Dec 28, 2020
This is really terrible in pretty much every way. A couple lessons the audience can learn that I saw, before I outright dropped it due to the content: (1) stalking is a good way to get someone to love you, (2) you don't have to work hard at something if you're conventionally attractive, (3) it's alright for outside observers to forgive the perpetrator of someone else's sexual assault for them, (4) being creepy, stalker-y, and constantly gaslighting your romantic interest into paying attention to you and doing what you want them to do is perfectly fine.
Ugh, I don't want to be that person, but really
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I had to stop watching this bc it was so gross. Don't get me wrong, I love yaoi, and I'm aware of and generally fairly tolerant of its more problematic tropes, as I recognize it as a fetish mostly geared towards women rather than a genre interested in telling compelling stories. However, this show honestly made me want to never engage with it again, if that was the content it was gonna be. I liked the characters and setup, even the fact that the characters met as kids and then again as teens, and even the gender mixup/reveal, but as soon as the main relationship started evolving, every subsequent step forward the protagonists took seemed to get worse and worse. I mean, at one point Ryoma (seme) sexually assaults Izumi (uke) and then when Izumi refuses to forgive him, he begs for forgiveness on hands and knees and then gets Izumi's, his VICTIM's, phone number. Ryoma in effect guilts/pressures Izumi into providing him an access point, so that their 'relationship' can continue.
I haven't even touched on the family pressuring their kid to join their family business at the direct expense of his lifelong dream. They are wealthy celebrities, surely they could afford a drawing lesson or two for their son? I just, I can tell it was a well-intentioned romcom of a yaoi, but it failed for me on pretty much every level possible.
I will add here that I do remember reading this manga when I was much younger and not seeing any of the problems in it that I do now in the anime, and I suspect that's down to immaturity, so this may appeal to a younger audience who doesn't understand the implications/situations involved.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
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