Why is this so critically acclaimed and popular? Yeah the rapescenes are good and the rapechad is younger but many other things have that too and he plot and character development makes no sense. Suddenly Yuzu just out of nowhere realizes loving Mei with no buildup to it and this happens early too and then it takes 10 volumes for them to get together.
In something such as Namete, Kazitte, Tokidoki Medete at least the protagonist goes through slow realizations and moments of denial before accepting it and the story doesn't end at that point.
There's nothing, it's just: >Mei sexually assaults Yuzu >Mei is mean to Yuzu >In chapter 4 Yuzu loving Mei out of nowhere with no buildup or explanation
Falling in love with rapechads is obviously ludicrous in and of itself, but what usually makes it good is that most titles are good as selling it as plausible by slowly foreshadowing it.
Same reason garbage like Tokyo Revengers is popular; shit taste normalfag Japanese women.
Christopher Jones
they both look perfect to carry pregnancy bellies from their same husband
William Howard
This one was good I liked Yuzu and her friend too
Isaac Rivera
It's yuri for girls. A hot genre for a more civilized age. Now it's all moeshit pandering
Blake Clark
You raise a good point to be honest. The rape scenes actually aren't that common and these 50-chapter stories with weird progression-type titles are fairly popular. Maybe the appeal is more so that one can more or less jump into a chapter of it during the serialization and it's somewhat enjoyable without knowing what came before or after due to the stātus-quo ante-esque nature of it.
Camden Gutierrez
>Falling in love with rapechads is obviously ludicrous in and of itself You're right, Yuzu should have fallen in love with Harumin instead. But the mangaka dropped a nuke on it and made a character specifically to mock HaruYuzuchads.
Ethan Bailey
It’s a telenovela in manga form
Gavin Nelson
There are many “yuri for girls” titles that didn't have hese problems like Netuzou Trap. They're often compared because they're both high drama rapechad romances for girls with a female love interest, but Citrus' plot makes absolutely no sense and the character's moods feel highly discontinuous whereas with Netuzou Trap everything flows well from start to finish.
Parker Long
One of the new age yuri that was actually good.
Lincoln Watson
>yurinovela zzZ I sleep
Jordan Adams
I only read/watch real yuri like this one And I think people that read/watch yuribait are subhuman
Ryder Baker
It's the entire appeal of the genre that it's about falling in love with the rapechad and everyone can see it coming from the start. Obviously it's ridiculous that one starts falling in love due to being molested, and NameToki is even more ridiculous but what makes it good is that the artist is capable of selling the ridiculous as plausible by slowly building up to it.
>You raped me, now I love you Is implausible,
But: >I hate this rapist so much >Even though I hate him... it honestly felt so good... >He.... protected me? Could it be that he has a kind side too? >No, he's horrible! >But... as horrible as he is.. I don't really mind kissing him any more... what's happening to me...? >Somehow when he's gently doing my hair... it makes me really happy... >This feelng in my chest when I saw him touching someone else... it's almost like I actually like him... that can't be right? He's so mean >He can be mean... he can be nice... he can be forceful and scary... and I don't really know him well... but somehow I'd like to... >I always thought I'd fall in love with someone kind... he's so mean but in the end... I can't deny this any more... I love him.
The key is that each step seems plausible from the former stage so because it happens gradually at the end, actually having fallen in love with a mean rapist doesn't trigger disbelief.
Picrel is from the same timeframe that Yuzu realies being in love with Mei, it came out of nowhere, it's never explained why before that Yuzu is trying so hard to bring Mei back anyway after the initial hostilities.
it's in the perfect sweet spot between nonsensical and engaging where you can just read it and have a good time without investing any brain processing power. it's a perfect 6/10 and a consistent 6/10 is more satisfying than a 9/10 I loved reading it but don't think I could describe any of the plot if someone asked me, probably wouldn't even be able to tell most of the characters names i don't know man, everything is just good enough I guess and you're just reading for the sake of seeing where it goes, I don't even know how to describe it
Thomas Brown
Wait, is this a yuri thread Or one of those threads made by that mindbroken user that is obsessed with rapey shoujo
Owen Allen
Anyone who enjoys well-written romance is obsessed with rapechads.
Gavin Smith
But time is finite and there are so many 9/10s and 10/10s out there waiting. And yes, you pretty much described the feeling of not being able to describe the plot because so many things simply happen to fill each chapter that have no later influence any more because of the stātus quō ante-esque mechanic.
Obviously the latter. Rapechad is rapechad and has nothing to do with gender.
Noah Jackson
Truth, there is no romance without rape that cannot be improved with rape. Love born from rape is the finest trope in existence.
Evan Anderson
There are other 149 threads besides this one at the moment on this board if this one is not your cup of tea. You either love rapey LIs here or BTFO.
Julian Sullivan
according to who? everyone agrees that yagakimi is better
Owen Taylor
user, you're the one who has scanlated some titles, right? I have an unrelated question here, where did you study Japanese? So far I've found very interesting the observations you make on the romanization, for example, the use of "z" instead of "j" in some cases. Maybe I'm confusing you with another user, but I wanted to ask you since I used to see more people using that type of romanization in the early 2000's and later it became less frequent I'm not a native of English, but I think you make nice translations, that's why I'm asking.
Landon Ramirez
Based, post actually good titles with rapey love interests. >The rapechad is the best friend of your child, 21 years younger, and it's purely about sex I can't even. Completely different story and genre. But it got adapted and is often rated highly.
Romanizing as instead of is more popular among either people who learned Japanese the “traditional” way with a structured textbook approach explaining the phonology, or naive speakers, because it really does make a lot more sense. Japanese has no “j” sound as English has it distinct from “z”. I don't think it's less frequent per se, but more so in the “anime community” which always used the Anglified romanization. Using this scheme is basically the norm in linguistics papers and language teaching.
I learned Japanese by simply going through textbooks to learn the grammar and pronunciation and then spammed enough vocabulary using Anki till that I could at least read it without having to look up every other word. At the start reading it was immensely slow but it improved with practice. I don't really need a dictionary any more to read or translate a title such as NameToki and Citrus but the moment I'm reading advanced science fiction or politics I would need one. I still have a long way to go but I'm past the point that textbooks can be of any use. At this point one can only get better by simply using the language more. If I read news articles about politics in Japanes,e which I sometimes do, it's so much harder than Citrus and it takes a dictionary for me.
Also, fun fact: the common scan of Citrus contains a big translation error in the third page already: It says something like “I've never been honest about love.” but it should be “Honestly, I've never experienced love.” which paints a very different picture about Yuzu.
Easton Cooper
Obvously because almost every story has the main character fall in love with the rapist. I've yet to see a story with a rapechad that does not feature love born from rape. It's not an issue of that it happens, but how it happens, Citrus simply does it poorly.
