Ok, to be honest... I wasn't expecting "grumpy/sunshine". I haven't read the tags for this in a while and, in my mind, I was going into it now thinking "depressed/sunshine". I have to rethink my approach to this now.
With that new dynamic in mind, I this story was just alright. Nothing really pissed me off, nothing happened that would've made me angry. But nothing really got me either. I really wanted to be much more interested in this than I ended up being. I can see the cute. I can see the sad. But I didn't feel any of it so I'm kinda disappointed that it wasn't moving enough for me. I'm still reading the sequel and I'm still buying these physically.
Ok, to be honest... I wasn't expecting "grumpy/sunshine". I haven't read the tags for this in a while and, in my mind, I was going into it now thinking "depressed/sunshine". I have to rethink my approach to this now.
With that new dynamic in mind, I this story was just alright. Nothing really pissed me off, nothing happened that would've made me angry. But nothing really got me either. I really wanted to be much more interested in this than I ended up being. I can see the cute. I can see the sad. But I didn't feel any of it so I'm kinda disappointed that it wasn't moving enough for me. I'm still reading the sequel and I'm still buying these physically.
I could be finding a better sorry to read.
I am so annoyed by everyone in this damn book. For starts; Kanade and Mashiro are grown ass men acting too much like 11th graders going out for the first time with the added layer of them being closeted. It's getting really annoying the way these conflicts aren't really conflicts, there's just no attempts at communicating and I fucking hate it.
It's annoying because we when do have flash backs of them in high school all their actions and behaviors make sense because they're ARE teenagers. It's really cute and it fits. These same behaviors that they're still doing now that they're dating as adults is not cute. It's annoying. It's not cute to see Kanade put the blame on himself for telling Mashiro to stop because he was being forceful and scary. It's not cute to see Mashiro push away his mother, who's been in need of mental help for years, as well as not communicating on anything. Even if it's just a little bit of opening up to Kanade.
Speaking of his mom, I don't really like the way she's written. Not specifically her but everything revolving around her. She's written as "the villain" when really this lady is mentally unstable and has been needing professional help for years. Her husband passed, she became super dependent and attached to her son, her romantic relationships have been very messy and unhealthy which makes her more attached and dependent on Misharo. The grandmather is the only person with any sense but still no one tried to get her any help? I'm very annoyed with how the sorry has treated her so far the most.
I could be finding a better sorry to read.
I am so annoyed by everyone in this damn book. For starts; Kanade and Mashiro are grown ass men acting too much like 11th graders going out for the first time with the added layer of them being closeted. It's getting really annoying the way these conflicts aren't really conflicts, there's just no attempts at communicating and I fucking hate it.
It's annoying because we when do have flash backs of them in high school all their actions and behaviors make sense because they're ARE teenagers. It's really cute and it fits. These same behaviors that they're still doing now that they're dating as adults is not cute. It's annoying. It's not cute to see Kanade put the blame on himself for telling Mashiro to stop because he was being forceful and scary. It's not cute to see Mashiro push away his mother, who's been in need of mental help for years, as well as not communicating on anything. Even if it's just a little bit of opening up to Kanade.
Speaking of his mom, I don't really like the way she's written. Not specifically her but everything revolving around her. She's written as "the villain" when really this lady is mentally unstable and has been needing professional help for years. Her husband passed, she became super dependent and attached to her son, her romantic relationships have been very messy and unhealthy which makes her more attached and dependent on Misharo. The grandmather is the only person with any sense but still no one tried to get her any help? I'm very annoyed with how the sorry has treated her so far the most.
Man, I hate when BL authors forget that there's other letters in LGBT than just L and G. Life ain't Good when you act like bi, pan, or even demi people don't exist.
I have nothing to say about this absolutely mid ass story. This volume one was fine. Maybe less than fine but nothing that actually pissed me off (yet). That being said, it's still a 4.5 out of 10 because I was promised sad and it's giving me pathetic.
Man, I hate when BL authors forget that there's other letters in LGBT than just L and G. Life ain't Good when you act like bi, pan, or even demi people don't exist.
I have nothing to say about this absolutely mid ass story. This volume one was fine. Maybe less than fine but nothing that actually pissed me off (yet). That being said, it's still a 4.5 out of 10 because I was promised sad and it's giving me pathetic.
Why couldn't this just be a cute & heart gripping story about two friends mending their friendship and trying to be lovers? Why did this had to be littered with sexual harassment for no reason, conflicts and BL tropes straight out of 2010? What the fuck was chapter 3? I wanted to really like this, man...
The sad part is, when it's just about Rui and Roku being friends again and being cute together it is actually cute. There are a lot of really adorable moments in this but it's the conflicts that frustrated me because they felt forced. Rui thinking that Roku is cheating on him pissed me off the most because if his brain wasn't so gender locked I would've been a little bit on his side when he found those clothes but he got all worked up over mugs with hearts on them first. Like, dude, shut the fuck up. I've been going from "aww this is cute" to "I'm going to break some windows" and it's not been fun.
Art's cute, though.
Why couldn't this just be a cute & heart gripping story about two friends mending their friendship and trying to be lovers? Why did this had to be littered with sexual harassment for no reason, conflicts and BL tropes straight out of 2010? What the fuck was chapter 3? I wanted to really like this, man...
The sad part is, when it's just about Rui and Roku being friends again and being cute together it is actually cute. There are a lot of really adorable moments in this but it's the conflicts that frustrated me because they felt forced. Rui thinking that Roku is cheating on him pissed me off the most because if his brain wasn't so gender locked I would've been a little bit on his side when he found those clothes but he got all worked up over mugs with hearts on them first. Like, dude, shut the fuck up. I've been going from "aww this is cute" to "I'm going to break some windows" and it's not been fun.
Art's cute, though.
From the tags to the cover art I was really hoping for something much, much more sad. Instead it's just above average with a dash of "I'm angry" and that's exactly how I like my manga apparently...
I really don't like that Naruse Tsukushi explained to the reader why he broke up with Toui, with very understanding and legitimate reasons only to layer say he doesn't know why he wants Toui to apologize??? They both are really good friends but not the best boyfriends to each other. On Toui's end he's taking advantage of Naruse's kindness and depends on him too much, though not on purpose. Naeuse felt under appreciated and taken advantage of so it's understandable why he'll break up. However, he also didn't try to communicate to Toui that this how he felt so it's just been fucking 3 chapters of running around in circles and then the end of chapter 4 just made me a little bit peeved.
Update: The above was written before chapter 4 and while I still stand by everything... Everything I yelled about got touched on in chapter 4 word for word but in a very 5/10 way. It could've been much more emotional leading up to the sex scene, but I guess I'm glad they did finally talked...
At least we got a really beautiful shot and the only thing that made me feel any emotion: 2 beautiful unnamed women getting married in chapter 3 page 26 🙏🏾.
From the tags to the cover art I was really hoping for something much, much more sad. Instead it's just above average with a dash of "I'm angry" and that's exactly how I like my manga apparently...
I really don't like that Naruse Tsukushi explained to the reader why he broke up with Toui, with very understanding and legitimate reasons only to layer say he doesn't know why he wants Toui to apologize??? They both are really good friends but not the best boyfriends to each other. On Toui's end he's taking advantage of Naruse's kindness and depends on him too much, though not on purpose. Naeuse felt under appreciated and taken advantage of so it's understandable why he'll break up. However, he also didn't try to communicate to Toui that this how he felt so it's just been fucking 3 chapters of running around in circles and then the end of chapter 4 just made me a little bit peeved.
Update: The above was written before chapter 4 and while I still stand by everything... Everything I yelled about got touched on in chapter 4 word for word but in a very 5/10 way. It could've been much more emotional leading up to the sex scene, but I guess I'm glad they did finally talked...
At least we got a really beautiful shot and the only thing that made me feel any emotion: 2 beautiful unnamed women getting married in chapter 3 page 26 🙏🏾.
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Update: So this is an older review before I got around to reading volume 2... It's been 2 years since I've thought about this manga so I don't remember my thoughts on vol 2. I guess I'll add this to my rereads.
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When the misunderstandings are so prominent that manga updates the lack of communication tag… I don't normally comment until I'm completely done with the series or book, but I gotta talk about things in this 1st vol. I'll update this once I'm done with this series.
I think the story is really cute and it touched on one of my biggest problems with BL and that's communication. So many problems can be solved if they just talked and not making them talk just to amp up the conflict really pisses me off. They did this a little bit. It would be misunderstanding followed by making up followed by misunderstanding followed by making up... That might actually be more annoying with how many times this happens. I also feel like this story didn't need as many sex scenes as it had and I hope the later vol 2 tones that down (but after reading ch 2 of vol 2 eeehhhhh). As for translation, which is its biggest downfall for me, it felt poor. There were a lot of words that didn't need to be there, a lot of weirdly said sentences. Often times I felt like other words could have been said when translating this that would be a better fit for the flow of the story. I'm glad that I do get to read this in English but I do hope this gets officially picked up for mainly this reason.
Update: So this is an older review before I got around to reading volume 2... It's been 2 years since I've thought about this manga so I don't remember my thoughts on vol 2. I guess I'll add this to my rereads.
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When the misunderstandings are so prominent that manga updates the lack of communication tag… I don't normally comment until I'm completely done with the series or book, but I gotta talk about things in this 1st vol. I'll update this once I'm done with this series.
I think the story is really cute and it touched on one of my biggest problems with BL and that's communication. So many problems can be solved if they just talked and not making them talk just to amp up the conflict really pisses me off. They did this a little bit. It would be misunderstanding followed by making up followed by misunderstanding followed by making up... That might actually be more annoying with how many times this happens. I also feel like this story didn't need as many sex scenes as it had and I hope the later vol 2 tones that down (but after reading ch 2 of vol 2 eeehhhhh). As for translation, which is its biggest downfall for me, it felt poor. There were a lot of words that didn't need to be there, a lot of weirdly said sentences. Often times I felt like other words could have been said when translating this that would be a better fit for the flow of the story. I'm glad that I do get to read this in English but I do hope this gets officially picked up for mainly this reason.
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