0 Percent Bouquet of Flowers
An age gap? That's 5 years a part?? At the time of their ages right now??? I honestly don't know how I feel about that since a 20yd Yoshito would've held feelings for a 15yd Tomoe and I'm a little ?!???!!?? about it. Which kinda sucks because I really like how quiet this story is. Between Yoshito's and Tomoe's backstory along with Tomoe's fear of abandonment, this has a "grey rain clouds around 4pm on a Thursday but it doesn't rain" feeling to it and I love that. Just really wish the age gap wasn't so prominent. I also really wish chapter 7 didn't start the way it did and instead had this very heavy, still air as they talked. Appreciated the flashbacks bits but chapter 7 ruined that built up tension chapter 6 left us with and I'm sad about that...
Ashita Asatte Sorekara Itsuka
Literally getting through chapters 1 and 2 felt like when it's mid-summer down at your grandparents' place in the country and people are doing stuff inside, time is moving, you hear people talking... But you're sitting on the sofa, in your room watching tv, or on the porch just chilling. Time is moving so slow for you, but you know things are happening around you, you're aware of these things but the time it's taken to get from 1pm to 2pm has felt like 5 hours in-between. I don't usually read other's reviews unless I'm super unsure about what the tags are leading me into. But I saw 2 people saying how average this was and I kinda agree. I love slow paced stories but there's something about this that felt like nothing's happening despite a good bit of stuff happening between chapters 1 and 3. There were some text that did annoy me but it's the usual bullshit you'll find in a bl. I didn't start feeling so annoyed by the plot until around chapter 4/4.5 where I already knew how the next bit of story was gonna go and contemplated dropping it. I'm more mad rather than annoyed that Takayuki was never held accountable for manipulating Aki for so long and I'm mad that the author basically wrote him getting a slap on the wrist with how he continued to manipulate Aki and be a shitty person after chapter 4. What I'm saying is, I want Takayuki dead. I'm still pushing throw because I've put too many books on hold for similar annoying reasons and just need to finish something. But, yeah, as a whole, I can already feel that this isn't going to be something I'm going to remember once I'm done reading it. Also, Takayuki's kinda creepy and not in a way the author meant him to be. He's creepy in a "adult who's been interested in a kid since they were 15 and waited til they're 18 to date them" kinda way. Hmmmm I wonder why...
Tomorrow We Won't Be Friends For Sure, Right?
"I don't remember allowing another person to get close to you" .............. head in hands. Besides the possessive lover thing, it's was cute. It was alright. I didn't think it would be that short, I thought it would be something more than, like a 30 page oneshot because it feels like I'm missing a previous story or another chapter?
One Week Family
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 really 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. Kei being his parental guardian and adding Ren 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 3 of them learning about each other more was when 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 one type of character he played. It's fine but also I'm board. Also, there were parts where they would talk about growing as people or talking about Yuu's conflicts only to cut away to their acting conflicts and I just roll 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. 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. Like, everyone was overly apologetic about everything.
Roku to Rui
Why couldn't this just be a cute & heart gripping story about two friends mending their friendship and trying to be lovers? Why did this had to be littered with sexual harassment for no reason, conflicts and BL tropes straight out of 2010? What the fuck was chapter 3? I wanted to really like this, man... The sad part is, when it's just about Rui and Roku being friends again and being cute together it is actually cute. There are a lot of really adorable moments in this but it's the conflicts that frustrated me because they felt forced. Rui thinking that Roku is cheating on him pissed me off the most because if his brain wasn't so gender locked I would've been a little bit on his side when he found those clothes but he got all worked up over mugs with hearts on them first. Like, dude, shut the fuck up. I've been going from "aww this is cute" to "I'm going to break some windows" and it's not been fun. Art's cute, though.
Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite
Vol 1 - 2.5/5: Man, I hate with BL authors forget that there's other letters in LGBT than just L and G. Life ain't Good when you act like bi, pan, or even demi people don't exist. I have nothing to say about this absolutely mid ass story. This volume one was fine. Maybe less than fine but nothing that actually pissed me off (yet). That being said, it's still a 4.5 out of 10 because I was promised sad and it's giving me pathetic. Vol 2 - 2/5: I could be finding a better sorry to read. I am so annoyed by everyone in this damn book. For starts; Kanade and Mashiro are grown ass men acting too much like 11th graders going out for the first time with the added layer of them being closeted. It's getting really annoying the way these conflicts aren't really conflicts, there's just no attempts at communicating and I fucking hate it. It's annoying because we when do have flash backs of them in high school all their actions and behaviors make sense because they're ARE teenagers. It's really cute and it fits. These same behaviors that they're still doing now that they're dating as adults is not cute. It's annoying. It's not cute to see Kanade put the blame on himself for telling Mashiro to stop because he was being forceful and scary. It's not cute to see Mashiro push away his mother, who's been in need of mental help for years, as well as not communicating on anything. Even if it's just a little bit of opening up to Kanade. Speaking of his mom, I don't really like the way she's written. Not specifically her but everything revolving around her. She's written as "the villain" when really this lady is mentally unstable and has been needing professional help for years. Her husband passed, she became super dependent and attached to her son, her romantic relationships have been very messy and unhealthy which makes her more attached and dependent on Misharo. The grandmather is the only person with any sense but still no one tried to get her any help? I'm very annoyed with how the sorry has treated her so far the most.
Ameagari no Bokura ni Tsuite -Sono Saki-
Restart wa Tadaima no Ato de
me, someone with mental health issues, low self-esteem, and deals with self worth: Why is everyone so mean to Mitsuomi... Ok, to be honest... I wasn't expecting "grumpy/sunshine". I haven't read the tags for this in a while and, in my mind, I was going into it now thinking "depressed/sunshine". I have to rethink my approach to this now. With that new dynamic in mind, I this story was just alright. Nothing really pissed me off, nothing happened that would've made me angry. But nothing really got me either. I really wanted to be much more interested in this than I ended up being. I can see the cute. I can see the sad. But I didn't "feel" any of it so I'm kinda disappointed that it wasn't moving enough for me. I'm still reading the sequel and I'm still buying these physically.
Hana wo Tadoreba Kimi no Yubisaki