Ofc I would’ve loved a longer story but it was still very cute and funny as a short story
okay so after reading through the entire thing, the whole premise makes sense and I am no longer feel offended
Started this when I was like 22 or 23 now I’m 25 I’m so happy it ended so perfectly and beautifully!!!! 1000 STARS FROM ME!!! I always say I think an author really knows what they’re doing when we get to see fully fleshed out characters that have amazing depth and dimension, feel convincing, relatable, and we basically get to see a full 360 as far as their emotional range goes. I’m so glad we got to experience all the shades of the characters, their highs and lows and how they changed because of each other
I absolutely adore all the story
I still absolutely love and adore Alta and Illweth. I love their bond and the love that grew between them. Watching how they helped each other to overcome the trauma and circumstances around them to discover themselves and their love for each other was always something that I really loved. But I’m gonna be honest I wasn’t fully satisfied with the ending just with the way it happened. Yes it was a happy ending they finally got to be together in peace in a distant land but I wanted to SEEEEE that journey!!! I wanted to see the freedom they experienced together and maybe see Illweth discover his memories on the journey there not conveniently by the end. (I also don’t like memory loss tropes but that’s another conversation)gimme some side stories man!! But I still love them I just think the ending could’ve been fleshed out better like the beginning!
Now I can finally review this after so many years of reading it over and over, now I can finally says it’s been completed
I’m gonna Kermit idk why manga go has been cutting off my comments recently
Im pretty satisfied with the ending for the most part
WAIT just realized the merman doesn’t have a name??? Why is that??? Plus I saw a few comments talking about the hand of a child???!!!!
Till the “if you take on a women’s role during your first sexual experience then you evolve into a women.” WHAT??? I’m sorry but I don’t like the implications of that at all.
if it makes you feel any better:
they’re referencing the many species which are born as one sex but can change sexes later in life. many fish species are like this, where they’re all male or all female and then one fish in an area will morph into the other sex. although tbf I’m not aware of any shark species which have sexual metamorphosis traits
and this is a spoiler but it’s based on the mythos of the island with the tribes being descendants of sharks.
Okay okay!! That makes a lot more sense and it does make me feel a bit better! I still don’t like the implications of bottoming automatically being equivalent to being effeminate but I think I’ll try to read it again
I used to read their story over and over again and it’s still one of my favorites tbh therapy game and secret could never beat this story. Also after so many years, I actually started considering what solution they could come up with to be together and since Chiharu has writers block, mayhaps he can write a continuation of the dragons tale since it has an open ending