Came back to this after years when I saw that there were like 50 new chapters. I fully intended to treat this manga as a silly no plot nonsense strip comic type of thing, but I gotta say. The girls not changing at all in like 70 chapters and Satou doing absolutely nothing to stop them from acting like that, and then the way he keeps wanting to see Yoshida being upset... Not saying that protagonists need to be perfect at all time, but I do find characters like Satou unlikeable. Can you really say that you love someone when all you want is to make them soothe your insecurities by bringing out the worst in them and making them miserable half the time they're with you? And not just Satou, most characters have no development at all, which would be fine if this WAS just satire, but the author keeps trying to take it seriously. Like this latest arc that had no foreshadowing and came out of fucking nowhere. No, I don't consider Satou being tired and saying that he's been talking to his friends from England a few pages before he disappeared development. It's... really disappointing to feel like the MC in a BL would be happier with the ML's nutjob, sadistic female bestie ngl. Girl flew all the way from Japan just to give him a piece of her mind for what he did to Yoshida and in that she showed more genuine care and concern for Yoshida than Satou did in the whole series smh
I'm surprised that most of the messages in here are so positive. Yes, their relationship is adorable, but I feel like there isn't much to talk about in terms of romance plot. Most of it is focused around one of them refusing to communicate properly and constantly ending up in trouble with that stalker because of it. I'm glad that he promised that he'd be honest from now on, but then he went and did it again when he got jealous. The only reason why it didn't escalate into more drama was that he was found out pretty fast...
Oh, this was adorable. And it was also so nice to see Yangyang again too
I know that the author didn't want to specify exactly what kind of disability the ML had, because they didn't want to influence people's perceptions on different types of mental health issues, but this was the very first time ever that I felt like I was reading about an autistic character.
Fandoms like to put stickers on various characters to relate to them better and to create some diversity, but I've never really subscribed to that agenda myself despite also being neurodivergent, because it never fully clicked for me until now. I immediately knew that the author was doing it on purpose and that I could trust them to handle it respectfully. The reason is that I have met the ML in real life. I have friends who struggle with the exact same issues that he has. I have been in the MC's shoes in multiple occasions, feeling his frustration and forcing myself to have patience so I wouldn't hurt or dismiss the other person, because I was fully aware that they were not malicious or being purposefully cruel. They simply, truly did not understand.
People like the ML are real, and I'm happy to see some real representation in such an unlikely place. I'm really thankful to the author for wanting to spread some awareness and for trying to show us that people like him are not unlovable or broken. They're just a bit different, but they deserve our respect as much as anyone else does and should be treated as people with qualities and defects. I'm so, so glad that I didn't drop this during the first few chapters.
I was looking for an omegaverse to read and I came across this again, so I got curious after I saw all the messages. Honestly? I remembered this being a lot sweeter. I don't know if it's that I'm older now or if it's that my standards for stories have grown a lot compared to idk 2018 or whenever it is I read this first, but I can't believe I used to consider this one of the best Japanese omegaverses.
And look, the premise has a lot of potential in the right hands. This author's? Not the right hands. At all. You'd need a lot more pages than what you can fit into a single volume to make this work, and you need A LOT of development for the MC to not make him sound like someone who should be on a government list. And to change your interpretation of what happens when a ''fated pair'' meet. For instance, not something sexual. I really do think it's possible to take this questionable story and turn it into something genuinely devastating in all the right ways.
All that being said, I'd much rather read the mock version about them being close in age and fighting like cats and dogs because they can't stand each other. That one seemed more fun than the rest of this manga combined.
It's really so nice to see something this healthy for a change. Like, yeah, there are still all sorts of tropes in it, but they're handled pretty tastefully and the characters always work through their issues together like adults, so their relationship feels pretty realistic. I wish there were more BL webcomics and manga that do this!
This really picked up in the last few arcs! It's a pity that they couldn't fit them into the anime.
This had a very rocky start that made me think that there was no way that I'd end up liking it, and I feel like there wasn't enough time to explore the characters in depth, but it ended up being surprisingly healthy once they actually talked about what they wanted to be to eachother. I really appreciate the lack of communication issues.
This is just my personal opinion, but I wish omegaverse authors stopped making omegas run away from their partners either during or immediately after a pregnancy. At least this time it actually felt like it made sense with the protagonist's personality and his struggles, but using the same conflict twice was overkill.
That aside, I'm impressed by how this author handled the other usual clichés that we find in these type of stories (like the alpha having a past traumatic experience involving an omega in heat driving him towards escapism instead of making him an asshole towards omegas, or the suspected love rival actually just being Some Guy who genuinely admires the omega's career instead of thirsting after him). The characters, for the most part, feel well-rounded and multidimensional. The only thing that this story needed to feel completed was a mating bite scene. I usually wouldn't care that much about whether they mated or not, but there were several times where the characters themselves made it into a big deal and it feels like something's missing after finishing the story with not even a mark as proof that they finally did it.
The mark thing is so true like why talk about doing it once he wins a trophy and then just.. not
OMG WAIT I WAS LOOKING BACK AT COMMENTS AND SOMEONE SAID IT HAPPENED IN CHAPTER 50
I thought the same when I was reading that chapter, but then they show us the back of his neck 6 years later and there's no mark. And then I think that I remember them talking about how they wanted to do it during the extras, but that they were going to wait because of the upcoming surgery and because they wanted to clear it with the doctor first. Maybe the artist forgot to draw it in the scene where Yi-Rim was making his comeback...
Societal change starts with healing generational trauma: a story.
I feel like I was a different person before I read this and now a tiny part of my inner child is happier. I am thankful to this author for spreading such important messages.