Do you do it monthly? Weekly?Welp, yeah I'll put the Manga on hold...for the third time.
The thing is, it finally got through to her at the end of the camping trip how awful she had been and began some real introspection when we last saw her in her room. She was utterly depressed and had even contemplated suicide.People just don't care about her atonement and what kind of help can you even receive from an abusive sociopath? Best thing they can do is to stay away from you for life.
I stopped when the bullying was taking too long and again when the story kept throwing obstacles at the romance to make the protagonist the magnet for crazy girls.Do you do it monthly? Weekly?
Bro sped ran the alpha male pipelineI find it funny how this guy started as a generic NTR fuckboy and then degenerated into a psycho.
Hahaha, you can drop it even more often, you know?I stopped when the bullying was taking too long and again when the story kept throwing obstacles at the romance to make the protagonist the magnet for crazy girls.
Japanese society? I see this all the time in American stories too. Let's not make it a Japanese cultural thing, it's just a thing humans like to try to do in their stories and it usually sucks. It's a bad way to think about victims and their responsibilities towards their abusers. It's also a way to show the protag is always in the right and takes the high ground no matter what when they shouldn't have to.manga authors have an obsession with letting abusers off the hook for some reason. is there actually something about japanese society that makes them think they have to include it, or do they think it makes for good storytelling...?
they even do it when there isn't an irl get-out-of-jail-free card in play like being rich or a woman
I think it's okay for a story to explore someone that did terrible things and has to make amends or decides to do better. Everyone does deserve second chances. HOWEVER the story isn't about the abuser, it's about the victim and how he's trying to move on with his life and help his friends and strengthen his support structure. And we're not seeing the abuser trying to do better because she wants to, we're going to see it because she's ALSO getting abused and the protag(s) are going to have to swoop in and save her, even though she's the reason things got so rocky in the first place. Victims shouldn't have to keep facing their abuser, victims should be allowed to just walk the fuck away. This is where I'm having the biggest issue. And it's not just this story, it's so many stories like this that I also have issues with. The protag is SUCH a bastion of morality and goodness that they have to solve everyone's problem and no one really has agency in their own lives, even when things go terribly. It's frustrating.Am I the only one that wants to see Hanabi's redemption arc? After all, she can't atone and help our boy out if she's just wasting away as a hikikomori.