An Uncomfortable Truth
Wow. I don't know entirely what to say. I think this manga perfectly portrays how many sides there are to everyone. It shows how everything can be messed up just because of one mistake, it affects so much more than what you realize. This manga also showed over and over how devastating things can turn out just by not telling people how you feel or explaining things better. It shows how you have to be careful of your actions and exactly what you say. This manga...showed so many sides of each person making you feel differently about them every time you found out something else about them and their life. The ending was so sad I cried. So many emotions were given to me by this manga. There are things in here even I myself still have trouble understanding, the emotions I mean. It shows how hard it is to comprehend your own emotions and it just also happened to include emotions I have felt before and couldn't understand at the time. It also introduced ways of thinking, ways of feeling, and ways of interpreting things differently. This manga was definitely worth a read. It was both refreshing for me personally and downright heartbreaking at the same time. I've always hated how people portray "mental illness" and frankly I hate when I even hear those words. People always blow things off. "well, there were mentally unstable that's why they did it". IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE. IT'S NOT JUST THAT PLAIN AND SIMPLE. I HATE THE LABEL I REALLY DO. THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE HURT AND CONFUSED AND DON'T KNOW HOW TO ACT OR UNDERSTAND. THEIR ACTIONS ARE UNPREDICTABLE BECAUSE OF IT BUT THEY AREN'T CRAZY, THEY ARE THE SAME AS US BUT EVERYTHING INSIDE THEM IS JUMBLED & TANGLED UP. YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND HOW OR WHY THEY THINK AND ACT THE WAY THEY DO. I HATE THE LABEL "CRAZY" "MENTALLY ILL/UNSTABLE" THEY ARE STILL PEOPLE. THEY ARE A MESS AND POSSIBLY UNREPAIRABLE BUT STILL, PEOPLE AND STILL HAVE EMOTIONS. IT IS NOT RIGHT TO DISMISS EVERYTHING THEY FEEL, EVERYTHING THEY'VE GONE THROUGH IN LIFE, AND EVERYTHING THEY MIGHT'VE DONE AS "CRAZY". *sigh* So yeah, this manga made me feel many things and I am very happy I gave it a chance. This mangaka is incredibly amazing. I can't though, the ending hurts I still wanna cry WHYYYYYY *sobs intensify* (I can't believe I basically read like 74 chapters in a day holy sh*t) I need a better life...
Kimijima Kyoudai no Honkai
Basic as far as this theme goes in BL. I feel like I've just finished reading something that I've read before. There isn't anything particularly bad about it aside from the uke's body type and face changing back and forth between an uke-type and a seme-type which kind of defeated the whole "I don't look like an uke but I want to be an uke for you" thing that it was going for. It's meh for me. I'll mark it as a 3 though, I guess. No wait, a 2. I'm judging more harshly tonight apparently. It just wasn't much considering that I've seen it all before, therefore it was 100% predictable and lacked substance for me personally.
Koushaku no Himeta Kuchizuke