Another week in the books. Let’s chat about manga in the general discussion thread! Feel free to use this thread for questions, comments, recommendations, etc.
Like normal, please be careful with spoilers. I wrote a guide about spoilers in case you need a refresher on how to handle them (also linked in the sidebar).
I read Sensei’s Pious Lie over the weekend.
It’s… alright. It definitely gripped me with its heavy subject material, but in the end I don’t think it knew what to say, but some of what it did seem to say seemed almost harmful.
spoiler (and trigger warning for SA mention)
I can definitely get behind the victims’ behaviour as some form of trauma response, but I don’t understand the rapist’s fiancee. She found her best friend beaten to a pulp by him and knows what more he did, to other women as well, but she decides that she still wants to be with him and loves him?
I do like that this manga didn’t place the blame on the victims for not reporting him, but I don’t know what to feel about him reporting himself. Kind of feels like saying “Just wait it out”.
So many plot threads were also started and subsequently ignored or left unfinished making the ending even more unsatisfying.
I also picked up My Favourite Vtuber Is Scary IRL. A fun little manga.
Also continued with some new volumes of other manga I’m reading: