otakulys's manga / #childhood friends(71)

Aw, how pretty and perfect! Can't wait for more. I wish more stories would just get the flustered uncertainty out of the way early on. I'm in it for the established relationships, damn it. Assuming this isn't just one story in an anthology, which would suck. Fingers crossed, either way. I love how he sits there, agonizing and certain that he's just gonna tell the guy that he's cutting off contact, then the second he sees him he's frantically confessing. XD EDIT: Ah, okay, so chapter two is a continuation, just with a different couple. This salon is teeming with gay! Also, why does he refer to the guy's brother as "she?" I thought maybe it was a language thing, and the dude was using a neutral pronoun, but it was never addressed, so I have no idea. Also, all of her couples look the same with slight variations, which threw me off. I remember the main guy in this one had a cameo in the first one, and I was confused because he looked so much like the other guy. EDIT CHAP 3: And that explains why there's so much gay. I appreciate that someone continued the translation, but it's a shame that it's so off. Still, nice of them to try. Here's hoping we get some continuations with the first couple soon.

Things resolved a little too easily for my tastes, but at least no one raped him into submission. I feel like this was on several lists or something that made me eager to read it, but I'm not sure now what it was that had me intrigued. It was decent enough, but nothing groundbreaking. At any rate, it was an enjoyable enough read, albeit flawed in its own ways. The art was usually pretty, though there was one shot where the alpha's neck is SO long like he turned into some sort of snake monster, and for the life of me, I do not see how anyone okayed that. It was scary.

Ooh, this looks promising! I'm eager to see how it unfolds. Also a little nervous that I'll end up disappointed, but hey. Only zero and first chapter up right now, so it's hard to tell how it'll turn out. Fingers crossed. EDIT: As of chapter three, I'm really intrigued, and I hope it updates quickly. However, it's difficult to understand what's going on, partly because of the translation, but also because of the sparse background, layout, and similar-looking characters. I'm hoping it becomes clearer as it unfolds.

Skimmed it mostly, partly because I wanted to see if it would just be endless misunderstandings, which I hate. Seems to be the case, but after they clear things up, I might go back and read it again, knowing how it ends. All he freaking wants in life is to be bound to his best friend, but he thought they never could. Now he has the chance, and he's like, I only wanted it when you were a beta! For some reason. People, drama doesn't have to just come from characters being incredibly inconsistent and evasive!

What the fuck... The first little oneshot was gross, though the mini-story with the one guy as a little bat pet thing was cute. The main story is okay, I guess. Nothing special. At least they were respectful of one another. The other couple, though, ugh. As far as rape to love goes, the most disgusting thing for me is when the victim starts apologizing to the rapist for hurting the rapist's feelings or some shit. I always wish the uke would die after that to really destroy the seme, since the seme is always doing it out of some sort of intense jealousy or love. You don't deserve a happy ending, you piece of crap.

WOW I hated this manga. I thought it would be interesting, but it was just creepy smut and rape. I couldn't enjoy any of the drama or love revelations, because it was all so forced and weird. Also, I feel like there was something going on with the omega that was never addressed. Like, is this guy a serial killer? It's not just me, right? He forced this to happen and was manipulating everything from the start. That sort of twist would actually be pretty great if it had been executed properly and not treated like it's funny that it happened. Great art, which is mostly the only reason I finished it, other than being thorough. I skimmed the sex scenes after that first one. So gross. Ugh, I need to get the bad taste of this out of my mouth. It's trying to be all cutesy with this psycho and this selfish asshole who was tricked into a relationship through emotional manipulation. I will never understand that fetish. It's weird, like this manga ticked almost all of my top five biggest hates in manga: rape to love, straight guy going gay (It's okay if it's you), oddly stupid/sexually oblivious ukes, and weird commentary during sex, like "you came from just your ass." (At least I didn't see him mentioning his "lewd body" at any point. *gag*)

Lol, that's actually kind of cute, in a weird way. It's so short and abrupt, and I kind of wish there were more, but I like this simple happiness they have together. He just goes with whatever she tells him, and it just works for them. A nice little reprieve from all of the downer oneshots.

Aw, that made me cry! Noooo! I hope they get married someday.

I mean, I knew what it was about and I still read it, so that's on me. Definitely made me cry. Poor girl. I get that the ending could go either way, with her actually being a ghost and her just being a hallucination. Maybe it's a mix of the two, that she's lingering even though her friend can't actually see her. Mostly based on the line about how happy she must be in heaven to have someone on Earth who loves her so much. Yeah... I guess that makes sense, so I suppose it does have that supernatural element, unless it's more of a metaphor. Either way.

Very sad. Kind of awkward, but honestly, I didn't hate it. It made me cry a lot, partly because I cry easily but also just because of how I'm feeling lately. I feel like it could have been better, but you know, whatever. It was an interesting, if predictable, little read. Sad but at least in a way that kind of has hope.