Ramon's manga / #Drama(8)

This deals with very serious themes in a surprisingly sensitive manner - sexual abuse, PTSD, trauma-induced sexual relationships, taboo steosibling incest - definitely a minefield of disturbing trigger topics and not for people who want a light read. Kaname and Souichirou's healing relationship is more beautiful because of this though; the downside is that the author spent too long showing us Kaname and Masato's dark past (enough to leave a sour taste) and unnecessary conflict and drama at the end when time would have been better spent developing the early part of Kaname and Souichiro's romance so that it wasn't so... quick a process. Still, the character developments are great.

Meh, I so wanted this to be good but it turned out to be the typical "cold seme with painful past who has difficulty loving" and "uke who falls in love super quickly & heals seme with his desperate pushiness." It wasn't remotely believable that Kyouya supposedly had this massive crush on his benefactor, only to transfer it SO quickly to Kiriya in the space of a few weeks. Worse, Kyouya turns into the worst type of weepy/pushy/jealous/nosy uke who demands that the seme tell them ALL about their past painful love.

That was so interesting - frankly really not my type of story since it’s so heavily psychological and dark rather than romantic, but I did enjoy the mystery even though it was pretty obvious that they’re all parts of Hyunjin. The ending truly was lovely, too - so beautiful. Art was… not so good though.