Min Jay's manga / #hair stylist(3)

Love it, so twisted but so powerfully written with a perfect plot we all kinda expected but not really, complex characters, they never change their twisted ways which is very much realistic actually. Harada is seriously a genious. And I also like a bitter sweet ending where uke doesn t really forgive seme but still wants to be around in some way. Every now and then I come back to this masterpiece and every time feels like im reading for the first time. Now I'll be pasting one comment that perfectly sums how I feel about characters: -I keep rereading this like once a year and I'm always in awe at the character of Riku. Such a cunning, highly observant and concsious yet neutral party, only involved to tweak things a little for his own entertainment and petiness. Always close enough to do something, yet never empathic enough to do good enough. -The way the story started wholesome you'd think it would go the route of enemies to lovers only to switch it up your head! Even I was fooled by the white haired guy. (I will not call him the ML bc he's EVIL AF.). Most of the time authors pull up the "I'm not actually the stalker, I'm secretly protecting you!" But This story doesn't do that, it straight up tells you that yeah, this mfucker is crazy. Speaking of the white-haired guy, he is purely evil and his "backstory" wasn't put there so we could pity him but so we could understand the reason for his actions and HATE him even more! He's just pure evil, no excuses on that. The reveal of his twisted nature was executed so well. We as the reader was given glimpses and it made sense, his actions and everything paired with the art? Wow, it fits so well! The way his attraction, turned into obsession and want to possess shou-kun? It felt right. He's a well-written character we could shit on, never in the story did it feel like he suddenly switched-up. All his actions came together and made sense. SHOU-KUUUUUUN!!! My lovely baby, I love him. He's such a well-written Main character. He doesn't know how to communicate properly, he turns to physical violence when pissed but he's got a strong sense of justice and he's kind. He's so easy to manipulate BECAUSE he's kind (and an air-head). He was traumatized and he is a character that learns, he does hate the psychotic guy but he's so kind that, although he doesn't forgive him, because of the white guys great acting he was fooled into pittying the guy and felt responsible for him even if he isn't supposed to feel that way because he's done nothing wrong, and he doesn't owe that shitty guy anything. Shou-kun is confident in his skills (little Neurodivergent guy) but he lacks confidence in himself as a whole, all because he was wronged in the past, he believes it was his fault and it stuck to him. Shou-kun is Kind with a strong sense of responsibility, that's why he keeps being dragged into the world of the white-hair psychotic guy. However, I do think he'd never land into that guys hand ever again. THE CROSS DRESSER! (Can u tell I'm bad at names?) Mfucker is an enigma, is he what you call a cannonfodder? I see that term being used a lot but I don't know what it means lol. That guy is crazy, a grey area, the kind of guy that would help you but go "it ain't my problem so I'll just give you tips or whatever." But those tips are vague clues for shou-kun to try and process. I'm really not sure what his deal is and what he wants. He's not that nice either, I like him but also hate him, the kind of person I'd be plastic to when facing him and then talking shit about him somewhere else. ++ Shou is actually so so smart and quick to notice and learn but seme was just too much of a manipulator for him to handle, like, he used EVERY way of manipulation he could possibly have so no wonder it took Shou quite some time to figure out. Glad Riku actually very subtly meddled in but if Shou wasn't as smart as he is he wouldn't have figured it out. Throughout the bigger part of the story he's portrayed as an airhead but I was really amazed by how quickly he connected the dots once he started suspecting. Also, altrough there's a lot of sexual harrasement in this manga and seme is portrayed as a pschyopath, I wouldn't really say he actually is one because when he saw how wracked Shou was after what he did to him he felt only pity, guilt and unfillment. Sure, he IS horrible and manipulative and gross but at the same time he probably had no idea how to approach him any other way because he feared it wouldn't work. Did he reflect? He absolutely did. Did he continue being a manipulative ass? ABSOLUTELY. He doesn't deserve a second chance, not even a mention of it, but it's nice to think that if he went about everything in a normal way, him and Shou would actually have a really nice, happy ending. Every character except Shou (he's lovable all the way) is interesting exactly because you hate them all but you actually can't hate them because they have so many other good traits that kinda mask the bad and twisted ones. But then you wonder; are those good traits fake too? UGH I LOVE THIS MANGA

Idiots lol This is literally color theory if it was normal and not harada Cuties

Pasted from comments: I'm at awe at how the mangaka never fails to encapsulate love, it bleeds through their work and each manga never felt like it were shallow and fleeting feelings. The trope and dynamic were common but what sets it apart from the others is how they draw the eyes, all of the characters seem to be more expressive and alive. THE ART THE TINY DETAILS THE WAY THEY'RE HOLDING EACH OTHER EVERYTHING SCREAMS LOVE