ni-ka-CHUUUUUUUUUU's manga / #Lawyer(3)

eh.

3.75 This is one ultimate story about unrequited love. It had all the elements that would make me love it: slow pace but necessary to develop seme's feelings; the uke and his feelings are very clearly strong; and essentially a love square to create jealousy and push the couple to do shit. However, I didn't love this (and maybe thats because I skimmed most of this). My heart ached (especially for the uke) but I didn't feel for it as much I thought I would. And that's mainly because of the hella annoying secretary uke who is a fucking bitch and crybaby. You are waaaaay to biased for the main uke and his unrequited feelings to even have any sort of sympathy for the secretary uke. He was just a fucking obstacle. And another reason I didn't like this more was because there were a lot of cheesy cliche moments to stir conflict (which I wouldn't mind if it was so fucking excessive). Idk maybe I just need to reread this.

There are no words for this one. It was an absolute treasure. This was so well written and it's so cool how nuanced the author wrote not just the love story aspect, But is clearly had a pretty in-depth understanding of very specific American culture (eg being gay. Mid-1900s, leaving the Amish community, homelessness in New York, interracial adoptive family). That's just really cool to see that perspective of someone who I'm assuming is not American. I do have to nitpick a bit. While i Do love how the author does get the essence of American culture, I feel like it still doesn't get delved into enough. And even saying that might be a bit unfair since this manga is already doing so much heavy lifting. I also don't quite understand the resolution that Gene has with his Amish background. I appreciate that he stuck to his wanderlust desires and it really just highlights how wonderful a partner Trevor is. But it is unclear whether or not gene visited his family again. And if not why I didn't he? Other than that, this was such a delight to read. The way expositioning of the couple throughout the story was engaging and really helped show truly who Gene and Trevor are. I am also such a sucker for slow pace progression plots, where The reader gets a glimpse of the MCs life in time.