I love the idea of this manga, but the execution is really poor.
I LOVE the time skips to show their age, their facial expressions, their love story, their personalities and the route it took with the whole “breaking under the societal pressure” and desperation to meet standards. However, it pissed me off how quick this manga was going and how quick they got back together.
This manga would’ve been so much better if it wasn’t going this quickly and showed more details about Ito’s married life and how unhappy he gradually became as he realised what he did. In manga, his realisation was just out of nowhere and random.
Then when Ito and Nishi meet by chance, they go back to each other too quickly that it just upset me. I hate the whole “I love him so much that I can forgive anything” plot in mangas, because it is just disrespectful to Nishi, who suffered so much, and just harmful thing to show/teach in fiction. Author should’ve spent more time on rebuilding their relationship after such traumatic thing for Nishi.
Their love story had growth in it, but later on that growth just disappeared, so I became so disappointed in the manga. Everyone is saying how realistic it is, but is it really? Because of the quick pace, it feels more like a fairytale and fantasy book where “love always prevails”. And because of this, it just really simplified Nishi’s and Ito’s characters, which are supposed to be complex. It also over-simplified their tragedy and traumatic impact on Nishi.
The love of his life, who he dated and lived with for years, just suddenly throws him away and says that he wants to be “normal”. No matter how strong Nishi could be, there is no way it didn’t leave a scar or resentment. And it is shown that Nishi indeed suffered for years because of what Ito did. It is shown that he still holds resentment in his actions and expressions. But you are telling me that after a flimsy promise he just takes Ito back? You are also telling me that their relationship just went straight to how it was before despite what Ito did? You are telling me Nishi, just out of nowhere, has an absolute faith in the man that abandoned him?
Oh, please. Where is it ‘realistic’?
Love is not a miracle that can cure everything. If it was, the world wouldn’t be such a cruel place and people wouldn’t be suffering so much. This is why the manga quickly became an unrealistic fairytale.
If author actually took their time to write important moments more deeply and in details, I really think this manga would’ve been a masterpiece. I just think that the theme and some moments are too heavy to be in a short manga. It should’ve been longer to do the story (and the theme of it) justice.
But it’s all my opinion and I still think this manga is good, but not a masterpiece as everyone selling it.
I love the idea of this manga, but the execution is really poor.
I LOVE the time skips to show their age, their facial expressions, their love story, their personalities and the route it took with the whole “breaking under the societal pressure” and desperation to meet standards. However, it pissed me off how quick this manga was going and how quick they got back together.
This manga would’ve been so much better if it wasn’t going this quickly and showed more details about Ito’s married life and how unhappy he gradually became as he realised what he did. In manga, his realisation was just out of nowhere and random.
Then when Ito and Nishi meet by chance, they go back to each other too quickly that it just upset me. I hate the whole “I love him so much that I can forgive anything” plot in mangas, because it is just disrespectful to Nishi, who suffered so much, and just harmful thing to show/teach in fiction. Author should’ve spent more time on rebuilding their relationship after such traumatic thing for Nishi.
Their love story had growth in it, but later on that growth just disappeared, so I became so disappointed in the manga. Everyone is saying how realistic it is, but is it really? Because of the quick pace, it feels more like a fairytale and fantasy book where “love always prevails”. And because of this, it just really simplified Nishi’s and Ito’s characters, which are supposed to be complex. It also over-simplified their tragedy and traumatic impact on Nishi.
The love of his life, who he dated and lived with for years, just suddenly throws him away and says that he wants to be “normal”. No matter how strong Nishi could be, there is no way it didn’t leave a scar or resentment. And it is shown that Nishi indeed suffered for years because of what Ito did. It is shown that he still holds resentment in his actions and expressions. But you are telling me that after a flimsy promise he just takes Ito back? You are also telling me that their relationship just went straight to how it was before despite what Ito did? You are telling me Nishi, just out of nowhere, has an absolute faith in the man that abandoned him?
Oh, please. Where is it ‘realistic’?
Love is not a miracle that can cure everything. If it was, the world wouldn’t be such a cruel place and people wouldn’t be suffering so much. This is why the manga quickly became an unrealistic fairytale.
If author actually took their time to write important moments more deeply and in details, I really think this manga would’ve been a masterpiece. I just think that the theme and some moments are too heavy to be in a short manga. It should’ve been longer to do the story (and the theme of it) justice.
But it’s all my opinion and I still think this manga is good, but not a masterpiece as everyone selling it.