
I always get annoyed with stories about someone who pins for years and years over someone while that person goes off and has a relationship(s). This is kind of why it annoyed me so much when sam said “I thought you were mine.” Idk if he thought his feelings for Henry were bad, if we wasn’t aware of them, or if he thought it would never work, but dude. You got married. Henry has every right to find someone new and it’s annoying that since he got a divorce it’s fine for him to just jump right in like none of that ever happened.
In this case I would root for Seth, BUT right now I feel like there is literally no point. It seems like he will only ever be a replacement for Sam and that’s it. I hope the author has a greater role for him than just that, because I don’t want this to be another story where the MC waits forever until the unrequited love decides they can be in a relationship now yay true love the end.

yeah these sorts of plots have always annoyed me because of course that's not how life realistically works but admitted this is well drawn and I am curious all the same so I'll likely finish this story regardless because at least we have Henry not being the typical put on life o hold for your unrequited love interest that is so often utilized as "pure" and all that bullshit.

I’m starting to get uncomfortable with this authors mindset of gay couples. Don’t get me wrong, I love this manga and I originally got into it because the uke wasn’t overly weak or girly and the seme wasn’t a playboy/asshole, but I’ve been uncomfortable every since this top/bottom debate with the other couple started. First they talk about body size playing a role, then him being “to cute to top” and I just really hate it. It was also kind of underwhelming, there was all this build up for them, only to make it a copy of the main couple...I hope there is more variety with the new couple.

I'm with you on the wasted potential of the high school couple- that was a great set up for a reversible couple just thrown away. They're too much a carbon-copy of the main. But I guess I slightly disagree with your view of the top/bottom debate? Disagree is probably too strong a word actually. Cuz I mean, I'M WITH YOU. So much of yaoi perspective coming from female authors are riddled with cliche and harmful stereotyping. But I guess in this particular context I'm okay with it? Just in that they are two high school boys with no experience and little knowledge to go off of other than stereotypes. So their back-and-forth on it seemed pretty realistic to me. Now, I've never been a gay teenage boy, so I could be totally wrong. But losing my virginity as a hetero female was confusing enough, and involved a lot of misinformed ideas I had about sex. And I had a lot more people and resources to confer with than I imagine a gay male would have growing up. So yeah, I give this a pass. But I totally understand where you're coming from.

I’m really feeling that right now with this couple, especially now that we know the bond forces them to be together. I hope future chapters are focused on their relationship, and not just them having sex. The change from avoiding each other to being lovey dovey was a little abrupt for me to feel good about the relationship just yet.
The emotional appeal was a little bit excessive
However it’s sad because those two were really cute together and I liked getting the backstory. This manga has avoided so many yaoi stereotypes that I’ve come to hate (or at least roll by eyes at) so that’s also a plus