Perhaps it's just me or does Japan loves to condone rape? Or white washing it like it's no big deal. I can't believe the author actually describes a horrible situation where a group of innocent women are getting gang raped every night, as and I quote: "except for the strange nightly ritual, life is good." Absolutely infuriating.
Nobody in the manga seems to care either. In the story, one of the sick fuckers after seeing the women getting raped, actually gets so excited that he is willing to kill someone to get a ticket to join in. What the hell? Then what does the author do? Kill him off like he deserves? Nope, the author rewards the sick fucker by having a "prostitute" service him instead.
After knowing about it, how can the people in the other camp stay idle knowing a group of women are getting violated every night just a few miles down from the road from where they sleep? Not to mention it would of been the perfect time to strike. Killing the rapists while they are naked and defenceless doing the deed would be perfect poetic justice.
To add insult to injury, the supposedly "good" protagonist cares so much for the lives of these rapists that he always lets go every time they attack. Even though these same rapist thugs repeatedly tries to kill his group and tries to enslave and rape their women.
It's not as if it's hard to stop the thugs either. The protagonist basically dominates everybody on the island in combat with his elite archery. His group outnumber the rapist group twice over, have better equipment, have better training and the other side doesn't even have any proper range weapons. Even if he's so concerned about human life, at least hop over to their camp, put an arrow through that cannibal boss's neck then the situation won't be as bad. But no, he's so "good" that he always shoots the rapists in the arm or lets them go. Ever heard of the expression "Been merciful towards your enemies is to be merciless towards your friends"? Or "All it takes for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing"? It describes this situation perfectly.
But of course, that doesn't happen. Every time the rapist group attacks, the mc and his group goes easy on their enemy. The rapists leave safe and sound, then come back to attack again. Repeat ad nausium and you got the entire premise of the manga.
I like how even after it escalates to the point the MC's best friend gets kidnapped and ended up getting raped. They are still going easy on the enemy. Incredulously STOPPING the whole rescue operation after enemy boss scolds them and shuts the door in their face. Behaving like a bunch of reprimanded school children. So nobody thought the psycho cannibal might be lying? The whole scene was just beyond stupid.
Later the protag gets this stupid idea that the rape victim friend "doesn't want to come back" EVEN AFTER been told "it's not that the friend doesn't want to but he's TOO ASHAMED TO".
The hypocrite even self-righteously swears "but if he does want to come back, I won't let anyone stop him" THEN NEVER GOES TO CHECK! (How the fck would you know when you didn't even talk to him???) Running away with his girlfriend instead. Basically preferring to leave the friend in the den of thugs to be gang raped. Bravo man bravo.
The author did a good job in glossing over the rapes, making it seem like it's no big deal, since it seems few people pick up on it. Instead focusing on the mundane survival aspects and making the MC's shallow "circle of life" philosophy seem meaningful (it's not).
Honestly perhaps the most depressing thing, rather than the manga itself, is how few people caught on and seem to just have bought all that shallow crap.