I'm worried this might end in tragedy/horror. Just THE WAY the mangaka portrays Hodaka i worrying, he comes across as a Yandere and we all know how THAT can end... He gives off enough weird vibes that 2 middle school teenagers were scared of him on sight. This might end up a fluffy story about how an older brother chose to raise his younger brother over his childhood flame and their reunion (now that said younger brother is old enough to go sleep in the other room when nii-san is getting it on) or it might be a very dark story of nii-san trying to raise his younger brother only to catch the attention of a crazy who nii-san falls for and later finds out is nuts and so leaves him, but only AFTER having been trained NOT to upset yandere-chan.
Left a part out in my post, after "having been trained NOT to upset yandere-chan" i meant to add: hence the scene at the end of chapter 1 where nii-san's first reaction on seeing Hodaka is to break down an yell he's sorry and Hodaka punching him. Nii-san might be a yandere-victim who escaped and is now seeing his nightmare brought back into his life. OR, it could just be that he chose his younger brother over his childhood flame, we'll see. Still, the yandere vibes are undeniable.
I want to know what inspires these crazy theories jajajaj pretty funny but don´t think it´s like that at all, to me it seems more like the older brother really fell hard for the painter guy and was like really happy leaving his life in a carefree way, like eating, sleeping and fucking which was cool and all, but probably a tragedy happened back home like his parents commit double suicide, or ran off cause his father's debts and he have to take care of the younger brother and didn´t want to see the painter guy more cause he was so in loved that he fear his resolution to be a good father figure, and prioritize the brother over the lover, and bring up his younger brother well waver cause of his love life so he simply cut all ties with the painter guy, who probably will end up falling in love with the younger brother and the younger will love him back and attain the happiness the older brother couldn´t or something like that. jajajaja
Look at the date, dude... The OP posted all this *before* the second chap was posted, when their theory was still a possibility.
I can't even appreciate the whole "oops, did i interrupt" joke, the sensei stopping them from kissing actually pissed me off. I was like: "no, fuck you. don't blush and act all cutesy. it isn't funny."
i think you need 2 calm down its just a manga lmao
So... to expand on why it irritates me: ANY opportunity that the seme gets to touch the uke is EXTREMELY important, the uke has a phobia of being touched stemming from his childhood molestation and probably rape trauma. Do you see why it would irritate me that some idiot sensei would come in and interrupt one of these instances and try to act all cutesy after? The scenes show that the uke is making progress on getting over his trauma and letting someone he loves in and one of the few, precious instances were interrupted by some asshole. I hate him (the sensei).
People seem to still think of those sex scenes as rape, but from what i understand isn't the only actual rape scene the scene where Hyeonjo thinks Minjae spread the rumor? I think the misconception here is due to the fact that the scenes were made to purposefully look like rape, but that's it, it just LOOKS like rape because we hadn't known what either of them were thinking at the time. You're all seeing what appears to be rape and labeling it as rape without taking both parties' feelings into account, the problem with this is that we actually know how both of them felt during those scenes FROM THEIR MOUTHS now. I'll give an example irl of what you guys look like when you assume that Minjae was feeling raped and that Hyeonjo was feeling like he was raping Minjae: You're like that person who sees a cute girl with a guy with tatoos all over his body and assumes he doesn't treat her right when in actuality he could be a great person. When Minjae is looking back on the multiple instances of "rape" he says he "never actually minded it" (the sex), and Hyeonjo just said in ch 15 that he has liked Minjae "since he first saw him". Case closed, we now know how both of them were thinking in those scenes, they are literally TELLING us that it wasn't rape. The only scene that was rape is the scene where Hyeonjo rapes Minjae because he thinks he spread the rumor, the reason this is the only rape scene is because Minjae is canonically upset about the instance, please note that the only time he complains to Hyeonjo about how he's been treated is when he's mad at Hyeonjo in this scene and Minjae even hits him. THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT HURT MINJAE, THE ONLY THING HE WAS WILLING TO SPEAK UP ABOUT, he even says that the rest he "didn't mind". Hyeonjo has only actually raped Minjae that one time, all the other times were just sex made to look like rape to us onlookers just peeking in from the outside, we didn't know their thoughts or feelings (we saw the cute girl with the tattoo guy and assumed he was mistreating her), we do now and can conclude that none of the scenes were rape as they both have told us the missing information. Minjae never felt raped and Hyeonjo never had rape on his mind while holding Minjae, as he said in ch 15, he has "liked you (Minjae) since i first saw you". He was just trying to have sex with the guy he liked and while it was sudden and shocking Minjae never minded it until he was raped during the Rumor misunderstanding.
Just... -blissful sigh- everything about this. I love how they communicate, how cute the uke is and how sexy the seme is despite looking like he should be the uke, i love the art, i love the story. Just... everything. I came in expecting a smutty smut manga, and fluff just came in like a wrecking ball. I can only hope for something like this someday.
I don't care what his reasoning was, having his "friends" rape his boyfriend isn't okay. The uke didn't want it and was even trying to fight them off, the seme was watching and clearly enjoying and the 3 guys were clearly okay holding him down. It was just rape, no other way to read into that. I wont be content if they get back together, period, there is NOTHING that could be done that would make me happy about it or even okay with it. He needs to be with Beef Bulgogi no matter what, i just hope he is man enough to save his uke before anymore serious damage is done. What i dont get is why he doesn't call the police, get a restraining order, the guy just kissed him against his will and i'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get proof. I thought this was going to be a fluffy manga, but if it is going to be nothing but this dark, soul sucking ache in my heart i'd rather not read on. I can handle dark manga, if the guy from the past is just going to be an obstacle then thats fine, but if they end up together i'm not going to be okay with it. I'd rather not read this now if that is how it ends...
Now all of you go read Complex bye Manda Ringo, it's AT LEAST as good as this. Warning: there're like two chapters with a pedophile in them, the first time he appears is at the VERY beginning and is crucial to the storyline so just try to deal with it, the second time is later on in a random cut away from the story and i think it is meant as some kind of sick comic relief. I can't deny that the second scene is funny because of what he does to get to the boy, but it's still pedophilia so its like... In other words, don't skip the first scene, but you can skip the second if you want.
I love Holy so much. Also, Jamie has reached levels of cute that i couldn't have imagined possible. I love how Holy is the man in the relationship, what with the huge amount of princess carries, the amount of times she protects him and the way she confesses to him and he gets all blushy. SO goddamn cute. I love that, while he was being possessed, Jamie and Aarron went on a date and now theres occasional gay talk from friends. Personally, i'm really hoping that Aarron gets happiness too (If this wasn't tagged shoujo i'd totally ship him with a guy, but as it is tagged shoujo i won't delude myself with any hopes of anything but a few teasers), hes so great and i WAS shipping him with the new girl (the exorcist) until she showed herself to be a huge S. Though thinking back, during the scene where Holy was making the pact to keep Jamie alive and Aarron thought Holy was talking to him, Aarron DID think she was asking him to serve her and he seemed totally okay with it... Maybe Aarron is the M to the exorcist's S?
Yeah, though I love Holy x Jamie, the Aaron x Jamie scenes really teased my yaoi-radar... I *really* wanted Aaron to fall for Jamie, I'm such a sucker for rival x rival couples! But Aaron x exorcist S-girl looks like it'd be fun too.











So, he brought Bum to where his father is buried, this seems to me to indicate that Bum really IS special to him in some way (i think romantically, but in his own twisted sense). I've seen some people saying that "Sangwoo wants Bum to sleep with Jieun's corpse", but i dont really see how any of you got that from this? When i saw the end what i got from it is exactly what Sangwoo said, that he wants Bum to dispose of his mess. Why this involves taking Bum clothes off? Well, maybe to put him into clothes more appropriate for disposing of a body? As a matter of fact, the story has already shown Sangwoo to be incredibly jealous when it comes to Bum, remember when Bum accidentally tripped and landed on the fat guy's lap and Sangwoo got pissed and forced Bum to suck on his dick? Why would this jealous mofo force Bum to have sex with another in front of him? I dont see it happening.