moody_bish's manga / #unrequited love(26)

Sex is very open in this one. Not only is Ryo already actively engaging in sex during middle school, he also did it with an adult. His friend Nao is in an open relationship. Basically, he asks for his girlfriend's opinion whenever he wants to engage with sexual activities with other people. In this case, he is in a sexual relationship with Ryo, consented and even fully understood by his girlfriend. Chika, the center piece of this story, could be considered the average person involved in a threesome for the sake of pleasure. Unlike the two, he only does it with Nao since he finds him adorable. The "romance" begins when Nao suggested that Chika bottoms, offering his anal virginity to Ryo. Then, we recognize that Ryo has been looking at Chika, has fallen in love with him and swerves his sex drive towards Nao (who is secretly aware of this) and to those who offer themselves to him. After that experience, Chika becomes conscious of Ryo and ultimately leads to Ryo confessing to Chika. The push and pull relationship between the two also affects Nao in a sense that he valued the open relationship between the three of them. However, knowing full well that the two had become devoted to each other, no signs of sexual activities between the three occured. Actually, none of Nao's sexual rendezvous were narrated but we are given the girlfriend's perspective and explanation that she has chosen Nao knowing full well of his character. Besides, she investigates Nao's partners. She trusts Ryo to not hurt Nao, as well as Chika. In this case, personal preferences and sentiments are best PERSONAL SENTIMENTS only. anyway, Ryo and Chika gets into trouble when Ryo is being told to transfer in Hokkaido with his parents. A challenge which would also show a supportive relationship slowly being fostered by the tsundere Chika and the self-reliant Ryo. The characters portrayed are indeed MINORS. Even if the execution of how an open relationship works is respectful and functional, using underaged characters weakens the impact. It becomes forced or dubious... the type you really can't digest because the characters seem too young to make the whole thing actually work. I believe that independent or adult characters would've driven the premise more effectively, if not even make this better. but i guess parents interferring wouldnt be an arc plausible for adults?

a drunken despair of an unrequoted love complicates the lives of four individuals. Henry, who loved his friend secretly for 9 years. Chance, who has separation anxiety supposed to be wedded with Lucia. Lucia, who is depressed from her mother's death. Lucious, Lucia's older brother who became Henry's confidant. It was just a wish brought up by weariness and enduring pain... but it was a wish that turned back time and screwed the timeline. Henry tries to straighten the timeline, along with Lucious. However, the wish's interference will only unravel the worst of those who were originally supposed to be happy. pet peeve would be that the dialogues are often so run on that it forces the plot to just be tragic. at the middle, it just didn't make much sense anymore. I'm actually amazed that Henry is still determined because in the first place, did he know? Was it his fault that his pain-riddled wish came true? and spoilers, i'm so pissed with Chance and Lucious. And i just feel like Lucia needed more screentime. She suffered so much as well but was sort of thrown around. the ending felt a little abrupt, too, especially after the whole headache of pushes and pulling that even led to freaking rape, gaslighting—which istg was only brushed off in the end.

except the nurse x student and the bi x straight, only the first and last stories are absolutely decent reads

Drunken "mistakes" haha. Fortunately for our guy to have had a weirdly tolerable and responsible Maki, he really loved the right person.