Oct 12, 2023
NTR is such a fucked up repulsive tag but it's also the one tag that can elicit the most emotion out of a person. Imagine the average hentai reading or watching experience - it arouses but rarely engages with or emotionally challenges a person. Chitose is unlike most hentai and it doesn't even have to reach into some of the really dark and grotesque concepts out there to achieve its emotional effect.
This is a hentai that uses those emotions of hurt, confusion and helplessness elicited by most NTR hentai against you without reducing itself to merely a cry-wank storyline. There are other manga that
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give similar vibes to this. For example, Aku no Hana elicits the same emotions of helplessness. Yet, when it comes to the end goal and philosophy, Chitose stands alone. Indeed, even among its pornographic peers, it is unique in its ending and character development. It rejects the 'main character gets with the girl anyway despite everything' and the 'main character is completely devastated and walks away' sort of ending and settles upon something more mature and less fetishistically pathetic.
The protagonist is a romantic person and somewhat of a pushover and this story is about his rebirth into a stronger, more confident person through the death of his hopes and dreams. While this is not explicitly stated, we can literally SEE him change over the course of the story. While the story's glorification of love-free sex might be something that is disagreeable, the main character's desperation to delude himself into thinking everything is alright and his eventual acceptance and moving on from what is clearly never meant to be his is some of the most captivating character changes I've seen. None of this, mind you, is told through dialogue. The character development is almost exclusively communicated through the sex scenes and how he performs in them. His unrelenting aggression in bed in response to hearing his love interest getting banged in the room right next to him comes off as self-comforting, an effort to calm himself down, to drown himself in his own partner so that thoughts of jealousy and regret will not harm him. It's just so messed up!
One of the telling signs that this story is written by an actual mature person is the ending, and the closure it provides. The ending is quite intriguing. Here, one could either interpret the philosophy of the story as either a nihilistic aromantic one where loveless sex is the way to go, or one that is more hopeful- that even if you feel like missed a huge opportunity, that you shouldn't fall into despair and let it destroy you, that you should move on as the next opportunity is just around the corner. I choose to interpret it the 2nd way.
NTR is a almost always a tragedy brought on by a person's reluctance to act or in choosing the wrong partner. Since this is a pornographic genre, it stands that most stories of this type are essentially fetishistic tragedy porn. However, this doesn't excuse the terribly written endings and characters that they have. NTR almost never provides actual closure. Chitose is proof of the potential of the storytelling NTR could have.
Also, the art is hot. Like really fucking hot. Forgot to mention that.
Reviewer’s Rating: 10
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