the collar moment was so sexy lol. im so pleased that this manga is going in this direction. this was such a fresh and powerful depiction of kink and the impact it can have on people and relationships. I love that her whole body blushes and she turns into a mess, like when you've been holding onto a kink your whole life and it actually happens to you, thats what it feels like.
There's a certain power and verisimilitude that's hard to come by on display here. Like, an aspect of the human experience regarding kink that's hard to express in art. Normally, the art that's dealing heavily in kink is about that and centers on that, it's what the story is about. Kink will be happening or be set up from pretty much the beginning, and so even if you write kink with an eye toward realism rather than fantasy, it'll end up being about the moment of kink, or how people think about it, etc.
But this story has mostly just been about the lives of these two people and about their relationship. We got maybe little teasers from early on, but it's only really showed up in force in the past couple chapters. We got to establish what normal looks like for these characters, what they look like as conscious rational people out in the world. And so it really stands out, to see just what Luxi's desires do to her. It puts it in context as this really intense and powerful experience that acts on this body, this person we've gotten used to in normal life. It captures that feeling of like, you know somebody for a really long time, and then you have sex with them, and this is that person you know and this thing is now happening to them. You've crossed into a new realm, you're seeing a new side of things, and it has so much weight because you know that person.
Moreso for kink, I think. I can't find the words for it, but I think the text does that pretty well for me. I mean just look at what's happening to her, and to tongtong, being blindsided by a sadistic streak when she sees what she's doing to her. It's just really fucking cool.
