i'm not worried. our boys' love is strong. it's just making my heart ache that they have to be separated... :c
there was nothing i didn't LOVE. instant fave. it would also be awesome if suga-sensei got a story of his own. he's kinda hot and a good guy (looking out for takanashi). *^_^*
moving from one phase of life to another can be bittersweet, but change is always inevitable, right? luckily yu yang has the greatest kind of courage there is: love. he treasures himself, his friends and family support him, and he found his forever partner. how can his future not be amazing?? XD
haesoo, do what you gotta do. if he chooses to be with neither boy, i'll be satisfied. he needs to find himself. joowon took him for granted for so long, and i don't know if he deserves to get haesoo after all this time. but y'know, personally, i think taku has more mature attributes, and i think his intentions are more genuine. but honestly, i don't mind either way, as long as the author shows us (with good proof) that haesoo will be happy and treasured.
hara is pretty damn dumb, but ume is dumb for not valuing himself more. smh this ain't love, man.
damn. masa seriously puts the "gentle" in gentleman. what a guy. <3
mama: turn off the protector switch and turn on the man switch!
lmao! you said it, mama. and masa has both switches (that he uses seamlessly).
it would be such a treat if kazuki (katsuki? the translators kind of went back and forth) had a story of his own too. he's so cute!
He belongs in the Seme's Hall of Fame with Kiraide Isasete's Alpha Seme
oh god...as if little sis didn't think they were crazy enough already. her timing is always SO BAD... lmao
generally i am a fan of younger seme x older uke too, so bonus!
BUUUT i need to get this off my chest. oujirou's parents are like the most despicable organisms to slither on this earth. who the hell puts a child out like an old/broken appliance? ever heard of foster
care if you're so inept/incapable as a parent?? honestly i feel so worried for touta. he can't stay with those pricks! they tried to throw him away like trash! i know it's not the focus of the story, but i feel the author was grossly negligent in tying up that subplot. the father's a worthless, soul-less jerk, and the replacement mother is a mindless drone apparently. not to mention oujirou's original mother, who abandoned him. >:( gosh. thank goodness for kindhearted, beautiful people like hare-san. <3 <3
I think that's the beauty of fiction. It tends to replicate the same emotion of being thrown away in its most literal sense. In real life, it would be, as you say, like being kicked out or being taken to foster care. However, in order to show just how cruel it is, this story made it that oujino and his step brother was like literal trash whom their father could throw away. This shows when Oujino simply told his father that he was the broken one and he should treasure his new family instead of making the same mistakes. That is why it also felt lax when the father just apologized to his new family with the promise of teaching them about kisses and hugs.
It may seem negligent but it showed that sense of "brokenness". And the way to "fix" it was confronting the issue instead of "easily throwing it away". Cause you know, it was told in the beginning when they were picking stuff up, people throw away things so easily.
you're quite right: the writer was certainly playing on all the meanings of "broken", "fix", "useful", etc. and taking her message to a very literal sense (almost laughably). i mean i do love the idea of a trash collector/fix-it-guy taking in an unwanted teen. the irony of the garbage guy being cleaner/purer than the rat dad. the idea of discarded or supposedly irreparable items (or people, in this case) finding use or value again. the ideas that "broken" doesn't apply to just inanimate objects, and "fixing" isn't always done with tools (with hare and oujiro "healing" might be more appropriate). all these ideas provide rich tenor to her story...but yeah, the make-up bit with the father and family was just soo rushed and unbelievable. that dude has psychological issues. that was the only unrealistic thing for me. i understand what she was trying to convey, but it just bugged me at the time. i just sometimes get sucked in to a story, and the image of the poor younger brother in a wheelchair (labelled as 'not-working') pierced my heart. i've calmed down since tho XD
thank you for your feedback!
Yeah. Especially since the kid suddenly woke up and things were patched up so easily.