Kid being mentally ill from his experiences of being abused, sure. I did get the vibe with the "fuck u mum im gonna beat your pillow face in" that he was skipping a few steps but that's not really my problem here. They could go somewhere with that story and still have it as "I get you're not a...
myeah. There's this artificial twist/'it was x unlikelyhood all along!' trope I've seen before with Jodi Picoult where... I don't recall the book but they had the dad kidnap the girl and run, the plot tweest was "oh I thought x was molesting you", the mother's disbelief breaking the kidnappee's...
yeeaaah I feel like this is gearing up for a cheap twist of 'what if the main we established as an abused child was the bad guy all along?' or "welp, guess you *have to~ identify with your mother that also abused you for psychotic break reasons you're the saaame". Sometimes trying to insert...
@ xg2x She's an elementary schooler for a huge part of the story. She told her mum and the csa from her brother stopped. She has taken a form of action about her situation. Fight/flight/freeze/fawn = she froze because she wasn't safe, that your response pinged to 'fight' doesn't make it the...
Myeah I hope they don't go the "ah yes, the abused kid is the real bad one here" either. Like there's Both Sides and then there's whittling at 'but one side is the abuser though', which the author has portrayed pretty well up until this point. Yes MC is going the demonization-and-discard route...
Liking this so far, expands on the take on disabilities in-setting (The anime has a lot of acquired disability and limitation, here the focus is more quirks with a heavy downside) and I didn't see 'oshit main fancharacter is a villain' coming.
I don't think we're going to agree on 'realistic' since you think a thirteen year old murdering their entire clan is 'realistic'. The realistic response is often not the idealized cathartic one that tends to get you a) killed b) leave you worse off than you were previously (He's not going to be...
"Another simp" ...he's a fourteen year old child? I don't know who the hell Itachi is but "oh yeah I murdered my entire clan at 13" sounds like a vastly different story at that point and borderline mary sue if it isn't already. It's psychological horror, he's not going to suddenly amass 'and...
They expect straight porn/their fantasy from the tags but get a character who's internal dialogue is "this guy sucks at sex lol" + she doesn't work for having tragedy porn milked from the assaults or borderline assaults she faces. She takes control of the situation where she can and just gets...
It's disappointing they're going the "well she's mentally older so it's totes kosher" route, they want to have her maturity and emotional responses affected by her brains' development at the same time and it just doesn't work and feels like another "she's rly 1000 years old so not a child but...
Bittersweet as all hell and can leave you feeling hollow like with the anime ending but it's at least not "haha they elope and have happilyeverafter pedophilic relationship" or "everyone dies lol togetherindeath". She's screwed up but in a way that Sato can't really get at her anymore, even if...
I feel like this is more popular among 'woo feminism sexwork' reviewers on youtube and less so here given the dissonance in the votes - is it purely "didn't like the less-deconstructive angles the light novel took" or what? I feel what I've seen so far here is pretty good.