Personal Bias: I prefer Sekaiichi to Junjou...I just could not get over the age gap for some reason so it always bugged me reading it but Sekaiichi? I love it to the moon and stars and back. One of the first mangas to ever get me into Yaois in the first place.
Maybe because it's serialized on a regular magazine or something, but the fact we can't even say it's completed after all these years is very...disheartening
same, i like more sekaiichi but i feel like the author has the relationship between ritsu and takano last
Me too... I first know about JR and like it. But then I got to know the other work of the author which is SH and I like it more. I even dropped JR and didn't read it anymore. It's frustrating but I like Takano more than Usami. Misaki and Usami already got together. While these two is still struggling. It's more enjoying to watch them struggle to be together.
I can understand this and why it'd be more popular but... as a fan that has been following SH for... at least 8 years, enough is enough. I don't mind long serialization, I'm a fan of plenty who have been in the market for years, but compared to SH, they've had GREAT development over the years. I enjoy SH very much and I like the setting as well, but if it wasn't for Yukina and Sho I'd have dropped this long LONG ago. I like Takano but not Ritsu for the most part.
Well this long serialization is because of the magazine too. This magazine is not once a week release. So we have to wait for a really long time for one chapter. If only they released weekly like korean BL...
It's quite unbelievable this is the same mangaka of Junjou Romantica, let me explain why.
Junjou has been ongoing for far longer than SH, it's been 18 years and counting. What surprises me while comparing both is that, even if it took some time, you can CLEARLY see the character development in JR. Misaki is one of the MCs I LOVE the most in the whole BL community! He had a slow but sure development, you can go read chapters 1-2 and compare it to the latest and it's incredible. If you binge read it it's even more obvious! It took a long time but you can actually see/feel the story moving and enjoy it all the while! There was never a drop in content/quality either.
So... what happened with Ritsu? What happened with SH? I don't mean to say SH is bad but... I can't help comparing it to another work of the same mangaka when it's been this frustrating for years.