SpringHaze's manga / #reencounter(69)

Ugh, and now I feel for Jihyun and I get what those lunatics felt for him during the main story, while I care less and less for Kyujin. Chiwoo is still the fucking best though his adult design made him almost unrecognizable (what's with the slicked back hair for everyone?). They're sweet though and they say 'I love you', the saps :). The parallel AU where the assault never happens and Chiwoo and Jihyun are together was probably fan service and the author struggled with giving it a shape, but is Jihyun less of a codependent psycho?

You know, I could have done without the last chapter and the extra, that's where Yoshiki's character reveals itself to be a psycho yandere bitch. Up until then he had been the kind, carefree partner that might have been good for uptight Tsukasa and then it's veering into psycho land - stealing his girlfriends in hs and then abandoning them? poking holes into condoms?? bitch what. Tsukasa is turning into an omega against his will and Yoshiki is secretly plotting his pregnancy out of 'love'.

I dig the weird art.

Love the art and it was cute.

I think this will be very good, both men are sarcastic little shits.

God, this is so lovely and quiet and kind, even if the protagonist gets down really easily. Edit: Tried to catch up with chs 7 and 8 and I have no idea what the storyline was for this ;_; I will definitely need to reread everything, looks like I love this. Edit: Reread everything and caught up to ch. 10, Aki is still a depressed little bun but he's getting better and hello, sex that covers 2 chapters. He's finally hit by inspiration and just took up the pen and tablet. Kiddies are adorbs. Edit: Heartwarming up until the end <3

Konohara Narise writes really compelling and complex stories and the art (I can't remember who is listed as the artist) is very bleak and very suited to the plot. Both characters are weak people, bordering on horrible, co-dependent and easy to relapse into self-destructive routines. Uno harbours unrequited feelings for Murakami but never grows out of them nor channels them into something constructive and when he finds him sleeping in a garden, homeless and dirty and not able to speak a word to him, he takes him home and watches over him in hope of growing to hate him. There's no romance here, nothing soft, just people trying to claw their way out of a destructive situation by leaning on each other when the other is definitely not stronger. I hated that Murakami rapes Uno when he finds out about his feelings, so that he doesn't kick him out and curb his rehabilitation, but I hated more that Uno cries for being raped but accepts his embrace the next morning. A good story but unlikable characters, which makes them very compelling.

I don't really like Shun the pushy groping bottom.

This is cute and full of respectful and consented smut and minor drama that mostly involves other people envying their happiness. It's just really too sweet to be healthy and lawyer Yuuji-kun is a dreamboat <3

All about that height difference.