It's nothing like Odette at all.
The story is hard to follow. Particularly with Fuurin's interpretation of what's going on, I was never really sure whether to believe her. Like with the rabbit not being Nazuna's brother. At this point why couldn't her brother be a rabbit? But it seems like Fuurin was right so I guess that's how it is.
There are a few leaps of logic like that. Another instance at the ending, I couldn't tell if I should be taking Fuurin at face value and things got resolved off-screen or if she hit her head while I was turning the page.
As for the cat, I agree with Fuurin's sister that his emojis are incomprehensible. I think he'd have better luck recruiting people as a normal cat. Maybe that's part of his test.
Anyway I want to re-read Alien Nine at some point. In the meantime I read this. It's not good.
The little fang is always cute, this can't be denied.
I liked how weird Aoi and Ryota seemed in the beginning (enough that their friends mention it) but the general plot is kindaaaa..... The whole jealousy thing in this situation just comes off as pretty stupid. In a very very very (continuing) rare case such a thing can be cute. I think in Kitayama-kun & Minamiya-kun it was a little. That's the only example that comes to mind. More often it ruins the story for me, like if your partner has a problem with you having friends you need to just get out of there. I'm only invested in such a relationship insofar as it ends as soon as possible.
Fortunately this was not that case and was just kind of boring. It's a given that they love each other and they're basically already together at that point. Truly a plotline that is only padding.
A couple scenes in this series have the type of awkward conversations I like (to read)... When Aoki and Sumino run into his dad on the street and when he ends up eating at the cafe with his classmate after following Aoki there. Trying to talk around the subject. Also in the former having a somewhat harrowing encounter be treated casually... I mean, it was really funny the way it was presented but I feel kind of bad for laughing. Poor Sumino.
I liked his classmate in that other scene a lot. (Sorry I forgot her name already). Having someone else point out how weird Aoki is was very endearing. He sure doesn't have any tact around his perfect memory.
And then chapter seven came around and I realized I'd forgotten all of this was a flashback. Sumino seems so friendly with all his coworkers... I guess that was what he was like with his classmates pre-injury? Based on he doesn't seem to be enjoying it or have deeper relationships with any of them.
Ah.... volume two only just came out... eyes emoji... Aoki is so handsome on the cover.
since this is the first post i'll write a little about what the purpose of this blog cobbled together website is...
there is a maker of video essays i like who talks about eroge visual novels with a passion and sincerity that is very refreshing. it kind of makes me feel bad for reading so much bl manga that i forget about completely. even seeing an image later i only have a vague recollection... and a lot of them were really good and deserve better.
therefore i'd like to record some of my thoughts. posting online, well i'll prolly wait until i have at least a few entries but anyhow, it's not more embarrassing than happening upon this later myself and witnessing how few thoughts i really have. prolly just the art is good or whatever. i'll have... as much substance as gets me to actually write stuff here.
also if there gets to be too many posts my current plan is to create an archive by date.
as for something i've read recently. (at some point i want to go over ones i've read before as well but for now...)
I read them because an artist I follow was posting a lot about Satomi/Kyouji and as a result I am soooo normal about them. Which is kinda the biggest draw... In my youth I was a big fan of age gap stuff but I say I'm not interested anymore. However. Sometimes it's just good.
Because that's how I got into the series I wasn't expecting all the mangaka stuff with Houjou. But it's pretty funny. Wayama's work has this casual understated (humor? but also everything else) that I eventually got bored of when I read Girls' Garden. Well, I like it up until I reach a critical point of thinking something bigger is going to happen that never does.
Anyway at the time of reading Famires I was frantically trying to finish drawing a comic in time for an upcoming convention (failed) and meet a real deadline for drawing thumbnails (succeeded) so I was able to console myself knowing Houjou-sensei was suffering worse. In a way it felt like I was getting the full Famires experience...
