RoseMary's manga / #Step-brothers(17)

Collection of two stories: • Ch. 1-3 I don't know my brother / I have a love relationship with my brother - Sui's beloved step-brother Shinichirou, who moved out when he started college, returned home after a little more than a year, but now his appearance is different from before: yakuza-like, dyed hair, ear piercings and even a tattoo!? Also, about a year ago, he dropped out from college. To sum it up, he looks like a different person! >> Wah~ We have pure and genuine feelings here! I really liked the beginning, how they interacted right after their reunion and the pleasant, slow pace of the story. But, regarding the plot, I think at first it started good, but then it went downhill and became kinda random and not really interesting, especially in the third chapter with that new friend from school coming into the picture out of nowhere. Overall it was still a nice and enjoyable step-brothers story to read, but, while it was cute, it was also kinda bland. Also, it felt more like shounen ai than yaoi. Anyway, siblings' reunions always leave me with positive feelings: they can be cool, touching etc. In this case, it was so sweet and heartwarming~ [Spoiler / Note for me] The big bro wanted to be a cop but, being color blind, he had to give up his dream and, to remind himself that it was really impossible, he even got a tattoo. • Ch. 4-5 The novelist's love is troublesome / The novelist's boyfriend is troublesome - Novelist // Gay Uke // Friends become Lovers // Adult Couple // Straight Seme (First time with a guy)

Adapted from: Mankai Darling - Haruhiko and Takashi from Mankai Darling appear here in Bokura no Negai from ch. 4, when Hayato, one of the brothers protagonists here starts working part-time at the flower shop of Haruhiko, who is now 34 y.o. Hayato works there till the end of the story. ≪✿✿≫ I really like BL stories revolving around the members of a certain family. Especially if they're a bit long, so that I can take it slow and taste it well. Also, I like stories with time progression, because I like to follow all the characters' events in different periods of their lives, to see them grow up and such. I really liked the whole atmosphere and all of the characters here! About the side couple, Haruhiko and Takashi from the flower shop, I must say that I actually wasn't crazy for them and their story (from Mankai Darling), but here they fitted so well with the whole story and they gave a nice contribute, especially Haruhiko really made things funny and in the end he also helped in getting Hayato and Ryou together! About the main couples, I was really satisfied with Kento and Take. For Ryou and Hayato, I have to say that in the end I wanted to see a bit more of them as "lovers" and not "brothers" anymore. Because while I really liked the whole process and the pace, with Hayato's conflicted feelings, he talking about it with Haruhiko first and then with Kento as well...then confessing and in the end finally getting together. But that's at the end that they get together, so I felt that I needed a bit more. But I really loved everything about this story! One of my top favourites by sensei!! • Ryou, mistakenly translated as Ame in the first chapters (Eldest brother, not related by blood to the rest of the brothers // 19 y.o. in the 1st chapter, 20 in the 2nd chapter, by the end he's around 23 // Straight and Virgin Uke // After their parents die in the first chapter, he takes on the family business and runs the cafè) x Hayato (3rd brother // In the first chapter he's about 13 (he's an eighth-grader, so a 2nd-year middle-school student), 14 in the 2nd chapter (3rd-year middle-school student) // Virgin Seme // He falls in love with Ryou first // After completing middle school and high school, he is admitted to uni by the end) // Step-brothers // Age Gap // Older Uke // They get together at the end • Kento (2nd brother // In the 1st chapter he's probably 16, in the second chapter 17 (3rd-year high-school student), by the end around 20 // After graduating from high school, he helps Ryou running the cafè // Gay Uke // He's in a physical relationship with his first guy, an older salaryman, but then he get with Takeya, although at first he rejects him) x Takeya, mistakenly translated as Yuya in the first chapters (Masato's classmate // At the beginning he's a fifth-grader in elementary school and he's about 10 // By the end he's about to enter high school // He confesses his feelings to Kento at the beginning; they get together a bit after but they do it after Take is accepted to high school) // Age Gap: 6 years // Older Uke • Masato (4th brother // At the beginning he's a fifth-grader in elementary school and he's about 10 // By the end he's about to enter high school) [[The dramatic part is mostly in the first chapter, where Ryou's father dies in a car accident and then the three brothers' mother dies because of cancer. After that, it's actually a warm and fun series]]

Really good and fun story with cordial and warm vibe! I really liked all the characters and the whole crazy family situation! A "Home Drama" for real haha I liked how, despite having all different mothers and being so different themselves from one another, the brothers get along so well and are comfortably living together, and also being together in somehow always driving away housekeepers one after the other haha They really needed someone like Shinnosuke, so capable in everything and also tough, literally able to knock them down ohoh he was cute and cool at the same time! In the end, I gave 4 stars to the story though, because I felt like something was still missing there to make it really completed. I loved the way Shinnosuke and the 2nd bro, Ryuuzou, became a couple, from their earlier interactions to the following development...but, while there was a good building up, I felt their sex scene was too brief. I wish it could have been felt a bit more! And the end felt a bit abrupt, with them becoming step-brothers at the very end: I mean, it's right there at the end that an actual "step-siblings' love" story would have begun! Also, its' a pity that things didn't work out for Kouji and Kyougo, the eldest and the third brothers. Too bad the third bro's feelings were one-sided. Especially since, although they didn't tell it to him, it turned out the third bro was actually their father's best friend's son, so it wouldn't have been even incest. Actually, even if the eldest said he couldn't return his feelings, at the end it felt like their situation was still unresolved, because even Ryuuzou said the thing with them was still hanging in the balance, so we needed more! Also, in the end, the little bro receiving a love letter from a third-year student and thinking about it...we definitely needed to see more about that as well! Yep, without a doubt, it would have been really nice to see more of all the other brothers! In fact, when I read stories with brothers, I love to see all of their events. That's something really amusing! So yeah, I kinda needed a second volume to see a bit more of everything! But it's still a favourite of mine!! I really enjoyed reading it! >> Note for myself: [[Toura brothers - 4 half-brothers*: Kouji (31, Eldest bro, Salaryman, Straight); Ryuuzou (28, 2nd bro, Scriptwriter, Gay); Kyougo (17, 3rd bro, High-school student, He's in love with the eldest bro, Gay); Koroku (14, 4th bro, Middle-school student, by the end he has barely just started questioning about love and sexuality) - and the new housekeeper, Shinnosuke (23, Tea Ceremony Instructor, Currently housekeeper at the Toura Household, Straight, He suspected he also was an half-brother of the the Toura bros, because his mother knew their father around the time he was born, but that wasn't the case at all. But in the very end of the story he really becomes their step-brother due to his mother and the bros' father meeting in Alaska and getting together. // *It turned out the third bro is actually not related to the bros]]

I didn't like the oneshot included in ch. 7, it was so weird u.u

• Ch. 1-4.6 Familiar - Step-brothers // High-School Student Straight Seme x Older Gay Uke (tbh I'd have liked to know how old the characters are! Especially the uke: he's a working adult, maybe a young adult, but his age is not told and that bothered me a bit, as I like to know such details about the characters) • Ch. 5-5.5 Fairytale Game - Part-time Job // Coworkers // Older Uke // Age Gap // Adult Couple // Young Adult (21) x Adult (26) // Shorter Seme

1 Volume (Complete) - Dropped... > Not a fav, but I kinda like it.