator. Juste like in this story : because he tells him everyday that he is useless, he starts to think so too.
Like every abused people, 'you' sould not have let it happen. But it wasn't your fault, you didn't have much choice. You are a victim. It's not about being weak or strong. It's just that manipulative people are the worst : they know the best way to hurt you, to make you think they're actually what's best for you, to keep you for themself and to lock you away from anyone else.
I'm very sorry to know that it happened to you, and I hope that you'll never cross the road of another manipulative and abusive jerk ever again !!!
That is Obsession and Control for the abuser, and Stokholm Syndrome and Co-dependancy for the victim. NOT love. In NO WAY is that relationship love. And it is sad that the abuse victim thinks it is.
It is very sad. They are both screwed up and call it love. There may be lust and dependence and some sort of twisted love, but these two people need help, not more abuse.
this is fiction...
this story may be fiction, but some women, and even men, are being abused by their partners everyday. i get that it's for a story, but in some ways, it's romanticizing the abuse. abuse is not romantic and it's not love.
The people who say "this is fiction" clearly don't understand how emotionally invested some of us readers get in stories. We know it happens in real life, too, and it affects how we see the story. Some things as tropes we tolerate (we wouldn't tolerate any rape in real life if we're decent people) and wait for happy endings. But we still have emotional and mental reactions to things in stories. We don't read just "for fun." We read to feel.
Well said.
Waaah... After reading Kimid's comment, I could'nt managed to express myself in order to explain to her why it wasn't "just fiction". I never find the right words when it comes to describe the act of reading and the feelings it involves. But you just did it, in a magnificient way.
"We read to feel".
Thank you for that !!!
I am sorry if I have made you misunderstand. What I meant is that this manga is a wonderfull piece and the author did a beautiful job on making us feel these emotions, but don't forget this is fiction. Whenever I feel really emotional about things I have read I always tell myself that it was not real and was just made to make us teary. Hey, but that's just me. Whatever makes yourselves calm is best.
Ah! That makes more sense with the ellipses now.
if someone says your boring and let's see other people, you'd be hurt...if i were told that in the past, i think i would be very affected, but now? ok, bye, see ya lol but as someone commented, saying those types of things to someone is the beginning of the end.
i did like how the seme asserted himself though...except for when it was over lol
i honestly want nao to get with nishi. i've seen people like taichi, been with people like taichi, it's no fun. nao loves taichi unconditionally, but the same can't be said about taichi. i mean, i know taichi loves nao, but i get so frustrated every time they clear one hurdle, then come to another due to one person.
crikey, all these damn mangas i've been reading and animes i've been watching got me emo af. lol i know maeda's feelings all to well(when i was younger), and i see people go through that, too.