ik this is a sequel but let me tell u rn the stories r so different ngl this guy lived a hundred different lives…. ALSO THE POOR KID ! wtf did i read bro
It's meant to be emotional and poetic, but maybe my heart isnt too emphatic at the moment. There are four deaths. I won't spoil, but you'll realize how vulnerable relationships can be for a man like Tomoi, especially when he finally found his resolved.
hauntingly accurate for the historical period. depressingly realistic. the exact opposite of what i like but it's so good. a fucking masterpiece of queer angst.
Sequel to Nemureru Mori no Binan- this picks up with tomoi returning to japan to harass his old friend, then returning to new york and meeting a new lover, then going to the middle east. that sentence sounds like it's a wild ride, but reading it was kind of meh because in all these crazy twists and turns, i never really believed that tomoi was affected by any of it. i think he's supposed to be- he's supposed to have become a more caring person and be devastated to the point of suicidal when he goes to the middle east, but i just wasn't getting that. maybe the flat affect is a better representation of what depression actually looks like, but i'm not sure that was the author's intention. there's more stuff about AIDS in this volume, and again I felt like the author didn't completely understand the disease- but that's me talking about it in 2017 and this was written in the 90s when AIDS was new and misunderstood, so i guess i'll have to give that a pass, but it does make the story a little harder to digest. the art is very 90s and there are some really outdated attitudes towards homosexuality presented here- so maybe this one is just better appreciated as a snapshot of different era.
