I don't think it's shounen ai main leads didn't had any kisses what's the point of having i like you thing i read this author's other work for baseball and characters are same but that work is new unlike this work like 90s ... It's sort of wastage of time . But i love 80s or 90s manga so i love their dressing sense these clothes are being wear by people now old works always gives an nostalgic feeling.
This is like the best kind of story for me, because it has all the elements that I love the most! First of all, because it's an old manga and that art style and general atmosphere never fail to make me so nostalgic. Then, it's a school life / youth story and it even includes BL! So, I totally love it...I wish there were more like this! > Too bad that it leaves us with that bittersweet, kinda suspending ending...it's like it brusquely came to an end soon after Okamoto says "that kind of relationship where feelings won't go further". That sentence sure hit hard, and poor Koizumi secretly shedding a tear...But just like Koizumi muttered to himself, let's hope that such feelings may change in the future! After all, Okamoto is not completely indifferent towards him and also he may need time to think seriously about the possibility of liking a guy and come to terms with that. And they will see together where their relationship of friendship, maybe something more, will lead them. In fact, while the manga ended, their story continued on. That's why I felt this was like a point of beginning, in a way, and it makes me wonder how things went between them then. I wish the author continued it, maybe setting it even after a few years when they were uni students or something...Anyway, while it was bittersweet, I really liked this manga!
An odd debut by the mangaka who would later go on to do Strawberry 100% (?!) and whose most recent story, Gunjou ni Siren, is basically a more mature, better illustrated retread of this. But, without getting sidetracked, Sora no Seibun is I'll/CKBC (http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/i_ll_generation_basket/) meets Kimi no Mukougawa (http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/kimi_no_mukougawa/). Okamoto, a junior high basketball prodigy, ends up at a high school with a weak basketball team, but still manages to inspire his classmate -- the tinier, completely amateur, but naturally gifted, Koizumi. In typical bl fashion, basketball and a latent attraction forges a strong bond between them, but it's shredded to pieces when Koizumi is chosen over Okamoto to be on the provincial tournament team. Added to the mix is Okamoto's "distant relative" Yumi, who is something in between a sex friend and a girlfriend to Okamoto, and is hiding her own wounds (which, I might add, Okamoto is helping her lick).
There's nothing revolutionary about the development of the story, which really is equal helpings of the basketball drama in I'll and the rather rudimentary and tired machinations of Yumi + "we can't be together/but you're the only one for me/let's sacrifice our emotions stupidly for the sake of drama" that you'd find in Kimi no Mukougawa. What saves it from the slush pile is an inspired ending that predates The Carp on the Chopping Block..., only with two characters walking together slowly in the summer instead of in the snow. Okamoto tries to let Koizumi down gently, but Koizumi parries with a loaded metaphor, comparing his feelings for Okamoto to Okamoto's feelings for basketball. Though the last scene ends, abruptly, with none of the characters actually together, you can almost smell the sweat, hear the cicadas, and feel the hot sun as Okamoto and Koizumi reach an understanding somewhere in the middle of love and friendship. It's very real, and oddly human. Can't say I'd necessarily recommend it, but there's something psychologically interesting hidden in the banality, and at the very least, I look forward to the rest of Gunjou ni Siren.
Tags: Just Bad
I hate Okamoto so much.