this chapter had my eyes welling up. i felt so sorry for maki. you're right...the issue isn't solved, and most couples would actually talk this out.
I completely agree with you. I felt dissatisfied when I finished that chapter, because what I thought would have been romantic and a growing relationship stopped right there when they could not be equal.
I understand Maki might have been the type of person who liked bottom only, and I had nothing wrong with him wanting to stay in that position. But I didn't feel like Maki actually preferred the bottom ("female") position but more it was forced onto him like you said. As they say, you can't dis it until you try it, and Maki has not tried top ("male") position in sex so he has nothing to compare to, so I don't understand how he can only like the bottom position.
Oh well, the story was nice, but I would love to see them in a more equal standing then what was given.
Completely agree! very well stated!
Not to be rude or anything but I just wanna say that ink otakus would take the time to wrote this n read it BTW I agree with u
There's a reason why even though most of us agree that the story is good and sweet, we still feel dissatisfied, and that is because the "conflict" was not resolved satisfactorily, if at all. The issue for a lot of us is the question of "equality" in a romantic relationship. The mangaka tried to sell it at the end as if Maki "realized" he liked being the bottom and that he only felt pressured by others to lose his penile virginity; but what was actually conveyed to most of us is that, naturally, as any normal teenager would, Maki really wanted the equal opportunity to make love (penetrate) Miyashita; it is completely normal for a teenager to want to experience that type of sex, and instead of granting his loved one's request, Miyashita acted (very non-apologetically) selfishly. Miyashita didn't even seriously consider his loved one's wishes, he shut down the possibility from the start; and at the end, Maki did not "recognize" that he really liked being the bottom, but more like he had to **Resign** himself and submitted to Miyashita's will (selfishness), and that type of **unwilling** subordination in a relationship is actually anti-romantic, because, again, it shows the relationship is inequitable and Miyashita is not willing to sacrifice for his loved one, but Maki is.
I think that it would have been romantically satisfying if Miyashita would have given serious consideration to his loved one's wishes, and should have sincerely tried, even if at the end he wouldn't have been able to go through with it; if he would have conveyed sincerity, I'm sure that Maki would have been touched by it, and so would have the readers. Ultimately, the right thing to do would have been for Miyashita to give up his anal virginity to Maki, and simultaneously, allow Maki to lose his penile virginity, even if it had been only once, or even if they only do it once in a blue moon; but to shut down his partner's wishes without sincerely taking them into consideration is a direct stab at the heart of romance; and this is why we are left with a feeling of dissatisfaction. What started as very romantic, fizzled at the end.