I read Hachi first a while ago and I loved it, so my view might differ from what I'm seeing in the comments because Kuma was a really nice guy there and that made me approach this manga with that in mind.
I'm happy that Kuma re-encountered with Bambi bc you can tell he cared about him since the start. He really held back and chose to be the bigger person in Hachi, so I think he deserves to be spoiled now. The problem is the mangaka didn't work the pacing very well. I think with just another chapter she could have managed to develop Kuma's feelings properly and maybe working better the time frame... like "it's been two weeks/two months" or whatever between meetings, so that we could tell Kuma and Bambi have been meeting for a while and that Kuma is properly letting go. She could also have included more meaningful moments on Kuma's side when they were younger so that we could feel Bambi also marked Kuma's life (which in a way he did, but I wish the author depicted it better).
I don't think Kuma is using Bambi AT ALL bc he is a genuinely nice guy who cares, but this could have been done better to do more justice to Bambi's devotion. A date would have been nice to see their compatibility and to develop their relationship better. I would have liked to get the feeling that, as Kuma said, them meeting again was destiny. However, the author rushed everything and didn't take the time.
Also, the Momo extra was so random. Why waste pages in them when u got a story to develop right here?
To sum up. I'm conflicted bc I like them together, but the author didn't do them justice and left me unsatisfied =_=
I read Hachi first a while ago and I loved it, so my view might differ from what I'm seeing in the comments because Kuma was a really nice guy there and that made me approach this manga with that in mind.
I'm happy that Kuma re-encountered with Bambi bc you can tell he cared about him since the start. He really held back and chose to be the bigger person in Hachi, so I think he deserves to be spoiled now. The problem is the mangaka didn't work the pacing very well. I think with just another chapter she could have managed to develop Kuma's feelings properly and maybe working better the time frame... like "it's been two weeks/two months" or whatever between meetings, so that we could tell Kuma and Bambi have been meeting for a while and that Kuma is properly letting go. She could also have included more meaningful moments on Kuma's side when they were younger so that we could feel Bambi also marked Kuma's life (which in a way he did, but I wish the author depicted it better).
I don't think Kuma is using Bambi AT ALL bc he is a genuinely nice guy who cares, but this could have been done better to do more justice to Bambi's devotion. A date would have been nice to see their compatibility and to develop their relationship better. I would have liked to get the feeling that, as Kuma said, them meeting again was destiny. However, the author rushed everything and didn't take the time.
Also, the Momo extra was so random. Why waste pages in them when u got a story to develop right here?
To sum up. I'm conflicted bc I like them together, but the author didn't do them justice and left me unsatisfied =_=