Leo's Reviews

This review contains spoilers. The rest of the story is nice, yet I can't overlook the first chapters. In the beginning, the MC is just 6 ou 7 years old while the ML is a teenager.
And from the start, the author suggests that despite their young age, their relationship includes romantic feelings and attraction. This is totally sick, and shouldn't be overlooked.
Even though the story turns out to be rather nice once they both grow up, in the beginning it's clearly grooming, which should never be condoned.

This review contains spoilers. Lots of sexual harassment and abuse in here, although MC repeatedly states that he doesn't want being touched, ML keeps on touching him by surprise or even in his sleep. Victim blaming, too.
The story could have been good, the ML's questioning and his difficulties to accept his attraction to MC is pretty well depicted for a while, so let's say there was potential (MC's inner turmoil and emotions are vastly overlooked though, as if the lack of consent and the victim blaming he suffered were no big deal, and accepting his attraction to a guy was easy as well) but I guess the plot wasn't the author's priority...
BL authors really have to stop normalizing non-con and dub-con. It's not OK, it never is. Non-con isn't sexy, or attractive and/or romantic in any way.
Abuse isn't sexy, ever. And harassment isn't funny, either. And just because the ML is handsome doesn't make any of it OK!
Enough with this non-con sh*t, we want green flag BL!

This review contains spoilers. Just as the previous review said : is just rape and Stockholm syndrome. The main character gets beaten, threatened, sequestrated, humiliated, isolated from his loved ones and raped multiple times, and then this is presented like it's not that bad : the rapist is really a nice guy who actually loves his victim, and then the victim is shown as being difficult for not accepting and returning his love instantly. And if this bullsh*t wasn't bad enough, the rest of the story is complete nonsense.
It really is a shame how many writers cannot comprehend that BL isn't about violence and abuse, that rape isn't sexy and that abuse is never about love. They normalize abusive relationships and that's terrible

This review contains spoilers. I like how realistic this is, and how the characters' psychology is explored.
How the main character slowly builds her confidence and dares to choose her own path, managing to realise the toxicity of the relationship she's in.
How the character who seemed so free and self confident actually hides his own struggles, too.
But also how in spite of those hardships, he chooses to remain true to himself, in spite of the pressure. And I like how he allows himself express himself and to dress however he wants without feeling he has to conform to gender codes imposed on him by others.
I also like how the toxic abusive boyfriend isn't merely presented as a brute, which would have been the easy way, but the reader is made to understand that even he is struggling with his own past, although the author doesn't excuse his attitude and his actions.
It's rare to read manga that explores the complexity of human psychology like that.
I can't wait to read the rest!

This review contains spoilers. This story is unexpectedly realistic.
Whereas most manga series present marriage as the ultimate happy - ever- after goal, this one shows how the real challenge begins after that, and how relationships can change over time.
How marriage isn't always a bed of roses and how sometimes those who look like a perfect couple to people around them actually are just keeping up appearances. This is all about the conflict between one's need to feel alive and follow one's heart, and the guilt to not be the spouse one pretends to be and the feeling of being a monstrous traitor, with the fear of destroying one's family and hurting one's children.
It also shows the situation from the lovers' side, who are not monsters who wish to destroy a family, but simply single people who happened to meet someone and fall in love with them.
No simplistic black and white vision of life here, the characters feel real, they all have their faults but also extenuating circumstances, and one can totally relate to each of them.
I look forward to reading the remaining chapters.