favorites (NEW!!!!)

i made a new list LMAO. i love this so much, didn't really know what i was getting into when i was reading this but we love a plot that thickens. sort of reminiscent to showa genroku rakugo shinjuu, in a way. most importantly: we love a happy ending.

the art is maybe one of the most beautiful things i've seen in a sense that it sort of just breathes life and every panel illustrates the right amount of tension. the bonus chapters make me giggle so much. 100/10.

actually take my money because i seldom read manga where the bottom doesn't fulfill my niche (im sorry) but IM SO HAPPY i kinda willed myself to read this because it's so beautiful and so light and maybe something i needed to read after exclusively reading toxic yaoi filth back in high school. feels like a self-restoration and a reminder that not everything needs to be deep and daunting to be truly enjoyable

this is still my absolute favorite. im a full fledged adult, highkey married to a dog person, mourning the discrepancies of my office job where survival means reading yaoi during lunch break and being #girl who is going to be okay, and this shit somehow still makes me laugh so much. so wholesome and beautiful and makes me think about the double life my dogs would live if they could shape shift into humans, and how much more love they could give to the world

this is also still my fave just because it's so rooted in the way that i comprehend all the types of love that could exist in this world. like, love can be silly. love can be so pushy and stubborn. love can be so deep it kills you. i rarely write fic nowadays but if i want something to wring the inspiration out of me i lowkey just pick this up, read M's study and then cry like i lowkey dont even finish the thing lmao. just bc ill realize halfway that i cant write anything as beautiful as this

my favorite things about this manga: satomi: we didnt even kiss, the blatancy of satomi's affection for kyouji, the yearning for a normal life in adulthood when you have a string of weird connections, and avoidant attachment ruining everything irl and in fiction

HEHEHEHEH childhood friends to lovers.... one falls first the other falls harder..... i love you i will never tire of you....

in some ways i find it magical how subconsciously i can see glimpses of them in my real life relationship. me and my gf are a complex and a simplex fool. i may not have met them in my youth but i feel young and in love with them all of the time. we live in a bubble of sincerity and slowness and a love that can only dare to be brave, that is less of a loud revelation and more of a whisper of promises, but it ends up being this big, marvelous thing anyway.

i am going to cry. this reminds me so much of looking for an angel. i watched the live action of this and realized that some people will truly have regrets that extend beyond life. i hate how unfair it is that some people will die without living the life they wanted, but its so humanizing to see what could have been