Mimi's manga / #childhood friends(4)

Cute art style, not really the best of starts when dude literally rapes the other guy by taking advantage of his drunkenness while he slept... Really getting tired of this. I'm also not sure how this is a side story to Motto Musunde, Aite Waya? These characters weren't a part of that story at all so that kind of confused me.

Update: Looking back, I still don't know if I actually want to drop this series. I finished this vol but thought about dropping the series because I didn't like it... but apparently it's still on my mind and I'm thinking about reading vol 2 so idk. - Another book that took me WAY too long to finish. Started reading this in August and didn't finish it til right now (December). It was so boring, there were these weird jump cuts(?) that had me thinking I might have skipped a page or something so it felt confusing at times, and to top that off with some less than stellar translation. I do feel like, if the translation was better, this would be a 3.5 for me. Yeah this was boring, but there were times I would've found this "boring but sweet" here and there. Besides the typos, the way they spoke felt so robotic. Not in a stiff robot way but in a "real people don't talk like this" robotic kind of way and that had a hand in why it took me forever to finish this. I'm not actually sure if I want to continue to the 2nd vol because of that main reason. And then there's chapter 7 which had a character who was defiantly 18 and the other person defiantly over 20 and I was defiantly not here for that so I skipped it.

Vol 1 - 3/5: I can't express to you how "no thoughts, head empty" this book left me. I mean, I guess it hasn’t done anything to piss me off but it also hasn’t done anything to make me care. Kind of like I was just moving with the pages mindlessly. Maybe the way Yuusei kept Itsuki at longer than arm's length for as long as he did got annoying pretty fast. But, like, I know Nagisa. She loves her some childhood friends to lovers slow burn yerning high school romance so I knew what I was getting into and I think that's why I'm not that pissed over it... Even though Itsuki's pretty fucking obvious with how he feels. Vol 2 - 2.75/5: Lol, so, like remember when I said in the first volume that nothing about this really pissed me off that much and that the only mildly annoying thing was how Yuusei refused to acknowledge that Itsuki likes him back? That is the only conflict in this book... It is the entire plot... of volume 2. Which means. It has gotten. 1,000% more annoying. I did like how it ended but having Yuusei be super oblivious to Itsuki literally holding up signs that say "I LIKE YOU, TOO! KISS ME YOU IDIOT" and then Yuusei seeing that and going "Interesting. I can't tell him I'm in love with him, though. Better keep my distance" made me so angry because I very much think that's a bad way to do a slow burn. Especially if you're gonna have it expand over two volumes. You’ve done this before, Nagisa. But better! Literally, My Summer of You’s slow burn was basically this BUT BETTER. Volume one could’ve ended the way volume two did but instead of them being all happy and dating and then it ends, volume two could’ve been about them dating but Yuusei’s still a bit insecure about things. He’s been in his head for so long that it’ll take a little while for him to see that Itsuki really does love him, has loved him for years with Itsuki’s help. But it had a pretty cute ending similar to Two Lions in a way so we’re all just buddy-buddy, aren’t we, Nagisa.

3.5 will add to this later