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Uke: "I want you to be only mine"
Seme in literally the next scene: *still sleeping with other guys*

PS You can be in a committed relationship and do sex work as long as there is trust and communication! In this case, the uke clearly wasn't comfortable with that and made clear his boundaries so the seme gets a side eye from me.

God the punch was so satisfying only for nothing to change...It's my own fault for having faith he would get better :D

I really enjoyed the exploration of what it means to fall in love! However, because we spent so much time on that it was hard for me to see Satoru fall in love. It was so clear throughout the manga Shishio was falling and he was always upfront about it. But we really never got so much of an inkling of romance from Satoru until maybe chapter 8. I get the purpose of this manga was to show growth from Satoru repressing his feelings and avoiding love, fine great love that for him! But I was hoping for a little more of the growth to come through after he sorted out his feelings since they got together and BAM it ended. It would have been nice for the romance part to come after the struggle to admit you're in love. Also, there was such a build-up to Satoru and the meaning of the words I love you, I was hoping part of his growth would be saying those words out loud. If I'm going to be honest Chapter 10 about Satoru's brother gave me more mutual love than the other 9 chapters combined.

tldr; It was a really interesting read, but I wish it was longer to see some actual romance develop after they both clear up their feelings.

I didn't mind the potential infidelity IF (and only if) there were serious consequences and it was addressed properly. It was going in that direction with the white hair alpha getting justifiably super pissed off, and telling the black-haired one he was straight up in the wrong. And then.... things got so fucking messy with the mom and her criminal activity that we just all forgot about him being unfaithful???? I had my hopes and was let down:/

Let me preface: this manga had some elite storytelling and yes you all should read it.

First off, I was disappointed that the author didn't have Ian walk away on his own as part of his character growth. I know that it was well explained he didn't have the confidence to leave, but that was the point of showing growth. I was rooting for him to gain some self-confidence for over 50 chapters to find that confidence to do what was best for him. So to have it be a cop-out kidnapping left a bad taste in my mouth. I will say his later rejection was nice, but I wanted it to be firmer, clearer, and to be a little more satisfying of a rejection.

However, those of you who are saying that this ending left you satisfied missed about 50 chapters of Ray putting literally everyone through hell only for him to still get what he wants. I'm upset that whether it was trying to become a prince or winning back Ian everything he wanted he got seamlessly. For me there wasn't enough understanding of the impact and trauma he caused to more than just Ian. Ray's couple weeks of a "binge drinking spiral" wasn't enough of suffering or reflection for me to make up for literal years of being trash. He's really lucky that Ian has the heart of a saint to forgive his actions, but as an audience member, he was on thin ice. What I can say is that his atonement is clear and it brings me some peace to know that he will be making up for the choices he made with Ian for the rest of his life. I'm happy they're happy I guess.

Shoutout to Nicholas for being the best fucking man in this whole damn story. His lack of judgment about gay relationships, supporting his best friend when he knows he was hurting, and the soft and playful relationship he had with Kaya was CHEFS KISS!!! He should be talked about way more!!

Don't get me wrong for 28 chapters only covering the beginning of 11 volumes this manga was phenomenal! There was so much to explore from racism and prejudice to trauma and moving on. However, I feel that this story would have had so much more impact if it were longer.

I was so tired of hearing Gabe's names mentioned every five minutes, it was difficult to see any growth in Dex and Sloane's relationship. I know there is so much more to their love and I wish we got more of them to really reassure the audience of their mutual love and that Sloane was ready to date again. We only saw them get together and BAM it ended. From the comments, I can see their relationship has so much more to offer and I was so sad that it wasn't included in the manga.

Also they really left us hanging on all of the side couples. I was STRESSED the whole time thinking that the straight-up asshole Ashe was going to snag the cute brother. Hopefully, Ashe gets his shit together in the novels because I was not enjoying his personality (and homophobia).

tldr; I wished the manga was longer, but it's okay since it encourages people to support the author and purchase the novels!

I was begging for them to all stay single and do some self-reflection, but at least we got some hot switch sex scenes...

Alot of you coming for Shion but wtf was up with Rui's "Did you think I had more to say?" comment to a very clear confession. That prideful man is the definition of frustrating, I don't even care about his full response after that kinda comment...

They were literally "Two bros chillin in a hot tub, five feet apart because they're not gay" !!! WHEEZING XD

While Toki struggled with confidence and was a coward from time to time, the truly wise ones know that Hisamitsu was the biggest coward in this story. Toki was a coward for good reason, he watched Hisamitsu get married and have a kid, what reason did Hisamitsu have for being a wimp? Toki still had to say I love you first and Akira (a literal child) had to tell his dad to stop hiding his mf feelings. Being in gay relationships can be hard and its okay to be a coward sometimes, but I won't allow Toki slander in this household.