I was tearing up during most of this manga - it only stopped when then confessed to each other, and I felt such relief !! It wasn't the first time reading this manga but I wanted to remember the details ...
It's one of the sweetest manga I've ever read - they are both soo sweet, but my favorite is Sensei who I absolutely love !
The story is amazing and I was so happy that they found each other !!
But that Guilford in the last story was one HOT TAMALE ... even if he was a jerk!
The three main characters have struggled throughout great part of their lives with psychological problems, and in the end the one who best got away with it, was the one whom everybody thought needed serious help - the Angel. He found love with the doctor who really understood his problem. But Mine Sensei, though hot as hell, has problems of his own and Reigi, who went to college with the Angel, really needs psychiatric help in my view ...
The Mangaka does not give us an answer to both these characters' problems ...
Reigi collapsed after nearly killing the Angel and Mine Sensei freezes everytime he hears keywords of betrayal, a trauma he carries since the murder of his parents.
I'm really sorry we can't see these characters heal.
I liked the manga but found it a bit dark sometimes, like for instance the one where the guy was gang raped by his ex-boyfriend's friends with HIS approval - honestly, what a scumbag !! - to have him in the end fall for a guy who was one of them ... in doesn't matter to me that the rapist fell in love, he did not tell the truth, even after seeing that the poor guy was traumatized ... and it was one whole year after the horrible event took place !
The one thing that I thought was rather funny, was to see the hot sex between the characters with them calling each other by their honorific title - it IS rather funny ... imagine yourself screaming your significant other's surname during an orgasm - Mr. Johnson! Mr. Gregson ! Miss Green ! etc. etc.
Hehehe ! I just realized this after all this time reading manga, which I love.
Just some cute characteristics of this beautiful Country ... :)
The story about the 17 y.o. guy playing the role of a priest listening to ppl's confession is absolute rubbish !! From all angles, tbh ! It's downright offensive too! The last one is just nasty altogether.
Consider a teacher trying to be caring and to behave in an ethical way toward a student he knows he feels attracted to, but suspects has been bullied and even raped by his brother - in the end the said student is quite the slut, and the doctor who is supposedly giving him some treatment for a sprained ankle he suffered during P.E., is no one but the s.o.b. brother. It was all a plan to seduce the poor teacher, who fell in the trap ! I really didn't like it !
BUT I LOVE IT SOOO MUCH !!!
OMG these two are simply amazing - they're also surprisingly sexy for such incredibly thin guys ... lol
I love how Shinahara thinks and how totally smitten Sensei is by him !! I wish it had twice as many volumes and chapters, this manga is far too short !
I don't know how many times I've read this manga ! I'd love to have more of the Yakuza/teacher and the student he saved bc the teacher is just too hot for words - I can't believe the story ended like that !! The other stories are too cute for words - I think the one I prefer is the one with the older guy with glasses ... he's sooo sweet. I know I'll read this again !
The characters are well developed in their complexity, and even though this is full of comic and ridiculous situations, it is presented with full focus on the characters' emotions. I love Hiroshi, with his insecurities and his daddy complex ! He is honest and serious in his love for Sato-San ! :)
Anybody knows where Japan stands regarding gay marriage and LGBTQI rights ?
I've been thinking about this, bc it's not the first manga I see. where one or more characters are afraid to even walk around hand in hand with their partners ...
The Japanese are super conservative so being Gay is not viewed favorably ┑(￣Д ￣)┍
Gay marriage is also not legal there (〜￣△￣)〜
Only the Gay/lesbian Mangakas are openly ok with it and they also have Nichome street(where all the Gay bars are), it's pretty stupid when you think about it because there is such a large Yaoi/Yuri industry in their magazines and Manga. Baka country,,,
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Baka indeed ! Thanks so much for the info. It is totally weird that a super power like Japan still has those prejudices, but ... I will "respect" their point of view ... *sigh*
Even if by respecting it, will mean so much heartbreak to the LGBTQI Community
I just wish they'd hurry the hell up and join in with the 21st century,,, as you say,, They ARE a superpower and 21st century thinking would be in their best interests.
Gay marriage and adoptions by gay couples has been legal in Canada nation wide (where I live obvs) since 2005
I'm Portuguese and we've had gay marriage since May 17th 2010 and adoptions by gay couples since February 2016 ... but there's still a whole lot of prejudice :(
That's true with many countries still. Such a shame,,, also, there would so many fewer orphans if all countries would adopt to gay couples. (●￣(ｴ)￣●)
You're so right !! Think about those poor babies who had their parents bombed to death in Syria, Afghanistan, etc. How will those children survive and who will take care of them?
Many of them will likely grow up in orphanages and foster care （￣へ￣）
That fucking brother should die a painful death ! All this bc he saw a BDSM session between his parents when he was a kid !! It literally screwed with his mind ... tbh he should undergo psychiatric treatment, his medical credentials taken away, bc the bastard is a sadist of the worst kind !!
There's something deeper that was already wrong with him. Even a kid who sees a traumatizing scene like that normally wouldn't become so abusive to his own brother, and continue it even into adulthood. It's upsetting to see your parents doing that, but not enough to turn you into a sociopath. He wasn't even a little kid when he saw it, he was a teenager. He definitely needs mental health treatment and to have his license revoked.
Oh, and he's probably a pedophile too! If his brother is in high school or maybe college (I can't remember if they said which) at the same time he's completed medical school and is an established doctor at a hospital who has gotten to the position of a department head, that means there's a huge age gap between them, so when he started abusing his younger brother, his brother was probably around 6 years old. This man is one of the most disgusting people I've ever seen in a manga.