
I love the amount of realism of this story. Minus the murdering part, this kind of rejection happens to gay people all the time and you can really feel the reality in this work. I think this mangaka may be a man, but if they are a woman then they do a great job of capturing a man's perspective on things like love. The art style is more realistic than others which i like, but I'm not a big fan of muscles at all. Overall this is great! ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄

Mangaka is a woman. And plenty of female authors capture the male perspective. After all, it's the dominant perspective imposed on us.

Yes, I was referring to literature in general. In yaoi specifically, mangaka are writing primarily for women, so capturing the male perspective isn't the primary intent. This mangaka did not initially create this work as yaoi. That was a marketing decision made by the publisher, which is why this does not read as a "typical" yaoi.

I really feel like Yumeji was just lusting after Shinkai and not really in love with him. I think Shinkai has the potential to become abusive in the future as well, he fits a lot of the criteria. Abusers tend to start off with saying cold things and then work up to becoming sexually and/or physically aggressive. The abuser apologizes and asks for forgiveness every time only to do it again. Yumeji has the perfect wishy washy personality that partners that get abused have. I know a lot of people won't like this, but I'm just trying to bring a realistic perspective to it.

I can relate to SOME if the things you said but Dann you gotta remember it's fictional. so criteria doesn't really apply here . sometimes you gotta just enjoy the story without reading too much into it and trying to see a pattern. ..
Asahi is the best!!! ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄