mochidays's manga / #yaoi(417)

this was SOOOO cute. i love. so freaking cute!!! i love how the two of them got tg.

A lot of people dislike this one because the main character can overlook a lot of the bad traits of his love interest, but I actually find this to be a pretty realistic story. The stories were characters. Don’t make pretty big mistakes and a partner just breaks up with them is usually not what happens when people go through tough periods. They probably stay with that partner if they truly love them this story felt very human and it was funny, enjoyable, and the art was beautiful. There’s not much criticism I have for the story other than they left some places for loose ends. It seemed like they introduced some things to add more to the plot and then they just forgot they mentioned it, which kind of ticked me off like one of the main characters was insinuated to have a love interest, but that never actually happened and we never saw that come to fruition at all and there’s no authors note to talk about a spinoff so that was a little frustrating and there were some insinuations that one of the characters could see things spiritually, and I have an inkling about who that character was, but I just wish we got some answers for these statements that were put out there Ultimately, I did really enjoy this one, but it could have been better so it’s not in my top 10, but I definitely would’ve read it all over again.

i’m the type of person who’s rarely disappointed by the endings of these kinds of stories. a lot of the time, people find them a bit abrupt, but i usually try to see the positives in most of what i read here. that said, for a story as good as this one, i wish the last two chapters had been stretched into maybe four. for example, the scene where the main antagonist essentially becomes immobile and brain-dead didn’t get much emphasis—it felt like a quick way to wrap things up. i wish we’d seen him spiral more over the realization that he ruined his own life, pushed away one of the few people who truly cared about him, and hurt that person deeply. showing him reflecting on his actions would have made his downfall more satisfying. instead, it felt like it was swept under the rug. i also wish we’d gotten more of them together afterward—maybe a flash-forward or something beyond just them moving in together, since they’d already been living together. while i’m glad everything was forgiven between them, the ending just didn’t sit right with me. overall though, i really enjoyed the story. it was such a good read—entertaining, beautifully drawn, and the intimate scenes were great. it’s just that the ending felt underwhelming. if the final two chapters had been expanded into four, i think it would have been much better. still, it is what it is.

this story was so cute. The art was beautiful. The intimacy was worth the way just all of it was so great for such a great short story. I wish we got to see more of them. I wish there was more of a buildup. I just wish this was longer because it was so good but nothing was missing. It was done perfectly well I’m just greedy and I wish there was more to this because I love them so much.

this was so cute and so fun to read this one took me a bit longer than usual because I was traveling, but it was genuinely such a freaking good read. It was super entertaining and super fluffy. I wish that some of the more mature stuff got translated, but ultimately it was super fun to read and I would recommend this to anyone who wants a fluffy story just super really well done and very enjoyable also, the art was very pretty.

this was quite the read. i really enjoyed the overall message of this one, and the title being form of sympathy was very fitting. we ultimately got to see that the reason why it was titled that was because the love they were experiencing between the two of them blossomed in the form of sympathy. the two characters both experienced different variations of how they defined the word love, went through trials and tribulations, and ultimately found love—initially in the form of sympathy for one another. i just think that was really well done. i like that the characters are both insanely flawed and at times very difficult to enjoy. i remember reading this and feeling so frustrated, like screaming at my phone because i wanted a different outcome and the choices they were making were frustrating me. but ultimately that’s what makes it feel very human. both of them are very flawed, maybe some more than others, but they come together in the end and the story blossoms into something so beautiful. i also love that yuri is a bit crazy. i always love them a bit crazy, so that was enjoyable. ultimately, this was a really good read.

what I really enjoyed about this one was that the stories plot was said in the Midwest during like the Cowboys era which I thought was super interesting and not something you see all the time I initially didn’t read a different story because it was in black-and-white so for me to have read this entire thing, even though it is in black-and-white goes to show how good this one is I love how in the end the plot twist was that he actually was the man the entire time which I think just made the story just that much better the romance between the two main characters is really well done and ultimately I really enjoyed this read. I just wish there was color since I always prefer colors with these stories, but it was really good.

what i really enjoyed about the story was that the character was very flawed. the male love interest was a very flawed person, and we got to see how his relationship with himself and with his partners was able to change because of the main character. at first, it’s really hard to empathize with him because we see him in a very negative light—someone who’s always telling his partners that he cannot love them. he can give them everything, but he cannot give them love. over time we learn this is because he had a very rough childhood and feels unlovable because of it. he believes that if the person he’s with isn’t happy, it’s better to let them go rather than force them to stay with him. so it’s like a coping mechanism for him to never love them. then comes the main character, who shows him that he is worthy of love. the two of them have a very big age gap, but they handle it really well, and ultimately they are very cute. i’m also a sucker for when the top is shorter than the bottom, because you don’t get to see that a lot, so it was a really cute dynamic. the top was older—which is rare—and also shorter—which is rare too—so i had a lot of fun with that. i really enjoyed the author’s points. it was funny at times, it was serious at times, and i just really enjoyed this one. it was really good.

when i first started this, i was honestly kind of put off by how the story began. the fact that the main character was still a minor at the start and the male lead just pulled up, decided this kid should live with him, and expected trust right away felt so strange. for like the first 40 chapters i really couldn’t figure out the direction of the plot or what was actually going on. but honestly… the story turned out to be really fucking good. the art at the beginning felt amateur, you could tell the artist was uncomfortable with certain poses and the lighting wasn’t very advanced. but then halfway through season two i was like wow—the art started to improve so much. by season three and the epilogue it was gorgeous. the growth in both the art and the storytelling was phenomenal. what i really appreciated about this story is how it handled the age gap dynamic. the younger person was actually treated like someone younger, instead of being written as if they were the same age. usually in these stories the older character ends up acting immature or dismissing the younger one, but here the older partner actually acted mature, acknowledged the weirdness of their situation, and treated the dynamic with care. another thing i loved was the rare inclusion of adoption in korea to signify marriage. since gay marriage isn’t legal, a lot of same-sex couples have gone the adoption route so they could be considered family. i think it’s such an important and realistic detail that should show up more in stories, because it highlights the genuine struggles of being in a same-sex relationship and navigating the legal side of it. overall, i fucking loved this story. you really get to watch a damaged person grow into someone completely different, and the execution was amazing. is it one of my all-time favorites? probably not. but would i recommend it? absolutely. early on i would’ve rated it like 4/5 because i felt so lost, but by the end it was a solid 5/5. i adored it and i definitely think it’s worth reading.

ok, so everyone gives the male lead a lot of shit—fair enough, because he did have unconsensual sex with the main character. but the thing is, he was very heavily drugged at the time and doesn’t remember it at all. he even goes out of his way to figure out who the main character slept with because he has no memory of it being himself. that’s why it’s hard to fully hate him: yes, it was unconsensual, but he genuinely didn’t know it was happening. a lot of people also dislike the main character because he comes off aloof. it’s not exactly that he’s dumb—he’s actually really smart—it’s more that he’s absent-minded, socially unaware, and a bit naïve. there are plenty of decisions he makes where i was like, “yeah, he’s smart.” after the unconsensual incident, he even researched what he should do, recognized that it was wrong, and acknowledged it as such. but he didn’t hate the male lead for it, since he knew he was drugged. i’ve only read up to season one (since season two isn’t out yet), but i really enjoyed it. i kind of love the trope where one of them is “evil” or a bad person, but has a soft spot for the aloof one who trusts them completely. i especially like the dynamic where the main character calls up the male lead whenever he needs something, and the male lead just does it, even though he’s this big bad wolf type. honestly, i enjoyed this way more than i expected to. i didn’t think i’d like it that much, which is why i didn’t let it sit before reading, but it turned out great. i’ll probably reread the whole thing once it’s finished.