春恋

秋山と美里シリーズ #1

by 朝丘 戻, 小椋ムク (イラスト)

十八の春、美里が恋に落ちたのは、美大生で家庭教師の秋山だった。秋山は他人にも自分にも厳しくて素っ気ないが、たまに優しい。美里は異性愛者の秋山に対し、傷つきながらも一途な想いを寄せ続ける。そして夏が過ぎ秋がきて、育む時間はお互いをかけがえのない存在へ変えていくが……。

――あの頃、俺たちは子どもだった。
四季の移ろいと共に積み重なる、永遠の愛の物語。

303 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2003

About the author

朝丘 戻（あさおか もどる）は、日本のボーイズラブ小説家。
2月19日生まれ、水瓶座、B型。
2002年雑誌「Cobalt」の掲載作品、短編『手紙』にて商業誌デビュー。2003年「春恋。」（集英社 コバルト文庫）が初の刊行本。

Modoru Asaoka is Boys Love (BL) author of Japan.
Birthday: February 19, Zodiac signs: Aquarius, Blood type: B.
First published work: 「春恋。」2003.

Reviews

[Sophie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Like Ogura Muku writes in the afterword - having read 春へ and knowing there is a second volume to this feels different than what the people having read this when it was published for the first time must have felt like.
I obviously don't know for certain whether I still would have liked it. Asaoka Modoru writes that this is still a happy ending for her, and I don't disagree. It is a very important story in that sense, it makes you treasure the time you spent with the people you love, no matter the outcome.

Still, a part of me always really dislikes endings in BL where they're not together in the end. So in a way I can 100% appreciate this as a good novel, but as a BL reader I would be disappointed if it ended here, I guess. But it doesn't, and I am curious to see how the second volume will wrap things up.