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Mar 6, 2022
I thought i was well past the point of getting emotional to the point of crying, over a manga/anime, and feeling a sense of profound emptiness after finishing a series after decades of being a weeb, but then i discovered THIS.
This series is an epic romantic tragedy, not entirely in chronological order.
As usual, the hallmark of a good series to me is one that makes you feel a very broad spectrum of strong lasting emotions, and i did. Envy, rage, hate, hopelessness, sadness, regret, frustration, stress and a few moments of bittersweet bliss.
Set in the late 1800s at a posh boys school outside of a
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small town in france, Serge battour finds himself living in the same room as gilbert, who sells his body for various reasons, and he finds himself getting emotionally attached to him, and also the story of both of their entire lives and how they were shaped as people.
Indeed, this series is full of every taboo you could possibly think of, to enjoy this series you need to have a MORBID sense of curiousity and an open mind (able to entertain ideas without necessarily accepting them). It is also very emotionally intricate/mature, so i can imagine a lot of younger people might not fully be able to "get it", i know i probably wouldn't have when i was 18-20 years old. So this series i imagine is for a more mature audience, in the sense of emotional and mental development.
The art is breathtakingly beautiful, which is why it took me as much as a week total to read it despite it only being 17 volumes, i like to read slow and really savour all the details.
I'm not usually someone to hate characters. In my entire 10+ years of being a weeb, i have never come across a character that i truly hated with a burning passion, no, not even characters such as the collectively despised Griffith from Berserk. He is a character that i can sympathize with because i can understand his emotions, although i don't condone his actions. At the top of my head as u write this review, i cannot think of a single manga/anime character that i truly hate. But it happened in this series, i absolutely hate Auguste, the cold blooded calculative sociopath, but i also hated Bonnard almost as much, although he seemed to treat Gilbert somewhat better than Auguste, he still raped him when he was still a child, and trying to pursue him despite knowing full well what kinds of hell he'd been through. What was even more aggravating and revolting to me is how he started taking the moral fucking high ground towards the end of gilberts background story. And this says a lot about the character work in this series in general, all of the characters are written so perfectly, including the side characters such as Pascale (one of my favorite side characters from this series).
Overall i don't think i could praise this series enough. Forget Clannad, forget kanon 2006, this is THE romance tragedy series that your heart desires.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Feb 3, 2022
Old age does strange things to you.
Your body gets less durable, if you exercise too much without stretching, you suddenly get chronic aches in your joints, you seem to put on weight more easily, perception of time appears to speed up. And also, your "preferences" seem to...change. In ways you could have never predicted... and more often than not for the worse
Which leads me to Sasaki to Miyano.
As a red blooded white heterosexual privileged male (or so i'm told, even though i am a constantly broke, permanently unemployed and friendless incel) i feel highly uncomfortable with the fact that i now cannot deny the fact
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that i enjoy BL profusely.
I used to love shows like clannad, kanon (2006) and toradora in my teens, but now when i try to rewatch these as a trip down memory lane, i don't feel any of those magical feelings i used to feel, i just find myself so bored i fall asleep.
Yet somehow this manga which is essentially a gay version of toradora, i'm somehow bursting with excitement every second of it, and i get that same sensation of time and space disappearing as i read. I never could have seen this coming ten years ago.
Anyway, end of wind-up, lets get on with the review.
The story is very simple and straightforward, but the characters and the moe carries this series.
The story starts with miyano, a degenerate fudanshi who is addicted to BL manga, and yet emphatically maintains that he is straight, much like myself.
He is insecure about his feminine face, but otherwise just living a normal high school life at an all boys school.
Until the fated encounter occurs, Miyano witnesses a fight behind the school, while deliberating on what to do, Sasaki shows up, tells the uke to get out of there and he goes off to handle it, and takes a beating instead of the kid getting bullied.
Sasaki quickly takes a liking to Miyano, and does anything to become closer with him as they go about their daily lives.
The art is very nice, top tier moe, although i have seen better in the BL genre (no.6, omairi desu yo etc)
There's just something very satisfying in seeing the characters struggling with how to deal with their emotions and how they struggle with confronting their cognitive dissonance, how they really feel and all the possibly negative connotations that could imply, not to mention how it may seem to contradict the self-image they've had for a long time. For instance miyano is not comfortable with being an uke (although he clearly is).
The characters all feel like actual people and the feelings portrayed are all very relatable and realistic in depiction.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 29, 2021
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A bully becomes the bullied and gets to experience what it's like. After his friends throw him under the bus as the sole perpetrator of the vicious bullying, his personality changes drastically, and he lives for many years with lingering guilt, eventually building up to a suicide attempt, and this is the story of how he resolved his past trauma.
This is the type of story you see everywhere, nothing worth remembering here as far as the story is concerned.
Art:
The art was pretty good, definitely towards the higher end of the decile scale (7-8/10)
Sound:
Fairly good, well thought out and good voice acting, but again, nothing special.
Characters:
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characters in this show is what made it worthwhile watching at all. The main character shows how circumstances beyond our control shapes who we become, while the female protagonist seems to be the polar opposite of that notion. Some of the side-characters are more interesting than the main characters, though. But again, even here the characters feel only slightly above run-of-the-mill-level, but good character development although predictable.
Enjoyment:
I came out of this experience with a fairly neutral opinion, while it was decisively better than fucking kimi no na wa (don't even get me started on that garbage movie), it still left you wanting. I just thought that it was a fairly OK movie that was easy on the eyes and didn't bore me to death, therefore i give it a 5.75/10 in enjoyment.
Overall it's a fairly decent movie for the right kind of person and demographic, but don't expect anything remotely revolutionary or mindblowing from this, honestly MAL really has garbage taste what with this movie sitting at about a 9/10, i don't get what people really see in this movie that is oh so special as to warrant such a high score. My final verdict, everything taken into account, is a 6/10.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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Oct 17, 2020
Lookism is a very interesting series, written by an author who does not know when to quit for his own good! (the hallmark quality of a good author)
Ugly and fat daniel park is bullied relentlessly, and although his single widow mother is poor, after witnessing the truth of how he was treated at school, decide to grant him his wish to transfer schools.
Daniel moves to seoul, and one morning he wakes up in a muscular and good looking body, while his old body sleeps, the other one is awake.
The main theme of Lookism is vanity, and also lookism itself, defined as the discriminatory treatment of
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people based on looks. everyone is to some extent aware that this is true, we do treat good looking people better, and ugly people worse. It is human nature, although taboo to talk about. Adult people will go to great lengths in order to tip-toe around the subject. Most people would refrain from writing a series about such a sensitive issue, purely out of self-preservation instinct. That's what makes this author so admirable, he clearly has no shame in his body, the fact that he's known for his good looks makes it even more shameless, i love it!
The story itself i guess is not very original, it's the unique and uncomfortable spin on it that makes it feel fresh. The characters are very memorable and enjoyable. The art is good enough.
I will admit that it starts feeling less engaging after chapter 250 something, but still good.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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