Meridian's manga / #Yandere ML(16)

Soooo many ups and downs for our main couple. I'm not a big fan of the world resets and everybody forgets kinds of endings but I do agree it was probably the best way for our couple to still end up together. I enjoyed the end anyways and was especially happy to see our second ML come back to life! He was the main reason their relationship would never be able to work, and it would've been icky even if MC had lost his memories and could be happy with ML so it was a good choice. The magic was pretty interesting, too. Everything has a price and on the way to get your wish granted, you could lose so much more. It was a pretty deep meaning and complex emotions from a magical boy story. Nonetheless, a welcome surprise.

Love the yandere style ML, some points off for a bunch of misunderstandings that should've been easy to resolve but otherwise nice.

So so cute in the beginning and takes a turn for the smut after the first season. Great relationship and amazing smut scenes in general. The only thing was that as much as I love yandere's there were several moments that pulled me out of the story as I asked myself... Is this a little too toxic? Even though I say that I adored the ML's obsessive behavior and very, very well-drawn expressions. I live for the faces yandere's make behind their partner's back and this one was *chefs kiss*. In the end ML was decently self-aware of most times he became toxic and reigned it in, so I was able to enjoy it!

My favorite part of this is the ending. No 'but what about morals?' qualms and back and forth, just acceptance for what he is. Super refreshing. Also, at no point in the story did I fully understand what was going on with the horrors and supernatural. And I mean that in the best way possible. I spent the whole story trying to follow clues along with MC to figure out what his past was and what that meant was going on in the present.

Dropped. Well drawn but MC doesn't like to use common sense and gets himself into so much trouble that could've been avoided. I like yandere MLs, but this one is toxic to the point that their relationship together just makes me sad rather than happy. The first villain also lives waaaay too long. He basically tortures the MC, using blackmail so they can't kill him, only for them to kill him later anyways. It made it feel like they suffered the whole time for nothing. MC is 'innocent', 'kind', and 'naive', to the point of being annoying. Like a pick-me or white lotus. Ultimately hurting others because they're so stuck on being kind, making things worse, and then crying when shit actually happened.