queerdinosuar's manga / #Neighbors(8)

Honestly I’m only 10 episodes in and this is already up there with my favorites. This was so cute and well written, just a funny feel good story. No notes, which is rare for me lol. I love a well done romcom.

I picked it up on a whim but really enjoyed this one. A story about a boy who has been hurt and emotionally manipulated and suffered from homophobia and another boy who is a serial player but catches feelings for the first time. About putting yourself back together and learning to love after spiraling in self loathing and self destruction from past trauma. It’s honestly super interesting and well written. The conflicts, while frustrating in their lack of communication, feel authentic to people making assumptions about the other’s feelings based on their own prior baggage. I just want Su-Gyeom to love himself and let Do-Jun love him too. Overall I thought it was genuinely a pretty good story with interesting themes for how simple the plot was in the end. The mental blocks Su-Gyeom had to work through were honestly very realistic for a real person with insecurities and that always makes a story like this more interesting.

This is sexy and cute and hits a lot of the elements I enjoy in a story. The relationship problems are mostly normal and definitely understandable rather than trivial and annoying. Hope to see both of them grow and learn to communicate.