Morthos

Love them. Love Mizuki. Loved this. Mixed to negative feelings towards Kanda so I will continue pretending that his oneshot does not exist. In the end, this doesn't really need to be on my physical shelf…………. maybe?

*shakes you* Ori???!! *shakes you more* ORI?!?!?!? 😭🥺🥹😭🥹🥺

Volume 2 was much more my jam and I'm so happy and relieved that it was. The tension that the first volume left off from cared all throughout volume 2 and that exactly what I wanted. I even left it giving a shit about Suou and Ryou.

Although- and I get the point! Not every romantic relationship works out, not every romantic relationship even gets the chance to start… But Towada and Junichi, though. Every scene about them, even in volume 1, activated so many things in my brain. I just wanted them. Suou and Ryou? Good for them or sorry that happened. My whole attention got completely taken over whenever we learn about these two mature men <3.

3.25

Had a very whelming reading experience with this first volume. Like, I don't think I cared enough about the two main characters as I feel I was supposed to nor did their story together do anything for me. It all felt very lukewarm to me. And yet, I wasn't bored enough and didn't completely hate anyone enough to drop it. The last 2 chapters definitely had me glued, but I still felt very whelmed about how it played out.

Actually, if I'm being honest, I kinda want to read about Towada and Junichi. That's probably just me craving more bl manga with only mature men over 25yd in this day and age…

3.75

I don't know if this is a 4 or a 3 because, at the end of the day, I'm still wanting. I wanted to see more hurt, I want to see more longing from Akira, I wanted to care more about these two in the present day rather than just their past, I don't even think I felt their love as intensely as some other people might have because I didn't really care about them that much in the current day as characters… But I still really enjoyed the last couple of chapters (minus the last extra). What we got in chapter 4 onwards, I did enjoy and was eating that shit up after Kaoru started to doubt some things.

I think I've just been wanting to dive headfirst into a really depressing hurt/comfort story for a while now that'll hurt me as good as Ito-san and A Home Far Away did, and this just didn't do that for me. This won't be staying in my head now that I'm done with it. At the very least, it wasn't a nothing burger of a story… So maybe a 3 is too low?

3.25

Was interested and kind of having fun until chapter 4. The way how the friend conflict thing went I thought was really stupid, but the story pacing and watching Miura and Abe get to know each other was nice. Not to mention how pretty this art style and coloring are!

And then chapter 4 happened, it felt like I was reading a rough draft in Medamayaki’s notebook. The quality of the art felt a little unfinished in both 4 and 5 and they felt like the author ran out of time on them. The date and some moments in chapter 5 were cute and all but it felt like we were skipping them actually bonding more or talking because Miura knew what Abe was think so he just responded to his thoughts… that were very rambly. I get it, especially with chapter 7, I get it. I guess I just wanted the author to sell me on them as a couple more before the ending of 5. But, instead, chapter 5 had this very “get to the point" type of storytelling. It made the emotional parts of 6 come off as lacking to me because I felt like I needed to read more bonding between them for me to believe Miura felt safe enough to get drunk in chapter 5.

I really wanted to like this a lot more, though.

This manga felt way too simple while also moving way too fast. I thought it was just a problem with the 1st chapter as it felt like they were trying to get the setup over and done with as soon as possible so the reason can get more of them. But from the conversations to them working together, it felt like when one person is trying to tell a story but the other person who was also there kept butting in to jump ahead for every chapter that followed.

It ended up making me feel like nothing mattered so I never found myself caring about these characters enough to stick with me because of how bland and fast paced this turned out to be.

This manga felt way too simple while also moving way too fast. I thought it was just a problem with the 1st chapter as it felt like they were trying to get the setup over and done with as soon as possible so the reason can get more of them. But from the conversations to them working together, it felt like when one person is trying to tell a story but the other person who was also there kept budding in to jump ahead for every chapter that followed.

It ended up making me feel like it nothing mattered so I never found myself caring about these characters enough to stick with me because of how bland and fast paced this turned out to be.

3.75