Moonpie's manga / #Bl(1)

Ano Hi No Kimi Wo Dakishimeta Nara

Complete | Sakiya Haruhi,Yamamoto Kotetsuko | 2008 released
2020-04-18 02:46 marked
Tags: Eh... Bl

I like it, but the second to last chapter rubbed me the wrong way. Lots of people view the manga as amazing but there are certain knitpicks I had through the end that made it hard to finish reading. The biggest knitpick is the resolution on abuse. I know this manga is quite a few years old but that shouldn't justify bad problem solving. In Chapter 11, Kengo runs into Shibuya and Hidetoshi, who just found out Shibuya is being abused by her husband and wants to comfort her because he recently was in the same boat. However, Kengo (Who I feel doesn't really resolve the situation well at all) after learning Shibuya went out to dinner with a coworker, says she should go to a hotel but then goes back on that and tells her to go home and talk it out with her husband. While this doesn't seem bad, it's basically sending her back into the situation. That aside, he also says her going to dinner with coworker is a date and says as long as she's in a relationship, she has to avoid anything that would cause misunderstandings, which says to me she can't enjoy being with others (especially men) because it could mess with her marriage. She shouldn't HAVE to apologize for that, sure her husband and her can try and talk it out but that doesn't mean she should apologize for doing things outside of her relationship. Even if Kengo is cold, he seemed insensitive and unsympathetic to a hard to deal with situation of which he seems to have little to no knowledge with.