Youryuu Kai No Kemono Jijou - Vol. 2 Ch. 6 - The Sheep-Dragon Keeper and the Mysterious Cabin 2

[MangaDex]

 

[ralanost]

Well that was fucked up. Didn't expect rape or for a companion to willingly cover it up. What the fuck is this manga?

 

[Hem]

Well that was fucked up. Didn't expect rape or for a companion to willingly cover it up. What the fuck is this manga?

It's creepo manga for sure but the events make sense here if you actually look at it from their view instead of what twitter (Bluesky) tells you to view things as.

The slime said it had no idea what was going on, so if you look at the events of the chapter:
1) the deer sits on the human
2) the slime thought that was weird and told the deer to stop
3) the deer refused and said it wasn't hurting the human
4) the slime saw that it was true but was still suspicious and protective of the human
5) the chapter ends with the unharmed human and slime SITTING on their dragon friend.

Heck, the thing the deer was actually trying to do never even happened - which the slime might not have understood either even if the deer had managed to succeed.
What conclusion would the slime come to other than "Mammals like to sit on each other."?

 

[DementisXYZ]

It's creepo manga for sure but the events make sense here if you actually look at it from their view instead of what twitter (Bluesky) tells you to view things as.

The slime said it had no idea what was going on, so if you look at the events of the chapter:
1) the deer sits on the human
2) the slime thought that was weird and told the deer to stop
3) the deer refused and said it wasn't hurting the human
4) the slime saw that it was true but was still suspicious and protective of the human
5) the chapter ends with the unharmed human and slime SITTING on their dragon friend.

Heck, the thing the deer was actually trying to do never even happened - which the slime might not have understood either even if the deer had managed to succeed.
What conclusion would the slime come to other than "Mammals like to sit on each other."?

Except that Limey saw Ahm protest, multiple times, that they didn't want whatever was happening to happen. At the very least, Limey shouldn't be keeping it a secret that she was attempting to do something to him that he didn't want, regardless of if they understand what that something is.

 

[Pokari]

It's creepo manga for sure but the events make sense here if you actually look at it from their view instead of what twitter (Bluesky) tells you to view things as.

Sci-fi realism angle or no, framing "supporting rape is bad" as an internet fad feels like ya really need to go touch some grass, mate.

And the author clearly didn't exactly write this as a piece of thoughtful examination of the tragedies that could arise from misunderstandings and values dissonance with an alien-cultured lifeform. The blobby boi is agreeing to keep quiet because the author thinks it's hot. The presence of an in-universe explanation might be a hint of good(???) writing, but it isn't really a colourable defense of the content being there in the first place. (Incidentally, why am I reading this? It's like being unable to tear my eyes off a train-wreck. Anyway.)

A colourable defense would be that it's fiction and the author is into rape and that's actually okay so long as it stays in fiction, really, and so long as everyone understands what's problematic about it. Well, except for the fact that people reading can get blindsided by it, which is what OC was complaining about, no? Which all is a good part of why specific content/trigger warnings and the like are useful communication tools (simultaneously A. tersely and effectively acknowledges that the problematic stuff is problematic and B. lets people who don't want any part of it to just stay away), but that's not really an idea that's caught on in Japan last I knew.