first of all, there is no excuse for rape. EVER. i don't care if naoto killed taichi's puppy, there is absolutely no reason fathomable that would ever make it even a little ok for taichi to rape naoto. it's blowing my fucking mind how people might think that it's even a little warranted because that mentality is so awful. NO.

second of all, this loops back to the communication issue. would it fucking kill taichi to admit that he's jealous? all the jealousy and desire to control naoto only speaks to taichi's immaturity and i'm glad he still thinks about it. im disappointed that naoto seemed to brush it off, but it does seem like this issue will come up again and be addressed (hopefully) so i'll be waiting for that.

I have to speak, because there were people here who thinks that Naoto is partly blamed for Taichi raped him. I have to say that is ABSOLUTELY NOT TRUE! I don't say that Naoto's behaviour like he is too flirty is not wrong. I agree with that when you are in a relationship you have to set the boundaries. But please! Never even try to find an excuse for abusive behaviour! That is wrong in every circumstances. There is always other solutions where you don't have to use violence. You can speak with each other what you don't like and if he/she can not change at that, then you have to say goodbye, because it won't work that the one is always hitting or raping the other one, if that one does something wrong. I don't know how much he would be sorry if one time he will be so angry that maybe he even kill the other one. Then he can be verry sorry. But can't do anything anymore. So abusivness can not be rightful ever!

Could've gave this a higher rate, but the rape is kind of idk. Tho, the rape was almost forgivable (just almost). What I wanted now is to bring back the topic of when Taichi raped Naoto. Kind of similar to Hidoku Shinaide. Honestly, I reallyyyy hated it at first. And even when Maya became the ideal seme (mature and considerate for Nemu) as time passed, I still couldn't get over the past and kind of hated him UNTIL the topic about what happened in the past was brought up. Maya apologized sincerely to Nemu and well, I kind of slowly see him into a new light.

I've read the comments here, felt like commenting on it. This might get a little ling though.
I feel like people have a very huge gap trying to understand the complexity of these characters and the situations they get themselves in. So I'll give it a go.
I feel like the character that people misunderstand the most is Naoto. People always feel bad for Naoto, poor Naoto and blah blah blah. But they don't seem to notice anything that Naoto says or does. Naoto is a flirty guy who is very easy-going, has somewhat of a bad temper and gets angry extremely easily. I have never seen anyone point any of this out ever. People only ever complain about Taichi, to the point of calling him abusive. But do you not see? Or what? I bet most of you think Taichi is overtly jealous right? Seriously? The overtly flirty Naoto, even after he started dating Taichi did not cut back on being his usual flirty ways, and how he gets unusually close to all the girls. Would you like that? If your bf/gf flirts with others infront of you as if it was nothing? Really? Some people are flirty yes, but once in a relationship you should cut down on that. He was always making Taichi feel insecure without even noticing it. And another thing, you see how they get in fights? Naoto gets angry about something stupid in 00.01 seconds and then leaves angry as if he is always right to be angry and blames it all on Taichi. Over and over and over again. He never considers Taichi?s feelings. He only ever cares about how he?s feeling. About the rape scene, I?m not going to say it wasn?t bad because it was. But you guys act like he did it out of nowhere and didn?t feel remorse and didn?t apologize. When he did. Yes it was bad, he knew it and he got away from Naoto knowing he did something bad. And for fucks sake Naoto didn?t blame himself for that. Wtf where the hell did you even get that. He felt bad for ignoring Taichi?s feelings for most of their relationship. This is too much to discuss and I can?t even put all of it here. Feel free to discuss it, if there was a reply button her it would be nice. But yep these are my 10 cents. And I have sooo much more. But it would probably become and essay.

Mostly even not because of rape, wich speaks volumes, cause I can't stand this stuff. But there're this things I hate even more - victim blaming and self-blaming. I used to work with rape victims so I know how destructive these are. To not to try get rid of feelings for rapist and staying friends with them.. well, only in bad yaoi it would end up with happy ending. And the final nail is how Naoto blames himself for not realising Taichi's feelings. That, between Taichi not confessing in a first place, treating him like sex friend, fighting with him all the time, telling him they're not dating but just "sexually gratificating" each other, f*cking him while he is drunk after reunion, and finally raping him. That's the textbook love, why not realise, indeed.