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Thank you! Couldn't have said it better!
This author is weird like that. Like a remnant of early yaois. Art is great.. But plot is always like that. There was a perfect yakuza father, high-school teacher plot... Then it was ruined in many ways
The first half of this manga had a good setup/premise. But when the Kyo arc starts, it all falls apart and gets weird and strange. That said, I would read the sequel regardless; it was compelling enough to at least admit that. Also, I like that time passes in this and that the characters actually look different after time passes (I'm a big sucker for hairstyle changes).
Now to some head-scratchers.
Isn't Kyo in England? But his roommate is half-Japanese, half-American? And they act like Rin flew to England but it looks/seems like the US? Ugh also, can we stop with the kiss-to-greet crap? Neither Americans nor English do that. Japanese must be shocked when they actually visit these places and that never happens.
Also, you don't start a brand new romantic relationship and then disappear for 6 years and refuse to return. That's just rude and inconsiderate. Normally you'd break up in that circumstance in order to not tie the other person down. Instead, why don't you have a conversation with your partner about the fact that you wanna violate his yaoi hole super bad? At least then, if he's not down with that, you can settle on mutual handjobs or blowjobs or something else satisfying but a little less invasive. >:/
Also please give Rin something to be good at instead of just being cute/innocent and useless. This is bad yaoi trope that needs to go away. Hopefully the sequel fixes this, but I guess we'll never know.