It's the best fucking thing I've read in a while. It was so real and paced so well. The novel is sooo worth it. The ending is beautiful! The indecisiveness and the struggle to know when to take the next step is not as easy as they show us in movies and stories. This story reflected that..it's hard to let go of fantasies and the image that we build of people in our head, but it's not impossible. Hirose did it so anyone could. I think the novel made me understand him better than the manhwa where he just comes across plain. I related to matsuoka many times; the overthinking and all the masking that he does to avoid getting hurt. It was brilliant
I read till chap 26 both the raws and the the r15 one and I don't know but the intention of both of them just doesn't feel genuine, I've read worse but if you are going to write something controversial then you should do it right. The uke just seems creepy right from the start and seme just too young to understand anything.