
This was a hot googly mess of stress. Not one set of parents were decent. Not one. I'm not even gonna hold it against Yoon and Jung's mom, but the other 4 of them, just into the trash they go. Yoon's father I consider just BARELY recyclable. Characters with horrid backstories that lead to despicable behavior always leave me so mad because I always think of the flipside. What would they be like if they had decent loving parents? That AU side gave me the glimpse I usually have to think up myself and a smiling and chuckling Jung is all I will ever need. He still looked a little melancholy about his unrequited love, but that beautiful man looked like he was living his best life in a healthy way. Ugh, glad I finished it, but this was a rough read for me. I won't say it wasn't good, it was just rough~

It is true that violence breeds violence and that there are consequences to every action. My problem is that the other gang chose violence first when they beat up Ao's father and then chose it again when they kept Asuka and Asahi around to protect themselves by kidnapping Ao and almost raping him. I'm honestly not sure how much talk and negotiating they would be willing to do since it wasn't their first option to begin with. Sometimes violence to breed fear and respect is a necessary thing in the yakuza world, but Ao is not from that world. He and his family are a loving and non-confrontational bunch. They lived like that their whole life. They have no means of protection if things go south especially being herbivore, and you can say well Asuka can help, but yakuza have there own politics and Asuka is still a youngling. Not to mention Asuka is really from the next town over. This isn't really even his turf, he could honestly really be starting a war that his family may or may not be able to finish seeing as they are just getting back on their feet really. It's a shitty situation either way. I don't find Ao annoying though, the author really has them between a rock and a hard place and I'm not really sure what they want the answer hereto be: Having Asuka find alternative non-violent ways to deal with the opposing gang, or having Ao realize that if he wants to be with Asuka violence as a means for protection isn't violence for violence sake.

This whole male dorm is wholesome as hell. Like every single friend is supportive and cool. They like to tease, but keep it light. I find it funny, but love how they all really attended the male x male lesson Miya gave even though most of them are hetero. That they left with understanding, but that again no one made rude marks or comments. Hell! Even the other school that was at the camp with them were nice and accepting. This whole story is a vibe and ride I am here for~

-I happen to like the art. Both seme and uke gave off a wild feel when upset or irritated, and I loved that. Their overall demeanor was very sharp and rough, but the contrast of the crying and blush faces made things cute.
-The overall story left left alot to be desired, but I like how the character were portrayed to a certain extent. I loved how I felt the sporadic up and down of their emotions and actions as they are still young and don't have complete control of them yet. They have to be about 19-24 years old, and though we hold people around that age accountable for there decisions and actions as "adults", if you been that age or are that age you know that you didn't really feel to much more adult like or mature then when you were in high school. Emotion still run high, and wrong decisions and action can be made in a snap around that age still and that literally is apart of growing up. The uke antagonzing the seme to get his way about him returning to judo, the seme in high emotion daring him blow him if he lost. The uke once again antagonizing and goading the seme to just fuxk him, even though he knows it is first time, the seme falling for the antagonization instead of rationalizing after seeing how tight the uke was. The seme being mad at the mobs for talk shit about the uke and in frustrated tapped down anger accidently hurting the opponent. Not wanting the uke to be the center of any gay rumors, so instead of little brushing of question about them being together, he decide to day that a relationship with the uke would be nauseating to make sure to kill that piece of the conversation, not taking into consideration the uke would be hurt. We all know that there were much better way to handle things, but I like the reflection of their immaturity.

I love that the seme was honest about who he was with, even if he didn't clarify where specifically they were going. To many times "who are you with? Or where are you?" is answered with a straight up lie of "No one. Or Work/home." to not worry the partner, only for them to find out a half truth later leading to a misunderstanding. If the uke had actually happened to bump into them, he would have seen exactly what the seme stated, and would maybe just be worried about why they were together only to find out later and be okay to know it was for his birthday, versus the seme telling him I'm going out to a work dinner or home because I'm feeling a bit tired and sick and the uke catching him out during the little birthday surprise with the girl co-worker. Now he has to plead his case about lying, how he wasn't cheating, this, that, and the third. It is such an over used plot driver. Honesty is policy~

They are 5 years apart and didn't even start anything remotely sexual until about 6 months away from the seme being a high school graduate and beginning college student. They were friends before they were teacher and student, and they were teacher and student for a max of like a year!! And let us be honest, if your childhood friend became a teacher at your school and you know you'll be graduating in a year, there is no way you are seeing them in an authoritative light. You are more then likely gonna follow the rules because you respect that they need to be professional at their job and you don't want to make them look bad, but they are definitely not giving you the same feel a normal teacher you know as ONLY a teacher would.
High school graduation age in Japan is 18, meaning the seme was just end of 17 years old beginning 18 years old before they even met up again and the uke was around 22 to 23 years old. What are y'all reaching for? Did anyone see the uke make an inappropriate move on the seme when he was younger? I didn't. There wasn't even the weird clip of the older childhood friend finding he was sexually attracted to the younger one when they were smaller and mastrabating before freaking out and then running away without saying anything. Even if they both realized they had feeling when they were younger, it was cleanly done with the uke exiting with the excuse for college and coming right back when the seme was of approiate age. There is ABSOLUTELY nothing wrong with this age gap. The story was good, compared to a shitload of others. If you don't like it fine, but let's not inflate things that really aren't a problem~

Wait rlly? I thought it contains this manga contains pedo because someone is spreading that it is pedo in the comments. He/she claimed I was supporting pedo but I never did read such thing. He/she is twisting ppls words here.
Basically I made a comment in this manga long long time ago. I even forgot this manga. Then suddenly I received weird comments. Good thing I scrolled down and you have a good summary of the whole plot of the story. Good heavens! I thought I need to surrender to police or smthg.

I am glad the uke is for the hot and cold mess because I am not~ lol I am seeing the character development, but the hot and cold responses and actions are giving me whiplash.

Agreed. I know it's stemming from something past related, but honestly if I was in the ukes place I would not be able to handle it. The uke is already dealing with trying to change ideals to fit into the law firm and figure out how he can help his sister and nephews who may be in a dangerous situation with an abuser. Then to have a person who every other turn is making me frustrated, elated, sad, happy, mad, and then glad I would be besided myself. Especially throwing all this sexual tension my way. I would have straight up thrown my cards on the table like the uke and asked, what is this? Do you like me? And the minute he gave me another hot cold action or response I would have been done. No more romance story. Lol The story would have been a straight Action Drama about how to save my sister. Lol So thank you author-nim for a patient uke because baby the seme needs it.
That walk at the end. Lol Pluto was so pleased with himself.