RoseMary's manga / #University(159)

Webcomic version of the manga Rike ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumeishitemita

// Complete // - Note: The story ends with ch. 4. Ch. 5-8 are some french uploads. Adapted from novel - There's also a live-action movie.

"Together, in joy and in sorrow..." - A slice-of-life BL masterpiece with a pretty unique beginning (and ending as well)! Overall, it's a beautiful story which through time progression tells the pure but also painful love story of two guys from their teens to when they're old. Well, I have to say that the time progression felt a bit rushed. For example, I wanted to see a bit more when they started going out and were still high-school students. And their university phase was also passed on very quickly. Also, their first time was not shown, and I wanted to see it, as it was something new that they experienced for the first time together. Notwithstanding, the story is very good, especially considering it's a story written in one volume only! And after all, I think the author wrote it like that, because she wanted us to look upon the whole and, more than on the concrete steps and intimate moments of their relationship, to focus on the emotional aspect of their relationship, which is put to hard test when along the way it is confronted with some realistic societal issues and worries an adult in a same-sex couple may face, like the ones faced by Itou in this case. So the core of the story was about the crisis and break up they faced along the way. Well, all is well that ends well! I'm glad, despite his decision, Itou's unchanged feelings for Nishi were so strong that they brought him back to Nishi, who also wasn't never able to forget Itou, and so they got back together in that sort of fateful reunion in the magical atmosphere of the aurora in Alaska and then spent their lives together till the time of their deaths came. And yes, the author showed us the moments of their respective deaths, Itou before (at 69) and Nishi years after (at 82), and although that's sad, it's the natural course of things so I still appreciated how she portrayed a realistic story till the very end! Apart from tragedies, they almost never show us this in stories, but in the end, unless they're immortal characters, that's what is going to happen to all the characters of the stories we read. That's just how life is, after all! > In the extra I liked when it briefly showed both their mothers meeting once at the hospital when they were both pregnant, expecting Itou and Nishi. It was like they were really fated to meet each other even before being born! xD

I don't know...well, I was quite excited to read this, because it seemed my kind of story and at the beginning it really was. I liked the art style and I really liked the characters. I liked how they met and there was a good vibe / atmosphere going on. But then somehow it failed to captivate me. While I was curious to see how they would have gotten together, the development of their relationship and the dynamics of the story didn't impress me much then...I mean, it was a good story and I liked it, but I wasn't much satisfied. The first two chapters were really good and made me anticipating, but then with every other chapter ending and nothing much happening, my excitement faded. And just like that, it was already the ending of the story. Even the thing about the model not revealing his name, at first it made him kinda mysterious and interesting, but then we still didn't get to find out not even in the end and that was a bit weird. So, yeah, it left me wanting more... >> Note: it's Shounen Ai not Yaoi!!

1 Volume (Complete) - Hope to read the whole story...

In general terms, I liked it. I mean, I liked the general idea and how it began, how the two met, but, I don't know, it didn't impress me particularly. I must say that, while I like this type of couple in terms of appearance and age, I didn't like much the characters themselves in terms of personality and attitude. They looked good together but something was missing on the emotional level. I didn't feel any chemistry between them. Also because I didn't like much the development of the story and their relationship...for example, I'm not much into this dynamic where one keeps running away from committing themselves, the uke here, and the other, the seme here, persistently does everything on his own to get together with the love interest...that's boring to me, especially if I don't even like the characters. Of course, that's just my personal taste, but that's how I felt about this story...

30 y.o. Salaryman x Uni Student