Morthos

I tried. I came across this while looking for another book and I thought the cover was cute so why not? But when I went to look it up on Manga Updates I noticed its 2.86 Goodreads rating and went ???. So after going around a couple of other sites to see why it was so hated I about 3 things that kept coming up: that the stories felt incomplete, the writing within the stories felt disjointed, and that they were confusing and/or boring.

I agree with so much of that. I wanted to finish this to see why people hated most of them, loved some of them, and why the two “That Witch” stories were seen as The Good Ones™. But this 2010s homophobic and sexist writing along with that uncomfortable age gap in chapter 4 was killing me. The only reason why I came back after dropping mid chapter 4 was this one Goodreads review that said "docked off points for the few that are horrific" and I'm looking confused here, like, which ones!?!? I'm sitting here bored out of my mind after 2 stories, at least “horrific” would be something!

I didn’t even get through chapter 5 when I realized I didn’t care. Either from the story telling or the translation in this book... I just didn’t care.

Maybe I'll come back again and just read those The Witch stories but another comment on another site made it sound like it's Incest-y...? I don't know. Maybe it's not and it was just how that comment worded it, but I'm probably not going to come back to this nor this author.

This is not for me. I'm not sure what made me put this on my TBR but I definitely forgot what the tags were by the time I got around to this.

There are a lot of yearly 2000s/2010s BL bullshit that I don't like. That borderline homophobic and sexist dialogue is very much there that got on my nerves. I'm always very weary when there's crossdressing in BL because it's mostly handled as a joke/misunderstanding. The dialogue surrounding Izumi crossdressing, the “but I'm not a girl" stuff I hate, and Muroto's obvious interest in him either way but hiding that behind the whole crossdressing thing doesn't sit right with me. On the student/teacher topic, that's not the focused relationship, but I honestly thought they were college professors at first and not high school teachers so the whole thing about 19/18 year old wanting to get with this teacher is uncomfortable for me. Alongside that, one of the people involved in this love triangle is one of the 19/18 year old students...

The last book by this author was a bit of a struggle to get through, too, but I was able to bounce back from that. I don't think I can take any more of this one. I also don't think I'm going to continue reading from Emi Mitsuki so I'm dropping the other 3 manga I had planned from her as well. Knowing how this story's going to be, maybe I'll come back to it if it stays in my head long enough. But, for now, I'm dropping it.

Didn't realize this had a possessive lover character until I started reading but I still wanted to give it a chance. At the very least get through chapter 1… I'm already hating Higarashi as a person which I'm sure is the point, but that's not something I want to read.

Not a memorable story to me, but it was cute and they're cute together.

Cute but it felt like there should've been 2 or 3 more chapters with how short this was. The whole volume read like an extra oneshot you'd get as a booklet in a special edition.