People who read Tomoi

Samav

8.5 3/2024

ZOE

This is so fucking devastatinggg

IZA

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

KimLee

I'm crying

moody_bish

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.

KingBitchOfTheUniverse

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.

Louise Iwaki

Beautiful story.

brockoliee

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 the art is very 90s and there are some really outdated attitudes towards homosexuality presented here- so maybe this one is just better appreciated as a snapshot of different era.

Sumire

Deals with so much history. The rise of AIDS, the war in Afghanistan and life in that awkward period of the early '80's to the early '90's.

shimura

sad

android09

hella sad