Waku has all of those cliched insecurities, but he doesn’t let them get the better of him. He always fights his way through and balls up his courage… and makes the right choice.
Loved how this chapter had a lot of cute physical intimacy (even if Waku is a gentleman, and tried not to touch Oura-san, lol). The :::spoiler chapter 17
handholding
::: was some of the lewdest I’ve ever seen. This series is currently one of the best, highest quality works that I’m reading atm. The author’s previous work was mostly shoujo and josei, and didn’t set the world on fire for me at least, but now working in the seinen format everything’s come together and it feels fresh and unique.
This was actually my pick for my favorite ongoing series last year, but it just hasn’t generated the same kind of buzz as things like Houkago Kitakyu Biyori or Damedol.
Not that I don’t like the others - I just like this one more. Waku and Oura are both very well conceived and executed, and relatively unique, characters, and the way things are unfolding between them is just about perfect.
It’s interesting, because Houkago Kitakyu Biyori is actually super similar in that it works at a level of subtleness you don’t usually see. It’s a joy to have them both running at the same time. While something like BokuYaba is subtly ornamental in detail (with the paneling, the callbacks, and so forth), the last time I remember such attention being paid to the intricacies of the psychology of a relationship in a romcom is with Tonari no Onee-san ga Suki.
Somehow I completely missed this one. And I really enjoyed Suki na Ko ga Megane o Wasureta too, so I have no excuse for missing it.
The one that Boku dake ga Shitterun daze most often reminds me of is Ninja Shinobu-san no Junjou. There’s a surface similarity since both FMCs essentially have secret identities, but I think it’s more about the MMCs, who are both extremely earnest and surprisingly brave, and who both pay very close attention in order to try to work out what would be the best thing for them to do for the FMC, so that they can then do it. And yeah - there’s a lot of psychology involved, because both FMCs don’t even really understand themselves all that well. They’re both sort of split between their worldly personae, who are consummate professionals and not much else, and their private “real” personae, who are incredibly inexperienced and naive and thus delicate.
So sweet.
Waku has all of those cliched insecurities, but he doesn’t let them get the better of him. He always fights his way through and balls up his courage… and makes the right choice.
Loved how this chapter had a lot of cute physical intimacy (even if Waku is a gentleman, and tried not to touch Oura-san, lol). The :::spoiler chapter 17 handholding ::: was some of the lewdest I’ve ever seen. This series is currently one of the best, highest quality works that I’m reading atm. The author’s previous work was mostly shoujo and josei, and didn’t set the world on fire for me at least, but now working in the seinen format everything’s come together and it feels fresh and unique.
Thanks for the response.
This was actually my pick for my favorite ongoing series last year, but it just hasn’t generated the same kind of buzz as things like Houkago Kitakyu Biyori or Damedol.
Not that I don’t like the others - I just like this one more. Waku and Oura are both very well conceived and executed, and relatively unique, characters, and the way things are unfolding between them is just about perfect.
It’s interesting, because Houkago Kitakyu Biyori is actually super similar in that it works at a level of subtleness you don’t usually see. It’s a joy to have them both running at the same time. While something like BokuYaba is subtly ornamental in detail (with the paneling, the callbacks, and so forth), the last time I remember such attention being paid to the intricacies of the psychology of a relationship in a romcom is with Tonari no Onee-san ga Suki.
Somehow I completely missed this one. And I really enjoyed Suki na Ko ga Megane o Wasureta too, so I have no excuse for missing it.
The one that Boku dake ga Shitterun daze most often reminds me of is Ninja Shinobu-san no Junjou. There’s a surface similarity since both FMCs essentially have secret identities, but I think it’s more about the MMCs, who are both extremely earnest and surprisingly brave, and who both pay very close attention in order to try to work out what would be the best thing for them to do for the FMC, so that they can then do it. And yeah - there’s a lot of psychology involved, because both FMCs don’t even really understand themselves all that well. They’re both sort of split between their worldly personae, who are consummate professionals and not much else, and their private “real” personae, who are incredibly inexperienced and naive and thus delicate.