I'm glad Sensei got her revenge, but I think she went too far with Yumeka. Yes, the asshole plotted to kill her (knowingly causing an allergic reaction is attempted murder) but using rape as a correction is not satisfactory because it rewards evil people. That predatory company and the assailants are still around, Sensei didn't stop them from hurting other more innocent girls. That awful facility presumably still exists and there's undoubtedly plenty of innocent men who are victims.
In fact, the thing that keeps me from calling this a 10/10 revenge story is the gratuitous amounts of rape and sexual abuse. Every major female character was assaulted or coerced into sex, and even if most of them were monsters I hate seeing this idea that rape is an appropriate punishment - it trivializes such a traumatizing crime and justifies its existence as a "tool". I want to see bad people get punished, but not by other evil people who get away and even commended.
As revenge stories usually go, this was pretty much the only gripe I had about this one, first of all because I generally abhor rape as a mean of revenge in any way or story (and in this case I don't count it out for the fact she signed a contract and had to repay the money she spent, it's clear it was a shady business that preyed upon naive girls).
Second, while it was clear that the teacher was just on path of targeted revenge, It still didn't sit right with me for her, still a woman and teacher, to collaborate with such a business, you can just imagine how many other young girls fell for their scheme, it just doesn't sit right with me that it's portrayed as justified (and rewarded by the story) because Yumeka did a horrible thing and she was led on the path by the main character's will. If drugs were on the table i'd have preferred a revenge based on that without having to go through the 'corced into porn' angle (but it was probably made so because her dream was to be an idol instead).
Made me remember of another outcome of a girl in another story, mc has her eliminated by being kidnapped by a pedophile stalker of hers, while the tone of the story is dark it still portrays it as justified while rewarding the man by using him as the tool of revenge.
Izuka turned into a decent guy. The rest had appropriately bad outcomes. Although I do feel bad for Yumeka - I don't know about anyone else but I feel like her outcome was the most disproportionate one. But that's just my personal opinion.
Thanks! I feel a little less alone. I had already made the same criticism during Yumeka’s arc and in the previous chapter as well, where I said, like you, that using rape as a means of revenge was really awful writing.
I mean, Yumeka is definitely not a good person and probably never will be. She did something horrible and shows no remorse for it. Even so, I really didn’t like her arc, and I liked her ending even less.
And from reading other comments, it seems that Yumeka retreated into her imaginary world that’s because she had gone through terrible experiences. Yumeka’s fellow inmates point out that she was an actress without taboos. Considering how she ended up in the JAV industry, it’s not hard to imagine that she probably wasn’t fully consenting to everything that happened afterward either. Mentally, she was already dead
As for the drugs and this applies to many porn actresses, entertainers, and celebrities in general, they can be a way to disconnect from reality and let go because of pressure, stress, and everything else that comes with that lifestyle.
In the end, it was a tragic fate for Yumeka. Personally, I would have preferred a different ending for her. Yeah she deserved a punishment but not this one