Well said. To me, it felt like a relationship doomed to fail by uni when Ryoji would have lots of attention from lots of "big boobied" girls. If cheating on a girlfriend with a guy is acceptable, then cheating on a boyfriend with a girl would also be acceptable to Ryoji. We see no change in Ryoji as readers, making it hard to feel secure and confident in their relationship lasting. I don't enjoy stories where I feel nothing but pity for every character. I feel bad for Toru because he'll have his heart broken, I feel bad for the megane friend because he's being ignored, I feel bad for the president guy because his pure feelings were refused when Ryoji's half-hearted advances were accepted and I even feel a little bad for Ryoji because he'll end up losing Toru one day. Even if he deserves it, it will be painful. It's just a sad story all the way around.
It's time like this I'm happy the story ends in High school just so I can imagine that Ryoji isn't really Toru's end game. Toru will go to art school and become busy. Ryoji will cheat on him. He'll get caught. Toru will break up with him but this time he'll actually be able to avoid him since they'll probably be at different schools. Then Toru will find a much better art bae. The end.
Again, well said. lol No ending is ever "happy", when anything ends someone is always disappointed, but what we can have are "happily ever afters". Toru deserves a better HEA than Ryoji.
The problem with stories like this is that they don't put in any work into making you like the seme as the audience AND they don't even give reasons as to why the main character loves this guy. If Ryoji had been endeared to us at all during this whole thing then maybe it could have been a different story but you get literally no big scenes from him that aren't him just being a jerk. Forceful, inconsiderate, unfaithful, and rude.