I feel like the romance for this wasn't as realistic as people say bc honestly a man that's such a catch like uke with such high EQ was eventually gonna fine another love. Irl, the chances that someone rlly waits for someone without falling in love again or settling down at least is rlly low. I dont believ the seme didnt develop some emotions for ex wife but the author forced uke to remain emotionless besides sex for plots sake(even tho hes such an emotional person and it doesnt fit his character!).
Honestly I think the author set up that traveling reunion scene was rlly almost fantasy. Irl, when u make a mistake for not just one year or two years and but more than a decade and finally admit that mistake, u don't turn around and everything returns to normal within 5 secs bc someone waited for u. That's wishful thinking. Esp at that time, uke was 36 years old. At that age, how many people have the courage to go back to a newly divorced ex(eho has proven he can leave u at the drop of hat for a women and return to his "straight" life at any moment. For this manga to work, they let seme mature and "learn" but uke somehow remained the same for all those years and never loved anyone else, remained courageous enough to restart the relationship, and still believed the seme wouldnt repeat the same thing? A fantasy. Another fantasy is how seme never had a child despite being married for years. I guess that would have broke the romance angle and made seme more scum or maybe the reunion wouldnt have happened since seme wouldve felt tied down by the child. How convenient for the story. I think the reason this manga got such a high score in the end is bc of the ending. The author was smart to include a lifetime setting otherwise if it was just that unrealistic reunion with scumbag seme the ratings would be in the trenches.
I would have prefered two options. It would have been more realistic if the story showed the reunion scene, but seme witnesses the uke traveling with his lover. To show, yes seme turned around, but by the time he turned around, ukes line had deviated. Everything does not just fall into place and there is no two people that are meant to be in this world. Everything is the result one ones own choices, their characters, and no line can make everything magically fall into place. This is more realistic. Or add a chapter and have uke have a happy relationship that ends due to various reasons. Then when they meet again, he just happens to be single and after seme explaining and apologizing, he agrees to give seme a chance due to the fact that they were first loves and theres sentiment, not bc he had been waiting for seme all that time(emotionally). Thats nonsense. People are emotional creatures and this emotion does not magically only apply to one person, even those people with decades of unrequited love have times when they have crushes on other people or get the urge to give up and settle down with someone suitable. Esp when the object of that affection is someone u literally have not seen in almost a decade so there is nothing but memories for the affection to rely on. I don't doubt uke loved seme, but u can love more than one person. That's more realistic. Or did seme not love his ex wife? 8 Years and he didn't love her? OK.
Also have them show in more than one small panel the consequences of seme leaving, uke changes, them having to adapt and fall in love again. That's realistic. Everything just going back to the way it was showed no growth and it was hard for me to relate to anything that was happening. But like I said, I get why people like the full lifetime angle and why the rating is high, just sharing other thoughts. More Mangas should show old age and death.
I feel like the romance for this wasn't as realistic as people say bc honestly a man that's such a catch like uke with such high EQ was eventually gonna fine another love. Irl, the chances that someone rlly waits for someone without falling in love again or settling down at least is rlly low. I dont believ the seme didnt develop some emotions for ex wife but the author forced uke to remain emotionless besides sex for plots sake(even tho hes such an emotional person and it doesnt fit his character!).
Honestly I think the author set up that traveling reunion scene was rlly almost fantasy. Irl, when u make a mistake for not just one year or two years and but more than a decade and finally admit that mistake, u don't turn around and everything returns to normal within 5 secs bc someone waited for u. That's wishful thinking. Esp at that time, uke was 36 years old. At that age, how many people have the courage to go back to a newly divorced ex(eho has proven he can leave u at the drop of hat for a women and return to his "straight" life at any moment. For this manga to work, they let seme mature and "learn" but uke somehow remained the same for all those years and never loved anyone else, remained courageous enough to restart the relationship, and still believed the seme wouldnt repeat the same thing? A fantasy. Another fantasy is how seme never had a child despite being married for years. I guess that would have broke the romance angle and made seme more scum or maybe the reunion wouldnt have happened since seme wouldve felt tied down by the child. How convenient for the story. I think the reason this manga got such a high score in the end is bc of the ending. The author was smart to include a lifetime setting otherwise if it was just that unrealistic reunion with scumbag seme the ratings would be in the trenches.
I would have prefered two options. It would have been more realistic if the story showed the reunion scene, but seme witnesses the uke traveling with his lover. To show, yes seme turned around, but by the time he turned around, ukes line had deviated. Everything does not just fall into place and there is no two people that are meant to be in this world. Everything is the result one ones own choices, their characters, and no line can make everything magically fall into place. This is more realistic. Or add a chapter and have uke have a happy relationship that ends due to various reasons. Then when they meet again, he just happens to be single and after seme explaining and apologizing, he agrees to give seme a chance due to the fact that they were first loves and theres sentiment, not bc he had been waiting for seme all that time(emotionally). Thats nonsense. People are emotional creatures and this emotion does not magically only apply to one person, even those people with decades of unrequited love have times when they have crushes on other people or get the urge to give up and settle down with someone suitable. Esp when the object of that affection is someone u literally have not seen in almost a decade so there is nothing but memories for the affection to rely on. I don't doubt uke loved seme, but u can love more than one person. That's more realistic. Or did seme not love his ex wife? 8 Years and he didn't love her? OK.
Also have them show in more than one small panel the consequences of seme leaving, uke changes, them having to adapt and fall in love again. That's realistic. Everything just going back to the way it was showed no growth and it was hard for me to relate to anything that was happening. But like I said, I get why people like the full lifetime angle and why the rating is high, just sharing other thoughts. More Mangas should show old age and death.