every time i think of Nagabe's work my mind instantly darts to Marley & Collette (ch. 4) i miss them so bad ╥﹏╥ i need more of them or else i'll die of heartbreak..
it was fine until the last 2 chapters.. what happened there..
rereading and i'm getting so confused cause the pages are in the wrong order sometimes
of course, i think it could've been written a bit better but i don't feel like he acted in a bad way when he found out Kiumi got assaulted?? It's not like Koh was a total stranger. He was worried for Kiumi but at the same time Shizume probably felt a bit betrayed by Koh. Shizume was very obviously upset and confronted Koh about it. And i feel like it makes sense with who Shizume is as a character too. As for the flashback scene i again feel, yeah, it could've been written a bit better but prior to those events they were still bestfriends. It wouldn't be totally farfetched to assume they'd still be friends as Shizume was also curious about his sexuality and Koh was the only other gay person he knew.
I don't think it was badly written. And i think sometimes you need to think a bit more than just "He was sexually assaulted/his boyfriend was sexually assaulted so he should be furious." Of course he was upset, it was very clear in my opinion. But he also wanted to talk to Koh about it right away.
hoooly fuck what an ending
i'm in SHOCK. OOhhh my goodness what have i just read and why was it so incredible
I left this at chapter one a couple weeks ago cause i wasn't too intrigued at first, come back and read all of it now. I'm stunned
Lord i am not ready for this to be animated cause i'm already seeing a bunch of people on twt deny that there's anything queer about this sure it might not be explicitly BL but please it's as clear as day that there's a bunch of queercoding in this
don't take this as me gatekeeping i'll gnaw out your scapula. I'm incredibly happy it's getting animated and i'm happy more people are gonna see it, just afraid people will ignore the obvious stuff
Dw I get you I feel the same way, I’d feel immense disappointment if the queerness of the manga got lost in the anime. I feel like it’d also make it less interesting. (￣∇￣")
Ngl while the monster clearly has a romantic interest, they’re not actually two guys so even I hesitate to call their relationship queer. Unless nonhuman/human falls under the queer umbrella.
Assuming his "love" meant romantic. Idk what the original Japanese is. Also haven’t caught up so maybe it’s confirmed it is lol
Basically I think any interpretation of this is valid
i mean the way i look at it is its not really the "monster" that has feelings for yoshiki rather its hikarus emmotions unfilltered due to the thing inside him not knowing norms or like how to bottle up things. is my take looking at shit too deeply??
The story is literally a metaphor for internalised homophobia.
"Whatever the genre tag is, and even if this story isn't a romance, as the author, I guarantee that it is a queer story.
There seems to be a persistent false rumor going around that "the author suddenly removed the BL tag from the official website by the 3rd volume," but the truth is that there was never an official BL tag from the beginning. (This is not to deny any queerness.)"
Words of the author from bluesky.
This is literally a bl. Its a horror bl. Yes the romance is just hinted but its still bl/queer literature. Its a yes and no situatuon like killing stalking lol
While “Hikaru” is not human there’s an obvious theme that indicates him as “otherness” to the people around him. This outright horror and unknown nature he shows could be a representation of queer people who are often labeled as ‘abnormal’ and ‘non-human’ in culture as homogeneous and homophobic as Japan, not to mention in rural town too.
Yoshiki’s disgust and fear towards ‘entering’ this “Hikaru’s” insides, and his conflicting emotions towards Hikaru in general gives me the vibe that Yoshiki has some indication of internalized homophobia. Him “entering” Hikaru is also a very good representation of fear and horror of intimacy and sex to me. At least that’s how i understood it.
I LAUVV IT I LAUV ITTT