Idk. Everyone thinks it’s so cute and harp on about how they communicate and their dynamic or whatever but I don’t see it. Not completely. Even by the last chapter (of vol 2) they both seemed insecure about where they stand with one another. Clearly, they aren’t built for open relationships and (at least aspire to) take monogamy seriously. They get jealous over sex work, so I don’t think they will be ok in the long run if that continues, even though they do love each other. Cheating isn’t taken lightly by the characters, but the mangaka still keeps pushing them in that direction by treating sex work as though it’s cheating. This mangaka likes to keep things open-ended with regard to cheating in a lot of their works, they like that sort of dysfunctional monogamy, which makes me feel really unsatisfied. The seme trains newcomers at the sex shop, he’s willing to service VIPs as a call boy once in a blue moon (including his ex who gave him trauma? smh, idc if he didn’t have sex with him in the end, he was willing to and it felt personal not professional, made worse by how he brushed off the uke when pressed about it). Uke slept with women. When you think about it the seme is sexually involved with more people than the uke by the end (correct me if I’m wrong), though at the same time he seems to be more obsessed about his partner’s faithfulness. The uke’s greatest crime throughout the entire story seems to be the fact that he’s not a 100% pure homosexa, and because of that the seme refuses to properly communicate with him. In the end, it feels like sex work will continue to be a source of contention between them. More so with the seme, since the uke switched jobs in the end and did not work at the brothel. They still have a lot of issues to figure out.
Idk. Everyone thinks it’s so cute and harp on about how they communicate and their dynamic or whatever but I don’t see it. Not completely. Even by the last chapter (of vol 2) they both seemed insecure about where they stand with one another. Clearly, they aren’t built for open relationships and (at least aspire to) take monogamy seriously. They get jealous over sex work, so I don’t think they will be ok in the long run if that continues, even though they do love each other. Cheating isn’t taken lightly by the characters, but the mangaka still keeps pushing them in that direction by treating sex work as though it’s cheating. This mangaka likes to keep things open-ended with regard to cheating in a lot of their works, they like that sort of dysfunctional monogamy, which makes me feel really unsatisfied. The seme trains newcomers at the sex shop, he’s willing to service VIPs as a call boy once in a blue moon (including his ex who gave him trauma? smh, idc if he didn’t have sex with him in the end, he was willing to and it felt personal not professional, made worse by how he brushed off the uke when pressed about it). Uke slept with women. When you think about it the seme is sexually involved with more people than the uke by the end (correct me if I’m wrong), though at the same time he seems to be more obsessed about his partner’s faithfulness. The uke’s greatest crime throughout the entire story seems to be the fact that he’s not a 100% pure homosexa, and because of that the seme refuses to properly communicate with him. In the end, it feels like sex work will continue to be a source of contention between them. More so with the seme, since the uke switched jobs in the end and did not work at the brothel. They still have a lot of issues to figure out.