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A ‘Good’ Shugo Chara doujin?

As I was looking for some Shugo Chara pics in danbooru a few weeks back, I stumbled upon the cover pic of this Amu x Ikuto H-doujin amidst the pages of of SICK pics *facepalmmm*. I was reminded of Hinano’s RAGE over the sick Shugo Chara doujins she saw months ago, and this got me thinking as to whether this doujin actually falls under the ‘good’ category.

Seeing the Amuto cover in this doujin was enough to make me so fangurl excited that I started searching for it, which eventually lead me to the doujin-ka’s website and sample pages of his/her works (beware of NSFW stuff). Least to say I was not amused with what I discovered. My hope of seeing a sweet raburabu Amu x Ikuto doujin was crushed the moment I saw how the doujin-ka’s works fall under the typical H-mangas/doujins, you know, the kind where there’s this _immense_ focus on the act of lasciviousness, devoid of love — the romantic feelings and emotions which supposedly makes this act so special to begin with.

Which finally brings me to my question: how then do we define what a good (H) doujinshi is? Is being a consensual non-taboo GxB H doujin enough of a criteria for this?

Well, not for me.

While you guys usually see me getting all kinky with Shugo Chara as I exclaim “I WANT MOAR Amu x Ikuto SMUT RAWR”, there’s a certain level of smut-ness (or H-ness) which I could tolerate, and in turn, regard to be good. And even without having seen *that* Shugo Chara H-doujin, I’m 90+% sure that it fails in my standards of a good doujinshi. Smut standards, or whatever you wanna call it, being a [semi] conservative hopeless romantic and all.

The thing with me and all these H-stuff is that I hate how both the act and the females (and males?) involved, are so objectified that you see them as mere fap material [sex], so to speak. In turn, I lose respect for both the men and women in these H-mangas, because they don’t even seem to have respect for themselves! Guys are portrayed as sexual beasts, and they indulge themselves in it. Girls are portrayed to be nymphos (more often than not), and they don’t have any qualms about it. Doujins like these just desecrate the characters of the [sweet] animes and mangas we’ve grown to love In the end, I just want my sweet non-H or shoujo smut-level Amuto doujin, like this La Corda d’ Oro doujin I found:

slightly NSFW pic, click at your own risk?

The good doujinshis are a rare breed indeed… sigh. =__=

P.S. I know gender-bias comes into play with this, as girls like me are sensitive to this kind of stuff, guys have different preferences, etc… but I don’t really want to delve deep into that anymore and just voice out what I feel about this ^^;

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