Maybeblue's manga / #cheating(49)

Not your usual bl that's for sure. The age gap has to be one of the biggest I've ever seen but I kinda appreciated that the author didn't sugarcoat it by making the old man look younger. The characters are simple yet interesting (and kinda realistic too), I liked that the teacher wasn't involved in their relationship as a love interest cause that would have totally ruined the flow of the story. Was I uncomfortable seeing an old man get it on with a high-schooler? Yes very, and it would have all worked better for me if the age gap was a little less extreme (like an uni student & a man in his fifties maybe?) cause him being in high school was pretty fucking weird. Literally everything else was good and well written, no complaints.

For a long time MC has been in an urequited love with his friend who's soon gonna get married. Heartbroken, he enters a gay bar where he's approached by the popular and handsome Kou. After what was supposed to be a one-night-stand, they meet again at MC's office and Kou turns out to be his new superior at work. After some time MC starts to warm up to the caring and pampering (and kinda pushy) Kou, however we soon realize that he isn't as nice of a person as he appears (instead he's a real ass). The plot itself is nothing new and the characters have like two personality traits at best but we get to see a jerk seme suffer for at least 3 chapters while he repents and chases after a quite unwavering uke and it's honestly very satisfying. Sometimes you just wanna read a simple jiwon-from-bj-alex redemption arc and this definitely does the job.

I want to read more stories with straightforward and proactive main characters like Subaru. He's pretty much the opposite of the uke's stereotype if you think about it, and that's probably why so many people dislike him. Ukes are usually weak and socially awkward, they have no self esteem or sense of self-worth so they accept and forgive everything that the seme does to them while never imposing themselves and their opinions, they pour their heart in the relationship and obviously never do anything to wrong the other. Subaru instead is confident and comfortable with himself, and even if he's a pretty loose guy, he believes someday he'll find true love. When the day comes that he finally falls in love he chases after it head-on, doing everything he can to win the cold seme's heart. It's adorable that he's so earnest and carefree at the same time, and you can really tell he cares about the seme a lot too, so why is everyone bashing him in the comments? Everyone loves a toxic seme who sleeps around cause it's sooo romantic when someone popular is willing to wholeheartedly commit to a relationship and completely change his lifestyle for someone else, right? So why is it that when it's the uke doing it then he's a slut who doesn't deserve the good guy he's chasing, even tho he clearly treasures him more than anything? People are such hypocrites sometimes...