Did not like

This story is so loaded with tropes and cliches I couldn't finish it. I was annoyed already in the first chapter, and could only make it to part-way through chapter four before I was done. Well, at least the art is nice.

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It bugs me that right at the beginning of the story, novelist guy has exactly one thought about neighbor kid being underage (which he rightly ought to) and then throws that thought completely out the window and dives straight into the pervy sex stuff. This whole thing was horribly rushed, and felt really uncomfortably predatory.

I'm fine with HSer thinking he's in love with novelist. But novelist doesn't announce that he's gay when confessed to by a boy, so I'm gonna assume he wasn't gay prior to this. I don't think that's unreasonable. But then he has zero amounts of reservations about sexing a guy, doesn't ponder his sexuality at all, and doesn't have like any kind of growth about this. In a place like Japan where homosexuality is treated with a lot of derision, you can't tell me he wouldn't have thought about it AT ALL before going straight into the dick-grabbing an underage kid. (note: older manga have no qualms about middle schoolers having sex, but these days most R-18 comics tend to view sub-20-years as being underage, and you can see this in plenty of manga)

Taking HSer to the publisher meet-n-greet where he doesn't know anyone at all, and not escorting him around the whole time and not introducing him to anyone while he's there is just really crappy of novelist guy. Don't take him if you're mostly just going to ditch him and hide him. It's fine that HSer is interested in the publishing industry and I think that's good development for him, but I think it would've been better if this had been setup/foreshadowed in an earlier chapter so it wouldn't feel like it came out of nowhere for the purpose of generating drama.

The cultural festival.

When the HSer goes to hide around the side of some remote building to take a break then gets attacked by the sexpervert, I was done. Why was that guy there? Does he just hang around at schools looking to grab the dicks of cross-dressing HS boys? At a busy cultural festival in broad daylight where you would increase your chances of getting caught like a million percent (compared to jumping someone alone at night in a non-populated area). Was he following HSer around? Is every guy in this comic gay for the convenience of the author? If this was going to happen to HSer, the sexpervert should've been shown talking to HSer earlier at the cafe and following him around the cultural festival. It would still have been lame, but it would've at least been a properly set-up cliche. Also I couldn't help but think that Japanese people just aren't that forward to be randomly forcibly groping someone in a non-anonymous way in broad daylight with tons of people around just because they're horny for HSer dick. It's just a different mindset they have over there. It really breaks me out of immersion.

Also, why is novelist guy suddenly there in such a remote spot? He just appears, with no context and no set-up, so he can swoop in to save HSer in the most cliche of ways. He hadn't even been shown to have even gotten to the cafe yet at the cultural festival; why would HSer yell for someone who wasn't even there (that he knew of).

It also irked me that HSer would do absolutely nothing to defend himself. It certainly is not his fault he's being groped (** see below for a more in-depth explanation of this), but I take issue with the uke being forced to be a doormat by the author when there's no indication that his character actually acts this way. The uke has been shown a few times to be a man of action. He saved the cat. He confessed to the novelist. He picked up the cigs and carried them around on his own. He asked to go to the publisher party even though he wasn't even invited and the seme didn't want to go. This doormat behavior is incongruent with his character, and is forced upon him for the purpose of showcasing the novelist to be a valiant person in the laziest, most character-inconsistent way possible. This harkens back to an older time in the BL genre where the ukes are basically girl stand-ins from shoujo manga, and they're useless, dumb, poor, and inept, with a perfect boyfriend/love-interest who does absolutely everything for them. When even stupid Twilight features this cliche, you know you've screwed up.

Anyway, the sexpervert wasn't actually even a threat anyway beyond being slightly pushy. He didn't have a weapon. All it took was one punch from novelist guy to make him run away. And then he was completely forgotten. If you're gonna have something like this happen in a story, make him more of a threat. Have the seme actually get his ass beaten in order to defend the uke. Have the seme drag him to the cops afterwards. Have him reassure the uke that he's ok, he's loved, and etc etc. Have him actually DOOOO something substantial at all. Instead, a disgusting moment (sexual assault) is treated like a joke, with a doormat uke and a seme that teleports in and exerts barely any effort at all to get rid of something that isn't even really much of a threat. Ugh, it's soooooooooo bad.

But that isn't even the worst of it. After one-punch-man novelist gets to pop in from absolutely nowhere to gallantly save our poor damsel uke who won't even lift a finger on his own behalf, the novelist guy decides that now is a good time to sex up his uke, in broad daylight, in public, right after he'd just been groped by a sexpervert. TAKE HIM TO THE POLICE STATION TO REPORT IT, GEEZ. Why would anyone think that sex is the correct course of action to take after their partner was just assaulted one minute before?

At this point I was done. This is just too stupid and cliche even for me. My tolerance for this sort of stupidity is pretty high, but this author isn't even trying here. So I'm not going to bother either.

**As a final comment: I just want to say I do not blame the uke for getting groped. It's not his fault at all. This is more a comment on the author forcing the uke to take no action on his own behalf even though he's not been characterized like this previously in order to put him in a damsel situation in order to try and make seme look good in a lame, over-used, and problematic way. Not everyone reacts to situations like this the same. Some people get violent, some people freeze, and some people screech their heads off. It's not his fault, it's the author's fault. This is some lazy, lowest-common-denominator stuff right here.