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I love it, adore the story, grew up with it.
The relationships and characters matured as the time passed, the story became more grounded and healthier, the arguments - more believable, the motivations and goals - realistic.
But
The begining definitely needs a rewriting. From time to time I'll come back and re-read this manga, and you can see that at first the manga was only supposed to be a short about 6 chapters one volume piece but then it grew. You can see a lot of the typical toxic/worrying yaoi tropes in the beginning, from the weird age gap - I know it's "not that big" but there was no reason that it shouldn't have been set in collage instead of highschool.
The beginning of the relationship feels so rushed, but it's most probably due to the aforementioned set up of being just an one volume story.
The weird behaviour of Hazuki towards Naoto where he was angry at him, and being all pissed AT HIM for not sharing his trauma right then and there, I get it you want to help your partner - but to be angry at him instead of consoling him and working it out at his pace was really typical of the early bl.
Regardless you can see that the author matured with the manga, started treating the characters more like actual people rather than comical protagonists fit for melodramatic bl. It is seen through the inclusion in the rest of the story of more thought out characters like Shizuku's friends the teacher pair, and completely forgetting the immature drama inducing ones - like the girl that was the "pair" of Hazuki's at the beginning.
Also the world building around the main pair of Naoto and Hazuki. The fleshing out of seemingly background characters. I loved the side story of Shixuku and her crush and friend the mature way of showing a situation similar to Naotos - of a young omega boy ostricized just for his second gender, and what would've happened if Naoto had a support system of good people around.
You can feel and see the maturing and well rounding of characters throughout the pages, that they actually grow up and despite the occasional fight, which is now resolved a lot more realistically and healthily, stand tall as a beautiful family.
Okay rant over, if anyone even read this - thank you for listening to my Ted talk