We Won't Call It Love
I quite liked it, it was short and sweet as well as cutely awkward at times which I feel like romance nowadays doesn't portray but I'd like to think it's more realistic bc irl you probs can feel awkward with your lover at times, to a comfortable extent anyways. I am sad he didn't remain with his ex, his ex really suited him and so did he but ig it wouldn't be fair to his ex because he had someone else on his mind even if he did love him. hmmm I really did like how it showed how you can't choose who you love essentially, but I wouldn;t call this realistic bc I could not with some of the dialogue in here dang nobody is talking like such a sappy romantic as if they're in a movie irl, but tbh this is manga so that's a complain for evth on this site so eh 5/5 I look forward to someone uploading the sequel on here eventually, it came out last yr so I predict it'll be here at some point this yr maybe Their relationship is like how i interpret a lot of mlm ships nowadays, you see people hating on satosugo and jayvik etc bc they interpret them not as lovers but just really good friends, but then you also get people talking abt how it's so obvious they are beyond friends which is why it makes sense to ship them as lovers, in my eyes such ships don't need to be defined as lovers to show their strong bonds, I think of them as soulmates, be it platonically or romantically, it's a stronger bond than most lovers have in media/irl anyways, and if anth I think to label them as lovers/boyfriends is almost too playful for some of the ships this logic could be applied to
Houkago no Etude
VOLUME 4 NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW OMG I NEED IT RNRRNRNRNR this is so much better than healing paradox icl I was hesitant o read this all this time I'm so glad I gave the author's other work a chance this story delves so much more into their emotions and the whole ballet background information is so fun to read, healing paradox focuses more on the relationship itself but not the context surrounding them as much. Wow I love this story, it's super cute and has good pacing, I got a plentiful introduction to each and every side character and I really like the friends they had back in japan, everything has a plentiful explanation/lead up and the romance is well done too. Slight rocky start with not much explanation as to why ichi rocked up minobe's world but they gave plentiful explanation continuously later throughout the story. Everything is so well fleshed out in here and I just love their relationship dynamic and how they're both hard workers and not taking their talent for granted. I wish I had their work ethic wow. I have to say I was shocked how much smut was in this, I expected it to be more like shounen ai but ig there's a reason why this is tagged as yaoi lol. I didn't expect to like the ballet setting so much + rly enjoyed all the little bits after each chapter explaining sth abt ballet, very technical but not too hard to understand bc evths explained! office romance should follow in this story's steps cause smt their jargon is hard to follow
My Suha