RoseMary's manga / #Childhood Friends(328)

≪✿✿≫ A beautiful masterpiece! - Ahhh so many life lessons here! I really loved each and every word said in this story...it became so precious to me. I loved the characters together with all their thoughts and feelings, how the story was structured and its pace. It was so well-crafted...in every little detail, characters' small movements or little changes of expression there were so many emotions! If you pay attention to those details, the more that the story develops, the more that you realize how from the very beginning their every action and word were so meaningful (especially in Touma's case)! It made me really empathize with the characters and I was so invested in the reading that I really devoured it! This is the best kind of youth / coming of age story to read for me! And I also hope that at some point there will be an anime adaptation, because it's so worth it and I'd love to see it getting animated! P.S. I admit that in the end I wanted to see more of those years they skipped through the time skip. Because, before that, Taichi told Touma his feelings weren't the same but he liked being with him and wanted them to stay best friends, but in the last chapter it's implied that, after he broke up with Futaba, he eventually chose Touma. They even got married, as we can see from the ring and also from Touma signing as Ichinose at Futaba's wedding (meaning that he took Taichi's surname), and they went to live together. Of course I'm so glad they ended up together and I actually liked the way the last chapter was done, but it's just that I wanted to see a bit more, especially the moment Taichi decided to be with Touma. But yeah, that was just me being a bit greedy...the story is truly great as it is!

Well, the ending certainly leaves the reader a bit unsatisfied, like one was expecting something more, something definite, you know, a final scene that would seem like a proper closure. But I actually think it's understandable that the author ended it like that, because after all that's just they way Jou and Azuma are, the way their very relationship is all along! So, there wasn't really the need to say anything more and imo a sweet, lovey-dovey scene would have actually felt forced for them. Just Azuma simply asking Jou to go to Nagano (where his real house is) with him for spring break and Jou agreeing conveyed their unspoken understanding and let us know that they'll stay together in the future. The wall Azuma put up around him finally has been broken down and he is now resolute about accepting everything. They feel the same about each other...just like the author said, let's hope they can officially call themselves partners soon! So, I can accept the ending just as it is! Overall, the story was great and I really loved it! Not a masterpiece, but it's an impressive story...one of a kind! # Private|Prestigious School, Catholic School, All-Boys School, Friends "become Lovers", Beautiful Art, Unexpressed Feelings, Friends Grow Distant, Family Drama|Complicated Family (Azuma's), Transfer Student (Jou returns from the USA), Soccer, Love-Hate Relationship|Bickering Love, Sickly but Strong Uke, Strong Seme, Stolen Kiss (when they were younger, Azuma kissed Jou while he was asleep at the hospital. So they were each other's first kiss), Roommates (for a part of the story), Injuries (Jou somehow always ends up in some kind of accident|trouble and Azuma has a motorcycle accident and a stomach ulcer)

Story revolving around the members of the school's basketball club: • [Main Couple] Ikeuchi x Shinoda // Straight Freshman Seme x Gay Older Uke // Senpai x Kouhai // Virgin Uke • [Side Couple] Minagawa Haruhiko (who had a crush on Shinoda) x Childhood Friend Shin // Gay Uke / Seke (actually a seme who bottoms only for Shin) // 2nd-year Students // Classmates (in the same class as Shinoda) > The main couple was cute and I liked it, but I think the vibe of the relationship between Minagawa and Shin and the characters themselves were more interesting! Too bad they had so little space and their situation wasn't really definitive yet, so I wish sensei had done a proper story for them too! > Oneshot included (Ch. 5.1 Hug Me, Hold Me) - Coworkers // Salaryman // Gay Uke x Straight Seme // Adult Couple - 3 stars for this.

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Cousins // Half-Japanese Half-American Uke x Japanese Seme > Well, that turn at the end of chapter 4 when the seme suddenly rapes the uke just because of a misunderstanding on his part was bad...even when the uke tells him to stop and listen to him, the seme slaps him and stops his mouth! It was a funny and cute story, so that was in bad taste, considering the vibe of the story till then. Overall, I kinda liked it (for me it's a 2.5), but it was better if that didn't happen and actually I'm not a fan of the characters. Also, when they talk in the end, the seme says he doesn't regret it! And then the uke, after kicking / punching him a few times, says he didn't dislike it in the end...he also loves him, so of course they have their happy ending, but it was still a bad dynamic and it made me feel it was pointless to take it seriously and getting frustrated on the uke's behalf...

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.