Mimi's manga / #family dynamic(39)

Very cute but also very average in terms of story. As much as I loved this family of Yuu, Kei, and Ren I felt like it wasn't as emotional as I hoped it was going to be. My most invested parts were Yuu and his conflict with being a child who has no time to BE a child because of his job as an actor as well as not being able to spend time with his mother, the only parent he has right now, who is a CEO. With Kei being his parental guardian and now Ren who’s fulfilling a similar role, when it came down to them doing the mundane it was very cute and made me sad. I do wish there was more emotion put in the scene where Yuu got to talk to his mom about how he felt, it was still nice... I wanted her to cry but it was still nice. The only time I felt bored was when we took time away from Yuu, away from the three of them learning about each other more, whenever we cut to Kei and Ren's acting job conflicts. It was boring to me and some explanations were a bit dumb because it just felt like “rich people” problems and, Lord, did I not care. It wasn't even about anything interesting either. One had a fear of and felt jealous over being surpassed by other child actors while the other was dealing with only being seen as the superhero character he played. It's fine but also I'm bored. There were also parts where they would talk about growing as people or talking about Yuu's conflicts only to cut away to their industry problems and I just rolled my eyes. Another small thing that got to me was the progression of the confession. A part of me felt like it was rushed, just a little bit forced and that's probably because we're at the last chapter so it felt like we had to bring it up now. It was fine but I do wish we got that confession earlier so we got that time to see them also grow as a couple. Lastly, there was so much apologizing. Everyone was overly apologetic about everything, like, girl, it’s ok.

More of same feelings I had from the first book. But after reading both of these books I'm just still kind of disappointed... The art's cute. Cocomi knows how to draw some really cute art. The more softer, cute moments in the story were very adorable. But what made this drag for me and had me praying for it to be done after chapter three was just the conflicts. The conflicts were just kind of dumb to me and it all just came down to not communicating (shocker). However, there was a story reason why no one wanted to communicate which I can kind of tip my hat to, but still very annoying to read 17 times. I did like the end. I thought the end was cute. Didn't make me cry or anything but still a cute ending chapter.

Lord, I need to find more B/GL like this. The way it's written you can tell that they focused on character building first rather than sex and the characters themselves are very enjoyable to read. That beginning where I literally had about 2 heart attacks I was in for a ride. This story is all about one person trying to get the other to fall back in love with him after an accident that left him with a moderate case of amnesia and it's both one of the cutest and saddest manga I've read. I cried a couple of times towards and at the end because of how bittersweet this story was. I'm also just a sucker for any B/GL story where they have a child, a pet, and/or get married. That 100% fucks me up. I need this to officially be licensed so bad.

This was just the most aggressive "fine" I've read recently. But I also had a problem picking a full star/number rating for the sites that don't do halves, like, three felt too low but four felt too generous. It wasn't really the family dynamic I thought it would be and the only thing that did get on my nerves was the constant apologizing from the two. But even that didn't bother me too bad? I do wish the story revolved around them cooking together more rather than spending one day on it and the rest of the story being about misunderstanding after misunderstanding. Then there's the "we must have sex to be in a real relationship" thing BL authors like to write and that I fucking hate... Yeah, I think "fine" is probably fine.

Kind of started out rocky on the first chapter for me, I didn't really like how Reiji was just a 5yd kid in an adult's body. Dude just said his apt doesn't allow pets, he lives on the second floor, and here's this grown ass man banging on the floor for him to take in the cat... I didn't like that. At least it got better and ended nicely. Even though it got cutter later on, I found that I really don't like when authors spend the whole book on the journey but only give us one chapter of them finally being together. It's different from a slow burn for me, I don't mind if it takes a while for the relationship to begin. It’s more of me wanting an extra one or two chapters of them dating instead of ending it immediately after they officially started dating. This was basically just fine. I would've loved a second volume of all three of them just being and living together. I've come to like Reiji and Koichi by the end but there wasn't enough to make them memorable to me.

... I’m so confused on this one. Kinda... Sorta? I'm pretty sure I forgot that was tagged as mature, but I didn't think that this was going to have this many sex scenes. It kind of ruined the actual story for me even though half of the plot was about Keppei's issues revolving around having sex with Keita. There are times in this manga that didn't need a sex scene, times when serious talking about Keppei's embarrassment and Keita's trauma would've been better... But instead, they fucked. It wasn’t like we didn’t get to see them talk about each other’s problems, it just wasn't enough and you could tell the author really wanted to put a sex scene in every chapter. There's also the fact that some of those scenes were with each other's 18yd selves and I hated that. It's just my age gape disgust that got in the way at times. This story was both really cute and very frustrating for me. I really loved the characters and I liked the premise but the time we spent reading them fuck felt wasted. On top of how it ended in six chapters, it was difficult for me to be happy about the proposal with the way chapter six went.