vignette00's manga / #bizarre love triangle(6)

One day we're going to have a long conversation about Toribito Hitomi's obsession with incestuous relationships but today is not that day. Main character Yuuji is drawn into a weird web centering around Anju, a classmate famous both for his beauty and his hedonism. Meanwhile we get involved with Yuuji's brother who has had a rush on Anju for years and the mysterious Kaoru no Kimi, someone Anju claims is special to him. The plot-twist of Kaoru no Kimi's identity is obvious to people familiar with Oniisama e..., though the joke is most likely a Genji Monogatari reference. On the whole, it feels like Toribito bit of more than she can chew, with multiple love triangles, a main character who becomes a passive narrator, and a plot that doesn't go anywhere. It's like sloppier Takaguchi Satosumi (Poet Was Not... or Pink, perhaps?) and is interesting if only for the comparison to Toribito's current work, which is much tighter and dramatically interesting.