They don't look that far apart in age, it's not the age gap that's an issue for me, it's all the emphasis the story has put on that the MC is a highschooler/still a kid. One of the seme's friends from when he went to high school said that to them highschoolers are so young. It's that he knows the MC is in high school and is actively pursuing him and flirting. Even asking him out and saying flirty things. I saw someone made a comparison to dating an older person in highschool and how highschoolers are attracted to older people, but to me it's weird that the older guy is the one initiating as there's a clear experience imbalance and just because a kid WANTS to have sex with/date you doesn't mean it's okay to. We as the adult need to understand that teenagers aren't fully mentally developed and will make more genital choices than they should. That's why waiting is a thing.
Yes EXACTLY. As a high schooler the age gap made me feel extremely uncomfortable even tho the couple was cute. Waiting until her graduate to start the story would've been just fine. Even waiting until he graduate from this point is kinda weird but 100% better than getting with a high school at your grown ass age.
What I found most awkward was when the seme's friend from highschool commented on how highschoolers are so youthful to them. Like, how do you not feel any guilt while someone you know that's around your age is saying that, the people you know are mentally at the point where highschoolers are just cute things they want to cheer on...
I wish the translation quality didn't drop halfway through though. Still want to see more, cant wait to see why she invited that bitch. (づ￣ ³￣)づ
I didn't know how I could POSSIBLY like Taehyun at first and now I'm happy for them.
That’s called great story telling
I'm not playing, I HATED him at first and was TRYING to hate him as time went on.
I know you’re not playing because I was the same way
Me tooo
I hated him at first because of what he did but now he is an irreplaceable child of mine (︶︿︶) I love them both and they are just adorableee
Every time either of them cried my heart ached
Again it’s just great story telling on the authors part
The ecchi was surprisingly not cringy? It's more of just a running gag. It was actually surprising how it was integrated into the story as just being a part of Rudy's personality. They did a good job of establishing it as part of his character and even gave it roots in Paul and the Greyrats' being horndogs. Can we talk about Paul for a second? Because what the fuck? His character is all over the place. At first he's a loving, doting dad with a happy family relationship, then suddenly with no warning he admits that the baby is probably his and he cheated, then he gets super dickish when he and Rudy reunite. I'm glad they worked things out, though the whole cheating thing was weird af and they all just sorta moved on. At this point idk if I should trust that he's been faithful or not since he's been separated from them for years. I'm so sad that those three died too, poor Eris. :^(
He's ACTUALLY a whore, and not in the "my body my rules" acceptable kinda way... he was in a relationship and just straight up cheated. Like, just break up if you're having doubts to that degree. Only at ch 8 so far, but he's so annoying so far, i hope his boyfriend leaves him and finds someone who can do <the bare minimum> by not slutting around on him.
The dude just went in with no prep while he was scared enough to pee himself, there's literally no way it wouldn't be a bloody mess. It was, presumably, his first time too...
eh, he didn't go in tho, right? he thrusted in between his legs
Maybe, it looked like either went to put it in and told him to put his legs together to go in easier or he gave up going in and used his thighs.
He's suffering too, his crush called him disgusting for having sex to calm his animal urges (for Toshimasa, might i add) and started avoiding him. They haven't hung out since middle school after that. He started flaunting his sexuality to Toshimasa and antagonizing him on purpose to get his attention because he's ignoring him and Ouga doesn't like that he's being ignored. His "confidence" is a front, he's just acting haughty to piss off Toshimasa. He feels wronged for basically being slut shamed (he thinks it's because of the sex, but it's clearly just that Toshimasa got jealous and called him disgusting in anger). Also, Ouga was manipulated into sex by a mature woman who took advantage of his urges and his fear that his urges would force him to no longer be able to hang out with Toshimasa. He was raped, he wasn't old enough to consent to sex with an adult, especially one with such a power imbalance as she was his teacher and as such knew his personal life well enough to take advantage of his fears about staying close with Toshimasa to fool him into doing what she wanted. What if she'd gotten pregnant? She would've trapped him.
It felt corny and unreal, like the whole 'both of them knock on the wall and then run out of their rooms and start kissing' bit. Not much to flesh them out either, despite it being plot heavy with mild sex scenes, like we never see Kurousu change, he's just changed when they meet again. Also didn't like that Imai took any of the blame for what happened, he had every right to get pissed when Kurousu had sex with him after all that time of them acting like a couple before telling him that "you don't need a reason to have sex", "i don't know that I'm gay" and "I'm going to be moving anyways". He was clearly being flippant about their relationship, he literally said it didn't matter. Maybe he didn't mean it in a mean way, but it was shitty.
When is bl ever realistic lol
I can see how you got that out of what i said, but i meant it's over-the-top unrealistic, like it comes across aggressively fake.
Edit to add on: Like Yaoi almost never comes across realistic, but doesn't usually make you feel that to the degree that this does.
Yeah I get what you mean. But that scene to me came off as “fairytale like” rather than corny, but I agree with that Imai doesn’t need to take any of the blame considering it was kurousu’s personal problems that led to such a loop hole in their relationship.
Now i want to see the gay characters she mentioned at the beginning! Give me that shounen ai goodness (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
Before I say anything, to avoid any besides-the-point "the age gap isn't even big!" replies, let me clarify that I have no issues with the age gap as they seem to be close in age anyways. My issue is how the manga relentlessly hits home that the MC is still very much a naive highschooler kid and I said this in my other comment below. But that's besides the point of this post, I want to address some comments/replies below:
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I see some replies/comments making the argument that he is mature because he takes care of his brother. Putting aside that child care doesn't teach you how to notice or handle someone trying to manipulate you emotionally or into sex, the manga makes it VERY, VERY clear that the MC is naive. He bases his views of romance on shoujo... he thinks the seme is like a shoujo prince and is genuinely shocked that he hadn't been kabedon'd when he tried to make the seme jealous... let's not ignore reality guys. It's also made abundantly clear that there is a huge experience gap here as the seme always calmly, collectedly flirts with the MC while smiling, while as the MC goes all doki-doki. It shows him getting mad when people imply he's a kid, he also hides that he reads shoujo from his brother to, and I quote, "maintain the cool big brother look". The story even makes his younger brother seem to be the more mature one when he tells his younger brother to beat up the other kid, like, twice... Okay, that's enough of that now, I'll go ahead and throw that argument in the trash for you guys.