Anonymous asked:
What do you think is the appeal of NTR? I swear every other eroge that gets released has something to do with getting cucked
It's basically a gateway fetish. It fits bizarrely well with anything. Just look at the Taimanin series: Nowadays, it has this weird reputation among secondaries as an NTR franchise. But, back when Taimanin Yukikaze came out, it seemed bizarre to mix the two, since it has nothing to do with ryona, orcs, gangrapes, or anything the series was associated with up to that point.
It can be done in realistic settings, comical settings, fantasy settings, and so on. It crosses over with fetishes like degradation, moral degeneration and corruption, can involve tentacles or beasts, and works in basically any setting where there is at least one character attracted to another. It also adds a fetishistic edge to sex acts that would otherwise be vanilla, which is what you see with it most of the time. Giving a blowjob: Vanilla. Giving a blowjob under duress while also having a husband: "Dark".
So essentially, once it gets put together with the things you like, and it hooks you with the idea that the cheating aspect gives it a certain edge in and of itself, it's basically got you. I can remember a time when I would play some of the early translated VNs, and any game like Secret Wives' Club would turn me off because of the infidelity. Then I played Discipline because I liked Bible Black, and in spite of that game not having really built up any romance with the heroine properly, four out of five endings were NTR. The one involving her becoming mind broken, and the one where she's tied down and impregnated with a sperm sample while you watch, really stuck in my mind. And so a mental parasite was born.