Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #Amnesia(4)

Trigger warning: Incest (brother x brother) Hideyomi (Omi, 18yo) and Hideyuki (Nini, 16yo) Togame are brothers who live in their own quiet world sans parents. The older Omi had suffered an accident that left him comatose for months and then a changed person with some retrograde amnesia and a more childlike mind. The relationship between the siblings was both complex and very simple. Their closeness was forbidden but their love and dedication towards each other was really sweet. Add in a good friend for Yuki and a cousin who was his doctor and you have the main characters for this lovely yet often melancholy story. I really enjoyed it.

Poor Marley went through a lot of crap (so much that the stress of dealing with it caused her to lose her memory). Told she was just a mistress, judged without any consideration for even asking her side of the story, kidnapped and abandoned. Ah yes, better not forget that she was pregnant. All of that yet so quick to forgive… can we spell doormat? I liked the story but she needed a bit more backbone to be a FL I could enjoy.

Sweetly romantic story with this couple alone in a cabin and sleeping under the stars. I think that one of the things I liked most was that they bought joy to each other. There were problems in their lives, but together there was happiness.

This story had some overlying sadness that made it a little darker than I anticipated. From loss of a parent with yankee student Akito’s mothers death when he was young, and bully-magnet Ryou’s neglectful parents to Sora’s emotionally abusive parent, the boys in this story all had difficulties to manage. Add to that the secret that Ryou has forgotten and the heavy burden of guilt felt by Akito and you would think this was a heavy psychological story. But it was most of all a BL, and the romance between the MCs was sweet and caring. I really liked the surprising well of strength in Ryou too. A very good story overall