I'm not intirely sure myself (which is why I'm asking). I feel ... well, I don't really know how to describe it. I guess the only thing to say is: to see Muraki doing something so totally evil, defiling something so innocent and pure, well, it demonstrates how heartless he is and send chills down my spine.

How about you other people?

Madly enough it kinda does have a fanbase, @__@ *blinks* to each their own I always say, if you can take it you can take it, *shrugs*. I thought maybe it appeals to the darker side of human nature that people that we are forced to hide but are somehow are able to explore safely when it comes to Anime. I mean where else can you sit smiling happily at the bloody decapitation of human limbs and the crumbling deaths of cities without having to feel guilty about it, certainly not the news. The idea of something dark tainting something innocent, the horror, the pyschological references, having complete control over someone, the lust, there are probably many reasons why it has a little fanbase, maybe people like the look of the animation as well, it's a very horrible scene done in a, dare I say it, pretty way, I guess. O_o

But that's just me. xD

Actually, now that I think about it, any Yaoi (possibly Yuri, I'm not sure) centered manga/novel is rather notorious for doing stuff like that. I think it might have something to do with the large female following it has, but who knows...now I'm going to have to ask someone that at Anime Expo 'cause it's going to bug me now. .

Really, I don't know why people write those fics. We all know what happened. Why do we have to read about it in gorey detail?

It's also the only sex in the series. I don't mean to be too horrible about human nature, but rape depicted in pretty illustrations is titillating, and people like that. It's also shocking, like getting hit in the face with a...a **, I'll be crass. It's also heavily stylized, with Hisoka's clothes being torn away by an invisible force, etcetra, which makes rape seem much cleaner and cooler than it really is.

Interestingly, that word in the last post actually was considered crass enough that it was edited out; I didn't expect that. Oh well. It had five letters and was no part of anything's body. Choose your poison.

I thought the rape scene was clean compared to other things that are out there. The anime though was a little more graphic than the manga. In anime, Muraki is nude while in the manga he's fully clothed. I didn't EXACTLY understand what happened until I read the side note from the author in volume 3.

Yeah, it's really stylized and 'clean,' for a rape scene, in terms of what's actually depicted in it, all prettified, with flowers, but it's still a rape scene, and if you've got the context to know that (it's a lot clearer in the anime, I agree) then that's what it is. Heh...the word rape is right in Muraki's dialogue in the manga, though, I just checked...and I always hated the way he called it a 'sensual encounter.' Oh, and I found that sidebar. The same one where she tried to make rules about fan letters. Gah.

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