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This story is about pedophila and grooming, point blank. If you accept that the student is 17, then every action is grossly inappropriate and disgusting. Like commenting on how in shape a 17 year old is, sleeping in the same bed with him, touching his face and cuddling to comfort him, etc. So I told myself he was 18 to try to enjoy the rest of the story. To be honest, him being 17 wasn’t that important to the plot and there was no reason they couldn’t have just made him 18.
For the main couple:
There was a lot, a lot of non-con and crossed boundaries. The mob dude coerces the student to sleep in the same bed as him. He touches his face and cuddles him while he’s sleeping (to comfort him from a nightmare, is the justification). In the morning, he kisses the student non-consensually. He gets punched in the face for it, thankfully. But he also gets forgiven fairly easily and the student falls in love with him shortly after. There was also one scene where he gropes the student’s dick in his sleep (but this seems like a genuine muscle memory mistake where he thought he was waking up next to a sexual partner).
When they finally get together, the mob dude had said that he wasn’t interested, but the student keeps leaning in for a kiss anyways. He keeps going in again and again, even the mob dude keeps stopping him, before he finally kisses him. The mob dude is hesitant and partially pushing him away, but he keeps kissing anyways. And then the kiss turns consensual. When they finally reunite after the time skip, mob dude is drunk and on pills, half asleep and thinks he’s dreaming. But they proceed to kiss and have sex. Mob dude seemed to become aware at some point and was an active participant, but he was in no shape to consent.
It’s weird that the mob dude suddenly cared about the student’s age once he confessed. He didn’t care all this time that he was sleeping in the same bed with him or that one time he kissed him non-consensually. It was for show I think, to try to show the audience that he wasn’t a TOTAL pedophile. Except he went on to discard all his concerns and sleep with him, date him, promise to marry him, etc. etc.
Also, the mob dude changes the student’s house lock and makes himself a key without asking. He physically grabs the student to force his attention when he’s upset too.
What I did like: They were equals. Despite the age difference and power dynamics, in the relationship and in the bedroom, they were complete equals. The defied stereotypes by making the younger, inexperienced one the top, but it didn’t really matter what positions they took in the bedroom because they took turns taking the lead both in and out of the bedroom. Before the time skip, if you ignore the ages, they were very very cute together. Neither one of them was running away and dodging the other person’s affection like BLs typically do.
What I didn’t like:
The student was a good kid, smart with a bright future. He had goals, had been accepted into college to become a doctor. Instead he takes the fall for the mob dude and goes to jail for 4 years. During that time, mob dude was pretending he lost his memory. He doesn’t write, he doesn’t visit. Once the student is out, mob dude continues to pretend. The student opens a bakery basically dedicated to the mob dude and waits around, hoping he’ll come back, but in the end he doesn’t. It’s the student that finds and seeks him out.
The student gave up his entire life for this guy, who completely abandoned him. And he gets forgiven immediately. The student doesn’t even get upset. In fact, he’s okay with giving the mob dude MORE TIME to adjust. Like what? The justification was that he was “protecting” him from this family, but the family sent people after the student anyways, so what was the point? Another friend goes into the jail in order to protect the student. Why didn’t he do that? Why didn’t he take the fall himself? Like there was no excuse for disappearing for 4 years and not sending one secret letter or sign that you didn’t just let him give up his whole life for nothing.
The entire post-timeskip was the student pursuing the mob guy when it should have been the mob guy begging on his knees for being a garbage human being. Plus, the post-timeskip was way more focused on the second couple so I didn’t feel the main couple got a satisfying ending or proper happy times once they were re-united.
The second couple:
What an absolute toxic shitshow. Why exactly do people think they’re cute?
One guy is absolutely in love with their much older boss for the entire first half of the show. At one point he non-consensually kisses the other guy while drunk and pining over the boss, and gets bit on the lip for his troubles. Don’t worry though, because the turning point is when he was blackout drunk, in emotional turmoil, and in love with his boss, and the other guy has sex with him (read: rapes), takes his virginity, and fucks off for the next 4 years. This made idiot 1 realize he was actually in love with idiot 2 (read: his rapist) and not his boss.
So then idiot 1 proceeds to kidnap, tie up, coerce, and otherwise forcibly make idiot 2 like him again. And I mean that. He picks him up to move him where he want him to go. He shoves him in his car. He lies to him about being hurt and needing his help to get him to talk to him. He ties him to his bed to force a conversation. He grabs him and manhandles him and refuses to let him leave when he wants to. He has him followed and prevents him from hooking up. He tries to kiss and take off the other guy’s clothes while he’s loudly protesting both verbally and physically, and physically restrains him to prevent him from running away - quite literally trying to rape him, without even the excuse of either of them being drunk. He’s controlling as fuck, saying that the other guy is “his responsibility”. He’s the type of “caring” that really means “controlling”, “overbearing”, and “abusive”. The other guy is actively verbally and physically fighting for his own free-will, but his desires aren’t listened to whatsoever. But I guess he gives him his favorite foods and showers him with gifts, so he’s a good guy and we should ship them, right?
For the main couple:
There was a lot, a lot of non-con and crossed boundaries. The mob dude coerces the student to sleep in the same bed as him. He touches his face and cuddles him while he’s sleeping (to comfort him from a nightmare, is the justification). In the morning, he kisses the student non-consensually. He gets punched in the face for it, thankfully. But he also gets forgiven fairly easily and the student falls in love with him shortly after. There was also one scene where he gropes the student’s dick in his sleep (but this seems like a genuine muscle memory mistake where he thought he was waking up next to a sexual partner).
When they finally get together, the mob dude had said that he wasn’t interested, but the student keeps leaning in for a kiss anyways. He keeps going in again and again, even the mob dude keeps stopping him, before he finally kisses him. The mob dude is hesitant and partially pushing him away, but he keeps kissing anyways. And then the kiss turns consensual. When they finally reunite after the time skip, mob dude is drunk and on pills, half asleep and thinks he’s dreaming. But they proceed to kiss and have sex. Mob dude seemed to become aware at some point and was an active participant, but he was in no shape to consent.
It’s weird that the mob dude suddenly cared about the student’s age once he confessed. He didn’t care all this time that he was sleeping in the same bed with him or that one time he kissed him non-consensually. It was for show I think, to try to show the audience that he wasn’t a TOTAL pedophile. Except he went on to discard all his concerns and sleep with him, date him, promise to marry him, etc. etc.
Also, the mob dude changes the student’s house lock and makes himself a key without asking. He physically grabs the student to force his attention when he’s upset too.
What I did like: They were equals. Despite the age difference and power dynamics, in the relationship and in the bedroom, they were complete equals. The defied stereotypes by making the younger, inexperienced one the top, but it didn’t really matter what positions they took in the bedroom because they took turns taking the lead both in and out of the bedroom. Before the time skip, if you ignore the ages, they were very very cute together. Neither one of them was running away and dodging the other person’s affection like BLs typically do.
What I didn’t like:
The student was a good kid, smart with a bright future. He had goals, had been accepted into college to become a doctor. Instead he takes the fall for the mob dude and goes to jail for 4 years. During that time, mob dude was pretending he lost his memory. He doesn’t write, he doesn’t visit. Once the student is out, mob dude continues to pretend. The student opens a bakery basically dedicated to the mob dude and waits around, hoping he’ll come back, but in the end he doesn’t. It’s the student that finds and seeks him out.
The student gave up his entire life for this guy, who completely abandoned him. And he gets forgiven immediately. The student doesn’t even get upset. In fact, he’s okay with giving the mob dude MORE TIME to adjust. Like what? The justification was that he was “protecting” him from this family, but the family sent people after the student anyways, so what was the point? Another friend goes into the jail in order to protect the student. Why didn’t he do that? Why didn’t he take the fall himself? Like there was no excuse for disappearing for 4 years and not sending one secret letter or sign that you didn’t just let him give up his whole life for nothing.
The entire post-timeskip was the student pursuing the mob guy when it should have been the mob guy begging on his knees for being a garbage human being. Plus, the post-timeskip was way more focused on the second couple so I didn’t feel the main couple got a satisfying ending or proper happy times once they were re-united.
The second couple:
What an absolute toxic shitshow. Why exactly do people think they’re cute?
One guy is absolutely in love with their much older boss for the entire first half of the show. At one point he non-consensually kisses the other guy while drunk and pining over the boss, and gets bit on the lip for his troubles. Don’t worry though, because the turning point is when he was blackout drunk, in emotional turmoil, and in love with his boss, and the other guy has sex with him (read: rapes), takes his virginity, and fucks off for the next 4 years. This made idiot 1 realize he was actually in love with idiot 2 (read: his rapist) and not his boss.
So then idiot 1 proceeds to kidnap, tie up, coerce, and otherwise forcibly make idiot 2 like him again. And I mean that. He picks him up to move him where he want him to go. He shoves him in his car. He lies to him about being hurt and needing his help to get him to talk to him. He ties him to his bed to force a conversation. He grabs him and manhandles him and refuses to let him leave when he wants to. He has him followed and prevents him from hooking up. He tries to kiss and take off the other guy’s clothes while he’s loudly protesting both verbally and physically, and physically restrains him to prevent him from running away - quite literally trying to rape him, without even the excuse of either of them being drunk. He’s controlling as fuck, saying that the other guy is “his responsibility”. He’s the type of “caring” that really means “controlling”, “overbearing”, and “abusive”. The other guy is actively verbally and physically fighting for his own free-will, but his desires aren’t listened to whatsoever. But I guess he gives him his favorite foods and showers him with gifts, so he’s a good guy and we should ship them, right?
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