who the hell does compton think he is !?? ugh, this is giving me such a bad feeling
they’re so freaking cute, especially their little chibi’s (▰˘◡˘▰)
i’ve been re-reading these chapters over and over holyyyyyy, i just know this is about to be my new favorite manhwa
well i saw it all the way through but there were many times i wanted to drop ts
i rarely write reviews this detailed but I am so utterly shaken by this one that I cannot help but try to convey the bitter taste it left in my mouth. i finished it with an uncomfortable nausea and a grief that still coils in my stomach.
both Mamiya and Sada are proof that tenderness can survive even when it is intimately acquainted with the grotesque. they remain painfully human though their actions no longer resemble humanity, and because of that, i understood them in places where i could not necessarily relate. there is something almost unbearable about loving another person beyond the usefulness of language.
wanting to give another person everything the body can surrender, only to discover that even being consumed would not satisfy the desire to keep them here. however, their relationship itself was remarkably restrained and i think that was due to them largely being at peace with what they could not give.
that was the grief i carried away from this story. even with Mamiya’s ending, it suggests that a person may live perfectly well without intimacy when they have never depended upon it, but once they have known the relief of being understood, returning to solitude is not a return at all. the absence of being known can become more unbearable than the solitude that came before it.
i also favor the authors refusal to reward love merely because it was genuine. reality does not become generous when people finally find one another. perhaps that is why the story affected me so deeply. it offered no comforting lie about love conquering everything. instead, it suggested that love may conquer nothing at all and still become the most consequential thing that ever happens to us.
oh my god, u write so beautifully ╥﹏╥ u have such a way with words, for a minute there i thought i was reading a story and not a review!
thank u for sharing ur thoughts with us! u should totally start writing more detailed reviews like this, well if u feel like it ofc
this is irrelevant but do u write fics by any chance??? i'd love to read some of ur works if u do! (≧∀≦)
WOW thank you sm! sometimes the stories i read are just straight slop so i usually avoid voicing my opinion on those in fear of being a harsh critic lol.
also YESS, i do write on ao3 a bit. my handle is the same. i have a lot of archived stories but the one i have up right now is a satosugu mystery type of fic called chain of custody. i haven’t dropped a chapter in a few months due to my perfectionism but i might drop the pre written chapters i wrote this week!
aww stop, this was a cute wholesome story to refresh my palette before i jump back into my yaoi slop
real
ugh they’re so fucking cute