Bokura no Negai

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if we start to talk about the art :
I kinda love it but the problem that Yamamoto Kotetsuko isn't that creative I mean there a lot of characters in the manga that resemble each other a lot it's like almost duplicated!
if the mangaka was creative about the appearance it would be perfect so because of that I give the art 6.
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About the story:
well, basically there are two main couples.
the one is the youngest brother's best friend(at 8th grade) with the second son(graduated from high school) I ... like how these couples are very patient, lovely and the most important part is no sex (why is it important cuz we talking about a minor kid with an adult person.
The other couple is the brother x stepbrother. I love how the mangaka put his whole attention on how the brother feels of regret and afraid from destroying his own family!
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I admire Yamamoto Kotetsuko's works a lot
I really enjoy reading the manga but the thing that I hate about it is that in the beginning, everything was going slowly and then fast!
I didn't like how everything was too perfect like the family almost every member of it is gay and it was acceptable! like I want rejection and then acceptance. like real life!!!
I didn't like how the stepbrother's feelings were at first like "my precious little brother" and then "I love you in a romantic way" I believe if the mangaka give it a little bit of time to the stepbrother to realize his feelings and then accept his brother's confession the manga would be better!
but most of it was good I like Yamamoto Kotetsuko's works because it focuses on showing feelings!

The story starts out pretty tragically. The father of the main character marries a woman who ha three sons, and they live quite happily together. His father dies one day in an accident, and a year after that, his stepmother (mother of the 3 boys) succumbs to cancer, leaving the 4 brothers on their own. He steps up, as the oldest, as the parent figure to looks after his brothers.

The story progresses, as the oldest brother opens a cafe to support all of them. You will soon come to realise that two of the brothers are gay- one of which is in love with ... the oldest, his step-brother. The story isn't a sweet yaoi story at all- it's pretty heavy and dark due to the themes of incest and forbidden love, and sex is a frequent theme in the manga.

I am enjoying this series, but the updates are REALLY SLOW. A chapter is posted around every three months. I would recommend you to read this if you are into the yaoi genre and incest, but do take note that this manga is NSFW.

This manga is so wrong. I can't believe that people are okay reading it. I've tried my best not to give spoilers, but it's impossible for me not to give some parts of the plot away.

The age gaps really rub me the wrong way. With both pairings. This wouldn't have been a problem..... if there weren't adults dating minors.
At the beginning of the manga, one of these minors was literally in 5th grade and most likely 10 years old. Back then, he was already infatuated with this guy who was in his third year of high school and most likely 16 years old. It's been ... confirmed that the age gap between these two is 6 years. That is just not okay. When their relationship develops, they decide to abstain from sexual activities until the younger one enters high school. At first, this sounds great! The writer is aware of how serious this age gap is after all! ...and then you realize that when he enters high school he's probably 14 years old and the other guy is 20. Uhhhmm...

The writer seems to be excusing the age by making the younger guy crazy tall by the age of 13, by having him act more mature and by having him take the initiative in the relationship. Like wow. That toootally makes everything okay. ...Not. I get that the age of sexual consent of some places in Japan is 13, but if something's legal in one place, it doesn't automatically mean that it's okay morally. The average 13-year-old boy has barely hit puberty, is mentally way less developed than the average adult and still has loads to learn about the world.

There are more things in this manga I found questionable. I haven't even talked about the other pairing yet, but I'll leave my review at this. It's just way too much for me to get past, and if you have a conscience, it would be too much for you, too. I get that this manga, despite its "sad" beginning, is supposed to be lighthearted and fun to read, with not too much focus on the setting and more on the romance. However, I don't think that makes what has been written okay and I wouldn't want any 14-year-old to read it and to think that having a sexual relationship with a 20-year-old is okay.