blueberry's manga / #Angst(558)

MC’s dialogue is hilarious I love his sass sm. Story had cute moments. Plot progression is pretty good, I enjoyed the angst. The badassery parts were a little lacklustre cuz of the art style, unfortunately, but was included at the right times. You sorta get the vibe that the author was shoehorning smut though. Comments claimed such a wild red flag out of the ML that I honestly expected worse…I mean, as a person he still sucks, but he ain’t that bad. Just uhhh quite childish and impulsive, and not very good at compromise.

Note to future self: Read it in full if I’m ready for emotional pain (not the good kind) but a HEA literary masterpiece. It’s great. I skimmed and skipped a lot of chapters cuz I wasn’t strong enough, but this story is a cinematic masterpiece. Such complex and interwoven relationships, very strong “found family” vibes, everyone loving each other in their own complicated way, etc…I’m so cooked Other characters were so well-written: - Late wife is so beautiful inside and out. Strongest, coolest, most devoted,most empathetic, most patient, best lady of the house. So smart and confident about her position in ML’s life that she allowed morally grey relationships to continue…because she knew that as abnormal as it all was, it works just right. - daughter (Reika) is so relatable I cried fuck…and she’s aware and super considerate of her dad and wants the best for him, and is so emotionally mature - Hachi (“pet” lol) is so cool and funny too. I bet he’ll be the best older brother to Reika. He reads the mood very well and is sharp enough to acknowledge Reika’s emotional sacrifices - ML is such a unique and aloof character that’s also dutiful, responsible, super cool, enigmatic, and self-sacrificing to a fault. My god, his acts during childhood to keep the peace of the family and make his brother happy…fuck. Crying. - MC is our resident pity-boy lol we love him. He’s done much for others around him too.

Ch.4 - Superficial drama cuz uke couldn’t communicate for sht…he only said 10% of what he was (over)thinking, even when it was confirmed their feelings were mutual???? Wtf you have a mouth (and he wasn’t in play anymore), speak mf. Author made him “fall asleep” at the worst time to prevent communication too, like how fkn dumb is that??? Ch.5-6 ok the makeup scene was fine

Very nice, very fluff, has good angst elements :) Melancholic vibes are a tiny bit strong tho, so might be a little painful to reread. Deals with relocations, establishing a new life, and merging two opposite worlds together (yakuza and normie). Very romantic but I sense some tragedies lying in the near future, purely cuz of the yakuza’s lifestyle :( sadge

Lmaooo they’re cute and got their funny moments Fun read :D

It got so damn fluffy LOL they’re cute they’re cute The communications were pretty well-handled, albeit a tiny bit childish but reasonable given their backgrounds Seme was being a little inhumanely/unrealistically villainous at the beginning to the point that his cutesyness during the established relationship was a massive jump in character, but oh well they cute and it was decently addressed anyway Fluff was so fluffy but a bit too flowery in effects?? XDD Author loved heartbeats my lawd

DNF’d at Side story 6. It’s technically all cute and fluffy side stories with a 1/100th of the drama we were subjected to in the main story, but I’m tired. I’ve lost patience with this couple. I can’t even be happy reading all the good fluff about them cuz man. I’m tired. —- Ok so it technically had brands of angst I should’ve liked..but reading this sht was painful and frustrating. The over-consideration for each other leading into miscommunications exhausted me to no end, and there were too many moments when they should’ve just. FUCKING. TALKED. SPEAK MOTHERFUCKERS, Y’ALL GOT A FUNCTION BRAIN AND MOUTH!?!!? They kept on losing trust in each other and I’m not about that life man… Uke had his badass and funny moments (more initially) but his chronic condition of “running away at first sign of doubt” in Season 2 pissed me off to no end. Sure seme had his flaws, but seme was literally carrying the relationship with how he expertly chased after the skittish uke, COMMUNICATED (or attempted to anyways), and got his own life together (ok sure uke did many things himself too, but I digress). My fucking god reading this was a headache. Uke’s character development went backwards. So ok, fine, I can let go of the frustrating angst cuz author developed lots of rationale for them. Ngl author was excessively putting them through life’s trials, but…sigh. Fine. It’s fine. But what annoys me is that they just get their career fully in order and all their childhood traumas or chronic hormone condition just vanish into thin air? And they magically became expert parents without any research from their part and they’re now giving the baby full care WHILE training and winning Olympic gold medals? Author took the easy way out and really forced this by making the baby’s nature “easy to work with”. Such lazy fucking writing. What a forced HEA. Literally a princess fairytale, gross. The ending is a nice way to wrap up the story and was drawn really well with all its symbolism. Too bad the excess and dramatic miscommunications pissed me off too much to enjoy it, even if they had good rationale. I almost dropped this story too many times… Oh yeah and smut is boring. Well drawn but boring.

Woah the chapters were surprisingly long WE GOT ONE HELL OF A TREAT!!!! It was so good SO CUTE ahhhhh I love them so much They’re pretty bad at communicating and there are elements of man-child and weaponized incompetence (and typical yaoi brand anti-socialism) but I think that’s just japan’s patriarchy seeping into the author’s perception of the “norm” lol. Oh well they’re both depicted to be happy with the flaws so whatever Apparently this had a live action and yeah I’m not surprised, it’s really well-made :)

4.5-5*; very poetic and well-written, was very sweet :) 1st of series It uh, really glossed over the pedo tho eh lmao. Guess he ran without repercussions