Mayuki is a university student who recently moved into his deceased grandma's house and immediately ran into Kotofuki, his first love who comforted him after the death of his grandma. But Kotofuki hasn't aged at all, and he reveals it's because he's a god who Mayuki willed to come out with his loneliness. The two begin living together and it's going well, but Mayuki is having dreams about Kotofuki with his ancestor that make him worry he's just a replacement. Meanwhile, Kotofuki has a secret he's keeping from Mayuki that, when it comes out, makes him believe they can't stay together. Really cute and sweet couple. No trigger warnings.
I'd be lying if I said it wasn't kinda boring, but it had its sweet and touching moments. The art helped a lot with that. The romance wasn't hot or exciting at all, it was just sweet and touching because the characters are self-sacrificing and dutifully careful when it comes to love. That's why there are some beautiful lines. And those lines looked great combined with the delicate art style. Still, the story and the romance itself were kind of boring. There was no thrill.
Where is the looooooore?!?!? I wanted more Kotofuji loooooooooore!!!! This had me on a frustrating rollercoaster because I really wanted to be a reincarnation story in a way, but instead we got ghost fucking. Fine. Whatever. But then they show me interesting backstory for Kotofuji and now I'm invested but they're not spending time talking. I want talking. I need talking. I want to know more about Kotofuji and Tsuguyasu and more about why he was in pain in the shrine.
It just feels like things aren't being said, it's just being swept under the rug so they don't have to deal with the conversation of it. Or there was a conversation but it happened off screen and I want to throw my ereader.
Not to be ace on main but if these bitches don't start conversating in my romances I'm gonna start chainsawing tables.
Update: So I wrote all that around ch 3 or 4 and while a conversation did finally happen, everything I said still stands so I'm not removing all that. I'm actually both confused and angry about how this went. Yes, we got more backstory for Kotofuji. Yes, we got a "let's talk about this" moment. The conversation and explanation was so surface level that I felt tired reading them not wanting to be a "burden" to each other on top of being a tiny bit confused Kotofuji and Tsuguyasu's timeline together.
Not even a marriage proposal, my favorite thing in a manga, saved this for me.
usually dont like it when one person is a child and the other is an adult when they meet but since this is a reencounter and they fall in love after said encounter, it didnt bother me as much. healthy rs where they both sought to be equals with each other. heartwarming and cute
I love everything that is all there to it. Very heart warming, and if you put your head a little into the story and plot—it's a bittersweet kind of tale.