Yaoi in my experience has always felt like it’s had a striped past as it’s sometimes used for cheap seductions to Fujoshi/Fudanshi (Female/Male) consumers of the genre
If you are not a garbage fucking human being you probably don’t know what I’m talking about
me being a true ~~degenerate~~ connoisseur of yaoi
Oh how I envy you bastards and your purity of non-association to BL looking down on me from your pedestals
it’s a degenerate swamp mired with tons of archetype dynamics that are intended to hook readers addicting them to the same pulls over and over and over and over and over- RELEASE US NOW
▶ Video“What is this crazy person talking about mom stop having ~~sex~~ with notdad”
S E X U A L____A S S A U L T or fanservice is what I am talking about FOOL
Its the name of the game with Yaoi tons of authors love shoving their hards throbbing smut shit in their work because guys getting pinned by guys Kabedon style and being f and as they spurt *** and scream and shout his name is what makes the big bucks in this industry
Okay yeah maybe they’re are the beautiful and meaningful non-sexual Yaoi Manga stories out there- but no one fucking reads those
So Sekaitchi is about the jaded literature editor Onodera not wanting to appear to ride the coattails of his father who owns a big publishing company and moves to a different magazine in the hopes of editing best-selling books that will finally let him get out of the shadow of his fathers success
Except the dude is moved to the Shoujo Manga Department EMERALD which is the most Bishounen department of pretty boys all of who mostly have Yaoi side stories (only one of them is good tbh)
after initially being condemned for his lack of experience in manga by the editor in chief he makes it his sole mission to try his best at Shoujo Manga editing because he hates being written off before trying his best and his boss the editor in chief turns out to be his high-school crush/boyfriend who he had a traumatic experience with that jaded him to love
The show splices between the stress of him navigating his way through this new industry while also paralleling the romance subplot and the irony is that he’s a jaded editor working on romance while also being in a romantic plot and to contrast
People have a problem with the way the romance between Takano and Onodera's romance functions in that there are obvert moments where Takano forces himself on Onodera and these are pretty clear acts without consent and have a degree of smut atmosphere to them but also try to mix emotional elements
sigh
Besides RAPE the biggest problem with this is that it somewhat negates a bit of the idea of a romance plot at least in the idea of taking it seriously when you have something that seems deliberately done for the sake of appealment to fans with a steamy love scene
Sekaitchi Hatsukoi is a love story about two people coming to terms with the person they were once in love with, a love that damaged them deeply, the people they were, and the people they love are not the same anymore and they’re chance encounter is essentially a chance for them to confront the source of the wounds that have stagnated love in their lives and to even aknowledge how the other person was affected and in pain
Their former relationship while having synergy lacked in substance of being a real relationship which is why the most minorest of actions and Onodera’s meekness causes the whole thing to come crumbling down
SO While Sekaitchi does have so many bad tropes taken from the Yaoi genre it also does have meaningful relationship writing but a lot of that could be ruined by the forced smut scenes that are perpetuated in the show
But
They knew who they were pandering to when they made these
( I want one and then I want to die)
< -----I believe that unlike TEN COUNT which was wholly lacking in substance and was just purely for the sake of smutty sex scenes wheras with Sekaitchi Hatsukoi there is an emotional arc to follow that has a good deal of maturity to it
I imagine the author of Sekaitchi Hatsuko was trying to balance the type of fanbase that tends to crave smut scenes while also trying to tackle relationship writing something which felt quite lacking in Junjou Romantic at many points where the format tends to be quite bland and is mainly appealing in the dynamic to fans
I think the concessions the author made with Sekaitchi Hatsuko are quite hard to stomach and it definitely feels like they might have been trying to play it safe trying to catch Yaoi fans with the smut scenes so that the series had more selling power
And it does have a rancid aftertaste after so many years of rewatching the show dozen of times it can be quite watering down of many aspects the show tries to tackle
But I digress I geninely love the story flaws and all and this is just me laying them down orderly feel free to kick me in the balls I get it
I don't really score shit so whatever I hate myself
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