She's too extreme! And Senpai stop being so forgiving or else she'll take advantage of you without realizing it! They'll figure something out... probably.
Now I just want to punch him in the face.
tbh i feel the same. i still like shimizu though.
This is where the author's decision to time jump most of their relationship makes the characters actions not make sense. They've been together for around 11 years, since they were 17! It's actually pretty amazing they lasted so long considering how much people grow in their twenties. The seme especially seems to have changed.
But because of the time jumps the author doesn't really show how their relationship got to the point it got to so it feels like it came out of no where and the seme is a dick. Maybe he is anyway, but wanting to have kids is a legit deal breaker in relationships and I'm unclear if gay couples can adopt or not in Japan or what. Plus it's obvious in the few pages before they split that somethings wrong in their relationship. And have they seriously not told their parents they're together yet?
I think this is the part where the limitations of serialization and the industry set in. I was going to post the same thing about how abrupt the transition was from age 25 to 28 was. It paints Akira in a slightly uglier light because we can't comprehend how his feelings have waned so dramatically when just a page ago he was blissfully happy with Yuuki (despite the three year time difference). If it weren't for the fact that most BL manga-kas are cornered into this one tank structure, I'm sure the manga-ka might have taken more time to explore how Akira came to this juncture and readers would have a better understanding of his decision. As is, his decision feels out of the blue given how long they've been together. Because it seems like he broke up with Yuuki so impulsively, it makes Akira's feelings out to be more fickle in comparison to Yuuki, which I don't think is the case (at least I hope it isn't).
And yah, at age 28, I would think both their parents would be curious as to why they've been living together for so long. Or at the very least, wouldn't they visit and notice?
That makes sense, a lot of yaoi is one vol. But in that case I wish the author had cut out the inbetween years and shown more of what led to their break up. Akira sure looks bad because of how abrupt everything ended. A scene with him talking to his parents who want grandchildren blah blah wouldn't have hurt either.
Yes, I agree, I think had the manga-ka expounded more on Akira's thought-process in other ways, it would have been a smoother transition. Given the way it's structured so far, it's hard to decide where she could have done it without cutting out other important moments of their lives. His sudden indifference in sex and seeing the child are a brief glimpse to his thoughts, but too brief to fully give depth to his decision without angering readers. It's the biggest hiccup in the manga so far.
Gen is so misleading! No wonder he misunderstood, heck I misunderstood what he meant at the end of chpt 9 too until I looked at the raws and realized he still meant as an acting partner not a love interest!
When I first read this I found the ending sad, now I'm relieved the blonde didn't end up with the hot mess and may have a real chance of happiness in the future.
I don't know, love potion just seems like a kinder word for rape.
In the end this is a love story about two incredibly dense people who probably wouldn't have gotten together if she hadn't lost weight and attracted a bunch of love interests.
i thought that at first too, but if you really paid attention to senpai's dream/memory. He was already in love with her from the beginning. He only started treating her as a love interest, when others pointed out that he was in love with her. He's honestly the one one that didn't look at her outward appearance as "better," for his personal reasons throughout the whole manga.
I really liked this story, I just can't reread it, it hurts too much.
It's like this series is on speed.