tsukineko's manga / #cohabitation(42)

3.5 stars. Sweet, fluffy goodness! Seme wins 'Caring Seme of the Year'! I often get bored if it's too fluffy, but I found this really adorable. Maybe I just needed a break from the a-hole, forceful type of seme.

This is based on a true story. At the end of the manga, there's an interview with the real guy who inspired it! I've read the interview, and he seems like a really lovely, considerate, caring, unselfish and honest person - the kind I could be friends with - so I want to read his story because he deserves happiness and I want to check that it's a happy story! I'm sure he is happy, though, as he seems quite cheerful and optimistic, despite having attempted suicide as a teenager, before coming out.

After this, read 'Kare no niwa ni saku hana'

The main couple are so adorbs! I often find cutesy uke annoying, but not Rintarou: he perfectly complements Kaede, and the 2 so obviously cherish each other. Kaede is just yum! - a sexy, slightly sadistic seme, who adores his uke to an excessive extent! I found the other stories too short for any real character development, and they just got in the way of the main story imho. Although very well drawn and thoroughly enjoyable to read, I found this manga rather cliché and predictable. It was also unfortunate that I read this straight after 'Ten Count', which is truly excellent and is one of the rare manga that I unreservedly rate 5 whole stars. 'Katekyo' is just not in the same league imho, thus the 4 stars. Read also 'Koitomo!?', a spin-off about one of the other featured couples.