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For whom it may concern...

The story has three arches, each focusing on one couple. Two of these, romanitca and terrorist, romanticize pedophilia and unhealthy relationship dynamics. They feature statutory rape while the other characters in the story acknowledge the underage status of the victims, and they also feature full-on rape with the victims repeated telling the older person to cease.

In both cases, the older person is in a position of trust. In romantica, he was a tutor, and in egoist he was previously related to him as well as nearly twice as old. Egoist is particularly heinous with the adult doing nothing but taking advantage ... of someone who is twice his junior and raping him on more than one occasion. He mocks him based on how he's sexually inexperienced, and yet somehow cannot feel pity for anyone but himself when he becomes obsessed with him. In romantica, it romanticizes how it's okay to keep pushing someone even if they tell you to stop, because they know those aren't their //true// intentions.

The second story arch in the middle of the anime, egoist, contains two adults and is overall a great improvement over the other two. However, it is still somewhat unhealthy based on something which happens later on. Had the anime focused on this relationship I would be more than willing to recommend it to others.

Though I am not a victim of abuse or anything else mentioned above, I am underaged and watching how the story romanticized adults taking advantage of underage people made me very uncomfortable.