...and I'm still trying to figure out why. It was well written, that's for sure. Showed humans at their finest and their worst. I didn't see that ending coming, not even a little. I'll definitely have to re-read this one. (⊙…⊙ )
Nice seeing an idiotic seme, rather than the same old idiotic uke, once and a while. But, the uke could have had a little more personality than a shrub.
I'm glad the mangaka got this relationship stuff sorted out before Haru Wo Daiteita. The lead characters, Takaaki and Shinkawa are so unsympathetic. Shinkawa was such a horrible human being, I was hoping something would fall from the sky and take him out so Iwaki and Takaaki could hook up. Kenzaki was the only sympathetic character in the whole story [along with Ishii] and he got boned. Ugh, I only finished it because I'd already read eight volumes and had one to go. But, I was groaning in denial all the way to the end. Sadly, this is probably more realistic than most manga but I don't want stark realities in my escapist literature, lol!
Poor kenzaki I feel so bad for him.
But, now, I understand how you can be so insecure that you can hide it in over-confidence. It can be a trap, like the one Yuuji was in. I love that his mind was so able to want Chikao, that it wouldn't give his body any peace. I still have a pet peeve about disloyalty but, in this case, it was easy to see Yuuji was just testing Chikao [tho' there are better ways to confirm a person's love (●￣(ｴ)￣●) ]