
This is a shit way to end the manga. Like so many loose ends. Did Hozumi really never talk to his dad about his issues? Does Hozumi learn to be less obsessive about his BF and do they both learn how to communicate? Does the mom come back into the picture, and can that bitch get what’s coming for her?

Agreed. I feel like Hozumi's mom got a pass for abandoning her child for a man, and Hozumi although clearly hurt by that rationalized it away in the end by saying he would do anything as well to be with the person he loves too. Like huh? She couldnt be a mom AND a girlfriend at the same time? And how hozumi treated the best friend made me instantly dislike him, took alongtime for him to grow on me for that alone. That little bit of drama tension with the dad almost seems random since there was Zero follow thru with that plot point.

That was so unsatisfying and anti-climatic.
I felt like the problem of the mom was NOT solved, and instead we have Hozumi actually accepting that he’s like his abusive mother AND LIKING IT. The mom’s excused for her neglectful and child-abusing actions because ‘she was in love, and when you’re in love you can give up all morality and responsibilities to be with your lover’. And Hozumi finds that FUCKING ADMIRABLE and WANTS TO DO THE SAME.
We were about to have major character growth, in the form of Hozumi maybe not being so clingy and possessive (not healthy) and developing some awareness of a life outside of his lover (he’s in fucking high school for god’s sake, he has his whole life ahead of him) and maybe him reconciling with his dad or at least like confronting him. But no, we have this weak ass ‘oh I understand my shitty mom now and I’m going to follow in her footsteps and be a shitty person myself, now let’s go on a date and fuck my bf and ignore everything despite being fucking unhealthily obsessed with my BF.
I’m so pissed. The mom problem was set up so well, and the letdown is immense. I get that this is supposed to be all fluffy and such, but Hozumi was on the road to becoming a better person and instead goddamn regressed. I’m so disappointed.

I’m rereading the first story, and now that I’m taking a step back, dude the Male Lead was super creepy.
Falling in love with a guy immediately, and not taking a ‘no’ and not respecting the MC’s boundaries. I mean, he kept messaging the MC over and over again, even though the MC made his intentions clear that he wasn’t interested and didn’t respond to the ML’s constant texts. The ML ruined the MC’s attempt to connect with another guy, and also just took him straight home and came in with the MC too.
I know it’s supposed to be construed as ‘oh wow how romantic this ML is’, but what if the MC really wasn’t interested? What if the MC was you, and someone you don’t have a romantic interest in and barely know outside of a professional capacity kept pursuing you regardless of your own feelings? To the point of sabotaging your other romantic interests and barging In in your own home?
Dang, in a manga, this is cute. In RL, I’d be freaked the fuck out.
FucK WHY IS THIS SO WHOLESOME?
R I G H T ?! (/ToT)/~♡*