
Fantasy-royalty BL with an interesting plot? oh we are so back.
I missed these kinds of BL. usually japanese BL has this setting so this is a pleasant surprise.
But also, I kinda wished the ml is a littlee mean/cold. just a little. He seems too trusting for a prince in the middle of a war. I mean, courting a suspected assassin you just met?. I hoped there’d be more build up to it.
I feel like scarlet beriko often doesn’t know how to end a story. Most of her other stories are plot with ‘normal’ people so it even if the resolution is average, its still good.
but this story about yakuza has so much tension just to have a flat conclusion.
I read this bcs of the sequel about the son, why rogi did that? how bad their falling out was that he’s willing to do something so terrible to the son of the man he loved but in the end its really just nothing? like, you’re the one who left but now you’re raping the son who you used to see as a baby for what? his reason doesn’t make sense and it felt like the author just wanted to move past that plot point bcs the author when writing this story suddenly isnt willing to make rogi and the dad has THAT much conflict. like scarlet beriko wrote rogi in the sequel as someone who’s willing to do anything bad to get what he wants but now in jealousy,she aren’t willing to make rogi THAT bad of a character to make this story’s villain look vile. in the end the characters just fell flat. take shigure from fruit basket for example of a bad person but still understandable and complex.
tldr: the son and wife deserve to kill rogi and the dad
I hate that in the end they decided to put a heartwarming scene between akitora and his son too as if he wasn’t neglectful the whole time. he dont give a fuck abt his son lmao. rogi apologised for what he did(raping his son) and akitora didn’t even bother to ask what he did. just dismissed it by saying yakuza is yakuza and what rogi did turn his son into a better man tf? no, your son became a better man not bcs of rogi but his lover/himself. even asoda is more like a father to him
Sorry it was meant to be an upvote!!