Kejora's manga / #delinquent(3)

I'm re-reading this because i'm thinking of changing my rating for this manga to actually be, lower. The first time i read this manga i came for Irie and Tsubaki and their story was cut so short, i felt really disappointed lmao, and i wasn't really vibing with the second couple's story either but i felt bad since they went through so much so i gave it a four-star, i'll re-read this and give final thoughts about it later.

4 stars // It was an easy four stars for me, i enjoyed it, but why the fuck did this take me five full days to read to the end lmao. I was procrastinating so much, and i end up forgetting the story half-way so i had to re-read again from the very beginning to understand it. The story was cute, all three of them were cute, they were your niche adorable and wholesome highschool tropes-- first we got friends to lovers, unrequited love, and lastly "initially just sex but then they mutually catch feelings" trope that i'm guilty of liking. I think the only problem with this is again, because every story only consists of one chapter (very few pages), a whole load of information is given to us per-page and it's just very overwhelming to take it all in and then to also progress with the story that's already ongoing at the moment. It makes the dynamic kind of confusing sometimes but it's not something i'm "that" salty about since it is just short stories, cute cute. I couldn't pick a favorite because all of them fall in the same level of wholesomeness for me-- but if only we got like, a timeskip to five years in the future of bandana dude accepting glasses-kun's confession and them walking together to the sunset, or even glasses-kun upgraded the confession into a proposal and whip out a ring, their story would be my favorite, sigh.

2 stars // MAYBE it's because i was audibly voicing my commentary while i read this that made me have such a one track mind about the whole story, or it's because i just, do not like, the blond guy. He's very weird, his words are always contradicting themselves, like there was this one panel where his inner monologues are LITERALLY contradicting themselves in the SAME page, it was so unbearable. I understand his concerns of wanting to keep the friendship thus hiding his feelings, but Takumi isn't your usual "tough dude delinquent beats up anyone" type of guy, he cries when reading shoujo mangas for gods sake! And the fact that you have been together for so long, you should've thought that he would still be your friend even if he doesn't see you romantically. And, i feel like the timing of some things happening in this story are very weird. For example blond guy could've literally just confessed everything to Takumi when they were alone in that park, not in front of two people who know them? That's fucking weird, especially if you put into consideration that the blond guy has been trying to hide his feelings for Takumi for years, all that effort and then the moment you let it go it's not an intimate moment between the two of you but when you're literally choking some other guy? This is what i mean when i say he contradicts himself a lot. Another thing that i really want to get off my chest because it's so weird, and tbh annoying. AFTER they started dating and doing the whole shared diary stuff, isn't he supposed to be like, ecstatic? the person you loved all these years is finally yours and is even making an effort to further the relationship? And the best way possible of you returning that effort is by dismissing his effort and hit him with the "i want to have sex already" attitude and THEN when Takumi refuses and asks if he only wanted to date Takumi for the sex he had the NERVE to get offended and said that "It's hard for me to believe that you really love me" TO HIS FACE?? AFTER HE TRIED TO FORCEFULLY INITIATE?? SEX?? Honestly it's so annoying, like, DUDE, YOU were the one who constantly said you wanted to bang him how are YOU also the one who has a hard time believing that Takumi really loves him when he literally made the effort of making a SHARED DIARY so that the two of you could get to know each other better??? If anything the one who should be questioning their sincerity is Takumi??? I was so fucking annoyed i had to stop and scream into the void because of how that sentence annoyed me, man if i was Takumi in that situation i would've been so turned off i would end the relationship in a heartbeat, BITCH i made this fucking shared diary for us and YOU question ME? YOU? The one that constantly only wants sex? Motherfucker seriously? /inhales/ okay, i am calm. I'm sorry, blond dude reminded me too much of a manipulative ex who likes to contradict his own words to try and make me feel bad about myself, I hope Takumi doesn't feel that way and does genuinely like this blond dude. I'm done. That's my opinion, and third guy needs an award for being so patient in dealing with his friend's shit, he's so helpful it's funny.