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I don”t know if many people will see this But honestly thank you for your article. I find it weird that Sun Ken Rock can get away with portraying rape this way. It is one thing to portray rape (like in berzerk for example) where its simply depicting it because it happens in the story Here in Sun Ken Rock, it feels like every situation is a good excuse to squeeze in rape, but more importantly, it’s done in a manner very resembling of hentai, meaning a lot of the time these scenes of rape are going to be glamourised A rape scene is supposed to be a horrific scenario, in Sun Ken Rock it feels like it was drawn to arouse I was happy at first bc I thought the manga would cover sexual slavery with some seriousness but apparently that is not their plan
Here is where I talk about Sun-Ken Rock.
If you’ve been listening to recent podcast episodes, you’ve heard me talk about reading Sun-Ken Rock by Boichi in a number of ways: furtively, reluctantly, or else in full-on babbling confessional mode. I think the last time I mentioned the strip, I was talking about turning to pirate manga sites to fill in the twenty section gap in the middle of the Crunchyroll manga library.
So is this why I’m so reluctant to admit I like Sun-Ken Rock, because it’s a dark romantic comedy manga with strong shonen roots and is therefore clearly as tonally inconsistent as all hell?
One of the early successes of Sun-Ken Rock is how Boichi plays with the double-page spread in a way that reminds me of Shonen Jump’s One Punch Man—page and a half spreads with an extra panel at the end to change up reaction shots, or punches and kicks that startle being thrown farther than you’d think but also ending sooner than you’d expect: the queasy feeling of surprise and awe you get when suddenly a fight is happening to you or around you.
