New Normal - Ch. 63

[MangaDex]

 

[Hauberk1800]

does there need to be sexual violence. Like really? Saw a woman say all the women in Arcane were traumatized yet no one got assaulted.

thanks for the tl all the same

 

[themanthemyth]

im so happy i dropped this

 

[Zatheus]

Why is there always a rapey scene man...WHY!?

 

[reicchimaster]

This series was interesting when it started, now it's just bruh. Really took an old joke, "the answer is always raep" literally.

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

<insert Your Mom's Backdoor joke>

This is misdirection and Kato there has some larger plan that isn't graping a highschooler no matter how amazing her ass is, right? Right?...Right? Something with the whole hairbrush thing?

Nope, it was just rape. Sigh.

Why is there always a rapey scene man...WHY!?

I don't mind adding stakes or w/e, or showing how the world especially a collapsed one, is where social norms have fallen and base desires have taken their place and what not, but in this case its just 100% gratuitous. She was already in danger from infection and then from just being captured and put around the Chosen. There was no need to have Natsuki getting actually assaulted by The Creeper to set sufficient stakes.

 

[karmsand]

does there need to be sexual violence. Like really? Saw a woman say all the women in Arcane were traumatized yet no one got assaulted.

thanks for the tl all the same

"The bad guy is a rapist" is an easy plot device to make you NOT empathize with a bad guy (see: every villain in SAO).

 

[karmsand]

Nope, it was just rape. Sigh.

The hairbrush was from the guard guy (probably owned his colleague/lover/daughter? 🤔 that died) that was hit by the explosion in chapter 60 and we see come out of the rubble in chapter 62; long hair guy was rapey from the start (in the same ch 60 he looked at her ass and wanted to do the nasty)

 

[xyzzy]

does there need to be sexual violence. Like really? Saw a woman say all the women in Arcane were traumatized yet no one got assaulted.

The funny part is that society had already been changed to the point that seeing someone’s face was equivalent to seeing them naked. The author didn’t have to do it, but they did it anyway

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

The hairbrush was from the guard guy (probably owned his colleague/lover/daughter? 🤔 that died) that was hit by the explosion in chapter 60 and we see come out of the rubble in chapter 62; long hair guy was rapey from the start (in the same ch 60 he looked at her ass and wanted to do the nasty)

I had a moment where I thought Kato might have been a double agent or something, or part of a "third group" of immune & city dwellers working together for coexistence against their respective leadership, and given the guy was screaming at Natsuki about if she had hairbrush, thought the hairbrush might have been some sort of sign, and Natsuki might been slipped some intel or was going to be used a courrier, and Kato's rapey nature was an act to keep his fellow 'chosen' from getting close to him letting him be a double agent with more freedom.

But nope, just rape.

 

[GastrointestinalLot]

Rape and entering your mom's backdoor in one chapter

 

[Visulth]

Protagonist gets quarantined: Meets manic pixie dancer girl

FMC get captured/quarantined: Rapists, of course, every time, because that's the only way for our primarily male target audience to feel empathy??

And you just know on some level they're getting off on it, which is worse.

Thanks Japan. So fucking unnecessary.

 

[Rogojinen]

Did you guys forget that she was literally going to be executed if that gross dude didn't kidnap her for himself?

Sexual violence is omnipresent in media, yes, unfortunately just like in reality. And I'll give you this is especially unpleasant when it's treated like her as an opportunity for fanservice panels. Like yes, the author is basically showing us a highschooler about to be assaulted, assuming we want to see this, which is insulting and fucked up.

But what was truly unnecessary was the whole premise. Did we really need another kidnapping arc beyond the wall? That was beat by beat what happened to the other FMC just before!

The worldbuilding should be interesting enough to serve the plot but instead the author is really on cheap and convoluted drama spurred by the characters' stupidity. She went for the vibes into a contaminated spot, and now we're doomed to watch the predictably terrible fallout, it's so frustrating.

There was plenty to work with, with the recent plague outbreak. Show the consequence of that live, when the story started with one quite removed from daily lives save for the constant masks. Show the conflict of these kids stuck between two terrible sides: right after they empathized with the Teeth, they saw them cause thousands of innocent victims; and kn front, they learned how ruthless is their gov, but... aren't they right to not take any chances? That's how contagion works, if there's a carrier, their twenty loved ones and the hundreds of people they meet in a day are dead, and repeat that for one. So you either go scorched earth or everyone is lost.

But no. Let's have a round of damsel in distress. Groundbreaking.

 

[Jethzki]

Built all that plot just to be able to justify putting SA scenes, classic japanese author

 

[Hauberk1800]

Did you guys forget that she was literally going to be executed if that gross dude didn't kidnap her for himself?

Sexual violence is omnipresent in media, yes, unfortunately just like in reality. And I'll give you this is especially unpleasant when it's treated like her as an opportunity for fanservice panels. Like yes, the author is basically showing us a highschooler about to be assaulted, assuming we want to see this, which is insulting and fucked up.

But what was truly unnecessary was the whole premise. Did we really need another kidnapping arc beyond the wall? That was beat by beat what happened to the other FMC just before!

The worldbuilding should be interesting enough to serve the plot but instead the author is really on cheap and convoluted drama spurred by the characters' stupidity. She went for the vibes into a contaminated spot, and now we're doomed to watch the predictably terrible fallout, it's so frustrating.

There was plenty to work with, with the recent plague outbreak. Show the consequence of that live, when the story started with one quite removed from daily lives save for the constant masks. Show the conflict of these kids stuck between two terrible sides: right after they empathized with the Teeth, they saw them cause thousands of innocent victims; and kn front, they learned how ruthless is their gov, but... aren't they right to not take any chances? That's how contagion works, if there's a carrier, their twenty loved ones and the hundreds of people they meet in a day are dead, and repeat that for one. So you either go scorched earth or everyone is lost.

But no. Let's have a round of damsel in distress. Groundbreaking.

It almost feels like the unnecessary premise only came into existence to create an opportunity for something...

You bring up valid point

I'mma drop, y'all have fun