i hate it
but i love hating it
not to say it is bad, as you could probably tell by the fact that i rated it a 7, but it just ticks me off in all the wrong places
i just cant turn off my writer brain which wants everything to be a serious interpersonal focused character study
but enough of that
lets get on with the review already
Story: 6
the thing that most annoys me about the story of this manga is that the writer doesn't seem to know what to do with it
things are hinted at and then just kind of glossed over in order to give the main characters more incest stuff to do
or the side characters to do something tangentially related to the "meaning" of the manga, which is most offensive
in my opinion when it comes to Mikoto's (the titular imouto) crux in the story which feels so tacked on that i cant help but resent it
sure it is hinted at but they just drop the ball instead of doing something with it, its like they just wanted the manga to have some drama at the end
but then its just over and the drama wasn't even relevant in the end
the plot is not particularly good or bad
its just passable
Art: 8
damn, along with yagate kimi ni naru, ookami shounen and some other manga which name escapes me at the moment
this has to the the nicest looking art i've seen in a long time. but, and this is not a criticism, but i feel like the artist would
fare better in a horror and/or psychological drama because their frames of intense faces in this manga are bone chilling at times
(slight exaggeration) but there is plenty of cozy heartwarming and cute frames as well and they manage to make it look stunning
most of the time, but as with most manga there is almost bound to be quite a lot of just standart looking art just to fill the pages
which contain the more mundane parts
Characters: 6
Sayuri: she is every main character of every shoujo ai/ shounen ai manga ever, she has some personalization of her own but just saying
that you feel unwanted because so and so wont earn you any goodwill form me especially since her hangup that causes this just
feels silly to me (also its not explained which is also why i rensent the ever living hell out of this story)
Mikoto: shes the comedic relief in a romcom.
why? if you romcom has 1 character being funny why make it a romcom just leave it at romance idgi, but if you like that kind of stuff
i guess she works, i mean, i liked her and her jokes but, i cant help but feel confused as to why she was made the "funny one"
her personality? what, she wants to bang her sister and does little outside of trying her best to achieve that. i would be hard pressed
to tell anyone anything more substantial about her
Conclusion:
if you are not as much of a cynical asshat as me you can just enojy this one for the sake of being cute and kinda funny, and if you are not
that fast on the uptake you are even in for some light drama, its nice to look at, its not too long and, most importantly, it has gay girls in it
and who doesn't like that
