[ SECRET POST #3333 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3333 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[iCarly]


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[Sublunary: --enter the moonlight--]


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03.
[Tokusatsu (Kamen Rider, Super Sentai, Ultraman)]


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08.
[Harry Potter + Pokemon, Wonder Woman, Anne of Green Gables, Looney Tunes]


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09.
[Kyuuketsuki Hime Miyu]


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10.
[Usagi Drop]


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[Ranma 1/2]
















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Comments

[fscom]

10. http://oi66.tinypic.com/23jmhq0.jpg
[Usagi Drop]

[(Anonymous)]

>it didn't fuck her up psychologically
Maybe it's just me, but I think that fucking your adoptive dad and asking him to impregnate you is pretty fucked up. (Or are we pretending that there's no Usagi Drop manga past volume 4?)

[(Anonymous)]

... wat. At age 4?

[(Anonymous)]

He raised her since age 4 and when she grew up she asked him to marry her or something. It's disgusting seeing as he is her father figure and raised her.

[(Anonymous)]

oh oh noooo i only read volume 1 and 2 and i loved it as an adoptive family story. aaaugh aaaugh i need to scrub with some steel wool.

[(Anonymous)]

Am I a terrible person if I'm not sure I see something SUPER disgusting about her being attracted/making the moves on him? I mean, he's not really her father, she's well past the age of consent, and unless there was grooming type stuff going on when she was younger, it's hard to see it as skeevy.

Sure he raised her, but, raising someone doesn't always guarantee a familial bond and as long he didn't groom her/put the thought into her head, maybe she just doesn't see him as a father figure?

I dunno, I don't know the series, so I don't really have any context.

[(Anonymous)]

No, when she's 19.

[wannabe_influential]

Jesus Christ

What kind of fucked up show is this, because from the picture and secret it just sounds/looks like a normal slice of life show

[(Anonymous)]

It is, but the manga continues the story and there's a time skip and the little girl wants to fuck her guardian (and he says yes). But the anime is fine, it only adapts the first act and is a cute story about a man raising a little girl, definitely worth watching.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

....I didn't get that far. Jesus Christ, I had no idea this manga was going down the Hikaru Genji route.

[scrubber]

This is also one of my most hated tropes but you're shouting into the void OP. People are only interested in telling you "well some people can survive horrifically traumatic events JUST FINE" when you mention this, as if that actually makes sense.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, it does make sense. I know jack-all about this show, but it makes a lot of sense. Not everyone is traumatized in the same way, if at all. I've a friend who was mugged at knife point on the way to an anime convention- fairly traumatic, but she doesn't have any issue with cities, dark alley ways or strangers. And she's not some mentally strong never-bothered type. She just got past it.

I was molested by my mother's boyfriend when I was eight. I am not sexually traumatized. It hurt, I think about it sometimes, but I am no worse for wear. Sincerely. While other things really got to me- a very mild car crash when I was around the same age has had me forever petrified of being in vehicles. Never been able to shake it.

These are anecdotal YMMV scenarios- so is anything you have experienced that contradicts what I've said. There's no such thing as a definitively traumatizing event. Some things have a bigger chance of impacting a child (or otherwise) in such a way that it shapes them negatively, but that's not an absolute.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, trauma in general is a very individulized thing. I have one friend who was in a really serious car accident (her car was completely totaled; it was a miracle she escaped without any serious injuries) and yet she was right back driving again as soon as she got out of the hospital without any sort of notable mental effects. Meanwhile, I have another friend who was in a minor fender bender and was too nervous to drive at all for a couple of months after it happened. It depends 100% on the person and how they as an individual cope with things.

[(Anonymous)]

That's nothing compared the manga ending, op.

(Spoilers: they're endgame.)

[(Anonymous)]

Too bad I wanted to give this a chance until I heard about the ending. Way to ruin a pure and innocent relationship. This could have been a cute story about a guy becoming a father figure unexpectedly, but I just can't stop thinking about how it ends.

[nyvz]

The anime ignores this arc, thankfully.

[dahli]

There is no manga, anon. THERE IS NO. MANGA.

[(Anonymous)]

My four year old is of a bright disposition and never bawls like that. She didn't at three either. She cries when she is hurt, but never any unreasonable bawling like those parody kids you see in cartoons.

She loves reasoning around how things work too, and not like another typical child parody: the mini-grownup, but with curiosity and often shrewd logic. She can point out when I contradict myself, yet still listens to mommy's vetoes and that makes me damn proud.

[(Anonymous)]

I used to babysit for an adorable little girl who was the same way. I only ever saw her cry when she'd scraped her knee or something like that; the rest of the time she was cheerful and easygoing. Never a single tantrum out of her that I witnessed.

[(Anonymous)]

You know, I think for myself is I explained Rin's behavior away by the fact that at least in the anime, we only see their relationship with each other for a short amount of time. Kids adapt, and my thought process was that since she's lost her father, she doesn't want this father to leave her, too, so she's as perfect as she can be.

Which would wear off around the edges eventually as the pursuit of perfection gives way to being comfortable with him. Then we get a little more crabbiness, contrariness, etc.

(Though I'm one of those horrible, terrible people who actually like the manga because it hits my (fictional only!) grooming kink hard.)

[(Anonymous)]

I liked the first volume of the manga, & in that the little girl is sort of unusually quiet. Like she's depressed and afraid to ask for too much. Or, you know, she's a fantasy figure, given where the mangaka was going.

:(

[(Anonymous)]

Read up on attachment disorders. It's really common for kids with disrupted attachments to try to be perfect, as they blame themselves for the loss of their caregiver. When they start to think that maybe the new caregiver won't abandon them, then they act out and test the attachment, sometimes violently or sexually. A super well-behaved kid can be a sign of trauma.

(anon above)

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds about right for the series.

[nyvz]

This...makes the manga ending make more sense, honestly.

[nyvz]

You've completely missed some major points and episodes. Rin is far from perfect, but she doesn't act out like some kids do outwardly. Her grief and worry is far more inward. Did you not notice a lot of her worries about germs, about dying or that Daikichi will die before she does? The entire thing about her wetting the bed from stress and dreams? She also can act stubborn and petulant, just like any kid.

She's a happy girl because although she lost her father, she has a support network in her friends, in Daikichi and in other adults over time. She still struggles with the loss but kids can be amazingly resilient and able to come back from a lot.