The first one, in particular, ended up feeling slightly uncomfortable for me in two ways:
- Although Aki indicated that he liked Kei and Kei reflected that he'd never felt cared for like that, in fact during their first sex it felt like Kei was just super anxious please Aki and so did everything. It would have been OK if it was something the story subsequently worked on and resolved, but instead it felt like what it was trying to convey didn't match what was actually drawn.
- In the final chapter, I don't have an issue with Aki acknowledging that he was still in love with his wife, but I was expecting him to convey that he also loved Kei. Instead, the conversation seemed to switch their relationship from "I'm so into you," to "Do you mind if I take advantage of you and depend on you?" and that felt a bit unpleasant. I'm not sure if there was some nuance in Japanese that was difficult to understand or translate, but it was a slightly bitter note to end on compared to how sweet the two of them had seemed.
Overall, it felt like them getting together in the end was just too rushed, and if more time had been taken, maybe some of these issues could have been straightened out or the actual intention conveyed a bit better. Or, the creator was genuinely going for something a bit more realistic and not fully ideal, and that might be a reasonable choice, but I would be disappointed if that's how their relationship really is now.
Hmm. Both of these stories felt too short.
The first one, in particular, ended up feeling slightly uncomfortable for me in two ways:
- Although Aki indicated that he liked Kei and Kei reflected that he'd never felt cared for like that, in fact during their first sex it felt like Kei was just super anxious please Aki and so did everything. It would have been OK if it was something the story subsequently worked on and resolved, but instead it felt like what it was trying to convey didn't match what was actually drawn.
- In the final chapter, I don't have an issue with Aki acknowledging that he was still in love with his wife, but I was expecting him to convey that he also loved Kei. Instead, the conversation seemed to switch their relationship from "I'm so into you," to "Do you mind if I take advantage of you and depend on you?" and that felt a bit unpleasant. I'm not sure if there was some nuance in Japanese that was difficult to understand or translate, but it was a slightly bitter note to end on compared to how sweet the two of them had seemed.
Overall, it felt like them getting together in the end was just too rushed, and if more time had been taken, maybe some of these issues could have been straightened out or the actual intention conveyed a bit better. Or, the creator was genuinely going for something a bit more realistic and not fully ideal, and that might be a reasonable choice, but I would be disappointed if that's how their relationship really is now.