Kuze and Atsuma serve as loving counterpart to the savagery of Karino and Azusa; comparisons between the pair are quite interesting to draw. Arguably, in both cases a seme manipulates his uke. It makes me wonder what kind of story we would have if the pairing was Azusa/Atsuma. The Stanford prison experiment was a psychology experiment conducted in Stanford by Phillip Zimbardo in 1971, over the course of about a week. It used volunteers to act as inmates and guards in a 'prison', giving the 'guards' ultimate authority over the 'inmates' and subjecting them to extreme psychological torture. See, what happened was that even though the guards were not allowed to physically harm the inmates, they forced them to be stripped of their identities, took away their clothes, mattresses, etc. Later, it was shown that the guards actually became sadists, and became more and more cruel. Even now, some of the former inmates suffer from PTSD, because what happened to them in there was so horrible. It has some good plot twists and a pretty solid environment that the mangaka create so that she could develop even more plot twists in the future. Which as a reader we appreciate.

Natalie (in Japanese). May 10, 2016. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020. I was in love with Atsumu from the start and, despite still believing he would be a super cute enemies-to-lovers, bully-romance deal with Azusa, I do like Kuze MUCH better for him. But, I feel their dynamic is quite plain and uncomplicated, whereas Azusa would have been a FAR more interesting story. during the story 1 gets demoted to something called a target, where he is constantly bullied and not to mention his life at home isn't the best either. 2 is promoted Bullying isn’t sexy. Corporal punishment isn’t sexy. Rape isn’t sexy, and it certainly isn’t entertainment. This manga is utterly disgusting. The way in which this rebellion is undertaken involves social class in a most brilliant way. After being repeatedly raped by Karino, nearly being gang raped and being treated like a pariah of the lowest kind by almost becoming what his prostitute mother has urged him from childhood to avoid at all costs, Azusa is told by Karino that he does not even take the horrible things he does to him as seriously, it's all 'fun'; killing time until Karino goes out into society. Azusa then comes to realize that Karino is the heir to a conglomerate and decides to film their having sex so that he can expose Karino. It does not work but it marks the turnabout to Azusa's way of behaving, he now knows that Karino has a weakness resulting from his being in a position that demands respectability. In other words, 'real' life class, as assigned by society and with a material basis behind it, is the lever.This was a really uncomfortable read for me, and it's meant to be. Our story follows class 2-1 as they play the Caste Game. In this game the whole class has to find cards that have been scattered around the school. Whoever gets the "King" gets to do whatever they want to the person who is "The Target". Our main character Azusa was "King" in the previous round, but now the tables have turned and he gets the role of "The Target". 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 characters are generally all self-absorbed, unlikeable, bullies who don't care about anyone else. Trashy, amoral, sometimes slutty, selfish, egoist people. And they're all about to learn a valuable lesson, and there's always a part of humans who want to see shitty people brought down a peg or two. To see them have their ego stripped bare and be shown they're actually not that special.

Caste Heaven Vol. 2". SuBLime. Archived from the original on August 4, 2021 . Retrieved April 10, 2020. This school is run by a caste game that turns teenagers into lustful fools. You are just trying to survive by staying under the radar. Language: English Words: 9,614 Chapters: 8/? Comments: 31 Kudos: 167 Bookmarks: 10 Hits: 4,485 Caste Heaven“ ist eine der Reihen, die mich wirklich fesseln und kaum loslassen. Das liegt einerseits an den vielen Charakteren und andererseits daran, dass das Psychospielchen solch extreme Ausmaße hat. Es verändert die Gruppendynamik und die Beziehungen der Charaktere untereinander und zueinander. in a huge ammount as I expected. They were well made and they were enjoyable to read, expecially because almost each of them had a fokus on some kind of diferent kink (bondage, costumes, toys, crossdressing etc.) The art is the same as this author's other manga. It's not perfect but it's nice. It has this sexy aura (?). I don't know if it's just me but Azusa (the main character) is very sexy.Yeah, so that... But, I had some points on Kobo to spend, and I figured now was the time. I used those points to buy Vol. 01 and...I was surprised. Not quite pleasantly (?) because I don't think that would ever apply, but it was definitely as interesting as the blurb made me think it would be. Okay, so, I enjoy most of the characters. I really like Azusa, I think he is hella funny and so interesting, yes, he is the typical "badass Uke" But that is just the surface because when you keep reading the story you start learning about his life and end up even empathizing with his mean ass. Before you bash me, yes, I read the whole thing that was published until now to see what the deal was, why it was Things go terribly, terribly wrong for him when he misjudges one his followers: instead of bringing him the king card, Karino ends up handing him the lowest card, the joker while keeping the king for himself. That and raping him. What follows is Azusa's fall from grace as everyone he ever mistreated when he was on top gunning for him. The 'joker' is also 'the target', a position that is dreaded by all.

The story of this manga is definitely something intriguing. As a lot of other manga stories, it follows some high school students in their lives at school. But this is as far as this story will ressemble any other. The popularity rank system is decided by a simple card game, and no rules apply to the high ranked students. In conlusion, give it a chance, is good, it is funny, it is interesting and worth binge reading. But please, don't take it so seriously, it is just a drawing of two man banging each other.Plot is good at start, terrible later. We follow a story of Azusa an mc that was a king of the school, prideful, arrogant and a ruler. He gets degraded by his former loyal dog Karino who becomes the king, Azusa becoming a Joker aka the lowest. Inside of school caste system is what rules and we see people repeadetely getting fed up for not following it. Caste Heaven reminded me of that because as soon as the other students were given even the slightest bit of power over Azusa, they immediately began torturing him. They instantly became cruel, even those who had nothing to do with him, and they would do anything that Karino said to do, which leads me to why this reminded me of the Milgram experiment.

It is rape, any way you look at it. Orgasming does not equal consent, and that’s a dangerous idea to perpetuate. Honestly, I feel like I am reading a twisted yaoi version of Hana Yori Dango when reading this manga. LOL But don't worry! I'm not saying the story is a rip-off or anything, don't get me wrong.Like I said earlier, I didn’t care for ANY of these characters. We didn’t get to connect with any of them, plus pointless things were added one after another. 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. I did say in the previous volume that I wanted to see more Tatsumi and Senzaki… I hadn’t expected to receive a full and thorough story.