Mimi's manga / #BL(768)

Vol 1 - 3/5: I can't express to you how "no thoughts, head empty" this book left me. I mean, I guess it hasn’t done anything to piss me off but it also hasn’t done anything to make me care. Kind of like I was just moving with the pages mindlessly. Maybe the way Yuusei kept Itsuki at longer than arm's length for as long as he did got annoying pretty fast. But, like, I know Nagisa. She loves her some childhood friends to lovers slow burn yerning high school romance so I knew what I was getting into and I think that's why I'm not that pissed over it... Even though Itsuki's pretty fucking obvious with how he feels. Vol 2 - 2.75/5: Lol, so, like remember when I said in the first volume that nothing about this really pissed me off that much and that the only mildly annoying thing was how Yuusei refused to acknowledge that Itsuki likes him back? That is the only conflict in this book... It is the entire plot... of volume 2. Which means. It has gotten. 1,000% more annoying. I did like how it ended but having Yuusei be super oblivious to Itsuki literally holding up signs that say "I LIKE YOU, TOO! KISS ME YOU IDIOT" and then Yuusei seeing that and going "Interesting. I can't tell him I'm in love with him, though. Better keep my distance" made me so angry because I very much think that's a bad way to do a slow burn. Especially if you're gonna have it expand over two volumes. You’ve done this before, Nagisa. But better! Literally, My Summer of You’s slow burn was basically this BUT BETTER. Volume one could’ve ended the way volume two did but instead of them being all happy and dating and then it ends, volume two could’ve been about them dating but Yuusei’s still a bit insecure about things. He’s been in his head for so long that it’ll take a little while for him to see that Itsuki really does love him, has loved him for years with Itsuki’s help. But it had a pretty cute ending similar to Two Lions in a way so we’re all just buddy-buddy, aren’t we, Nagisa.

What in the God damn did I just read? I had a feeling that S&N would be at the bottom of my list but I didn't know that it would piss me off this much. I trusted you, Nagisa. Update: ... Why did I trust Nagisa? I've only really liked 2 books from her and one of them was above "fine" and the other was average at best. Everything else was either the worst version of what we already wrote or pissed me off to hell and back.

Nagisa??? Are we ok, Nagisa??? Did you loose the fucking plot and finally remembered what you were writing by the end of chapter 4, Nagisa?????? This was probably my 3nd least favorite Nagisa original so far (I'm reading s&n right now and....), but it's fine. I think it had some cute moments and though the slow burn felt really slow it didn't bother me too much. By the end I was feeling a bit mid on this one but I will be rereading it when it finally come out in English. That being said, I got problems: 1). The story and characters felt a bit Junjo Romantica-y to me and I have mixed feelings about that because I've grown to have mix to negative feeling about Junjo Romantica <3. 2). I know I didn't mind the slower burn in this one, but it was mainly the run-around Sora and Kengo were giving each other that just felt pointless to me. 3). The topic of color blindness felt really half-assed. I feel like we only got 1 hint about it when they were talking about space in chapter 2 (I think) and then Nagisa just completely forgot that it was a topic of discussion until chapter 6 where it felt like it was so forced and rushed because she just remembered that was the point. So that bit actually pissed me off... a lot.