
I have this odd theory or idea that the mother thought she was going to be unable to have children or married with a previous child from another marriage, and that was Never co. And then she either treasured Will because he was her "real" child, or reminded her the most of her late dead husband. It would make sense that that was why she was so nice to Nico until Will was born. Or she is just a witch with a b. Either or.

That also makes sense... Though no matter how much I rationalize the why, I still can't wrap my head around the mother's behavior being acceptable, even among the whole incestish thing. I mean, they were young and she went away overboard.
I Think we can also all relate to favoritism and neglect and how much it sucks so I think this concept really makes us (me, if no one else) get riled up. Totally agree though, she totes sees nico as a rival in her unhealthy attachment to Will.

I wanted to like it--but there wasn't a lead up, no initial "maybe"attraction. And I begun to hate the seme because he was one step away from using physical (not just rape) violence to get his rape-y sex. And for something this short, there wasn't any humor involved (like, I just slept with my annoying Koufax! Sort of stuff) *sigh* I just couldn't get into it at all, and this is from someone who has read a lot of "sex before love" sort of genres--except in those instances, the uke normally has some sort of initial attraction or something for the seme. Maybe if the story was elongated, and the uke able to build up his feelings along with his hatred and huge pride, and then less freaky ass seme....but no. it annoyed me that seme forces himself on him and then afterwards he acts all romantic and innocent and naive. I love split/twisted personalities, I love yaoi, I am a very understanding person...but rather than saying I hate it, it more just really annoyed me. Sad, cuz I loved the rooftop manga and some other of the mangaka's work ):

I feel like the more sasaki recovers his memories of the past and connects with them, that the plot begins to make more sense. I was totally lost before with so many characters I didn't even know but expected to know. But the more encounters in :Re that make a connection to kaneki, are when the story begins to stop, pause, and begin to decide to make some more sense, lol

Love this manga, but I might have got this confused with another manga because I kept thinking he was going to move out after chapter 4 and go and become an actor to be independent and the he and his brother would meet again when they were older as an actor in one of his brothers dramas. UGH why can't I remember the name of the other manga? Help!!
I love how the main character is like a fan girl and the friend/"holy maiden" is like the central character playing out in real life the plot of an otome game.