Incredibly problematic seme and an uke who just can't catch a freaking break, BUT the plot flowed well, drama is just right, fantastic art style. Highly enjoyable if you just keep reminding yourself that this is only a work of fiction, 5/5 still.
Also it makes a big fuzz on the uke being a child so much that it's starting to feel sus, and then the uke's suddenly drawn literally as a kid on the last extra, no smexy scene tho so at least daz good, but still, why emphasize so much?
The way that I see it is that they’re putting emphasis on it because he’s a young person that feels like he has to act so old and mature all the time. But Sougo wants him to act more his age (which we know is someone in college based on Sougo saying he was thinking he could enroll to be around more people his age). Also I interpreted the last part as basically Sougo healing Haruki’s inner child. Like Sougo loves Haruki so much that it’s healed the parts of himself that he closes off, such as his “childish” needs and desires. Essentially being that Haruki sees anything outside of him being mature as “childish” and Sougo just wants to indulge his “childish” side because he wants him to be genuinely happy. Not because he actually sees him as a child but because Haruki is a young person who’s had to hold so much in and on his shoulders that he just wants him to enjoy himself. Wow sorry for the rant
the artist is fantastic with the expressions and the cast feels animated, however the characters are just too much while not much development occurred, kinda scattered plot, forced lovey dovey dynamic at times (probs bcoz they lack romantic chemistry for me), smut scenes are great tho so at least there's that.
the characters really do act like boys and there's no definite uke/seme dynamic prior to the seggz scene, Still the relationship progressed with romantic chemistry between the couples, comedy was also pulled off well.
All the characters are likeable enough, the main couple might be too lovey dovey at times and the 2nd is kinda off irl becoz of their huge age gap and also the fact that it's basically a friend ending up with their friend's dad. Good plot though, has drama but defi not angsty, enjoyed it a lot.
Royalty trope, plus children at the end for the couple, so win win. Only takedown is that it feels like the author shifted midway? it was going the typical abo route during the first 2 chaps then shifted to full throttle fluff after that; the first seggz was even somewhat disregarded during their 2nd seggz coz the uke was still acting all virginal and the seme also seems to have no recollection of the first encounter, it contrasts his actions from the prev chaps. Anyway, l still really like this so izza 5/5.
just that some plot points are too fast and it ends up consuming the coherence of the story, like the tension between the groups or the sex deal with the main couple- there was not much substance as to why the uke just suddenly stripped and serviced the seme when he said the repercussion is inevitable, like didn't he dislike the attempted rape in the prev chap? Also the issue is not with the seme in the first place, it's with the oyaji so how tf will seme stop that dude if like he said, the oyaji will fight back simply because he likes fighting in general and would practically take any reason to do it? I appreciate that it focused on romance and did in a way that isn't too lovey dovey and gag-inducing however the other essence of the plot suffered for it instead. Solid 4/5 coz of the pretty characters and beautiful artstyle.
a different but cute dynamic, the seme kinda looks like an uke but that doesn't take away from their actual roles, kinda rushed ending tho, and it's open ended? also not much happened on hindsight. The oneshot was just angst disguised in fluffy clothing, might be off-putting too coz of the huge age gap and relationship (distant relative), but then again it was somehow able to pull it off, at least for me.
but prior to that, the dynamic was really more friendly than romantic; also the shift between those lines was really sudden too, like there was absolutely no indicator that the seme regarded the uke romantically nor the uke towards him too, then he just suddenly kissed him because he thought he was cute? And it was love after that? Also the uke's issue was really amped up early on only for it to end up being a petty misunderstanding-- from a phone call no less. It has such beautiful art style tho so there's that.
not much chemistry between the leads for me either. It has good intents storywise, but somehow feels like a first draft, too bad because the humor's good, perhaps author is not used to making romance during the production of this?