Hanami's manga / #Psychological(2)

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.

I have read this manga more than five times now and the feeling it leaves me with is akin to biting down on a broken tooth. I felt like I was on a rollercoaster ride that crashed and burned at the end. The story involves three friends, whom I will refer to as seme, uke and friend since none of them have names. The gist of it is: uke likes the friend, seme likes the uke, there’s a weird love triangle and they’re all jerks that deserve no sympathy. Like seriously I couldn’t find anything likeable about any of them. The ending is okay in my opinion, sure we don’t get a clear resolution of what happens to the characters after those last pages, but knowing these characters it’s not hard to imagine where they’re going. Overall, even with that ending I liked watching those three hurt themselves, it was painful but oddly enjoyable. If you’re looking for something dark, bitter, angst-y, with a love triangle and you don’t mind an open ending, this should be right up your alley. Also here is my opinions on all of the characters. I didn't want to put it in here because it contains spoilers. http://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/854507/