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The author should be careful, what with all the addictive sweetness of this.
Now I understand why the chapters are short and far between: if we had too much at once, we'd OD on wholesome. Or at least re-wholesome, if you consider internal conflicts, rather than external trauma, as breakers of the wholesomeness.
Now, the next part might be spoilers:
Now I understand why the chapters are short and far between: if we had too much at once, we'd OD on wholesome. Or at least re-wholesome, if you consider internal conflicts, rather than external trauma, as breakers of the wholesomeness.
Now, the next part might be spoilers:
The fact that, so far, they explored the far past, then the cause of the present, and are now heading towards recovery, all the while having cute art, just makes me so mellow when reading it.
Since the cause of the issues wasn't some physical abuse, trauma or assault, but rather a temporary abandonment of an emotionally dependant and vulnerable person, I think it can still be considered wholesome, as far as there is an attempt to help her heal.
Emotional scars can be dealt with relatively easily after leaving the situation that left them in the first place. But emotional scars anchored on real life events, with actual physical moments, are much harder to overcome.
With consequences of physical moments, there's a feeling of impotence, sometimes of shame, guilt or both, depending on the type of episode suffered, even a feeling of being tainted or unworthy. These things (which appear in another manga of a "broken" childhood friend) are much denser, grimier and harder to wash away from the heart than simple abandonment, loneliness and feelings of incompetence.
Since the cause of the issues wasn't some physical abuse, trauma or assault, but rather a temporary abandonment of an emotionally dependant and vulnerable person, I think it can still be considered wholesome, as far as there is an attempt to help her heal.
Emotional scars can be dealt with relatively easily after leaving the situation that left them in the first place. But emotional scars anchored on real life events, with actual physical moments, are much harder to overcome.
With consequences of physical moments, there's a feeling of impotence, sometimes of shame, guilt or both, depending on the type of episode suffered, even a feeling of being tainted or unworthy. These things (which appear in another manga of a "broken" childhood friend) are much denser, grimier and harder to wash away from the heart than simple abandonment, loneliness and feelings of incompetence.
