>>281579370
This bit really got me thinking about Igarashi's last manga, Dominant. And I want to talk about it but where do I even start.
Both protags, Seika and Etsurou thought their love was a harmful or disgusting thing and struggled to rationalize it. It's a theme Igarashi's into: twisted love most of Dominant's characters had a degree of. Seika because Etsurou had a girlfriend, Etsurou because of a mountain of trauma like Kasumi, and they both collapse under unwarranted guilt.
Igarashi did say she considers Kasumi to be in the same "role" as Etsurou, and I can see it. Broken by a traumatic past he falls into a strange relationship as a way to escape his guilt. Like Dominant, Haruyo is as naive as Seika about Etsurou's problems until she gets punched in the face by her teacher. But unlike Dominant, Kasumi has nothing but supportive people around her. So while I think she's in for pain I don't think AriSaku will be nearly as dark in the end.
It hurt seeing what Etsurou went through. A childhood of physical abuse that left him a broken people pleaser, a series of being taken advantage of, finding a semi-healthy relationship that turns full yandere after he gets fucking date raped which causes his rich girlfriend to lock him in a cottage for 5 years routinely breaking his legs so the pain is a reminder of her love while she gaslights him and plays on his trauma to keep him wholly dependent on her and in the end Etsurou abandons Seika because he's afraid his love would only damage her.
If Dominant were a 100% yuri manga it would be a certified /u/ classic.
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>>281579797
She posted something like that. I can't wait to see it in the volume. Stores should be leaking the cover in a few weeks. Hoping for a duo cover.
>>281580187
Yep. Somehow I just can't quit.
