Reviews

Got much better in this episode...spoilers, yeah.

I'm happy to say that this episode is a great improvement over the previous two, just because the MC is starting to grow and become a better person. He's been revealed as being standardly selfish in nature, which is why I haven't found him at all likable. He hasn't treated the ML particularly well despite the ML showing nothing but interest and affection toward him. Now that his selfish nature has been pointed out to him, he is starting to recognize it and seems willing to at least try to subdue that part of himself to become a better person. At the end, we have a glimmer of hope that he will begin by being a better boyfriend to the ML, and maybe not continue his ridiculous and unjustified revenge plot to date him for a month and then dump him to hurt him.

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Still only okay...

I still don't really like the MC much. He honestly just seems like he's being a jerk to the ML. Yes, it's weird and a bit creepy that the ML just pops into the MC's house to make him breakfast in the mornings, claiming the door was open, but MC hasn't really questioned it or checked the locks at night to make sure ML can't come in, so I don't know what to really make of the situation in that regard. However, the ML is literally there to make the MC breakfast, and he doesn't do anything more questionable than that, so it seems more like his behavior from high school of simply inserting himself into MC's life because he likes him is just continuing. --As far as the "bullying" from high school we see in MC's flashbacks goes, he just didn't seem to want anyone in his life at all, and that's why he was so bothered by the ML. While I get that that sets some people off, and their feelings toward people insisting on being in their lives are valid, I can't bring myself to be mad at ML for wanting to be part of the MC's world enough to insert himself into MC's day in a realistically non-threatening way. From a psychological perspective, there are significant mental and emotional benefits to having someone insert themselves into your life, even when you want to remain insular, over time. After all, humans are not solitary creatures by nature, even those who are neurodivergent. --All in all, I find the ML super likable....the MC, not so much. I am watching it on GagaOOlala, and the title info doesn't suggest any reason to like the MC, so it seems likely that this is one of those stories where the ML makes the MC a better person whom we can then grow to appreciate, if not end up liking.

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So far, it's preety good.

The story seems good overall, and the actors fit the characters well. My only complaints are that it seems a bit more disjointed than I would like, and I'm not convinced of the motivations for the MC. Maybe it's a combo of experiencing bullying in the US during most of my school years as the perpetual odd duck and of seeing much worse bullying in other Japanese shows, but so far, what the MC sees as bullying would barely qualify as annoying teasing for me. The juvenile behavior of the ML during the high school flashbacks would qualify as mildly obnoxious, but it is coming from a guy who just doesn't know how to show the guy he's attracted to that he is interested in him romantically. At that age and in that society, his behavior isn't anything that would warrant the "revenge" MC plans to take. Maybe the ML's behavior in high school will be revealed as more problematic in future episodes. If not, then I worry that the MC will never become a genuinely likable character compared to the ML for folk like me. Time will tell, I suppose.

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