Maybeblue's manga / #Established relationship(60)

I liked the clean art style and the color palette, both the characters were likeable and I appreciated the lack of misunderstandings between them. I also liked the 2nd break up arc and the reasoning behind it, I feel like it was necessary to make their relationship recover from all the things they had to go through. I would have appreciated this even more if the arguing was longer than just a couple of panels, cause there was potential for a very impactful scene. Anyway these boys did have somewhat of and emotional intelligence and their problems were either caused by other people or by some wrong choices that they intentionally made, and that's why I didn't feel as frustrated when the drama happened. But then...wtf happened with the professor after the roofie thing?!?! Was he beaten up? Raped? Why??? It was literally a scene that had nothing to do with the main story and they also never mention it again so whyyy I mean I get the author wanted to make him pay for what he did but was there really no other way to go about it? I mean he was bad but that doesn't mean I wanted to see him go through the same thing the hyung did, I actually felt bad for him!! Wouldn't it be a lot more satisfying seeing him getting sued and arrested for rape and coercion? Also the way they handled the aftermath of the mc's rape experience was not ideal, even if you want to go for the "let's pretend it never happened" resolve (not the best choice if you ask me), it would have been cute seeing Jungwoo spoiling him a little more and giving his all to make up for all the shit mc was put through...they kinda were the same as always... like cute sure, but the same as always. Also also! there were too many people getting physically hurt... like mc had his face smashed all the time and the part where rich boy goes and beats up everyone in one night was funny but made no senseeee and the father was awful in every way, idk if it's because his character wasn't really developed but one minute it looks like he spoils his son and looks after him and the next he beats the shit out him and neglects him I don't get it

First couple was boring af but the other two were sooo good. They weren't as developed as the main story but the concepts were really interesting, I'd easly read a full volume of both of them

This story is cute in the weirdest way possibile. Like at first I thought it was gonna revolve around them having sex for the first time (maybe with some kind of twist with Akira being not so clueless as he seems) but surprisingly that never was a big theme in the story. Then I thought they were gonna fight for the fact that the seme was gaining fame and had to hide their relationship, but there were only wholesome moments instead. Then again I thought there was gonna be some drama cuz Akira didn't know shit about his bf after knowing him for 4 years and forgot his birthday (which was honestly a bit sad) and again, nothing happened! No fighting, no drama, he didn't even get angry. At the end too, the whole thing with the seme not knowing what to do with his life was pretty unexpected and came out of nowhere, it was super cute tho. So like maybe I get the feeling the author didn't really know where to go with this story and the end result is kinda all over the place but I can appreciate the wholesomeness and the fact it never followed some boring trope or stereotyped dynamic. Akira's character is probably the strangest here, he's innocent and very very clueless, knows nothing about how an intimate relationship works, he's very blunt and straightforward and even a bit rude sometimes but also has those childish behaviours and has the emotional intelligence of a baby. I like him but I don't understand him in the slightest and I don't get how someone like the mc can be so helplessly in love with him.