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176 pages, Paperback
First published February 17, 2015
I actually read this manga in german and if I’m corrected, it’s not even licensed in another language but the japanese original and as said german. Nonetheless, I’m writing this review in english, so more people can read it and future-readers are informed if it ever gets translated elsewhere.
Okay. //inhales deeply// I truly understand why this rarely gets licensed... This first volume of a series which consists in 4 volumes in total was a real disappointment, to my mind. Everything was so overall plain and standard, it couldn’t entertain me at all.
At the beginning, there are two close friends. One of them leaves to study in a far off country and their ways are separated. Ten years go by and then the left behind friend encounters his old friend who had an accident and will be almost blind until his eyes are operated. One of them soon recognizes the other. The other one needs more time. And so on and so on. Seriously, this could have been about friendship, about growing up, about love and feelings and all that great stuff. But instead, everything, their entire relationship which they are unsure about, circles around the question of being gay. I’ve rarely read a yaoi manga which uses this word more often. It’s always ”I’m gay, this is why....”, ”they ... because we’re gay”, ”this looks gay”, ”but I’m not gay” ... It seems to be everywhere. If they just had treated it like it was normal because I truly think, there’s nothing wrong about loving the same sex or whatever orientations there are. It’s fine. But here, these two guys seemed to struggle a lot but in a way that to my mind wasn’t reasonable and also overemphasized. I’m sorry to say so.
And in the end, what did I as reader get? The too-predictable sex scene! Of course! //heavy sigh// If this scene just had been good, it could have compensated the lamentation from before. But nooooo! It was so overly poor and again a lot of whining and I as reader couldn’t...feel it. Maybe I already had been so turned off at this moment that I simply couldn’t feel close to them anymore. I don’t know.
Though there’ll be 3 more volumes of this series, I think I won’t buy the other ones. Maybe, if the content of volume 2 sounds REALLY interested, I might give it another try... The problem is, the end of volume 1 didn’t give me any reason to read further and didn’t make me want to know more. It ended and the story felt complete. That’s it. Honestly, I’ve rarely been this disappointed in a manga ¯\_(ツ)_/¯