The entirety of the manga isn’t BL focused but it’s explicitly queer as noted by the author. I read BL exclusively, and even though Yoshiki and Hiraku both love each other, the BL aspect is more engraved and amplified in the fact that neither of the two, have the facilities to process what they feel. “Hiraku” as an entity struggles to understand love and complex human emotions, but knows that the connection he shares with Yoshiki is profound and never ending. On the other hand, Yoshiki had to process this unfathomable level of grief at a young age, never knowing real Hiraku’s true feelings, while still falling in love with him more and more everyday.
Yoshiki basically has a lot on his plate, processing the loss of his friend who he had/has feelings for, then developing the acceptance of him for what he is now, on top of all this having to process the “forbidden” feelings for another boy that he has to mentally suppress under all of his grief that he’s still processing. I think that all of this just amplifies the BL aspect even more, as this manga will always be queer and just getting more BL centric as it goes on.
One could potentially sum it all up and say that the story is one big allegory for loving the same sex, feeling like a monster, these are emotions that the young mind can often not comprehend. The feeling like you are constantly doing something wrong for embracing these thoughts, and the mourning of who you were, and the version of you that be perceived at the nation of being gay/queer.
The entirety of the manga isn’t BL focused but it’s explicitly queer as noted by the author. I read BL exclusively, and even though Yoshiki and Hiraku both love each other, the BL aspect is more engraved and amplified in the fact that neither of the two, have the facilities to process what they feel. “Hiraku” as an entity struggles to understand love and complex human emotions, but knows that the connection he shares with Yoshiki is profound and never ending. On the other hand, Yoshiki had to process this unfathomable level of grief at a young age, never knowing real Hiraku’s true feelings, while still falling in love with him more and more everyday.
Yoshiki basically has a lot on his plate, processing the loss of his friend who he had/has feelings for, then developing the acceptance of him for what he is now, on top of all this having to process the “forbidden” feelings for another boy that he has to mentally suppress under all of his grief that he’s still processing. I think that all of this just amplifies the BL aspect even more, as this manga will always be queer and just getting more BL centric as it goes on.
One could potentially sum it all up and say that the story is one big allegory for loving the same sex, feeling like a monster, these are emotions that the young mind can often not comprehend. The feeling like you are constantly doing something wrong for embracing these thoughts, and the mourning of who you were, and the version of you that be perceived at the nation of being gay/queer.