Hanami's manga / #Consent? What Consent?(6)

After breaking his leg, Morioka Sei befriends a calligraphy professor, Akimune, who’s staying in the same hospital. Akimune decides to make Sei the inheritor of his considerable fortune. When meeting with Akimune to discuss the matter of the inheritance, Sei reunites with his senpai, and first love Sugiura Takaki. However, Sugiura doesn’t seem to remember Sei and acts coldly towards him. This was a cute manga, if a tad too cliché. I liked it a lot, mostly because Sei is so precious. He’s like a little puppy, you just want to cuddle him. Even though he’s so fluffy and delicate, I like that he went after his first love, even when he was treated badly. Sugiura went overboard with the whole ‘keeping the distance’ thing but he wasn’t unbearable or anything. I see where he’s coming from but still. I was okay with him and his indifferent attitude. The side characters were great though. I loved the lawyer, Tateishi, he was awesome. I wanted to see more of him. I would recommend this if you’re in the mood for adorable protagonists and a light story.

Three stories that had the ukes be the sex slaves of the semes. (p.10-33;34-41;101-105). Okano Hiroyuki is a social studies instructor that becomes the sex slave to his student Tokiwa Munehisa, after he is molested in a train. I’m kind of indifferent to this story. The whole ‘I bully you because I like you’ thing is a hit or miss for me, and in this story it was a definite miss. Tokiwa was such a dick, I wanted to jump in and strangle him. To me there wasn’t any connection between those two characters, their relationship just wasn’t interesting to me. I liked Tokiwa’s interaction with the other couple more than his interactions with Okano. 3/5. (p.44-69;70-97). Nishio Atsushi is irritated by the fact that his classmate, Yoshino Yuto is constantly staring at his friend Tokiwa. After catching him peeping on Okano and Tokiwa having sex, Nishio makes Yoshino his slave. This was my favorite of the three stories. While Nishio was less of an ass than Tokiwa I still felt really bad for Yoshino. Nishio has a turbulent family situation, which causes him to take it out on Yoshino. I liked this more than the other stories because the characters and their relationship were more developed. (*Spoiler Alert: At least by the end of it, Nishio realizes he has feelings for Yoshino and graduates him from slave to lover.*) 4/5 (5-6). Shizuki Haru hates his physics teacher, Yamada Akihiko, because he’s convinced he’s gay. He harasses the teacher in various ways and gets divine justice in the form of becoming the teacher’s plaything. My least favorite of the three. Shizuki is a little shit, Yamada is hateful and there was no reason for Shizuki to be subjected to Yamada’s bullying. 2/5 I would recommend this if you like: dominant, possessive semes that like to bully their submissive ukes, bondage and the use of sex toys.

In the year 1931 Shinya Kaito’s planned to elope with his lover Yuriko and travel around the world. However, she was married off to a powerful man named Sugai. Being abandoned by the woman he loved, Kaito swore to get revenge for choosing money instead of him. Fast-forward 18 years later, Yuriko died and her son, Sugai Nanami meets Kaito. Now a wealthy man, Kaito buys Nanami from his uncle and forces him to be Yuriko’s substitute. This manga was kind of predictable and rushed as hell. There was one twist that was interesting but it was resolved far too quickly. As for the characters, Nanami was the typical weak uke, he didn’t really have much of a personality but he was likeable. He wasn’t annoying and he was kind of cute. I didn’t really buy his romance with Kaito but I’m glad he got a happy end. He deserved it after all the shit he went through all his life. Kaito was really jealous, possessive and downright creepy. He definitively had a couple of screws loose. I will say this, I liked the thing with the letters, and I think the character designs are good. All in all, it was an okay manga, nothing memorable. If you’re into jealous, possessive lovers, the “I bought you as a sex slave” plotline and you don’t mind the whole falling in love with the rapist trope, then I recommend this manga.