Cherry Blossoms After Winter
Personally, I think this story is so overrated, as it's actually so average and insipid...nothing special! It was quite bland: for example, all the settings and backgrounds were very basic and bland (which remains the right word to describe everything about this!). There was nothing eyecatching, really...and it was boring as well, especially the more it dragged on, the more it became unbearable: it got so boring, in the end I read some of the last epilogue chapters just going through them quickly, because I didn't want to waste any more time and I just wanted to get it over with! The characters themselves weren't interesting. Well, we could say that Haebom was a cute kid, but still plain. And Taesung wasn't that likeable for me. At first, it was cute, so I thought that had to be the strong point of the story and the reason why it had such a high rating...but, underneath that cute appearance, there were parts|scenes that left a bitter taste, like those scenes where the seme lost control and the sex was kinda forced on the uke...that added a toxic scent to the relationship! And talking about sex, while at first it took them a while to finally do it [ch. 63 they finally have their first intimate contact // ch. 66 they finally do it], then it became so full of sex scenes that I got tired of it! From the third season, it became repetitive and boring. Seriously, of course I was excited when they finally did it and, after a long wait, maybe the author even tried to make up for it by finally giving us many intimate scenes...but, after a bit, it became too much, because almost every chapter was about them doing it! u.u In the end, I gave it three stars, because it wasn't entirely bad and I still kinda liked it, let's say, but it was more of a 2-stars-story!
Just Like You
Contrary to what it seemed at first, as they kept referring to themselves as brothers, it seems to me this isn't a family affair story at all, because they aren't actually brothers or anything. They are childhood friends and they families are also close. If anything, it's said that the older guy's parents were the younger one's godparents, but that doesn't make them related...
Stand Up Baby
1 Volume (Complete) - Dropped...
Sukisyo
// Based on a Game and Light Novel series, which were also adapted into the famous BL anime // >> Well, it wasn't that bad, but it wasn't that good either. Because it felt like a draft. It was only a taste of the actual story. And, just about that, if one doesn't know the original story, for me it doesn't make much sense, it lacks a lot of background info. There are glimpses of their past, but it doesn't go much far into the actual story, let alone reaching the core plot. This remains at shounen ai level and basically this is almost entirely about them preparing for and doing a school play anyway. But, as I read then in the afterwards, it seems this adaptation came out when there wasn't much source material yet, so that could explain why there was so little to this. And it would also explain why the anime, which came out later, was very different. In any case, I prefer the anime. Altough it wasn't that great either for me, but it was certainly better than this.
My Starry Sky