I hope the new guy falls in love with Onoe and then suffers and grovels and stuff muahahahaha.
I TOTTALLY AGREE WITH YOU
Me too!
Saaaaaaame! XD
Agree!
I wanna see him being desperate by fall in love with Onoe. N my second reason : I wanna see Kaburagi being jealous n protective!
It's a bit morbid, sadistic, and mean... but I TOTALLY HAVE TO AGREE WITH YOU!! MWUAHAHAHAAA! XD
-Shadow
I liked it, but it was also difficult for me to separate whether they really loved each other the way we think about love, or whether they just care about each other deeply. It was a troubling thought. All of us felt like Floran cheated, but he and Gil didn't love each other. Instead, the person he really loved was Ilse but they can't be together. This system really sucks if you don't end up falling in love with your partner like the last couple did.
I have to say that this was what attracted me most in this manga. The author did a great job creating a different society with moral values that aren't ours. :)
I didn't think that Floran cheated. I think he, like any 17-year-old might do, fell in love when he met Ilse. Gil seemed willing to support that relationship; there are scenes of the three together, and it didn't seem to me that Gil was uncomfortable. As we saw with Keel and his original partner, it's possible to leave a partner and find another; Gil chose to not only stay with Floran, but to raise Alexi as if he were his own son. What some readers see as a betrayal of Gil by Floran I see as a gift, because it was through that relationship that Alexi was born. And the family the three of them created was filled with love. Did Floran and Gil eventually fall in love? I'm not sure, but I like to think they did!
I agree Anne, with everything you said...save one. In the chapter where Alexi wanders away from home, the end of the story seemed to point to Floran accepting Gil into his heart as both his "partner" and life companion. However, that is solely my own interpretation and opinion.
I agree. But that was after Floran and Ilse were no longer together, so I'm not sure why it's an exception to my original comment, unless you're saying that, indeed, Floran and Gil did fall in love. Since it has been a while since I'd read it, I ended up going back for a re-reading of the second half of the story! After reading the exchange between Floran and Gil at the end of v3, ch10, I have to amend my original comment: I believe they did, indeed, fall in love!
Glad my reply spurred you to read this awesome story again! It was difficult to distinguish between the "affection due to connection" of the "partners" and the idea of "love" between "partners" but I think that was the point of this manga. How do we distinguish between someone we are dependent on and someone we love? In some cases one will come to love the person they depend on, in others they won't.
Dang, I replied to my own post again!! Please see below for my reply to you. I'm sorry.
Great thoughts, Mameiha! As you point out, it can be difficult to separate dependency and love; in the best-case scenario, it evolves into interdependency combined with love. This story does a good job of illustrating a healthy interdependence between partners because while the receiver is dependent on the supplier, the supplier must also depend on the receiver to accept their kiss to discharge them. That balance is shown clearly in this story, but in the real world, it's not so easy to find!
How very true, and fine choice of vocabulary as well. Most RL relationships based in dependency devolve into the dreaded "co-dependency" rather than interdependence. And most people are at a loss to tell the difference between the two.
I'm sorry but I disagree with you...Gil had to accepted not entirely because he wanted but because of the nature of their relationship...he was forced to. This thing about (Supplier/receiver) is the main reason why they are together. Gil words "do you think she is not gonna feel something when she see us charge everytime" for me if I have a boyfriend and I have to see him charge (this is just a suppose) with someone else even if i know the person...I wouldn't be happy even if i know my boyfriend need it. Floran was selfish in every f****** way (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ if he fall in love why didn't he talk with Gil first. Floran hurt Gil. I love Alexi and Rael. But what Floran did to Gil was wrong. And I know they weren't in a love relationship I understand that. I know Gil didn't protested about raising your partner child but it wasn't his son. Ilse was selfish to why didn't she sacrifice what she wanted and went to live with Floran and her baby even if it was for a short time "she love Floran didn't she?" She knew tha nature of the partnership of Floran and Gil. Why after she did what she wanted why didn't she went to Floran or Floran look for her after Alexi grew up. WHY THEY SELFISHLY HURT Gil. （/TДT)/ and I know Gil after all was ok with it but if Floran had got a partner that didn't want his child? What would had happened?. Well just my opinion and complains. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
This was a loooooottttt better than I expected. More please!
Skip Beat's been going for 12 years already, you'd think there'd have been more development =_= I know that when manga works get popular, the authors tend to try to drag it out more, but this is a little ridiculous. I've been following this series for ten years already, and I'd like to see a little more progress plot and character wise.
I can't help but agree...Oh well, looking forward to the mother showing up!
i thought of dropping this so many times. Still no love confession after all these years. I feel like the characters are not really growing.
Agreed!! It's been so stagnant the last couple of years >.< It lacks that special something it had from the beginning.
I really need to start reading the tags -_- why was this shota
Same.. I did not see that>_<
He literally had the weirdest thought progression I've ever read. Like wth hahaha. I'm a bit scarred for life but at least the art was good?
This is completed and it's not really a shounen-ai. The problem with this one was that the story was written by someone else. And Takarai Rihito sensei was just the artist. That's probably why the story was lacking compared to the rest of her works.
To the wonderful person who finally uploaded the actual complete chapter 9, THANK YOU!!! May the manga gods bless you and your progeny because rereading this with the incompleteness every time was just so depressing.