cupcutecake's manga / #Bittersweet(17)

Banana Fish

Complete | yoshida akimi | 1986 released

reading this was hell…purely hell. I can’t express the saddening feeling in words…i just simply cannot accept that it ended like that…like that. I sobbed and cried my eyes out absolutely every volume even if knowing that it won’t end up well…life is tricky…it’s like russian roulette, you don’t know when the harsh/hard/traumatising/unforgettable moments hit, you have to fight to get through them. I can’t explain how precious and complex ash’s character is, truly one of the best written characters i’ve ever seen. How can someone at that young age was forced and taught to live by himself, having to get over as how traumatising the flashbacks of his sexual trauma were, how he did not want to lose connection with eiji being self conscious of his coldness for others, the cruel way of self control by killing countlessly…how he did wanted to sacrifice himself, yet it has actually achieved by the cruel death. In my heart they will be together forever as in the extras…they live a happy life without any past trauma, i know that. <3

Let Dai

Complete | Woon Soo-yeon | 1998 released

i love this one so much!!! however…as much as i wanted to think that everything went well (to say…more likely smooth) as everyone says…the ending was rushed. When i saw jahee crying while holding that paper i thought something really bad happened with dai in america, like tried to attempt because of the forced break up with jahee or even something worse…but the ending wasn’t really that wow, not even if you take it in a tragic or good way…it was just an open ending, which i think this manhwa deserved a really solid bittersweet ending ∗˚(* ˃̤൬˂̤ *)˚∗ i could feel from the start that their relationship won’t go well, and i thought that it would be something suicidal since from the start most of the action revolved around train tracks and when jahee almost got crushed by a train… (づ-̩̩̩-̩̩̩_-̩̩̩-̩̩̩)づ a true tragic ending would be painful, i know…but at least i wished for something memorable since from the start to the end everything was pretty tricky and you could feel tragedy coming from anywhere…i’m really satisfied with their relationship in the end, their youth was amazing…and i wished for at least 10 more pages to know if they’re both alive, living together or distant relationship…  ╥﹏╥

Devil's Thoroughbred

Complete | yamashita tomoko | 2012 released

semi satisfying ending…i’m glad it ended anyway, it would turn out great if there were more informations about the plot and if the plot itself was easier to understand…maybe a little more further into the psychological stuff to create a way more fucked up atmosphere and completely change the ending and making it memorable and sadder….i can see what the mangaka had planned for this one….just if it had at least two chapters and the same ending…….(◞‸◟;)

Warawanai Ningyo

Complete | ima ichiko | 2000 released

good stories even tho MOST of them were extremely confusing…the third story mostly for me y-(~。~;) i can get what the mangaka wanted to show in these stories, however they were written pretty complexly that it was really hard to get the meaning…i liked the fourth and the first chaps!!!!!!!!! (/∇\*)。o○♡

Ame Ni Niteiru

Ongoing | Watanabe Taeko | 1992 released

again i’m getting trapped by those bls from the 90s where it starts partially good and it has the most shocking and bittersweet ending ever!! (;´д`)ゞ they’re so beautiful that i even forgot that this is tagged tragedy!!! (> <。) i better watch the drama cd too at this point…such a short gem …(o´I`)…。

Sensual Skin

Complete | IKUSHIMA Miya | 2000 released

so depressing…just knowing that his customer never did actually liked him outside of the ukes job 。゚(゚ノД`゚)゚。

Sono Kuchibiru ni Yoru no Tsuyu

Complete | fukai youki | 2006 released

5 stars because of the plot idea…however i don’t really like the ending. I think that this story does not deserve a good happy ending, even tho this is how i want most couples to end up, for them is not really usable…like the current uke falls in love so fast with the seme after all of that revenge rape they got into…i wish they both hated each other and the uke snaps in the end at the seme hurting him or repeating the revenge cycle…anything just not a happy ending!! ( ̄~ ̄;)