>>712413420>Rape as a story deviceIn Berserker it sets a tone, the demons are evil and not just mooks that exist to give the characters XP. They are truly demonic and Guts is all the more badass for killing them.
In something like Lisa The Painful, it was idiotic since the whole story happens because a girl got raped by her father.
It's edgy, not necessarily a good story device.
Most people use it for shock value for a reason.
For example Kickass, I got in an internet fight because I said the scene where motherfucker kills a guy and his dog and then mangles their corpses was worse than the rape scene because the rape happened out of panel while the other scene was graphic and that was at a /co/ thread, I would had gotten banned for that comment anywhere else.
If you are going to use that as a plot device, you better be working on something that demands it.
It is really a putrid act, it works in something like "I have no mouth and I must scream" to set the tone of absolute human misery and degradation but yeah I am not a fan of it.