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夏への扉
1976/04/01
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First published January 1, 1976
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September 7, 2020
Una historia de una violación donde por casualidad todos los personajes gay terminan suicidandose. La pelicula me pareció una mierda y quise ver el material original a ver si se redimía pero no.
January 30, 2025
I don't know if I'll ever be able to make a decent statement on how I feel about rape in stories, but I'll try. If your story is short and can't take the time to treat such a topic as delicately as it should be, leave that piece out. In the blur that is this 60ish page manga, rape should have no place, as it becomes trivialized as a result of the pacing.
I'm intensely interested in these early one-shot shoujo mangas by the Year 24 group of women artists, as they play with the same heavy themes that are most prevalent in Romance Era literature (innocence and its destruction, unassuredness, deep and desperate longing and desire, suicide, loss, etc), and often framed and written in the same way that era of literature is written. It touches some deep need for the drama and the ache of romanticism while not being so goddamn wordy. I don't know how I fully feel about these shoujos yet, but I'm going to poke around with them some more, at the very least.
I'm intensely interested in these early one-shot shoujo mangas by the Year 24 group of women artists, as they play with the same heavy themes that are most prevalent in Romance Era literature (innocence and its destruction, unassuredness, deep and desperate longing and desire, suicide, loss, etc), and often framed and written in the same way that era of literature is written. It touches some deep need for the drama and the ache of romanticism while not being so goddamn wordy. I don't know how I fully feel about these shoujos yet, but I'm going to poke around with them some more, at the very least.
March 17, 2025
I'm making my way through Hana to Yume's publishing backlog, and this was the first title I was able to find an English translation of, and boy was it a disappointing start.
The Door into Summer is a rape story, full stop. It's not sweet or romantic or really even successfully 'moody' - and it's frustrating to find plot summaries that talk about the 40-year-old woman 'seducing' the 15-year-old boy, because that's not the case. She rapes him.
The artist doesn't seem to understand what kind of story she's telling. The assault scene is depicted in a horrfying manner, and then only reflected on as part of this boy's natural maturation. The boy's friends all lose their respect for him, but it's shown to be his actions that they're responding to, as if his will was respected at all to begin with! Worse, there's a second attempted assault later on by another character, by a boy this time, who holds a knife to the protagonist's throat before he's eventually pushed off - because we can't have a gay character in the 70s without depicting him as a predator too!
The obsession with rape in the shoujo genre has done enough damage to its audience, and to the medium as well. Can we at least be honest about what these stories are depicting? If I never see another rape-as-romance story again it'll be too soon.
The Door into Summer is a rape story, full stop. It's not sweet or romantic or really even successfully 'moody' - and it's frustrating to find plot summaries that talk about the 40-year-old woman 'seducing' the 15-year-old boy, because that's not the case. She rapes him.
The artist doesn't seem to understand what kind of story she's telling. The assault scene is depicted in a horrfying manner, and then only reflected on as part of this boy's natural maturation. The boy's friends all lose their respect for him, but it's shown to be his actions that they're responding to, as if his will was respected at all to begin with! Worse, there's a second attempted assault later on by another character, by a boy this time, who holds a knife to the protagonist's throat before he's eventually pushed off - because we can't have a gay character in the 70s without depicting him as a predator too!
The obsession with rape in the shoujo genre has done enough damage to its audience, and to the medium as well. Can we at least be honest about what these stories are depicting? If I never see another rape-as-romance story again it'll be too soon.
April 11, 2024
“A broken vase cannot return to the way it was before.”
This manga has its issues, but my main takeaway is: some adults do whatever they want to children because they assume kids have so much time to start over. What they don’t factor in is the trauma that can keep someone in the same cycles for a lifetime. Sometimes there is no starting over, or maybe you do, but there’s definitely no getting back to the way things were before the trauma. Why do adults think it’s okay to rob children of their innocence? It reminds me of the “back in my day” mentality. Like, it was so bad for me & I got over it, so you should, too. But, if they’d really gotten over it, they wouldn’t think about it like that.
3.5 stars
This manga has its issues, but my main takeaway is: some adults do whatever they want to children because they assume kids have so much time to start over. What they don’t factor in is the trauma that can keep someone in the same cycles for a lifetime. Sometimes there is no starting over, or maybe you do, but there’s definitely no getting back to the way things were before the trauma. Why do adults think it’s okay to rob children of their innocence? It reminds me of the “back in my day” mentality. Like, it was so bad for me & I got over it, so you should, too. But, if they’d really gotten over it, they wouldn’t think about it like that.
3.5 stars
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