imcrazybutimfree's manga / #Historical(13)

ODDIO MI ERO SCANTATA CONVINTA CHE QUELLO FOSSE IL FINALE INVECE A DETTA DEI COMMENTI QUESTA È SOLO LA SIDE STORY NON CENUSRATA MADONNA MENOMALE SPERO CHE LA STORIA ORIGINALE SIA PIÙ AVANTI

It’s definitely a 5 stars moving and heartwarming story, but I’ll give 4 because of the lack of elements about the story between the secretary and the mc’s cousin who didn’t have any development and ending. The whole family part was so damn cute, while the reincarnation one was tearful af. I also love the childbirth dreams’ concept.

WHY THE RUSHED ENDING, IT HAD DEVELOPED SOOO GOOD SO FAR☹️ The quote “it was as if he had so much love for the honoured lady he didn’t know what to do with it all” hit me HARD. I equally loved both the Emperor and Suyeong, good plot overall <3 But the Emperor damnnn sO WHIPPEDDD MANNNN

Reincarnation BLs just hit different. Prefect.

I still don’t know if my vote is just and fair or too low for such a particular story. The author managed to escape commonplaces and stereotypes crafting an original story. It was a little bit confusing tho, some scenes were chained to one another through association of ideas, while other links seemed to be completely unrelated. The plot is clear though, but I would have liked some important development on the crowned prince and his physician’s side and on noah himself. Talking about Noah enneagram he’s probably a 6w7, seeking security and fucking around to avoid pain, using his nature as a witch as an excuse to mask his feelings. Even his low self esteem to be born a male is probably an excuse he uses to keep running away in the belief he doesn’t deserve anyone’s love, but he still desires someone to love him unconditionally. And this is where Ryan enters the picture: what about their first encounter? The same scene was shown through all the possible angles and povs but the author didn’t give us the whole picture. Of course the scheme of their meeting is pretty clear: Ryan gets lost, he meets the witches, since he’s a kid they spare him, he gets to know Noah but almost forgets about him since he also forgot about the other witches thanks to a potion. I felt like the whole encounter was labelled as something happening due to “fate”, just like the kid witch’s prophecy about them dying in the castle, which also felt like an irrelevant element used only to make the reader anxious. Overall, amazing plot and characters with not so good development and organising.

I intended to rate it as a four star story, but then I read it again to save some scan (the details of the artwork are LIT!) and realised how the story was particular and uncommon. The author deserves respect and acknowledgement. So here I am with my 5 stars vote!

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.

This is exactly my cup of tea: good plot, historical and exotic settings, myths, action, romance. *Chef’s kiss*