I have to be honest, I loved this collection. The first story should come with trigger warnings, because it starts off so sweetly you don't realize what you're in for -- it's a brilliant exploration of its own thesis statement, which is, "what happens after the love story?" An unrequited love becomes a requited love, but one side of the couple becomes intensely, emotionally obsessed with the love succeeding, to the point where it becomes self-destructive and hard to watch. Jaryuu always has a little bit of that psychotic darkness swirling in her stories, and this one was definitely threatening you with that cliff into the tragic, only she pulls you back the last minute. I can't say the characters really found a solution, but they seem to be trying for a "happily ever after," so rest assured that the midway point of the first story is not indicative of its ending.
Then, the second story is an oddly coded non-bl, between a transwoman and a wayward young man who turns out to have been a childhood friend of the woman. It's not a romance, really, more like a found family kind of story that hints at a deeper, but maybe simply platonic? connection between the two characters. It's heartwarming in a very nontraditional way, or at least nontraditional for bl. I have to give props to Jaryuu for not making the transwoman necessarily "pass" as a woman -- there's a celebration of gender noncomformity, and while that's a punchline for a joke or two, it's never portrayed narratively as a negative or disgusting thing. Again, a non-ending.
The last is a story of two classmates that jumps around in the timeline and always seems to be hinting at something less fluffy, but really it's just a story about two people whose high school romance was thwarted and get a chance to reconnect now that they're older. The art and character archetypes are familiar but loving and warm. Not a standout, but not a dud either.
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