Stop shitting up /a/ go back
>>>/v/

>>290383186
this board is not actually superior to /v/ or /pol/ btw, it's actually not higher quality

>said the /vpol/ack

>>290383062
It's a layer of realism that adds to the drama

>>290383062
Look to some it up , boys and girls both have different parts so when a boy and a girl really love each other they ??

>>290383229
Only because the mods and janitors let retards like OP exist here.

>>290383603
no, but because this is what the users of this websites like to post
stop trying to fix 4chan

>>290383062
On the contrary, it's understood quite well by even hoi polloi

The point that people need to get through their heads is that when rape is used it is not gratuitous, and especially not in the mythological context
People got raped left right and center in myth, both as a metaphor, a literal reason something is alive that shouldn't be, and simply because that was how powerful men (and women! Endymion got raped too) behaved in antiquity

>>290383062
What's the problem with gratuitous imagery? It doesn't add to, but it doesn't subtract from the story either. And I would say that it is only most of the rape in Berserk that is gratuitous anyway.

>>290383795
the problem is that it's fetishization and basically the author dumping his sexual fantasies into his work

>>290383795
>but it doesn't subtract from the story either
It does. I legit can't take the story of Berserk seriously. It's become an edgy ecchi in my mind.

>>290383884
Why would you take it seriously anyways? Just enjoy the pretty pictures and the action. That's what it's meant for

>>290383942
because well, the point of fiction is that you have to take it seriously
it's called suspension of disbelief

Everyone in the entire story goes through it for the most part so there’s no need to defend it. Miura was pretty fair overall

>>290383229
>it's actually not higher quality
It is, just by the fact that people actually talk about anime and manga, and that most active threads are actually about that.
When was the last time people actually talked about video games, and not culture war adjacent shit in /v/? 10 years ago?

>>290383849
that is a boring and lame mentality it leads to things like every building being gray

>>290383997
2/2
For example Guts Casca and Griffith were brutally raped tortured before we ever got to lost children lmao

>>290384015
sorry but boards like /co/ consider this place a shithole and often talk about how this place never talks about anime and manga

>>290384057
>boards like /co/
I don't care about what Steven Universe says.

>>290383062
Guts is honestly the best depiction of a sexual assault survivor in media ever. Goes from getting raped and not allowing anyone to even shake his hand to having sex with the woman he loves and pushing through it to overcome and kill his past.

>>290384487
And then he fucks an apostle.

>>290384057
Meanwhile nobody talks about /co/blr at all.

>>290383795
It can subtract if it's just to be shock value for a cheap hook.
Like Goblin Slayer. They have that entire beginner party segment, and then it's just a normal if autistic fantasy from there on out. There is no near or full party wipe with women getting raped, killed or both afterwards outside of some backstory elements and even then are not as graphic

>>290384890
>then it's just a normal if autistic fantasy from there on out
You're an animeonly, aren't you?

>>290383849
you could say the same about there being violence in a work

>>290384971
and I do say the same frequently

>>290383062
Fuck off, faggot.

>>290383062
I put rape, gore and violence in the same category as the usual isekai tropes.
It CAN be good, in theory, but it hasn't happened yet.

>>290384516
yeah because he overcame his trauma people who were assaulted are allowed to have sex after

>>290383713
You can show that rape is common in the world without taking delight in the execution.
Hiroaki Samura is another mangaka who clearly just wants to express his fetish.

>>290384516
So? It's not like he happily takes another dick up the ass. He penetrates. That's a completely opposite act.

>>290384516
You could somewhat justify it even though it takes a good amount of effort. You just need to have Guts know that apostle killed Gaston by promising sex, giving Guts enough reasons to kill it in the most dramatic way possible. He has enough hate for that.