Agathe's manga / #Shounen ai(4)

40 - meh , the pace is slow, but that’s better than ridiculously fast, however, the MC has no redeeming quality , he’s a liar, he’s not too smart, and he seems lazy and he’s selfish with some self image issues The gaming part, is sadly non existent, but that’s also were i lost interest : the ML is better all around, so he became first at the same game, by our MC was first before - in the beginning, he’s also very hardworking, not accepting defeat, you could imagine he’d want to better himself Instead, once he recruits his nemesis for silly reason, he becomes luggage instead of partner He’s second best, but suddenly he’s a mere,pom-pom girl, leeching on his ex opponent You can never understand what the ML could possibly like in that horrible personality So the top over the top is already rather tiresome and disappointing, but the les than dung counterpart makes it really boring

47 - 4.5 - awesome ! The stupid stereotypes slowly turn into real people, with real lifes and stories The pace is slow, but it feels just perfect, it reaches some depth on many levels Of course it’s still a light read, but it’s highly enjoyable There’s truly a lot of awesome characters, great girls and guys, and I seriously hope it manages to keep up this quality of human emotions in the rest o fthe story (it’s going to be tough !) To think i nearly dumped it in the few first chapters thinking it’s another Chinese cheap story (there are so amazing ones, but surely there’s a lot of crap too, worse being in the shoujo department) thankfully, the superficial stuff doesn’t last - (and oh , surprise, it’s korean, which is a lot easier to recognize the names !)

56 - 4.5 - i absolutely love the art, with its naive colors and cute sds like children book stuff The story is rather slow, and the ending is quite short, it feels life i final gets somewhere, but then it ends ? Strangely enough, it’s a bit frustrated, as we’d like to feast on more, yet it’s ok It’s a story about how strong feelings are sometimes sides of the same coin, it’s also about «acceptance, self acceptance, limits, freedom and what should matter most There’s a lot of unsaid, in particular in our star past, we barely brush some past that doesn’t matter anymore, just like we reach a place when choices will be made … later outside the pages And maybe that’s it, it’s a beautiful slice of life story - one of the rare good ones - nothing had really changed much, except for the perspective of very few characters, we just read about these cross road where new encounters can bring drastic changes inna life path … like butterflies wings maybe ?

66 - very weak, a little bit better after the secret is out The chapter are short, yet the pace is fast, so it lacks substance in many ways The characters are 2 D at best ,thankfully there’s no bizarre reason for the cross dressing part, so at least it’s not totally absurd Overall it’s cute but you need to expect very little to enjoy