Didn't expect the ending to be so good, or the whole story for that matter! One of the cutest couples I've seen in manhwa and definitely my favorite in the shojo genre. Especially Valor being the saint he is and loving her the whole time <3 So glad I got past the beginning when they didn't understand each other and that they got a second chance.
Hold the fuck up. Are you telling me that those dumbass doctors saw a child addicted to opium and instead of weaning him off it kept giving it to him… for TEN YEARS…?! Is this logic? What universe is this? How does exist I? tfw?.. askdhw? *Jackie Chan meme*
Also, sure Chris is crazy and all… but mc knew that from the beginning so after all that the mc saying he doesn’t love him makes him a high key asshole. If you’re going to do that then don’t sleep with him in the first place! ugh (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
lol I know its just a story but this had me so shook.
Bro there is a syndrome called a withdrawal effect.it happens when a long time drug addict suddenly stops taking drugs. His body starts to have certain dangerous effects so they can't suddenly stop taking drugs out of the blue.but they have to gradually lessen the amount of drugs consumed by the addict.it takes a long process .so the doctor is giving him more drugs and treating him by lessening it bit by bit
That’s what weaning is lol
Ive heard of things like this happening though irl tbh
Opium is illegal, so they would give him something like methadone. Look up heroin dependency/methadone clinics.
Not for the feint of heart, that's for DAMN sure. All I want is for the older brother to recover mentally and become happy (even tho I know its not gunna happen) and honestly don't care much about the MC but I lowkey ship his fucked up ass with the nice-ish guy from college cause bruh he needs a nice guy in his life. Also can we PLEASE not go ahead with the plan for the wife to sleep with (rape) the mentally handicapped brother? Please?? The butler... *stress* never mind about him. (￣∇￣")
So that means you are fucked up lolol
Very cute ending. Wish this was longer so it'd be a bit less choppy/ properly paced. Uke went along with his story a little too easily in my opinion with the past life bit and even reading official translations on Lezhin that Chapter 15 was rough/ confusing, maybe translation/ maybe script, idk. Really liked the God character but it skipped past her explanations (the sister bit was weird... Did she kill her and possess her body or hide the body and morph herself to look like her? Why wasn't she just born his sister? I HAVE TO KNOW) and I want to know her roles in past lives. I feel like she was underplayed and used more as a plot device/ narrator than a character, which makes me a bit sad cause she was so cool. I want to know her reasons for being interested in sacrifice/ getting involved for centuries in this. Also holes/ parts that don't make since in the villain's story (and his ending was VERY anticlimactic), but alas, it's over. Don't get me wrong, I still loved it despite all these little critiques. Overall a very good read.
his sister died in a car accident with the rest of his family, later the god of fate disguised themself as his dead sister (and I'm assuming altered his memories a bit so he wouldn't remember) in order to bring the two together. From what I've gathered, they seemed to have been the god of fate that took pity on him and kept reincarnating him with his memories of his past life intact because they were a sucker for a good sacrifice story
U just sum it all up
Kohai: Notice me senpia! *rapes* *blackmails* *treats senpai like trash*
-meanwhile-
Senpai:*into it* Oh yeah, you're an asshole but you're pretty/ possibly good at sex which means I'm in love!! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Oh gosh hahahaha (≧∀≦)
To be fair, he had always had a thing for the seme (since high school.) It wasn’t sex that made him stay.
Gurl I'm talking about back in high school too. You know.. that bit where he shoves his dick forcibly in the ukes mouth without consent? That bit or was it the rape after that? I forget. If I remember correctly he actually says that back in high school he though he might of had feeling because that was his first sexual experience. I could be wrong but I'm not rereading to prove this point lmaoo.
He had a thing for the seme before the sexual experience. He was always looking at him and getting angry because he was always with girls.
Psh, my boii’s a mango. My man’s a coffee with 10 Stevia packets. This sugar daddy is the lov in a Pavlova, and that shit’s sweet.
Ch.15 “bro” dude: whoa what happened to you, did you get mugged?
“best friend”: whoa that shirt… I bought my oppa the same one. *sus*
Best friend over here so obsessed with revenge, talking about ruining his life, for something he WOULD’VE done. Bish he didn’t even do anything to you!! Gdamn. (and u know she woulda done the same in his shoes)
Best friend sees my poor beautiful blonde brokenhearted cinnamon roll: “Geez I just can’t, have some standards.” Girrrrrrl stop. What is wrong with your eyes?
Okay, I read this story two different times and took this story VERY differently both times. The first time I read this, I thought that Harada was out here trying to justify fucking 10 year olds (or however old he was idr).
I got hung up on the lines about a child can love an adult and an adult can love a child but overlooked his friend saying, "but there's a line you can't cross" and also her being absolutely disgusted by her father's poem to a "child-lover" while accepting Yui and aligning herself with him as an "us" v society (bc they're both gay and were just using each other as a convenient normalcy cover from the beginning). I also got hung up on Nii-chan's confused state of "oh but oji-san loves me? why is everyone looking at me with pity? Why is mom punishing me" bit... This isn't justifying that guy having sex with him (that dude was a pedo), it's justifying his love for the oji-san as a naïve child and his memory of that love.
Also the second time I read this I paid a bit more attention to a part where Yui tells his friend nii-chan never had the intention of enacting a "child porno revenge" from the beginning, it was fake, which is why he was acting so stupid and "cowardly" about it. This makes the story MUCH more uh, morally acceptable? than I originally thought. Because its about the idea of a love stemming out of the two main characters meeting when Yui was a child, which is kinda hard to get, in a manga covered in sex and pedophilia. I'd compare it ideologically to the film "Like Sunday, Like Rain" (2014). Furthermore, they weren't really able to have a loving relationship until they were both adults and could put their regrets behind them. Also a final thought, I don't think Nii-chan was a pedo at all, just reliving what happened with that ojisan/ trauma of so many bad things happening to him as a child through those books and pretending like he was going to do the same thing to Yui. When his real intention is even in the very beginning "if this child can purely love me with his heart, then society was wrong at that time". Because from his perspective that oji-san loved him and he wants to justify it because he loved the oji-san, but he never intended to go through with it because he knew in his heart he couldn't cross that line/ which is also why he was so angry afterword (facing the truth of his past)- that and being abandoned again.
Oh, also before Yui knew anything about his past he also thought he was a pedo which is why he was like, "I don't think he loves me, in part, because I grew up" which isn't it and is explained in the bit before Yui rapes Nii-chan.
The characters being unreliable narrators is why I had a different impression the first time I read this.
That, or I'm reading too much into it lmao. sorry to anyone who read all that. Did I even get my thoughts across clearly?
The thought was, "Harada's work is still fucked up, just not as fucked up as I thought".
Wrote a whole g'damn essay on Harada's manga in five minutes and my English paper with two sentences is staring back at me like, "Yeah Bish? You proud of yourself?"
It makes sense.
Harada-sensei is both an amazing writer and someone obsessed with f'd up people in f'd up situations. These situations are rarely if ever portrayed in a good light. This story is no exception.
I can get why people would elect not to read this specific story because of the subject matter, but it is a Harada-sensei story, and it is extremely well-written, and treated with her usual manner of ugly reality regarding the situation. Pedophilia is not glorified here at all, and the individuals involved are shown to be f'd up people, estranged from their families, pill-popping, and with some degree of deranged abusiveness when pushed too hard.
TBH, I was most disturbed at the point where Yui forced himself on Kei, but by then I did realize that, yup, this is Harada-sensei we're talking about, and Yui is not coming through this ordeal unscathed. As he shouldn't. It's really hard to read, but the ugly side of humanity often is. And Harada-sensei never pulls her punches, which is why I respect her so much, and can read any of her works no matter how distasteful the subject matter.
YMMV ofc!