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Having looked at the raws for this.

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5:48 pm, Oct 18 2016
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I've seen people list this manga as bad because they hate

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that Chisa basically accepts & becomes willing when that guy rapes her and takes her virginity, but honestly it came off to me as just trying to make the best of a shitty situation. She clearly didn't enjoy it and even tried to drive away Ponta because she felt she wasn't worthy of him anymore. Even though they loved each other anyway. Now, should something more happened to the rapist? Yes, but it seems like they just wanted to put it all behind them. Even going as far as Chisa not telling him that he impregnated her and she aborted it. She clearly deals with that trauma for a few volumes, but becomes okay because of Ponta. I don't know, I've seen some bad ones (like Sex Crime/Cross and Crime) and have seen this listed with those, but I feel that its unworthy of that hate. Does it have problems sure, but again the whole rape thing wasn't netorare (some people have called it that, but it wasn't it because she still loved Ponta & hated the sex) it was her just trying to get it over with. People deal with rape in different ways, but that's just my opinion.


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6:22 am, Jan 25 2021
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It's more that Chise was practically dating said rapist behind Ponta's back...and how the rape, itself is handled afterward.

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3:08 pm, Jan 25 2021
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Practically dating? She went one place with him one time. And what's wrong with how it's handled? It's incredibly realistic to me. The bastard may not have physically attacked her, but he ripped her apart psychologically. With enough of that it can be easy for a person to lose their will to resist, or their belief that they can or should resist. This isn't a matter of being faithful or consent nonsense like that. He just put her in a condition where the physical freedom to resist or run no longer mattered, and all she could do was close her eyes, put herself in a better place, imagine she wasn't with him and wait for it all to be over.

The aftermath was, if anything, even more realistic. It's typical for victims to deny that they were victimized, to push others away, to blame themselves and everything else she did. It's also predictable for an ignorant guy to think "of course she didn't feel good" or desperately insist that she couldn't have felt any attraction to another guy even when things were getting rocky and uneasy with him, which of course made things all the worse for her. I'm in agreement with what the story and main character insist in the fourth volume: it's not infidelity, no matter how you look at it it's entirely rape, a guy exhausting her until she couldn't fight back.

Oh, one other thing after I went and looked at the raws. The translators got it wrong. Chisa never said anything about being attracted to Takigawa. The lines "I am drawn to another man. If only there was room in my heart... What a catastrophe" should read "I wanted to have a heart that could be drawn to another man... but that was a total failure". In other words, while the extreme and growing stress had worn Chisa down to a point that a part of her wanted to fall out of love with him, she couldn't as he's the only one in her heart.

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