Wistful Summer
halfway point - yo. the author of this story is so fucking mean. literally i just know that she lives to hurt reader's fucking feelings. i genuinely cannot keep reading this is hurting me. i have way too many fucking emotions and i hate everyone except for seth even tho i already fucking know hes the only one whos gonna get hurt in the end. this is bullshit. fuck sam bro. fuck him so much. i dont even feel anything towards him im not even interested in him whatsoever. his scenes w henry are so frustrating and make me angry ugh. he only likes being "needed" by henry its not actual love. he also put him thru so much that its ridiculous to expect him to still only have feelings for him after all this time. i think seth is kinda stupid for even getting involved in all of this mess KNOWING that henry isnt emotionally available and is still heavily confused abt his first love and persisting even after being rejected. this is so frustrating to read idk man i hate how this makes me feel but i guess i asked for angst and thats what i fucking got LOOOOL. chapter 50 - ive accepted defeat. whatever. i just hope sam redeems himself enough that i dont completely hate him. they better give seth a cute ass mans who actually DESERVES his love and sufficiently provides the same amount back. last chapter - im exhausted lol. i hated this entire experience. can say with absolute certainty that i would never ever even dream of rereading this. i hated it. it was a good story i guess and perhaps even maybe realistic in some sense but i hated it. we didnt even get to see seth move on in the epilogue. tho i desperately wished he would stop appearing only to get his heart broken. ugh what the fuck. i cried so hard. this was bullshit. they werent even a good pair (probably the most realistic part) and til the end they had such terrible chemistry. i havent liked sam since like the 5th chapter. i still despise him now. idk man i wanna sleep this story off it was so annoying. there were SO many points that i almost quit but i held it together in the hopes that seth would somehow find happiness. i couldnt have been more wrong lol.
blanc
this was so good. definitely my fav in the entire series so far. ugh i lowkey wanted to read this bc it had yaoi in the tags, but i wasnt expecting to have my damn heart broken ugh. i love them together so much it was so fucking painful to see them apart. and sajous mom was the best person ever, it literally shouldve been his dad that died fuck him. hikaru shaving his hair off hurt me so much sob but they love each other so much that its okay. the wedding was adorable and im sad its all over now. ugh theyre such a great couple. reading more analysis on their fight and it makes so much sense why sajou felt the need to break up, and how it truly came full circle when he finally managed to stand up to the embodiment of his own internal homophobia for hikaru by standing up to his dad and choosing hikaru instead. sob so good ugh. i def wanna reread this when the official translations come out. i hope they animate this blanc too bc its really great. i have to say, this entire series is really endearing but not in a way im used to. usually i wouldnt really love these kind of reads (prior to blanc i mean) and was even sorta underwhelmed after the movie, but i really ended up liking the whole aesthetic by the time i got to here. not just the artstyle and the dialogue but the realness of their relationship. i felt like i couldnt tell how much they liked each other in the first story, even if they said they did. blanc was so necessary to prove to e/o how much they truly meant to one another. they practically fell in love a second time. anyways i didnt realize just how long this series would be when i decided to watch the movie but it was worth it. 9.5/10 (-0.5 bc of the translations/scans affecting the reading experience tbh otherwise 10)
I Became the Hero's Mom
ayo this was actually a very very good read so far and i cant wait for updates. im reading on sawateam so the translation is great and the story is building up to be really interesting. i usually kinda skim over the fantasy world elements in isekai reads but its fascinating in this one. i read this theory that "deborah" is actually the body of aisha necromanced by the high apostle in the novel since hes a dark element user making abel's fl actually aisha's body WHICH IS SO WEIRD OMG. but so interesting. anyways abel is adorable and i cried really hard for him in the first couple chapters bc of the child abuse. hes so wonderful and i love that hes actually given enough screen time. not so much in the most recent chapters but hes definitely a main character. the romance is also really funny lmaooo its pretty slow burn and i dont think aisha has actual romantic feelings for hades just quite yet but i love their dyanamic rn theyre v chaotic. the moments between all three of them are my absolute fav tho. so sweet and warm. anyways, im sure this has got a lot of chapters left so i cant wait!
Kimi ni Ienai Koto ga Aru