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A review by captwinghead
Anti-Romance: Special Edition Vol. 1 by Shoko Hidaka
2.0
I hate to say it, but I was pretty bored reading this which is sad because I was really looking for a mlm story that wasn’t just p*rn.
There’s emotionally repressed and then there’s whatever this is. Ryou and Suou decide to room together after high school and end up being roommates for 6 years. The crux of the story is that clearly that means they have unresolved feelings for each other and the story moves at a snail’s pace. I’ve read slow burns, but what makes those work for me is that there’s something burning.
In this story, the majority of the implication that something romantic is going on is presented through the MCs’ bosses conversations with them. There’s Ryou’s boss who doesn’t understand boundaries and Suou’s boss who seemed strangely opinionated for someone Suou thought hated him the whole time he was working there. There’s not a ton of scenes where you actually see Ryou and Suou interacting so most of the evidence there’s something there is just told to the reader.
By the end of the book, I realized I wasn’t invested in them getting together and it makes me sad because the artwork is really nice.
Bummer.
There’s emotionally repressed and then there’s whatever this is. Ryou and Suou decide to room together after high school and end up being roommates for 6 years. The crux of the story is that clearly that means they have unresolved feelings for each other and the story moves at a snail’s pace. I’ve read slow burns, but what makes those work for me is that there’s something burning.
In this story, the majority of the implication that something romantic is going on is presented through the MCs’ bosses conversations with them. There’s Ryou’s boss who doesn’t understand boundaries and Suou’s boss who seemed strangely opinionated for someone Suou thought hated him the whole time he was working there. There’s not a ton of scenes where you actually see Ryou and Suou interacting so most of the evidence there’s something there is just told to the reader.
By the end of the book, I realized I wasn’t invested in them getting together and it makes me sad because the artwork is really nice.
Bummer.