Do y’all know what the “Junjou” (純情) in “Junjou Romantica” means? The MIDORI Japanese dictionary translates it to “pure heart, naivety, self-sacrificing devotion.” It’s a strangely apt title for such a shitty manga, if what it’s referring to are all the burgeoning fujoshis out there who become ensnared by its bullshit. I, too, used to love this manga. It was the second BL I ever read. Nakamura Shungiku was my goddess of gay butt-sex. Not anymore.
The series follows three couples who are all loosely related to each other, with the main couple of Usami Akihiko and Takahashi Misaki taking center stage. Their heart-pounding, vagina-wetting, sparkly “pure” romance begins when Misaki’s older brother has his novelist friend Usami tutor Misaki as a favor. Misaki walks into Usami’s apartment and finds Usami sleeping. When he accidentally wakes Usami up, Usami proceeds to suddenly, without warning, sexually assault Misaki. Aw, adorable. For some ungodly reason they wind up living together, and the rest of the series follows their exploits as Misaki graduates high school and moves on to college, and Usami reveals himself to be the perverted rich man-child girls everywhere know and love.
Misaki is assaulted and raped on a regular basis, all while trying desperately to hide his relationship with Usami from his brother. Read any sex scene with this pairing, and guaranteed it’s going to be Misaki saying “no” over and over again, while above him Usami whispers sweet nothings of “I love you, ” or, “Look only at me, ” or, “If you really hated it then you wouldn’t be hard.” Finally, after enough “I hate it, so why do I feel so strange?” internal monologue to fill a book just by itself, around the 10th volume Misaki succumbs to his fate as the tsun-tsun uke and tells Usami he loves him. So. Fucking. Romantic.
Penicillin Shock — Junjou Romantica
Guess what? The art sucks too!! The sex scenes are incomprehensible on top of being downright nasty, and every pose looks forced and unnatural. It’s hard to visualize the characters moving. How on Earth Nakamura got panels like this one past her editors, the world will never know:
Every character is a cliché in this manga. First you have Misaki, the dorky tsundere uke who just wants to be normal and instead comes down with a bad case of Stockholm Syndrome. You have Usami, the rich, “sexy” seme who also writes novels (hm, wonder where we’ve heard that before), has zero personal boundaries, and who is apparently so in “love” with his uke that he won’t take no for an answer.
Makes no attempt to break from this, presenting another couple made up of a tsundere uke and immature-yet-dominate seme (I can’t remember their names and can’t be bothered to look them up).
Meaningful Junjou Romantica Quotes About Love & Romance
Shakes things up a bit and gives us some slightly more original characters, but the overall effect is creepy as fuck, and in the end just makes everything much, much worse.
Any character development is tied solely to the romantic relationship – no one grows as a character because of a job or other life event. Misaki’s development consists of him slowly, over 14 fucking volumes, realizing that he’s in love with his abuser. Usami has zero development. None.
Assault: Misaki is almost raped in the first chapter of the series, and it only escalates from there. It is a long time before the sex becomes consensual, and even then it is often forced. Usami also writes and publishes romance novels graphically describing their sex life. Misaki tells him to stop, and Usami refuses. Misaki calls him out and tells him its sexual harassment, and Usami responds point-blank that he can do whatever he wants, and Misaki has no power to stop him.
Jual Gantungan Kunci Anime/manga Junjou Romantica (yaoi/shounen Ai)
Manipulation: Usami justifies all of his abusive actions towards Misaki by telling Misaki that he loves him, and this somehow forgives him of all wrong doing. The power dynamic is so skewed that Misaki has almost zero influence over the relationship, and is forced into doing whatever Usami wants.
Obsessive Jealousy: Usami actively attempts to control the people who Misaki interacts with, leaving Misaki with hardly any friends to speak of.
Rape: The first time the two have sex is after a heated argument during which Misaki tells Usami that he can’t control the people Misaki hangs out with. Misaki doesn’t want to be touched by Usami, but Usami does it anyway, and every time Misaki tells him to stop, Usami refuses. The sex is obviously painful, and Misaki continues to say no for the entire duration. Nakamura can slap as many sparkly screentones as she wants on this scene, it’s still rape.
Junjou Romantica 3 Ep 6
NO. Terrible art, terrible plot, and terrible portrayal of what a romantic relationship looks like. I read this at the tender and very impressionable age of 12 and it utterly twisted my ideas of what love and sex were supposed to look like. For the damage this manga causes, it’s not worth it.
Manipulation: Usami justifies all of his abusive actions towards Misaki by telling Misaki that he loves him, and this somehow forgives him of all wrong doing. The power dynamic is so skewed that Misaki has almost zero influence over the relationship, and is forced into doing whatever Usami wants.
Obsessive Jealousy: Usami actively attempts to control the people who Misaki interacts with, leaving Misaki with hardly any friends to speak of.
Rape: The first time the two have sex is after a heated argument during which Misaki tells Usami that he can’t control the people Misaki hangs out with. Misaki doesn’t want to be touched by Usami, but Usami does it anyway, and every time Misaki tells him to stop, Usami refuses. The sex is obviously painful, and Misaki continues to say no for the entire duration. Nakamura can slap as many sparkly screentones as she wants on this scene, it’s still rape.
Junjou Romantica 3 Ep 6
NO. Terrible art, terrible plot, and terrible portrayal of what a romantic relationship looks like. I read this at the tender and very impressionable age of 12 and it utterly twisted my ideas of what love and sex were supposed to look like. For the damage this manga causes, it’s not worth it.
0 Response to "Manga Junjou Romantica Indonesia"
Posting Komentar