3YWLO's manga / #bullying(1)

SMILE

Complete | Penguin Frontier | 2000 released

Good plot and drawing ( very realistic) but a bit melancholy and the homophobia was a huge plot point. The seme Wayne was a bit pig headed and the ending with Ren the uke not smiling ever since disowned by his family wasn’t really a “good” ending to me but whatever. Still liked it. In a good ay a lot of what a read of this genre glosses over these issues but when you read something like this it hits home what liking the same sex can put someone through. A good reminder that not all people have good parents that put their children’s happiness above what society expects and good friends how accept them for who they are. Sometimes you get the exact opposite but really Ren’s mother called him “disgusting” just throw away your son for all you care I guess.