alice-chan's manga / #unrequited love(47)

thoughts while reading (up till ch5): so fast-paced and rushed, I thought it would be sweeter and fluffier but it's actually kinda dark and I don't like Ibuki at all. it's just sex which isn't a bad thing but it's not what I was looking for when I started reading this. well, the concept is interesting when I finished reading: okay so both the seme and uke are unstable as fuck, their relationship is toxic and the angels are psychotic meddlers (how are they even angels). ending is super unsatisfying, even the plot twist was eh. just overall disappointing

ahhhh wtf that was SO FREAKING CUTE I LOVED IT an actually interesting story, the idol concept was also really well-executed, the characters had dimension and weren't boring, the potential chemistry/tension between the characters really kept me on my toes and excitedly waiting, so that when they kissed I felt the heat in my stomach bruh XD oooof (ch4 freaking killed me man) it's perfect and I loved it but I will admit it was a bit rushed near the end. (I wish they made us suffer a bit more when he said 'I'm going to put an end to these feelings' bc ch4 was really effective (I almost cried bc my heart clenched so hard). instead it got really quickly resolved. welp, I guess less waiting for us haha) I was gna pace myself but devoured the plot it got all the reactions from me. I was freaking out while squealing, freaking out while nearly crying, freaking out over how cute it was XD

started off very cute and fluff, I really loved ch1. it could've been a really sweet story about childhood friends reuniting and realizing their love, but instead it took an unexpected dark turn (rape). I'm used to seeing rape in yaoi but it was just somehow so disappointing in this story, especially the personality of the seme- he was way cuter as a kid, and I was so sad with his character development. the story just really went downhill from the first chapter. idk why the rape really got to me in this yaoi, like I said, I'm used to seeing it quite often. maybe it's because the uke was saying it was his fault, when it really wasn't. 3 stars because I really liked ch1 and thought the art was good, but yeah, plot disappointed me and it's not going on any of my lists

2nd story was cute a 2.5, it was pretty average overall

best one of the series! I don't think the order matters too much tbh but here it is (I read them all out of order): - Mr.Arihara's Secret Circumstances - Ijiwaru Shinai de Dakishimete - Furete, Aishite, Dakishimete All 3 have multiple stories each and I really like that all stories have shared characters (literally each character knows at least one other character from the other story lol. everyone is gay in this universe! XD) 1) Touma x Chiaki (Touma is friends with Tokida) (Chiaki co-stars with Arihara) 2) Tokida x Takeuchi (Takeuchi is friends with Takashi) (Tokida is Seno's uncle, manager of the bar. I'm guessing there's a timeline skip because I don't think he can be a bar manager and a university student at the same time) 3) Takashi x Takahiro (Takashi, friends with Takeuchi) (Takahiro, fellow idol in anDe with Matsushita) 4) Arihara x Matsushita (Matsushita is an idol in band anDe) (Arihara is an actor, whose current and former managers Nagai and Masano have potential ~ co-stars with Chiaki) 5) Seno x Hakamada (Seno is the bartender at the bar Micchan and Yuuichirou visit. He is a fan of the show Chiaki and Arihara star in, directed by Hakamada. Tokida is his uncle) 6) Micchan x Yuuichirou (clients at bar where Seno bartends and Tokida is manager) (Seiji is Yuuichirou's client) 7) Seiji x Daigo (Seiji is a client of Yuuichirou, who was briefly interested in Seiji) 8) Seki x Ikehata (the only couple not related to everyone else lol) 9) Nagai x Masano (technically not a couple but we ship haha) Matsushita and Arihara are my favorite couple :) Arihara is so fucking cute I can't~ I do wish they would switch tho. I also want Micchan and Yuuichirou to switch as well

Several stories of lower than average quality; basic cliches poorly executed. Boring, annoying, made me roll my eyes 19840 times (especially the 3rd story)

pretty cute. reread it once or twice

I haven't watched this anime, I don't know the characters, and yet it was still awesome

made me feel a type of way ~