My sensitive king. Letting the tears flow down in polite company. hes always hinting that he used to be a sensitive crybaby omg. v endearing to see this side of him as 30-yo adult!!!!
"would that i were another tender brushstroke in the landscape he captured" sickeningly romantic yearnful line, miss pendleton. the translator continues to prove their pen is unmatched and also engulfed in absolute fire
dalton stronger than me cuz i would not have kept my composure after getting toppled over by the woman ive been thirsting and yearning for. Miss Pendleton i missed u so much. lovvv the glamor shots of miss pendleton looking so lovely and beautiful and, most importantly, far away from her demonic uncle!!!!!!!! We literally prayed for times like these
Thank you sayeon lee for gracing us with ur immaculate presence... it's my first update since binging the whole thing and i missed her and ryujin so much. soooo excited that she and ryujin are going to have to do acting shenanigans in the next chapters. i loved the last arc so bad! sayeon's iconic "how can you look so apathetic all the time, ryujin kang? when desperation looks this good on you." SCREAM. My toxic king and knight hate-fueled lesbian situationship... sayeon's hypocrisy is so stunning lol and it's only gonna get worse from here (▰˘◡˘▰)
i never would have stumbled upon this insanity if my reading lists werent down… this is such an unhinged concept lol. they shounenified adulthood and. its incredible
my god. i cant imagine reconnecting to my first adolescent gay love of my life lolol honestly takara and ema are actually being pretty normal and sane about everything, All Things Considered. loveeee the nuanced portrayal of these women lol esp in ema. shes like… insecure and repressed and petty and jealous and hides it all under this thin veneer of meekness. Like shes known she liked women since she was 14 and then stuffed it down because she was too pressured by her mom and society to fulfill her role as a “beautiful woman”… its gratifying to read an older gay woman struggle with all these repressed parts of her. i also love hario lol i love that he’s equally as flawed and sympathetic… like yes they have a good rapport as a married couple but what do you mean he chased after her for like two years even when she said no? no one else thinks this is kinda weird and troubling lol? love his moral dilemma of having the mantra of “i promised i would protect this fragile woman.” so then what happens to his role when she starts being less fragile? he’s clearly afraid of this new person that ema is becoming. you can’t really blame him, but you can’t really blame ema either for her circumstance lol it’s hard to be gay AND have an overbearing mother!!!
anyways one thing i will say is that it’s hilarious that ema is being so obvious and takara is like “She only has straight feelings for me i thinmk :(“ Which is very true and real. another thing is that i am extremely invested in whatever love triangle shenanigans are happening w the side characters lol i hope there are side stories!!
so glad i read this now rather than sooner so i could binge right up to confession … however i do think its gonna get worse before it gets better. excited!!!
i cant read the unofficial translation anymore even tho by normal standards theyre doing a great job T—T the official translation is jus so fun… the jane austen-esque dialogues… i love it!!!
This is exactly what I told my roommate a few minutes ago pls
yeah this chapter has had me switching loyalties extremely fast HFJDJSJS arata im rooting for u!!!! i think this is where the real story begins y’all… really deeply curious how sanari going to act? praying this is gonna be a daytime shooting star/hirunaka no ryuusei situation where they keep it kinda ambiguous but also somewhat obvious that the 2nd ml is gonna come out on top
the pacing is weird but i am kinda intrigued by sanari’s whole deal like. he clearly likes her but is scared of his own wants. like… okay… the kiss at the festival happened bc sanari was jealous and he wanted to… run away from that feeling. i thought that standoff between the two mls was interesting bc sanari exposed his truest self to arata: someone who thinks of himself as a bad guy, someone who acts differently based on the situation, someone who lies to the girl he likes to smooth over the awkwardness. arata’s taller than him, isn’t cynical, and can treat ichika right — like… to an emotionally constipated guy, it makes sense that sanari lashed out. but what i dislike is the author’s wishy-washyness on character development like. ichika isn’t learning anything new, she just kinda confidently stepped into a situationship — at first, i thought it was actually gonna go somewhere but it’s dragging. i think it would have been more effective if the kiss scene at the festival was framed to be scary and horrifying from the jump, instead of tense and romantic. ichika obv didn’t like it lol. i def like the beginning character explorations in this manga but the story needs to be confident enough to take a stand for it to stick the landing: either commit to sanari’s growth, or develop ichika and arata to the point where ichika finds her original sense of self-worth again lolll
the power dynamics between the two leads is awesome. it keeps flip-flopping the more they reveal their past history. like in the opening scene, it's clear aki was making a pass at jun, which jun rejected... in adulthood, the roles are reversed, except aki can never say no to jun and so jun gets his way... and then this is reflected in childhood, when jun asks to play "house", threatens to leave, and then maneuvers the situation so that aki agrees to be his play-wife. so fun that they are always flip-flopping who is in "power".
it so efficiently tells us that it's not going to end well. they genuinely can't say no to each other, but theyre also not brave enough to change the status quo, only messing around in cars... Like ... their relationship could only have ever existed in the margins. they got distant because they were scared of their connection. And thats so sad considering how much they are fixated on each other lol they have a genuine chemistry that's fun to read.
anyways i just wanted to point out: it's skillful how the writer managed to convey so much of their lifetime of obsession with each other thru only like 6 chapters. ive read a Lot of manga okay The pacing in this one is incredible. i really enjoyed it!