ALisAnimeLover's manga / #BEAUTIFUL(22)

AHHHHHHHHH DAPAT COM BINABASA KO NGAYON EH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH THIS WAS SOOOOO GOOD THE EMOTIONS MEN. THE ENDING. DI NIYA NAALALA PERO KEBS. OMG. 10 GUSTO KO NG CONT THO

Thank you for this, sensei. :< it feels cut short tho. it's like there's a bud, it starts to blossom. the end. hhuuhuhhuhuhuhuhu 7. i'm biased towards the author so... XD

I need more of the first couple~ They're as chill as they can be, and mature in their relationship. No drama at all. Love it. The second story was short, although it was nice, esp. in the pov of a student reader (though I have already passed that phase, I guess). The last story was... half good and half bad. I disliked the mc at first due to his creepy pushy attitude. Whilst he had a reason (to let the other guy get out of the closet and get rid of his goddamned conservative views on gender), it kinda annoyed me. Although all's well that ends well, so... :D

I didn't like nor dislike the first story, ut felt a bit bland and cliche for me. As for the second story, I LOVE IT. *a bit of spoilers* It presented a different view on domestic abuse, this time from the point of view of the abuser. I hate abusers, but I don't think they should be refused of the opportunity to change. Great read.

TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE (ch 1 only) Ch 1: "I need to see him soon." Crap, who the hell is cutting all these onions??? *ugly sobs* The best in this anthology imo. Totally a 10/10 (and hence the 5 stars, I'm a sucker for tearjerkers. I just wish there was some kind of trigger warning though?) Ch 2: It's okay. I didn't even bother rereading it anymore. 4/10. Ch 3: Idk, I've read tons of stories with a similar story line, but I never get tired of it. Hahaha~ Not really great, but it is good enough to make my heart wrench... Or perhaps, I'm too broken by the first story that I can no longer be broken anymore. 7/10 Ch 4: Didn't bother rereading. I don't like it. Too fast tbh. And I don't feel the love unlike in all the other stories here. 1/10 Ch 5: Yakuza love shown how it should be. 5/10 Ch 6: Romeo and Juliet - BL version gone wrong. I guess I kinda spoiled it by saying it that way, but at the same time, it's not really spoiled? Well, that's that, sorry... 5/10 Ch 7: "Maybe it's not for us humans to judge him." WOAH. THIS IS NEW. Or not. Well, yeah, totally not. But the way it's executed is so good that it feels fresh. 7/10 Ch 8: I don't know. I really liked it until the last few pages. It got ruined for me knowing that *spoilers* the guy's soul still lingers around him, so he technically didn't go separate ways with the guy. I would like it better if 1) the ghost didn't show up anymore; 2) or it showed that the ghost is just an illusion because he couldn't get over the guy's death. 3/10

I'd rate this a 5/5 if not for the sudden "you know I'm a virgin" confession. Hahahaha. Although that was his way of saying he liked Tani. Above all, though, what caught my eye is the relation between the story and the movie featured in it. The movie implied that the girl will die, but it turns out otherwise. The manga kinda did that as some sort of subtle parallelism. Whether intentional or not, it's beautiful. Also, gotta love the mature sense of Tani. Would totally want to see more of the couple and how they grow as humans (lol, yeah, my wording is weird). How they'll begin to accept their past, especially Towada, and how the people around them will change, ifever, as well.

I read this way before, and again, like a few months ago. I kinda forgot the story until I read the tag "growing uke". Hmmmm, whilst it's totally forgettable, I like the concept of how the uke changed from "girly" to "manly" and how the story revolved around the way the uke feels about this - which I believe is a problem of some, if not a lot, trans/gay people.