After reading this manga, it left me with many feeling mixing up altogether, it was heavy, sad, rejected yet precious, warm and beautiful feeling. I adored both stories so much. For a story like this, I really want to advance my Japanese level in order to understand the original script, thanks to the translation group for an incredible work, I appreciated it so much.
This is going to be very long, so please accept my apology in advance to just ignore this comment. (⌒▽⌒)
For first story, I think the whole problem here was not communicate and honest to one another enough as both uncle and nephew were so afraid that once they said their true desire out loud, things will not be the same. The more the story unfold the more I really want to give the child a big warm hug as well as my poor heart broke. The uncle was treating and holding their relationship endearingly so so much to the point where it hurt and harmed his nephew cruelly and mentally. He known full well how the child feels toward him yet he pretended not to recognise them, turing blind eyes and being deaf with sweet smile on his face (not to mention some irreverent and ignorance statements he always said) then fooling around, brought back a bunch of lovers as a way to clearly draw a line between them. I was so glad that nothing bad happen to the child (like other yaoi we've all known full well, at least sensei was still kind enough not to break the child completely ╥﹏╥ ) I love the moment when they were first met, just like that the uncle became the child's whole world. It was really beautiful.
For the second story, I would said that this is one of my top 10 favourite short yaoi manga. The story was melancholily beautiful, they are all a victim of what they called "love" but I would said "selfishness". I would love to read Akira's POV to confirm my understanding (sadly, the story is already finished, so those days will never come true.) Akira is the mastermind here because I think he’s known the stalker-Sato stalked Mei not him as he was watching stalker-Sato as well, he went out with our sorrowful-sato to get stalker-sato’s attention as well as to see whether he can go out and do it with a guy or not, once he got an attention, he dumped sorrowful-sato. A few drawings from stalker-sato's POV were shown Akira approached stalker-sato happily, comforting a devastating stalker-sato, other one from sorrowful-sato’s POV, he said to sorrowful-sato that ”So I don't need substitute anymore."
I think none of them should be blame here, it's the matter of each person perspective, we don't know what other person've been through, at the end of the day we, human, do thing that favour our desire, isn't it? Foolishly using "Love" as an accuse to make things look acceptable and forgivable, holding on to something just because you don't want to be left behind or to prove that you've loved by someone, hanging on a person you love because that person was hurt terribly, doing things without considering it might caused a greatly impact just because you were jealous and want to stand on the wining side. The story was realistic and pitiful as well as beautifully interpret each character feeling.
I love Sorrowful-Sato very much. This is my humbly opinion, I do think that Sorrowful-Sato didn't want to date Akira very much, perhaps Akira forced our sato to slept with him on their first date (possibly rape?!?), relationship then carried on as well as the feeling of our sato developed, Akira just ended it out of the blue. Our Sato was quite naive in term of relationship wise, like a person who believed first love would lasted forever. Perhaps no one has been treated him kindly and gently before and Akira was the first person to do so. This might then caused confusing feeling he had for Akira. The scene where sorrowful-sato realised that even Mei doesn’t love him, I've blown away by his devastating sadness. (I might be over reacting but something very similar happened to one of my best friend and it took him years to pick himself up and stand on his feet again, take it into account that my friend has friends and family who are willing to support him, but our sato doesn't.)
I hope this manga will be licensed in English or my language very soon, I already owned japanese edition actually and would love to purchase them again in english and my language. They are truly masterpiece.
After reading this manga, it left me with many feeling mixing up altogether, it was heavy, sad, rejected yet precious, warm and beautiful feeling. I adored both stories so much. For a story like this, I really want to advance my Japanese level in order to understand the original script, thanks to the translation group for an incredible work, I appreciated it so much.
This is going to be very long, so please accept my apology in advance to just ignore this comment. (⌒▽⌒)
For first story, I think the whole problem here was not communicate and honest to one another enough as both uncle and nephew were so afraid that once they said their true desire out loud, things will not be the same. The more the story unfold the more I really want to give the child a big warm hug as well as my poor heart broke. The uncle was treating and holding their relationship endearingly so so much to the point where it hurt and harmed his nephew cruelly and mentally. He known full well how the child feels toward him yet he pretended not to recognise them, turing blind eyes and being deaf with sweet smile on his face (not to mention some irreverent and ignorance statements he always said) then fooling around, brought back a bunch of lovers as a way to clearly draw a line between them. I was so glad that nothing bad happen to the child (like other yaoi we've all known full well, at least sensei was still kind enough not to break the child completely ╥﹏╥ ) I love the moment when they were first met, just like that the uncle became the child's whole world. It was really beautiful.
For the second story, I would said that this is one of my top 10 favourite short yaoi manga. The story was melancholily beautiful, they are all a victim of what they called "love" but I would said "selfishness". I would love to read Akira's POV to confirm my understanding (sadly, the story is already finished, so those days will never come true.) Akira is the mastermind here because I think he’s known the stalker-Sato stalked Mei not him as he was watching stalker-Sato as well, he went out with our sorrowful-sato to get stalker-sato’s attention as well as to see whether he can go out and do it with a guy or not, once he got an attention, he dumped sorrowful-sato. A few drawings from stalker-sato's POV were shown Akira approached stalker-sato happily, comforting a devastating stalker-sato, other one from sorrowful-sato’s POV, he said to sorrowful-sato that ”So I don't need substitute anymore."
I think none of them should be blame here, it's the matter of each person perspective, we don't know what other person've been through, at the end of the day we, human, do thing that favour our desire, isn't it? Foolishly using "Love" as an accuse to make things look acceptable and forgivable, holding on to something just because you don't want to be left behind or to prove that you've loved by someone, hanging on a person you love because that person was hurt terribly, doing things without considering it might caused a greatly impact just because you were jealous and want to stand on the wining side. The story was realistic and pitiful as well as beautifully interpret each character feeling.
I love Sorrowful-Sato very much. This is my humbly opinion, I do think that Sorrowful-Sato didn't want to date Akira very much, perhaps Akira forced our sato to slept with him on their first date (possibly rape?!?), relationship then carried on as well as the feeling of our sato developed, Akira just ended it out of the blue. Our Sato was quite naive in term of relationship wise, like a person who believed first love would lasted forever. Perhaps no one has been treated him kindly and gently before and Akira was the first person to do so. This might then caused confusing feeling he had for Akira. The scene where sorrowful-sato realised that even Mei doesn’t love him, I've blown away by his devastating sadness. (I might be over reacting but something very similar happened to one of my best friend and it took him years to pick himself up and stand on his feet again, take it into account that my friend has friends and family who are willing to support him, but our sato doesn't.)
I hope this manga will be licensed in English or my language very soon, I already owned japanese edition actually and would love to purchase them again in english and my language. They are truly masterpiece.
I'm going to re-read it again now.
Wooow....