This manga has a constant sense of weight that is hard to describe. In most stories like this, something heavy might happen to set the scene and you get the entire story of them falling in love.
This time around, the entire story is around overcoming some heavy shit, and at the end you get your relationship kinda put out there at the end. So like a reverse take.
I can't say I like this method much since cute lovey dovey romance is my preferred, but it does do well in setting up these characters for what could have been that story of them actually falling in love.
We get that love still, but no build up for it on one side since this whole story is coming to terms with a bunch of other heavy feelings about being in a relationship that just isn't meant to be, and dealing with feelings of damn near hopelessness that your love will never work out. It's pretty well done I think, but it's basically 35 chapters of pain with not many breaks in that pain and then some nice stuff at the end. That probably contributes to the heavy feeling I got for most of time.
I'm happy where we ended, but overall i'm just damn conflicted on how we got there.
Overall, I think this is still a pretty solid manga, and i'd like to try and go through it again without the extra worrying where it'll end up.
For now i'll leave this at a 7 and maybe come back in some time to give this another shake and see where it lands.
