Violence in Romance
16 years ago
Posts: 306
Sadly, violence, molesting and abusing in romance just sells.
Corrected for great justice.
You know just as well as I do that this stuff sells to guys just as much as it does to girls. 🙂
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16 years ago
Posts: 1353
Quote from hatsumimi99
You know just as well as I do that this stuff sells to guys just as much as it does to girls. 🙂
Yeah, but I think if it's a guys' manga, it will be done differently. For example: KissXsis has molestation as fanservice scenes.
16 years ago
Posts: 774
Personally I'm able to seperate books and make believe from real life.
My best friend was in an abusive relationship where the guy ended up being arrested. I personally would never let a guy even TOUCH me without my permission, but...
I love Manga where the guy is macho. I dunno why, but I like it. If it were real life I'd be totally against it, but in manga it is hot.
It isn't for everyone.
Member16 years ago
Posts: 1205
Quote from Kitteh_13
Personally I'm able to seperate books and make believe from real life.
That's it..
I do agree that reality is different from manga.
In manga, the submissive girl being raped, forcely kiss, etc are kind of fan service too. you can't blame if the reader like Maso or Sado, it's personal taste..
It's different from shounen/seinen bcoz boys usually is more interested in visual terms, and the girl is more interested in emotional term. If I compare them, I feel the shounen/seinen less emotional attachment for 'H' scenes.
16 years ago
Posts: 140
I guess it sells since it reflects and romanticizes reality at the same time.
Imagine you are openly cheated at or hit by your boyfriend and then you come accross a manga where the heroine is treated in the same way and it tells you that there is still love somewhere in this relationship.
Thats exactly what the hurt reader would want to hear, since she would have ended the relationship already if there was no hope for him, having "loving" reasons.
This illusion that violence towards the loved on can be born out of the exact same love is what those people would like to believe.
But thats just reasoning.
Maybe it simply turns some people on to be treated badly, maybe because they don't know any better or feel they don't deserve anything else.
