
After reading this I honestly don't know how anyone could support Chika ending up with Hotaka. Hotaka might have had bland personality that "went with the flow" but god is Chika a piece of shit son of a bitch. Hotaka was right to never even consider Chika's feelings, he knew how fickle his friend was entirely inside and out, but who wouldn't be offended when their so rudely cast aside like yesterday's trash. I've never seen such a truly childish manipulative bastard Chika in such a long time in a BL.I mean there's tons but wow he's a special kind of asshole. From start to finish in his relationship with Hotaka, he did nothing but treat Hotaka like an object he could easily throw away and which he very well did. Then has the nerve to blame poor Hotaka for all his decisions in prior actions where he sexually harassed, coerced, and emotionally manipulated Hotaka, with the straw breaking the camel's back of publicly without thought breaking up with Hotaka in front of all of their friends to announce his up coming marriage. Literally what a trash human being. And his self-entitled confession of orchestrating this relationship because he knew he could take advantage of Hotaka, made me sick. At that point i could care less if he even had a shred of unrequited love for Hotaka, because he could choke on it. I'm pretty sure he held onto that manatee figure as a fucking trophy of his influence over Hotaka all this time more than anything when he lied about throwing it away. Hotaka truly cares for his friends made to the point where its unhealthy, I mean he nearly died for Masato during their childhood. Not saying that Hotaka couldn't have said no, because that's really on him, but the way Chika treated Hotaka and Hotaka just bore with him speaks more on how Chika treats someone that he"loves" more so than Hotaka's lack of refusal. Chika really is a disgusting example of manipulative seme's to a T. If you could treat your childhood friend like this, you never deserved him to begin with as anything more. If you can even sympathize with him you should really reevaluate what you consider a healthy relationship because reading BL like this has warped your mind.

What are you saying ?! Chika being the bravest of them all for using hooking up with Hotaka to show him he really loves the latter even if he no theres so little chance in it at all. He knew and can feel theres a special.connection between Hotaka and Masato ... While Hotaka jst keep going w the flow ... Chika is not being manipulative but it is Hotaka for being so passive npt speaking what he truly wants at all !!!! Also Hotaka. If they feel love for each other they shouldve do so Long ago !!! Yes ! Masato used to be married so Hotaka is not thinkng of a possibility w Masato (w/c it nver realy crossed his mind at all) however , he can feel the difference of how he is when he's w Chika and Masato ... Now ... When Chika announce his broke up w Hotaka (not bcoz he is tired of him, as you can clearly fvckng SEE even when he is a kid he is IN LOVE w Hotaka up til that time), whos the manipulative one ? From that we can see Hotaka is affected but instead Masato use that as well as his divorce to make Hotaka say NO at all. And since they know Hotaka ever since, just like Chika, Masato knows he will not decline , right ?!
oh come on ...
Chika is the most hardworking character there !!!! Hello !?!

don't know if anyone's posted about it yet, but there is an animation of this beginning at chapter 10, it cuts out essentially the Seung-Hee and focuses on the other two classmates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwiccnxq394&list=PLg6JKyMc4IwambDiTRYfcnHiAmfTxWuOW

I know kirara didn't want to go on the date and was kind of coerced to but that was so shitty to Irish goodbye Oomaeda like that. Like seriously even if you don't like him don't shit on someone's feelings. That boy is clearly in love with you the least you could do was humour him for one day. Ken treats you like utter shit half the time ans when he says bark you do better and even do tricks and come running, have a backbone Kirara comeon. Ken's wishy washy internizlaed homophobia is just getting old you can't have your cake and eat it too.

The latest chapter Takeru calling Seiichirou for being SCUM is how i feel. Seiichirou blows off Takeru's attempt at understanding Seiichirou's feelings and trying to possibly return them. The boy is giving you the A-OKAY, but nope I don't trust your feelings now is utter bs. It truly makes me mad that characters like Takeru will chase after Seiichirou and Seiichirou will literally do nothing to change Takeru's perception of him as a hedonistic coward. I have no problem at all for sleeping with whomever you want, but it's completely unfair to flash that your laissez faire lifestyle where you just go about your life and are rewarded with zero effort. That your love interest now is the one working for your attention is so standard playboy yaoi trope. Like it's one of the weirdest plot devices in yaoi, because that doesn't exist in real life but its so revered here as romantic. If this happened in real life then Takeru would just have to assume Seiichirou doesn't love him enough to take the risk and just move on, especially when his own feelings are thrown back in his face. Seiichirou will likely do fuck all, and Takeru will beat himself up over gaining the guy's attention. Why is cowardice always rewarded in yaoi, just because you like someone doesn't mean you deserve their affection when you've shown it's a bother to your fragile snowflake heart? Even if you have decided it's not worth the risk, don't belittle someone else's feelings. The kid has way more respect for you than you rightfully deserve. #stop making ukes chase after useless semes

This literally is nothing but rape. If there’s later he agreed to the events in a flashback in future chapters, I’m going to puke. The sunbae waited till he was black out drunk to make a move this is utterly date rape. If Hosik can’t even remember what led up to being in bed, that’s being coerced that’s rape again. There’s no cultural confusion bullshit that excuses this. Why is this even being defended as anything but what it is. Seriously why can’t there ever be just a silly humorous yaoi without something so dark and disgusting taken as a fucking joke. He’s going to fall in love and be happy with the person who raped him and have the man’s baby even if he’d had a crush as some have indicated. The author needs to see the film Room because being repeatedly raped against your will and resulting in a baby isn’t a laughing matter. If you like this sort of plot more power to you, but why is this romantized and then later coo’d upon as sweet and amazing for an “loving” abuser/ victim relationship?
Nonami doesn't cheat, but I never can understand the legitimate reasoning of confessing to someone you so deeply love and then turn around and sleep with someone else in virtually no time. In a situation like this how is doc suppose to feel, especially when Nomani reasons that sleeping with multiple woman is for Doc's safety as yakuza target? Where I have issue with is, does Doc just feel grateful and completely ignores that when he returns Nomani's feelings it will be with the knowledge not even 24 hours ago Nomani was physically intimate with someone else? You can entirely of course separate sex and love hence open relationships, fwb, or even casual hookups. It's mainly the importance of sex in yaoi that makes this separation muddled for me. In yaoi the characters barely say I love you before they consummate their love, so the physical action of sex often times bares more weight than the actual declaration of love. Heck that's why yaoi rape literally is used often to stand in for expressing a character's love for the other. That's why I feel so uneasy when either character sleeping around right after a confession or the knowledge of their feelings being known. It's mainly because they can pass this info and still hold the power in the dynamics of this relationship. Usually it's the person responding to this confession, that holds the cards, but they don't here. Their burdened with this new knowledge now while the previous bearer just does whatever they want and is now the one chased after. Like it's more I had to get this off my chest and I'm good now just going to go fuck someone who's not you, rather then I had to get this off my chest because it was emotionally hurting me. I don't know why but personally it cheapens the confession and especially your resolve to love that individual if you can't even give them time to come to grips with those feelings. It's entirely different if those feelings are refused and two never end up together, but that's not yaoi logic, as the two mc's always have to end up together.e.Even if it's a extensive amount of time, then fair enough that's how real llife works. But because Nomani and doc have sex so quickly since the incident, it devalues Nomani's desire to be solely committed to the other person. Granted people have sex to get over people, I understand that too, but the point of having sex in that situation is precisely to devalue the importance that person has on you emotionally by using a surrogate.This is all solely my opinion of course in this interpretation. I know Nomani is a yakuza so what do I know about the morality and reasoning of his actions, however it's very in character with how I'd expect a man like him. Thought it gives me pause to think that he could very easily cheat on Uzuki in the future for the 'sake of' Uzuki's safety once more or if something were to come between them Nomani would see to resolve it through physical intimacy with someone else. I mean they could come to an arrangement but with Uzuki's personality he'd likely say nothing to keep the peace even should it hurt him. Especially with what I've seen other's commentators have pointed out in Japan's patriarchal society and views on sex/love between men and women, Nomani seems very capable of this.
omg!! this was actually the issue with this book for me. i thought i was the only one
Exactly my thoughts fleshed out.
Nonami's excuse for sleeping around is to protect uzuki??? Bullshit I mean he could just pretend to take them to his home instead of actually sleeping with them. He didn't sleep with the sex worker girl from his bar yet he flirted with her in order to seduce her to take her to his home. He did sleep with the nurse though ...he didn't care about the nurse cuz he didn't even flinched when he introduced her to dangerous yakuza who thought she was uzuki...
The time he had a fourway ??? Did he have sex with them ??? I understand his frustration and the fact that no one has ever loved him and his grandmother hated him ....so he doesn't know how to love someone or deal with rejection and pain of not reaching your beloved he just deal with those feelings by using his bitches...but these things mske his feelings insincere for me