Almost 10 years reading this manga and the plot is not proceeding, still the same "happy alternative family" trope. Guess I'm gonna drop this one ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Why using their English names now of all times?! That shit's so old I couldn't even read nor write at that time (〜￣△￣)〜 for the love of god, use their original names again
Okay, as an Italian girl I can confirm that this manga is very italian like; all the names used are nicknames coming from long names that are being cut. I've never called a friend by their full name unless I was mad at them... so Ale is for Alessia, Diego remains Diego since it's quite short, Simo is for Simone and Lollo (cited at the end of the chapter) is for Lorenzo. Cucca's real name is Veronica (which is generally shortened as Vero).
In this chapter I found a bit of italian slang which, of course, has not been translated well. I'm not accusing the translator of course. For example, at the end of the chapter, when Ale and Simo come back, Cucca thinks: "[... ] the lemonade of the last half hour." This doesn't make any sense unless you are an italian reader: we use the words "limonata" (lemonade) and "limone" (lemon) to say making out, kissing with the tongue. Another word used is decerebrated (lit. decerebrato) which means retarded. Of course it is used as an offense in most cases. There were some more expressions I noticed but I don't remember them at the moment.
Basically I can say that this manga quite depicts the average Italian teenager, from the way of speaking to the way of dressing (Convers or Air Force shoes for example), although I cringed at times since I'm not used to reading Italian manga with characters with Italian names that do Italian things...
The drawing style is very neat and cute, I like it.
If while reading this you have any question or troubles understanding something, feel free to message me, I'll try to answer!
Yuri is a walking red flag
Always has been
Did he really think he teacher with an unrequited love for 10 years would fall in love with him so easily that's some ego fr I could never ☠
Not only that. Yuri is literally grooming the teacher （/TДT)/
Yeah will and forcing it
I'm really glad they started again publishing new chapters, but I feel like the drawing style got worse compared to the beginning... It's more rushed and not very precise
Boring
HOW!!!
I had really huge expectations for this one, since I waited years for it to be finished, but the plot and the characters are quite plain, the bdsm & sub/dom scenes were nothing special... I don't know, I was so bored while reading this that I was this close to drop it. This reading left me nothing, completely empty ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Ohh ok
I also waited for it to be completed but was hasitat because of the art style colours but the story was really good and comforting and the BDSM was also good because the story wasn't just about sex but it had an actual plot not like most bdsm manhwas...so it's 5 stars for me, but of course every one has their opinion
I totally respect your feelings ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ﾉ~
Never understood whether Danny's feelings for Theo are genuinely brother-like ones or if he somehow feels something deeper, but due to their culture he can't express it + he has some sort of internalized homophobia after his brother Gene/Jean left the community for a man... (=・ω・=)
THIS.
His brother doesn't leave the village for a man. He did found a man of his life later, but well...just read the spin off about Gene
Yeah, I also read the prequel Dear Gene once it had been completed. I must say, it was really beautiful as well!
Anyway, with this comment (written some time before the completion of Dear Gene) I wanted to focus about Danny, which seems to be very confused about his feelings, his sexuality maybe(?), and about how the community sees him
I smell homo-bait... You know, just because BL has become more and more popular nowadays ╮(￣▽￣)╭
This close to drop this one.
Started good, I had so many high expectations that crumbled chapter after chapter...
I fucking hate Yuri, he's so toxic, the only good thing about him are his looks... His behavior is so dangerous and I get the chills down my spine knowing that *unfortunately* exist people like him in real life.
Tell me about it… I used to get excited to read the story but Yuri is getting on my nerves ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ I love Yuri I do but this is not a healthy relationship at all he’s suffocating!!