Morthos

I can't express to you how "no thoughts, head empty" this book left me. I mean, I guess it didn't do anything to piss me off but it also didn't make me feel anything. Kind of like I was just moving with the pages mindlessly.

Maybe the way Yuusei kept Itsuki at longer than arm's length for as long as he did got annoying pretty fast. But, like, I know Nagisa. She loves her some childhood friends to lovers slow burn yerning school romance so I knew what I was getting into and I think that's why I'm not that pissed over it... Even though Itsuki's pretty fucking obvious.

I really liked this art style and I honestly think the main story was really cute when though it the combined 3 chapters the main couple got was too short. Chapter 5 was really nice to see. A little jarring but well written and different from what I'm use to seeing in these BL stories.

Update: My old review talked about how chapter 4 was uncomfortable for me and then went on about two teen having sex. I mean, yeah, I rather not read about teens doing it while I'm an adult but I don't think that's enough for me to bitch about so I just removed that part. Still a 3 star book, though.

More of same feelings I had from the first book. But after reading both of these books I'm just kind of disappointed... The art's cute. Cocomi knows how to draw some really cute art. The more softer, cute moments in the story were very adorable. But what made this drag for me and had me praying for it to be done after chapter 3 was just the conflicts.

The conflicts where just kind of dumb to me and it all just came down to not communicating. However, there was a story reason why no one wanted to communicate which sort of gets a pass but still very annoying to read 17 times. I did like the end. I thought the end was cute. Didn't make me cry or anything but still a cute end chapter.

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.

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.

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 🙏🏾.