I can understand why this made many people cry. Beautiful art, the tragic death of a friend, and unresolved feelings of guilt are the perfect recipe for an angsty story. But I feel like something is missing. Maybe it's the tangled jumble of emotions in this story that created some kind of distance between me and the events? Or somehow the unrealistically long time it took Nagisa to come to terms with how he truly felt? I know that experiencing attraction toward a friend of the same sex can be very confusing, especially when it's a friend you grew up with and feel jealousy towards. Maybe that's exactly why I feel like not enough was done to untangle these feelings. Also that whole thing with him wanting to suffer via having sex with Kaito was weird.
I can understand why this made many people cry. Beautiful art, the tragic death of a friend, and unresolved feelings of guilt are the perfect recipe for an angsty story. But I feel like something is missing. Maybe it's the tangled jumble of emotions in this story that created some kind of distance between me and the events? Or somehow the unrealistically long time it took Nagisa to come to terms with how he truly felt? I know that experiencing attraction toward a friend of the same sex can be very confusing, especially when it's a friend you grew up with and feel jealousy towards. Maybe that's exactly why I feel like not enough was done to untangle these feelings. Also that whole thing with him wanting to suffer via having sex with Kaito was weird.