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March 31, 2015
I - like a lot of people, I suppose - have mixed experiences with online ratings on websites like this and amazon. So whenever I read something like "the best BL manga I've read all year", I can't help be a bit wary, while at the same time of course being unable to stop myself from ordering it, because hey, that's high praise.
The cover actually wasn't that appealing to me (and still isn't), but boy am I glad I ordered it. I don't know if I'd say it was the best BL manga I read all year, but it was certainly very, very good.
Norose meets Yuki at the university cafeteria. He approaches him when he notices his strap, which is a merchandise item from an anime. It turns out that Yuki is an otaku, but even though Norose most certainly is not, he and Yuki start hanging out together.
I love nothing more than stories like this - stories that capture the feeling of two people meeting and *clicking*, despite different interest or whatever. And stories that capture the subtle shift of those feelings - or maybe the feelings never were just friendship, that kind of thing doesn't quite matter here - are the absolute best. On the surface, there's nothing extraordinary about the story, but the way the development of the relationship between the two is depicted is really beautiful and extremely well done.
The art also adds to the persuasive power of the story - it's rather rough, and while neither of the characters are really ugly, they never seem to be the usual incredibly pretty type of person (Yuki especially doesn't care too much about his appearance, or things like washing..), which is actually kinda refreshing and makes it seem more real than the usual pretty faces.
The more intimate moments are really well-captured and intense. The sex scenes are not particularly explicit, but this shows that lots of naked skin and fucking doesn't equal eroticism.
I really, really loved this. It's not the kind of BL I see being published in German any time soon (or in any kind of Western official translation), but maybe there'll be a scanlation of it at some point.
Edit 03/18/2015: Rereading a book I really loved always requires some courage, for me at least. What if I don't love it as much as the first time around?
I shouldn't have worried in this case. After showing it to a friend yesterday I though, I really need to read this again and so I did (crazy, right?) . And I loved it at least as much as the first time around. She just gets everything so right - the meeting, the getting to know each other, the falling in love... this definitely has earned its place among my favourites.
The cover actually wasn't that appealing to me (and still isn't), but boy am I glad I ordered it. I don't know if I'd say it was the best BL manga I read all year, but it was certainly very, very good.
Norose meets Yuki at the university cafeteria. He approaches him when he notices his strap, which is a merchandise item from an anime. It turns out that Yuki is an otaku, but even though Norose most certainly is not, he and Yuki start hanging out together.
I love nothing more than stories like this - stories that capture the feeling of two people meeting and *clicking*, despite different interest or whatever. And stories that capture the subtle shift of those feelings - or maybe the feelings never were just friendship, that kind of thing doesn't quite matter here - are the absolute best. On the surface, there's nothing extraordinary about the story, but the way the development of the relationship between the two is depicted is really beautiful and extremely well done.
The art also adds to the persuasive power of the story - it's rather rough, and while neither of the characters are really ugly, they never seem to be the usual incredibly pretty type of person (Yuki especially doesn't care too much about his appearance, or things like washing..), which is actually kinda refreshing and makes it seem more real than the usual pretty faces.
The more intimate moments are really well-captured and intense. The sex scenes are not particularly explicit, but this shows that lots of naked skin and fucking doesn't equal eroticism.
I really, really loved this. It's not the kind of BL I see being published in German any time soon (or in any kind of Western official translation), but maybe there'll be a scanlation of it at some point.
Edit 03/18/2015: Rereading a book I really loved always requires some courage, for me at least. What if I don't love it as much as the first time around?
I shouldn't have worried in this case. After showing it to a friend yesterday I though, I really need to read this again and so I did (crazy, right?) . And I loved it at least as much as the first time around. She just gets everything so right - the meeting, the getting to know each other, the falling in love... this definitely has earned its place among my favourites.
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