Responses
I agree! It is brilliant work! I can t even manage to say how impressed I was by their inner dialogues and those brilliant covers. Reading stories like this I a reminded how lucky I am that I discovered this manga world. Hehe
I kept on skipping this because I was intimidated by the length of this series but now I regret that I didn't read this sooner. This is a total masterpiece. Comparable in touching depth with Nabokov's Lolita or Mysterious Skin in terms of tackling childhood sexual abuse. I couldn't ask for more.
Perhaps, my only criticism of this manga are those times when Ian was forcing Jeremy to recall every single thing using the pictures. I know it has a purpose in terms of the story and all but it felt like the author conveyed it like a convenient flashback for the readers. However, I kind of understand that since this manga was in serialisation from 1993-2001 anyway so it's bound to happen. It seems to just feel like everythings dragging on repetitively because I read this only in three days.