午前3時、君は泣く

I'm finding I have a love/hate relationship with this author. The story is fine, the pacing felt fast, but within that fast pace we did get a story. You get enough information that you don't feel like you're missing half the story and you're already on chapter 5. But with this story in particular the only 2 bits that actually bothered me were how it felt like the author tried to make you sympathize with the ex as well as the conflict that follows after that. I'm so/so about using the place where Haru and his ex met as Mitsuharu misunderstanding of their situation and trying to be a hero, but I think the way how it was done bothered me more. I wanted the conflict to be on the level of that scene at the end of chapter 1. I felt like the ex wasn't as much of a force as I thought he would be. Everything happened too easily for the emotional tone I kept feeling throughout the story that died because nothing came out of it.

I did like this more than Hana Tokidoki Kuma for the most part as well as loving "moments" they draw when a character is genuinely smiling. I've talked about it in Hana Tokidoki Kuma, but it's like you can see the light rays through the page and it's my favorite thing about their art.