Stories about hybrid children, like dolls that come to life according to their master's affection.
Extra: Backstory for Kuroda, Seya, and Tsukishima as childhood friends, continued in Ch.3a-3b.
Ch.1 - Young Kotaro picked up hybrid child Hazuki from the garbage and raised him lovingly, only to have Hazuki grow up to be a total nag. But when Hazuki's lifespan seems to be running out, Kotaro is desperate to keep him around a little longer.
Ch.2 - Yuzu is a hybrid child living with retired swordsman Seya, but he's distressed by his lack of growth. When Seya's war torn pass comes back to hurt him again, Yuzu realizes that by shielding him from the painful and sad parts of the world, Seya has also kept him from growing, and he asks Seya to open up.
Ch.3a - The story of Kuroda, the man who invented hybrid children, as a young man who went to war and lost his childhood friend and love. (This is the only chapter with anything explicit) Trigger warnings: war, suicide.
Ch.3b - Kuroda's story continued, several years later when his first hybrid child learns to speak and reminds him of the one he'd modeled them after all along.
1 : Izumi kotaro and the oldest hybrid child prototype, hazuki 2 : ichi seya, warrior who felt so wrong, accompanied by a hybrid child called yuzu 3a-3b : kuroda x tsukishima..... 3b : kuroda ran to tsukishima the night before tsukishima doing seppuku
I think it's a nice ending and I'm glad there isn't more chapters of possible romance with the hybrid child, hopefully they meet in another life but this one I hope kuroda lives it alone
fucking shit. this hit me critically in the feels holyy. why did i stay up and chose angst. now im crying myself to sleep with a broken heart. why did i read this after finishing the ova why skipping this back then was a great choice now i need therapy
I finally read this after 2 years hooked to the anime. This is my first bl anime, since it's short, it contains 4 episodes of ova only. And I'm bawling my eyes out like crazy. I still listening to the ost. I fucking love this. This make me hooked to bl, since bl is not necessarily about smut and stuffs. I really loves the messages. Also, Kuroda and Tsukishima's story is just so freaking sad
The last story. The moment I laid my eyes on the characters, I knew that this was the couple they had chosen to make an ova about. I had never watched the ova nor had I ever read the manga until now. It made me cry. I knew it was sad but I didn’t think it would make me feel as much pain and sadness as I do right now. I felt so sorry for Kuroda. Until the very end, he never truly told Tsukishima that he loved him. Tsukishima died too young. The world was cruel to the both of them. When Kuroda’s first ever hybrid child spoke it’s first words, that’s when I broke down in tears. It’s just a sentence. A sentence that held so much love and emotion even if it wasn’t said directly. I think Kuroda regrets not chasing after him. He regrets all the things he said the night before Tsukishima committed seppuku. The fact that everyone else thought it was natural for Tsukishima to sacrifice himself for the clan is terrible. To make someone commit forced suicide. I don’t think I’ll ever get over this. I’ll cry every time I read it.