Wow, you just took the words out of my mouth. I was thinking that too! I mean, they are good together. But I totally love to see just 2 bro’s being friends without any hindrance that one likes guys.
I was reading a BL manga I had lend from a friend but I only read the first vol of it, but it really gave me the same vibes as this one. It’s basically about a guy that transfers to a new school and meets a loner, who’s a loner because rumors of being gay. But rather than shying away from the loner, he gets more interested in him. I only read the first vol so I don’t know if they end up being a couple or just support each other without the hindrance that one likes guys.
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yep, i think the same. I would really like if they remain as friends, and Yamato moving on of his crush and finding a new love
i mean.. yamoto does have friends like that too, like Seki. The thing is, this is a romance series, it makes more sense that the two characters the series focus more on end up being the couple in the end. If the story is told from Seki’s point of view, it would have been a friendship series I guess.
Also, this series already started out with Yamoto falling for a straight guy, not working out and moving on... it would seen odd if the next romantic interest turn out to be another straight guy that didnt work out and he had to move on from.
idk about manga, but manhwa and manhua have a lot of gay MCs with supportive male friends, e.g. Here U Are, For Your Love, Starting With a Lie. Always a sucker for healthy friendships in my comics <3
Thing is, those friends were never set up as love interests from the outset though.
Only one I know where the "I'm pining over my straight friend but I'll get with someone else" plan has a happily ever after is Playtime With Hakdo, iirc.
Yes you're right. I don't see the reason that gay guy need good friend very convincing. Yamato already have very good friends. Yuiji is special.
Haha, yeah, that's why I said I "hope" they remain friends and not I "think" they'll remain friends, since it definitely seems like the manga is building up to them becoming a couple.
That being said, despite the fact that this manga is literally called "Love Story," the romance aspect of it wasn't what got me so invested in the story. There's tons of BL about boys falling in love with their male friends and those friends eventually loving them back. What I enjoyed most was the focus on Yamato's desire for company and for his male peers to understand and accept him despite the stigma of his sexuality and Yuiji's role in fulfilling that desire. I felt like that was pretty unique. I don't think I've ever read or heard of a BL manga that chooses to explore the social/emotional struggles of a gay man as its main plot, rather than his love life, and I really would like to see that done at least once, even if it's not this manga that does it.
That's fair. I suppose I'm just tired (speaking as an aro/ace person) of seeing special, good quality, emotionally intimate relationships that go beyond typical friendship and having authors and fans insist that two people must be romantically involved to maintain that level of closeness. Makes me wish that life-changing friendship-type relationships could get just a little bit more love and representation from people.
I have to disagree. No disrespect to your opinion. Yes, there are thousands of bl mangas out there. But, if you're really talking about a nuanced, realistic mangas depicting same sex love, Japanese manga or manwa is definitely not the place. There are quite few works that are more lgbt representative, but majority are thematic to appeal to female readers. And hardly there is focus on real life problems, or human like characters or arcs. In that thousands 95% you can just draw different faces and basically all have same stories. It's just checking off the boxes. But I'm so lucky to stumble upon this manga I've been dying to see two just very normal boys falling in love, without any of the ukeseme trope, a love rival, a pessimistic naive uke, more feminine uke tropes, one being more assertive aware n all that. It's not for lgbt but this, this is a gem. Yuiji n Yamato will be a power couple. So far she didn't stereotype both of them into fitting any of the themes of bl/shonen. And I hope she never changes Yuiji or Yamato to fit those characteristics. I love them as real humans. But falling in love ? Why shouldn't they? I don't quote any this niche for showing others about homosexual love, there are like movies made out there like cmbyn, love Simon, or old guard things like that. Not stuff like a guy like you or bj Alex or anything because it's too detached from real life interaction but this I will recommend. It's very natural n not forced. Everyone needs a special well crafted love story like this. I strongly recommend you to search jackverglas on Tumblr and read their posts. Will definitely give you a new perspective. I think it's uplifting n inspiring to see how their will bloom into something more than friendship. The way they are it'd be odd if one of them didn't feel that way. Also there's lot of hidden suspense n Yuijis pov is not shown. So when the pieces come together it will make sense.
i totally agreed with you u.u!
I realize that this is probably a very unpopular opinion, but I hope that Yuiji and Yamato remain as friends. Do I think they'd make a good couple? Absolutely. Do I want Yamato to be happy no matter what? Hell yeah. But just once, I'd like to read a shounen-ai or yaoi where a gay man manages to have a close, supportive friendship with another guy that doesn't become romantic while he goes on to find love with someone else. Homosexual people need good friends too, not just love interests. But I think I'll be okay with whatever happens. In the meantime, does anybody happen to know any manga that's like what I described?