Mahou Tsukai no Namida - Vol. 1 Ch. 4
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This is a pretty unique brand of incest-less incest, I will grant... but it's still really uncomfortable at bits.
The kid obviously sort of still thinks of the thing as his brother, keeping this all firmly in the territory of deliberate incest erotica, just with better-than-average guilt-alleviation measures taken—for those who did want to read such a thing but felt bad about it, I should say. There's really no plot nor emotional necessity to the brother angle beyond that, that I can see.
Well, I guess I'm just stating the obvious here. Generally I'd have not read this far enough into incest-y stuff to comment on it, but high-fantasy romance and the like is one of my greatest weaknesses... so here I am.
The kid obviously sort of still thinks of the thing as his brother, keeping this all firmly in the territory of deliberate incest erotica, just with better-than-average guilt-alleviation measures taken—for those who did want to read such a thing but felt bad about it, I should say. There's really no plot nor emotional necessity to the brother angle beyond that, that I can see.
Well, I guess I'm just stating the obvious here. Generally I'd have not read this far enough into incest-y stuff to comment on it, but high-fantasy romance and the like is one of my greatest weaknesses... so here I am.
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@Mojo:
From those that I have read to date, it has been my impression Naono makes some absolutely amazing reads (again, especially for someone who enjoys a good high-fantasy romance such as myself) which nonetheless still tread into every damn sin that yaoi has ever birthed (I dunno, maybe all the shouta is "legal shouta" and all the incest is "not blood related"—I'm not sure—but nonetheless, eyebrow-raising age gaps, incest, frequent consent issues...)
This particular character I just thought of as "a bit young", never 10-ish. I can see that interpretation of the character (those big shoujo eyes and whatnot), but personally it felt more like 15 to me (at which point the pseudo-incest was bothering me more by far).
On the other hand I have definitely read something by Naono where the appearance of shoutacon did make me go a full "jesus fucking christ", namely Boku no Danna-sama which I remain uncertain to this day as to whether I should have read or not. I don't even care about furry aspect. It is... I mean, it's a very nice read if one can ignore all the moral implications from one of the characters in the relationship acting like an 8-year-old and looking sometimes maybe about 5. But it is quite uncomfortable to read something with sex scenes that... well, I know if I saw someone else reading that, I would quite probably think very badly of that person >_>; And possibly be uncomfortable if I saw them near children in the future. Like, what the fucking fuck, Naono? o_o
From those that I have read to date, it has been my impression Naono makes some absolutely amazing reads (again, especially for someone who enjoys a good high-fantasy romance such as myself) which nonetheless still tread into every damn sin that yaoi has ever birthed (I dunno, maybe all the shouta is "legal shouta" and all the incest is "not blood related"—I'm not sure—but nonetheless, eyebrow-raising age gaps, incest, frequent consent issues...)
This particular character I just thought of as "a bit young", never 10-ish. I can see that interpretation of the character (those big shoujo eyes and whatnot), but personally it felt more like 15 to me (at which point the pseudo-incest was bothering me more by far).
On the other hand I have definitely read something by Naono where the appearance of shoutacon did make me go a full "jesus fucking christ", namely Boku no Danna-sama which I remain uncertain to this day as to whether I should have read or not. I don't even care about furry aspect. It is... I mean, it's a very nice read if one can ignore all the moral implications from one of the characters in the relationship acting like an 8-year-old and looking sometimes maybe about 5. But it is quite uncomfortable to read something with sex scenes that... well, I know if I saw someone else reading that, I would quite probably think very badly of that person >_>; And possibly be uncomfortable if I saw them near children in the future. Like, what the fucking fuck, Naono? o_o
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@Pokari "Jesus fucking Christ" Yup, that about sums it up well. Some of Naono's work is sure to have put me on some type of watch list. Even the only non-yaoi manga by Naono (Tamago no Hi) is quite guro, lots of blood splatter and we just are supposed to just shrug off one of the main characters attempted rape the female lead? The fuck? But popular manga like One PunchMan is also guro and it seems like every other shoujo I read has some kind of rapey elements to it. It's one of the reasons I don't tell people I read manga in real life, there are just WAY too many, "What the hell Japan?" moments. It's hard to defend the things I read, so I'm don't even try. I'm probably on some FBI list somewhere for reading fictional Japanese comics.
That said, still a Naono fan. No logic to it, I just like it.
That said, still a Naono fan. No logic to it, I just like it.
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@Mojo:
Sounds about right. XD Naono's works do seem a bit special, in a way I haven't fully put my finger on yet—some indeterminate mix of, certain amounts of a feeling of warmth, really accessible emotions, interesting scenarios, and I'm not sure what else... And I just wish they weren't also often so, erm, "special".
Sounds about right. XD Naono's works do seem a bit special, in a way I haven't fully put my finger on yet—some indeterminate mix of, certain amounts of a feeling of warmth, really accessible emotions, interesting scenarios, and I'm not sure what else... And I just wish they weren't also often so, erm, "special".
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