2.5 stars
I don't get the hype for this one, seriously. Everyone love her works but I found it overrated, and this is the third work of her that I found overrated. Sure her artworks is beautiful, but for a manga, you don't rely on artwork alone. Her storytelling and pacing are always a problem for me. Like this one too, I feel like there are several pages missing in chapter 1, like how the hell in the next page the cocky brat's feeling had a sudden turn, and so head over heels for the tailor? The pacing is off. The rest six chapters is like a second volume of chapter 1. Trying so hard to be sophisticated but the translation ruined the sophisticated feeling.
I don't feel the love between them too, so many 'telling' than 'showing' (this is ironic you know, in manga medium), even when they said the three words, feels empty. I don't even know why the tailor loves the brat, he gives that vibe that anyone is okay for him.
Judging from her other works, it seems to me the mangaka has been trying really hard to be a unique mangaka by deviates from the standard seme uke rule in yaoi (you know the silly rule, the manlier/taller gets to top the less manlier/shorter one), not that I hate it when the usual rules don't apply in this book (I actually would love it more if they are seke/reversible, this silly rule about the less manlier/shorter/smaller dick being the receiver doesn't apply in RL actually), but it's something that I couldn't help but notice it as a way to be different than the rest. Honestly, it just feels so contrived when almost all the characters in her books has reverse role from the usual dynamic, what I mean here is it'd be good if she has varieties in her books : the usual dynamic, the unusual one, and then obviously some versatile/reversible couple too.
I'd appreciate more seke in yaoi, because it's like seke is endangered type in yaoi, don't know why, lol. And also, lately I just realized some fujoshi can't accept these types : the reversible and the reverse type (the feminine one being top and the manlier being bottom). The very example of this is when some fujoshi had a verbal cat fight on Instagram over one character being top/bottom, they couldn't picture/accept the idea of reverse. Meanwhile, I was laughing while watching them arguing heatedly over who is suitable more to be 'a woman', like girls, what the hell is wrong with reversible role? Somehow it's kinda sexism to put the 'woman' role in gay relationship, not everything has to be man x woman. Bottoming doesn't mean the one being bottom is more 'woman' even if he looks androgynous (his role in bed doesn't define his masculinity), and doesn't mean they will be bottom forever (while in RL some of them love being bottom forever, but some are not), and doesn't mean they are weaker/less manlier or what.
Actually I think reversible role is a beautiful thing when they make love, you can be the giver (of love) and the receiver (of love). While it feels great to be the one accepting all the attention and love and care and touches from your partner, it'll also feel great or even more to be the one giving all the love and care and touches your partner, to see the happy and sated look on your partner because of you. It should work both ways, right?