As I reread Citrus (At volume 3 when I wrote this) I’ve been checking out reviews for each volume on places like goodreads. Citrus is a pretty controversial manga, undeservingly so imo - so my content brain just wants to read that perspective as I go on - I want to see if it’s prolific haters like… have a point or not. Lemme tell you, it’s absolutely WILD how most people leaving negative reviews seem to just be incapable of understanding what’s going on in the text, what it’s saying and means. It’s wild how many people dismiss it as ‘porn’… when heck no it’s a ridiculous melodrama. They kiss a few times? Kisses ain’t porn kids! It’s wild how many people are like “they don’t drive the plot forward they just add new characters into the love triangle that’s not plot development” and idk what to tell you my guy, this this is not how a love triangle works - these two heroines are in a fricking love line. The characters added to this non-triangle-triangle are there for a specific reason, to drive a specific realisation, reactions and growth from Yuzu and Mei. They clear up their thoughts and mash them closer together- it’s developing Yuzu and Mei characters and drives their plot! Yuzu and Mei at the end of volume 1 are not the same as Yuzu and Mei at the end of volume 3. Mei in chapter 1 is inscrutable and weird. If you don’t feel some sympathy for her by the end of volume 3 your probs dead inside . It’s okay not to like citrus, it’s okay to be put off by the uncomfortable abusive themes - all these girls are messed up! That’s okay! But like, at least try and engage with the material? Idk.
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in reply to @LotteMakesStuff's post:
There’s a massive disconnect between the cover and the actual content of that series. It’s really very good if you like gay teenage melodrama and contrary to what the cover might suggest, it’s entirely PG. “Bloom into You” was dirtier.
But folks see the cover and it colors their perspective of the entire series somehow. Kinda feel like the covers did the series a disservice if I’m honest…
i feel like people usually watched the anime first and that carries some expectations when they read the manga. I feel like the anime emphasise a lot more on the abuse and pseudo-incest themes so people feel grossed-out by it even before reading it
That's probably a good read on the situation. I do have this nagging feeling that if Citrus was reconfigured slightly as a straight heterosexual manga, nobody would give a shit about the pseudo-incest, cos i don't realllllly think its about that. that's the biggest kneejerk reaction to the text