ChrisBRosado123 wrote...
Actually there might not be a right answer for this book.
You make a good point and it is an interesting point on the NTR tag. I had assumed that particular chapter was tagged NTR, because on it's own, it fits the NTR definition (bad guy gets the girl, blah, blah, blah).
I agree that trying to reduce a whole story down to a few tag is always troublesome, but I feel like this book is not tagged appropriately. In the strongest terms, I do not belive the 'vanila' tag can be applied to a book that contains rape, kidnapping, and drugging. It just doesn't apply. Even if there is a happy ending (the last chapter could certainly be tagged vanilla on it's own).
I know your intent isn't to trick someone into purchasing this book, but I feel like you have to trust the individual here. If they feel that they won't enjoy owning a book with rape, then trust them. It is an overreach to try and get people to 'give the book a chance'. At a minium, the chapter where the woman was knocked out, tied up, and raped should have the 'forced' tag:
let-your-smile-bloom-chapter-3
Instead it is tagged as 'NTR' and 'Bondage', which is grossley inaccurate. This isn't consensual play by any means. Chapter 4 is the car rape scene, where she is literally yelling 'no' and 'stop' throughout the encounter, until she is saved. Again, no 'forced' tag. Chapter 2, I can see some argument for not having a 'forced' tag, but since there isn't a blackmail/coerced tag, it is the closest we have.
This isn't about judging those who enjoy rape stories, and if the artist doesn't want their work seen in that light, they can exclude those elements from their work. Akinosora has other work on this site without rape, so it isn't a standard thing they always do. In fact, I think the art is amazing and was disappointed to discover the content, because it is not for me. Publish some non-rape work by Akinosora and I will buy it, in a heartbeat.
My point is that this book should be tagged correctly and due to various factors (Fakku dissent, artist wishes) it is not. Let readers make their own choices about what content to consume, but provide them with accurate information.
A last point, is also the tagging on the books as a whole is confusing, for example:
let-your-smile-bloom-english
It isn't a story, it is the start of the book (placeholder?), so those tags seem to apply to the book. But are they an aggragate of all tags (they aren't) or do the tags represent the overall theme of the book? Currently, they seem to be random tags pulled from various chapters. One book (I want to say a Napata one), has a stockings tag for the book level, even though only one story has stockings. For me at least, there is confusion about what the tags at the start of a book are supposed to communicate.