It's really good, but I'm so worried and tense the whole time!
My pupper is a German Shepherd! She's an old, old girl, she's grey-muzzled and wobbly and going bald in places but she's still entirely lovely and has the soul of a Good Girl (the Goodest Girl!) and the heart of a young bouncy doggo.
...This manga warms my heart all the way through and turns the icy cynical centre into sweet gooey caramel. Much like my dog does!
One of the things that I really like about this story, and that makes it feel different from most "secretly gay but in denial" plots, is that Takase isn't pushing his insecurities onto Itou and starting something with him saying "I think I'm into men" (effectively "help me test it out and help me accept myself"). At this point he really seems to be trying hard to think it through and come to terms with everything himself, before he offers his hot mess self to Itou. I think that's important and makes him a good guy. Itou is strong and lovely, but he shouldn't have to carry the weight of someone who isn't sure if they can have a real, equal relationship with him. It's great that Takase's trying to accept himself, before he asks Itou to be with him. (Oh and Takase is lovely too, that last panel of him is just beautiful)
this!!! im framing this comment thank u
You exactly defined what I was thinking, good job my friend.
Yeah, but I am afraid that this means Itou is going to find another man because he starts to have feelings for Takase and thinking he is straight and he's just lonely after being dumped he decides to move on with another guy.
I think Takase needs to speak up soon.
Ah yeah I love that last panel of him too. It isn't often that I find a seme this adorably cute
My friend's mum drowned in the sea, saving his little brother who was caught in a rip. That part of the story really hit me in the heart.
I'm not musically talented at all, but lots of people around me are and I do love music. I love stories like this one, Given, Kimi no Oto ga Nari Yamanai etc. where you can really feel that the characters live for music. I get the feeling that other singer is a lil obsessive over the MC and won't take the rejection lying down
Your friends mum is a hero, and a true mother. xox
She was a true angel.
Makio, I choose you!
*Throws Makio at her*
Now, faster pussycat, kill, kill!
"I'm not prejudiced," says the homophobic jerkface. But kicks the guy out immediately because he finds out he's gay, assumes that he'll get jumped just because the guy's gay, and makes "Don't touch me" a rule, because the guy's gay. Yeah, not prejudiced at all. What a dick.
What is homophobic is that he's willing (reluctantly) to let Haru stay, even though he's never met him. It's only Haru's sexuality that makes him kick him out. Discriminating against someone on the basis of their sexuality is homophobic. Feeling negatively towards someone purely because they're gay is LITERALLY homophobic. I'm going to keep reading and hope he redeems himself, but in this chapter he's prejudiced and homophobic.
Well I believe being homophobic would be when he would kicked him out and not let him in again saying its because he is gay. You dont know his circumstances (maybe he was raped in past) and from my point of view he was already cautious of him - that last information was the last straw and he just snapped. For me it has nothing to do with his sexuality, it was just another reason to be cautious and he already had many of them.
Please keep translating... I buy when I can, and I almost always buy manga I know I love, because I've read a scanlated version. Or at least I buy manga by mangaka I know I enjoy - again, because I've read some of their work unofficially (sugar-coated way of saying illegally, I know).
It's often hard to find official translations, or prohibitively expensive if people have to have them shipped from overseas. I'm in Australia so I can pretty much only afford to order from sites like Book Depository with free shipping. But I do love buying officially to support mangaka - I recently bought NightS and I was so, so happy to a) own it, b) support Yoneda Kou, one of my absolute favourites and c) encourage publishers to do more official English releases, and stockists to make them available for me.
I have to admit though, I'm talking about buying hard copies. I understand people's dislike that authors aren't getting paid when people could quite easily support them by paying not-a-huge-amount for online access to official translations of their work.
Same here. I live in the center of Europe. here it is almost impossible to get the official translation in english. It is frustrating. So I depend on sites like mangago. But I am always happy when a official translation is released in my country.
Not to take away from my comment below, but would anyone like to hazard a guess at what's going on, anatomically, in the bottom left panel of this page??
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/shizuku_hanabira_ringo_no_kaori/mh/v01/c006/26/
Is that supposed to be his shoulder blades? But the arm is way too high... His butt? But that seems to be further down... What??
It's Shus elbow and shoulders as he lies between Harunas legs. You can see part of his hand in the bottom of the picture, on Harunas thigh (=・ω・=)
That's what I figured, but the shoulder blades are way too low compared to where his arm starts! It makes it look like there's something very wrong with his back, haha
(it's not like I can draw so I shouldn't judge, it's just a bit derpy anatomy-wise)
Uhmm I Think we call that artistic freedom. But that is if we are being nice to the mangaka
So many curled toes during sex in manga! Don't mangaka know that's a good way to get a totally mood-killing foot cramp??
Hahaha now that I've thought about it, I would actually love to see that in a sex scene. Suddenly, "Ow fuck no stop, my foot's cramping up owwwww"
Yes! Finally somebody said that! It always bothers me!
Transfusions webcomic has a leg cramp.
I saw in one manga where they had been together for a really long time they wanted to try out new things. At one point the uke got a cramp and they needed to stop. I dont remember the manga though.
I love and hate this!
I never thought of it like this but it's truuue! And I agree...
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But ugh I love seeing when their feet curl (≧∀≦)
I can totally see Naono Bohra doing this and with her love for Older Ukes... (⌒▽⌒)
And then we'd end with a foot massage...