rainydays's manga / #college(6)

taiyou attempts to befriend a gloomy first year who has secretly been in love with him since childhood. this kinda sucked!! i like the ml's character design but the story was not it-- i am all for yandere & first love rep but taiyou was pestered constantly by a guy who wouldnt take a 'no' in the first place, ml's hot and cold attitude was not it and the relationship at the end felt v one-sided.

kotarou pretends to be the boyfriend for his childhood friend in order to shoo off a persistent aoi, but ends up catching feelings for the latter. i really like yoriko's works so i was pretty excited for this, considering its one of her most popular works, but i think that in the end, this is just average. aoi was getting on my nerves for half of the book, though i did think he was cute in the end and overall the manga was light and and predictable read.

it really ramped up the creep factor in the last few chapters, and while i feel like stuff went on i feel like this rang a bit hollow in the narrative aspect.

bro really had a shrine of photos and broke into mcs room in order to install a secret camera... made me feel bad at first but it kind of neutralized itself out towards the end where mc does weird shit as well, i guess i liked the fact that there was at least a semblance of equal ground and understanding than mindless manipulation. art was really nice though i think the story needed a bit more fleshing out.

somehow so mind numbing to read but still so human in the characters irrationality? like PLEASE just communicate and dont piss me off

the plot to this is actually so stupid i had to take a breath... nice art tho.