Lil Maniac's manga / #twisted(6)

All i can say is... (º_º) wtf did i just read?!

..... damn. I did not see that coming..That was so intense I couldn’t stop myself from reading even though it made me kinda uncomfortable... but shit. All I could do was stare in amazement as the scenes played out. I like the fact that this isn’t the typical yaoi, but, for fear of my sanity being stolen from me, I don’t think I’m gonna read this one again. I couldn’t even finish reading this and had to skim through the last few chapters because it was too intense for me. I mean, I’ve read more brutal works, rape scenes, psychopathic characters and such, but this was just.... I couldn’t do it. Since this had me so appalled, i dunno how to rate it, so I’m just gonna leave this here as such.

Idek why this has such a high rating.. I really did not like it. But well, that’s just my opinion. I read this a few years back, but all I remember is that I really hated it: the fact that the seme tried to come between his friend and his friend’s lover, the fact that they didn’t reject it, the fact that one person kept getting hurt because of one person’s selfishness and unwillingness to stop trying to monopolize his friend and steal his belongings. Honestly, it was just a dumb situation and futile love triangle.

Well then. That was... something.... here I was, hoping that somehow this would be one rare story where the mc escaped and DIDNT fall for his stalker. That’s the direction in was going after all, in some ways. But to think he’d just... give in... he became perpetrator himself, made the stalker fall for him and get even more obsessed, then they kinda just... and what a fragile relationship it is too, hardly a power struggle anymore. Now, it’s to the point where either of them can live without each other... I gotta say tho. This was an interesting premise for a story, and tho I might complain about things that happened in it or how things turned out, the fact remains that I couldn’t take my eyes off it and was fascinated to the end.

Dark but interesting

I was gonna give this to 5 stars but retracted it back to 4 stars after the first sex scene. Right after the freckin discovery (that akira was not mamoru). It would have been better to make this manga a bit longer instead of jumping straight to sex. Like, u just escaped from the illusion that he isn’t a brother but actually a stranger that’s been living with u this whole time, and ur going to suddenly kiss and have sex with him? Without any reservations? This would have been a heck of a lot better if that part was better paced. That’s the thing that almost ruined what was otherwise a masterpiece of a story. The dark emotions and deep trauma in this were really well portrayed. Even I shed some tears. Their characters and backgrounds were so well developed, and the story was just so very well written man. When kaoru finally accepted his brother’s death (particularly the scene where he put out the incense and pictures) I was so moved I even shed some tears bro. Plus seeing akira’s past and his shit mother hurt my kokoro. This story is amazing and well written in s many ways, that’s why I was so disappointed by that sudden sex scene that came out of nowhere. It’s like it was put there just for the sake of making this a yaoi manga instead of a shounen ai tragedy slice of life. It wouldn’t have been so out of place if it happened a few chapters later, after kaoru had a little more time to accept reality and who was in front of him (akira). Anyways, I’ll still give it 4 stars since it was such an amazing story.