Caste Heaven, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)

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Wer die Macht hat, bestimmt ebenfalls das Verhalten der Klasse. Der King steht an der Spitze der Hierarchie und kann Einfluss nehmen auf das Verhalten Spieler. Er kann die unter ihm stehenden Personen ohne Furcht vor Strafe behandeln, wie er will. Sobald allerdings die Karten neu gemischt und eine neue „Spielzeit“ eingeläutet wird, kann sich das jedoch ändern und der King könnte dann zum Joker bzw. Target werden. Insbesondere werden hier im ersten Ansatz die Konstellationen Azusa und Karino sowie Kuze und Kusakabe beäugt. Der Rest der Klasse/n wird erst einmal nur am Rande dargestellt. Allerdings spielen diese eine tragende Randrolle, weil sie der Spielball des jeweiligen Kings sind.

Caste Heaven is appallingly cruel and tasteless. It could have been an interesting read about social hierarchy at school and bullying, but any hint of a good story this might have possessed was drowned out in the way it is delivered. This takes place in a high school where all students participate in a caste game: everyone is assigned a card that marks their social status and the lower you are the more you get bullied. Bullying, though, is an understatement - there are multiple rape scenes per chapter within the first volume alone. Deep as always, Ogawa’s story she wrote for these two cuts deep and somewhat personal. These two may not have known each other well, but they were still just what the other needed, at least a part of each other was. Even after breaking up, their love continues to burn fiercely for each other. I know that Tatsumi welcomes Senzaki’s violence and anger, because as he’d stated before, he knows everything Senzaki gives is an act of his love. Everything. And Tatsumi wants nothing more than for someone to love him at his worst, his best, his medium.

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You might be asking why is it not that good then? Well, here's a thing, lemme get first one out of the way, mangaka is lazy asf and doesn's upload for months almost year, annoying. Second the way story is going now, Azusa is falling for Karino, which me being a hopeless romantic love, but I think it's really bad, considering his character and overall story. It had potential to say the least, but right now it's dissapointing.

So given the fact that is Yaoi, that it is fiction and that it is a Japanese god damn comic that will never happen in real life and it does not have to make sense because we are here to see guys having sex with each other, I give it a 9 because it does have a good plot with interesting characters that will make you connect with the story. The characters are very typical of any high school manga characters. You’ll find the the eccentric, the calm, the intellectual, … All of them are very charming and you get completely addicted to what will happen to each of them even though they might not be the main characters. Unfortunately, there are so many characters and they have some ressemblances it sometimes is hard to make the distinction between all of them.

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This is a similar problem in another Yaoi Manga I’ve read, Ten Count, which I’ll be reviewing in the future. He brutally rapes him. Azusa thinks “It hurts. It hurts. It hurts. It hurts!!!!“. It’s so painful that he’s about to cry and he bites his lips. Caste Heaven Vol. 4". SuBLime. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020.

I definitely did not enjoy this manga. It is painful, heartbreaking, masochistic and has several instances of non-consensual sex. On the basis of the blurbs of the sequels, the main (and awfully twisted) pair will eventually develop some finer emotions along the way but getting there is going to be filled with too much toxicity. I wanted to read this purely from a clinical point of view. This series is extremely popular and I wanted to know how a plot line filled with so many red flags has captured the interest of its fans. I can grudgingly understand the appeal : redemption of dark characters, “ finding love in a hopeless place”, unexpected and gratifying twists and a compelling need to know what happens next. Based on that, I might just continue the series. The concept of a corrupt governing party, and an unethical society, it itself is not particularly original, and the initial premise of the schooling system seems slightly illogical. What makes the plot of Caste Heaven so engaging is its brilliant story telling. The progression of the plot is wonderful: scenes cut enticingly from the past to the present in such a way that raises just enough questions to make you want to binge read the entire series, and changes in the perspective of the manga allow the audience to deeply understand the dynamics of the characters and their respective relationships. What more, the romance intertwined within this manga is very dark, and yet very addictive. Ultimately, while not entirely original, the construction of the story and its themes is very well done.This asked some very deep questions, such as 'without my power, am I really this useless, this powerless?' This leads into my next point- why this reminded me of both the Stanford prison experiment and the Milgram experiment. Azusa has never opened himself up like this, never lowered himself to the level that Karino's pushed him down to. He swears he can feel Karino's laughter on his skin when he presses his boot against the base of Azusa's spine, but Azusa refuses to welcome defeat. So he fights until there's nothing left, until he can pretend that Karino's given up; but in the end, he wonders what he's really fighting for." Azusa struggles with the way he feels for Karino. Language: English Words: 725 Chapters: 1/1 Kudos: 44 Bookmarks: 1 Hits: 666 Taking place in a high school, Caste Heaven is about power and sex, and what those things can do to people. In this school, there is a game where cards are scattered and have to be found. Whoever has the joker or refuses to take part is the target of their entire class and is subjected to horrible bullying, up to the point of gang-rape. Whoever finds the king is in charge of everything- literally the 'King'.

Natalie (in Japanese). May 10, 2016. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020. Animate (in Japanese). May 16, 2019. Archived from the original on August 8, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020. The Caste system is actually quite complex and confusing, at first. However, it is repeatedly explained throughout, at the beginning of chapters (probably because this was serialised, when first released)Ressler, Karen (September 19, 2018). "Japanese Comic Ranking, September 10–16". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019 . Retrieved April 10, 2020.