rainydays's manga / #slice of life(15)

some of the relationships are questionable but overall cute and light slice of life

aimless wujin falls for his new neighbor, jin. one of the softer, low stakes romances that is just comforting more than anything

hosik gets taken advantage of while drunk by his sunbae sungyeon, and subsequently becomes pregnant as a result. i know im not the only one that feels like sunbae is always lookin creepy... i thought the art stye was quite charming but sunbae just kept on giving me the ick. hosik was just swept along with the kids.

a look into the daily lives of shima's family, and how her fathers (former delinquents) aoi and akane got together. this was fucking adorable and the art was amazing, loved shima, the slice of life bits and the rivals to lovers trope. the only qualm I really have is how the two guys who sexually harassed aoi (the one from high school and the one from college) got off, basically scott free with no serious repercussion like you shoulda just let akane beat the shit outta them.

a look into the life of naguru and herapi, how they met and how their child towa changed their lives. love the art, and love the character dynamics, but ngl i thought that naguru and herapis relationship felt a bit one-sided, wish we got more insight into nagurus emotional development to the point where we believe he actually liked herapi himself, but alas, the vagueness of it all actively tampered with my understandings of the situation. towa really saved this manga, love him to bits.

kotaro is an omega who is dating his son's daycare teacher, but feels inadequate about their relationship due to his past. i can see why this was confusing for some people, as the timeline jumps back and forth and characters reasoning are a bit ehh. there were scenes that made me super uncomfortable and were hard to get through. the baby was cute tho and i wish there was a seperate work focusing on kotaro's omega friend.

though sunako's situation is not ideal, she doesnt need anything besides her stepsister man, this couldve been so good if only the object of her affections wasnt her literal stepsister..

struggling with their individual problems, a boy and girl meet at a secret cave to vent. this was a short read but it was an interesting one, not quite fulfilling but had compelling themes and a great art style.

feel like the storytelling was a bit shaky due to the brevity of the oneshot but this was cute and ended well.

akabeko really knows RANGE, i loved this slice of life-type deal with this work, the snippets of the trio's lives were really enjoyable and i loved kota, he was so cute. does address complexities and struggles of parenthood.