Let me start off saying the manga is not bad. The characters are unique and lovable and the world building itself is great.
The main plot however moves at a snails pace, and due to this, many readers would lose interest in the story and drop the manga, as who wants to read a manga where the plot development is inconsistant. Sure there are manga such as Conan or Onepiece. But i consider those outliers. Regardless, in order to counter the readers leaving, the author forces the main characters into situation which surely generate shock value.
Refer to chapter 32,33 to understand
Now, before I get hate by people cherry picking the review "you gave it a bad review because of that scene." No. My review for this manga is not solely based on this scene, HOWEVER, based on everything the author had done to that point and how the author handled the situation and the aftermath.
Now onto the meat of the review, be wary of slight spoilers, i try my best not to mention the people in question in this chunk. The author baiscally made the someone get raped, and act like it was nothing. Now, i can understand the use of rape in a stories. They can help with developing a character into a more resiliant person, help them along the hero journey as they are able to overcome this trauma or at least figure out ways to cope with it. However this manga does not do any of it. If i had to explain. There is a dedicated chapter of the rape, then after a chapter or 2, its forgotten, like the trauma is gone.
For being raped, you would believe that it would be apart of their identity and make their personality change into being more distrustful and such
but nope, the characters act like nothing happened and continue on their marry way.
The way the author used rape as an incentive to keep readers hooked when they could have tried progressing the main plot baffles me. Now do not try to argue that the rape was apart of progressing the main plot. BRUV if i literally skipped those chapters, nothing would have changed in the plot, that is how unecessary that rape was. It was only added as shock value to keep peoples attention.
Is rape a bad thing in regards to character progression. NO, you can have a great manga and characters and still have rape in it. For example, berserk, i do not want to spoil it, but for those who do know, seeing the progression of characters and how these traumatic events shaped them, it really makes these characters stand out as real people, who, in their struggle, were able to cope with the situation they faced.
Here the rape just happens and is done and never mentioned again, the person-in-questions personality is unchanged from before and after the rape. The rape literally was unneeded
Overall the authors handling of these sensitive issues was shit, like mega shit, while I like the story, the author must have been on some form of drugs or something. Cause his addition of rape and the snails pace of the plot are tow if the biggest hurdles that caused the manga to be not that great
Now if you want to see my visceral reaction to chapter 32 and 33, and what specific parts I had against it, refer to what I have written below
bro do not read chapter 32 or 33 or 34, they are all shit, i find it fucking funny that femc is handcuffed behind her back, legs free and shit and still did not decide to run, i guess she must have been drugged or something. I hate that the male mc is a clueless fucker who is not aware where femc is, if she died, what would he have done. If you dont see ur partner for at least 4 to 5 hours, then something is wrong. I hate that when she is in bed, she has ropes around her wrists and her arms in foront of her, i hate it when as soon she see mc leave the room to get the rapist she FUCKING UNDOS THE FUCKING KNOT WITH HER FUCKING TEETH. I HATE HOW THIS MANGA TRIED TO PROTRAY HER ESSENTIALLY BASKING IN THE AFTERGLOW OF SEX, EVEN THOUGH THE FEMC IS CONFUSED ON WHO SHE IS, THE MOST LOGICAL FUCKING SOLUTION, WHETHER A GUY OR GIRL, IS TO RUN AWAY FROM THE FUCKING RAPIST, NOT BASK IN THE AFTER SEX, ALSO ANOTHER THING, THE FEMC COULD HAVE RAN AWAY FROM THE RAPIST IN THE FIRST PLACE, HE ONLY HAND CUFFED HER WRISTS, WHAT SHE COULD HAVE DONE WAS KICK, HEADBUTT, BITE ETC, EVEN IN THE BED ONLY HER HANDS WERE CUFFED. LIKE IF SHE NEEDED TO OPEN A DOOR, JUST TURN YOU BODY SO YOU BACK FACES THE DOORKNOB AND OPEN IT, THE WORST THING YOU COULD DO BY THEN IS TUN OUTSIDE NAKED. THEN EVERYONE WILL KNOW THIS DUDE IS A FUCKING RAPIST. LASTLY, I HATE HOW FEMC TOLD MC NOT TO KILL THE FUCKING RAPIST, IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE SOMETHING LIKE " IF WE KILL THEM, WE ARE EVEN WORSE THAN HIM" BITCH HE FUCKING RAPED YOU, IF YOU WANT HIM ALIVE, CUT HIS DICK AND BALLS OFF THEN, MAKE IT SO HE CANT HURT ANOTHER PERSON AGAIN
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