imcrazybutimfree's manga / #Adorable(175)

4 stars instead of 5 because it ended TOO SOON. I wanted Ritsu calling Hagi dad

So fluffy! I loved how they reversed the stereotype of the cute feminine uke and drew kiyo tall and well-built. the gap moe between his almost intimidating appearance due to his big stance and his soft, shy and oblivious personality is SO CUTE.

FRIGGIN’ HOT! The main couple sex scenes were dope.

Superb work of art. I loved how the angst was not caused by a third person (like the girls or Matsumoto-san, who didn’t use his friendship with Asakura to his own advantage, but decided to help his beloved and eventually became the main reason of the MCs’ emotional re-encounter): society with its prejudices about homosexuals and its obligations for upper middle men, and the MCs’ own fears and struggles managed alone to ruin the harmony of their relationship. The earthquake was extremely symbolic and represented the (momentary) harmful failure of their relationship, due to Asakura’s inability to convey his feelings to Tachibana and not responding to the “carpe diem”way of life. Another important symbol of the story is definitely the two marbles that Tachibana always carries with him, and they represent the unbreakable link between the two lovers. However, just like their container has to break to take out the marbles, in the same way both Asakura and Tachibana need to sacrifice something to gain the freedom which will eventually lead to the fulfilment of their love. Both MCs cut (and thus “break”) ties with their own families, with an important difference: Tachibana, having loved willingly Asakura for a long time, loses his family in fatal circumstances, while Asakura, who eventually realised his feelings but was mostly unaware and afraid of them, was given by fate the chance to choose between his family and the love of his life. I love the bittersweet ending, even though realising that Tachibana died at only 60 and Asakura survived him made me tear up a little… (coherently to the whole story LMAO). The historical context happens to perfectly translate current prejudices in a kind of world which was not so temporally far from now.

Another demonstration that the main feature of a good story is not angst but healthy relationships and important thematics such as homophobia, acceptance and fear of coming out, themes that are kinda obvious in a BL. The fluffiness was on a whole other level of cuteness, when in the third season the author added the smutty scenes I felt like all the criteria for a perfect BL were finally met. I ended up craving some more moment between Jung/Sua and Hyun/Yoon. However, I wish I could see Jung finding the courage to come out to his family and the whole world, so that he’ll finally be able to hold Sua’s hand in public with no fear. I loved how Sua was so supportive and comprehensive and chose to wait and not expect anything from him. Real love.

I loved how their story developed naturally and they eventually grew up together. Their latest discussion was really heart-clenching because it highlighted realistic dynamics commonly happening to couples of coworkers and the MCs eventually managed to resolve the whole situation really maturely: they didn’t act aggressively towards each other, nor spit bitter words of repressed frustration, but decided to keep their distances to compose themselves and then talk it out once they felt that their feelings were finally soothed and sorted out. Stella is a great character, very sassy and determined, such a powerful woman!! I wish I could read more about Bell (amazing friend, I love him), Lucas (Barney Stinson 2.0 lol) and Koo Taesung and Yoo Jiwon. Director Yoo definitely had some unresolved (probably) romantic feelings towards director Koo. I would have loved to see the romantic development between them.