Lolo, I ship Kagami all the time, but I always said is an asshole. The problem is, when the partner tolerates, who are we to criticize? If Kei were my man, money or not, I'd probably smash his face in no time. but Shingo is an idiot when it comes to his lover, so everything works fine.
He really is an asshole. I read yaoi for the feels and the loveeee. Not for jerk semes and stupid ukes. I love this author, but this is the first time i read a story where there is absolutely no remorse from a main seme that forced himself on a main uke.
And even after what he did, in the extra when the uke told him to stop, the answer was of course: "no can do".
I hate this.
Same here, loved the art but that's about it.
Shingo isn't an idiot :( He's an adorable and sexy tsun tsun. Kagami is the baka! bakagami!(Still love him though)
And I agree. At the very least, if a Uke falls in love with the one who forced him, he should smash the semes face. Just once. Then no more violence please. Just love each other whole heartedly after that.
A pushy attitude only works if despite their assholish behavior, we still love them. This character doesn't fit the criteria for most yaoi fans apparently.
Maybe it's because we don't really know his back story? The character isn't developed enough?
Cool Yakuza Asshole? (Asami) YES! Handsome Celebrity Asshole (Kagami) YES! Ordinary guy from the past... Nah. Less I know more about you then maybe! Like, his dad abused him or he was so in love with the Uke it was verging on insanity... probably...
My real impression is actually more complicated. I think Sakyo Aya puts the greatest part of her effort into drawings. Most of her plots are interesting but never completely fulfilling. This one in particular, I guess it's one of her firsts?…she didn't have much space to tell the story, and for her a lot of sex is always in the first place. It's like she wants to covey all feelings and meaning into facial expressions, as she leaves the pattern there, unsaid. I like it sometimes, but, as in this case, the story is so inconsistent that even the exceptional beauty of her craft looses its attraction.
What she's trying to say with her mangas, in my opinion, is that love goes beyond surfaces. Most of the reader judge the characters from their words instead of their actual behavior. She means that the real emotion is not that spoke through words, but through gestures and actions. So we have to trust the uke's judgment. If he takes his lover back, it means there's much more than what they say to the story. In fact, I don't find the seme an asshole (not compared to Keiichi, sorry). His current behavior and his past actions seem not to match. There is where sensei asks us to trust her plot-line. It's fascinating, from a certain perspective, but it's not always working, I guess.
compared to sensei's other work, kuroneko kareshi, i think why the seme is so intolerable here is because we are not satisfied with the ukes actions and the seme isn't as gorgeous/important as kagami. Scary. the things we tolerate for certain people.