RoseMary's manga / #Androgyny(131)

Adapted from Novel: Hua Hua You Long - novelupdates.com / series / hua-hua-you-long /

Italian comic by DANY&DANY // OEL

Actor (the Number 1 Most Beautiful Man) x Make-up Artist // Both 29 y.o. // Virgin Uke x Gay Seme

Part-timer at Konbini|Cross-dressing "barmaid" Uke (27) x Younger Virgin Fisherman Seme (24)

The male lead is gay but he gets hard for the female lead, whom he mistook for a guy.

Beautifully-written tragic short story, which is regarded as "the first shonen-ai manga published and contains the earliest known male-male kiss in shōjo manga."

Collection of different kinds of stories by Lee Young Hee. ✤ Ch. 1 HWA - Two boys and their emotional scars. Childhood friends' reunion. 4 stars. ✤ Ch. 2 Truth - A boy, a girl, and the boy's brother. ✤ Ch. 3 Uninvited 115 - A female assassin and the boy she kills who appears before her as a ghost / an angel. ✤ Ch. 4 Beat - A drummer and his tomboy fangirl. 3 stars. ✤ Ch. 5 The Little Prince - An overprotected girl and the spunky guy that saves her. 3 stars. > The last two stories were not bad, I liked them, but the story that caught my attention in this collection is definitely the title story, the first one! I really liked it, it was the kind of story I'd have loved in BL! > Note: This manhwa is tagged as Shounen Ai here, but it's not! It's at most bromance in the first story, which has BL-like situation and dynamics.

️Great story by Ikeda Riyoko that somehow is regrettably underrated and a bit forgotten as well, when in actuality it's a masterpiece! A coming-of-age gem! It's sad but beautiful. Deep and emotional. Especially for those who like classics and melodrama, this is a must-read! I like both manga and anime. Apart from some differences between them (with some added and|or expanded scenes, also rendered in a more melodramatic way, and especially differences regarding the final tragic events in the last chapters and the ending itself, which, on the contrary, were toned down a bit respect to the manga and the biggest difference would be Kaoru’s ending, which isn’t a tragic one in the anime), I think they are both great. About the anime, I have to say that I personally was particularly impressed by it. It's one of my favourites! It's really well-done and especially visually is well crafted: I loved all the details, all the different lights and colors, and framing. All the different background scenes like the beautiful ever-changing views of the sea and sunset, and the city's lights at night, the rainy scenes and all the general scholastic atmosphere! I loved every little detail and the music as well! Each episode was great. And it makes me feel so nostalgic, because there aren't anime like this anymore! I actually had already watched it long ago, but I didn't read the manga back then. So, now I'm so glad to have watched it again and to have finally read the manga as well! I totally recommend both anime and manga.️ > Note: It includes both lesbian and straight elements. And it includes heavy issues. Anime: gogoanime.nl / anime / dear-brother-147v