Yeah, sure, whatever, this is cool and all, but why can’t a hot yaoi man come rescue ME from my depression house? Not exactly fair
Finally, a BL with sub/dom aesthetic that isn’t abusive and rapey? And the dynamics are unique. I really liked this
Ah nothing like reading batshit yaoi at 5 in the morning
Shiba is just too unrealistically childish and whiny. Didn’t really feel like a love story between two men. Another victim of the dreaded “must make the uke act like a stereotypical anime schoolgirl” syndrome. The senpai literally admitting he doesn’t even see Shiba as an actual man really seals the deal.
I get what youre saying and im not trying to disagree with you. But I think he meant he didn't see Shiba as a man, he just saw Shiba as Shiba in response to his brothers concern of there being difficulties with the both of them being men. Like "other ppl may see us as 2 men but it's just 2 ppl who love each other to me". I admit it did catch me off guard at first when he said that though
Maybe the original version worded it better than the translation, I could be wrong abt all this ofc
The glasses’ guy’s lack of emotion throughout the whole story really kind of took me out of it and made it hard to sympathize/connect with him. I don’t hate characters with limited emotions/expressions, but you have to still give them some kind of charm or personality to make up for that or at least make them interesting, but that didn’t happen here. Couldn’t find myself rooting for these two at all. Felt indifferent by the end
This story is really interesting psychologically, because if you wanted to, you could interpret it in two ways:
1.) The MC really does have superpowers and the other guy’s love was strong enough to be unaffected by it
2.) The MC has severe delusions of grandeur/ mental illness and doesn’t actually have any special powers at all, but has convinced himself (and others) that he does
You can literally view this story in either context and it still works the same. Especially during the divorce scene with his parents, it’s common for little kids to be traumatized by that and make up reasons why they think it’s their fault. The other events happening after “using his power” could have also just been convenient coincidences. Not saying the author meant to do that, but it’s still a cool observation.