Dec 16, 2021
Ignore any "spoilers" you've heard to now. People claim that after chapter eleven Chisa consents to have sex with another man, but this is completely false and based either on poor understanding of Japanese or a gross misunderstanding of how stress impacts a person. Chisa never loves anyone but Ponta throughout the entire story. At chapter eleven where the Village Idiot stopped translating, having suffered an experience bordering on (or crossing that border) sexual assault, Chisa tried to convince herself that she didn't love him that much by making herself get attracted to another boy. The Village Idiot mistranslated this as
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her being "drawn to" another man, rather than her wishing her heart wasn't too full for her to feel anything for another.
As for the "consensual sex" scene, she's tied down and tormented, psychologically and sexually, until she finally breaks. As she describes it, suddenly she felt like she'd lost all willpower to fight back, felt like she couldn't care about anything anymore and thus just lay there and hoped it'd end quickly. Afterward, we get a full volume largely focused on her recovery, which in the process demonstrates the author did some serious research into the sort of ways rape impacts people.
The story isn't for the faint of heart. At first it's just a romcom with a focus on how sexual desires, pressures and acts impact their relationship. But when the heroine's raped, this becomes a serious issue that's very hard to escape; it comes back repeatedly down the road and nearly wrecks their relationship multiple times.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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