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A review by captwinghead
The Summer of You by Nagisa Furuya
2.0
Not for me.
I just didn’t feel invested, I didn’t buy the romance (at least Wataru having feelings for Saeki) and it pulled that thing I don’t like where they shove in the characters having met as children to make it more meaningful.
What I thought was just a story that wasn’t that new: regular kid is friends with really popular guy that everyone wants to date. He’s secretly into the regular kid and the regular kid grows flustered and confused when he finds out. Not exactly a novel BL storyline.
It somehow was even less appealing with the added backstory that these two didn’t meet by chance at a video store and bond over a love for movies. While not novel and exciting, there’s the appeal of the popular guy liking being around there regular kid that gets the obsession he has with film.
Instead, this story turns into “Hey, my mother used to mess with me psychologically by forcing me to wear girl’s clothing, which I absolutely hated. You found me in a forest one day, made me feel like I could finally tell her I hated it and I’ve been obsessed with you ever since. That organize meeting where we happened to bond over film wasn’t organic at all; it was orchestrated. I followed you into that store intending to make you my friend”. It’s not really cute and the story changed completely.
So, I get that others enjoyed this but it just wasn’t for me.
I just didn’t feel invested, I didn’t buy the romance (at least Wataru having feelings for Saeki) and it pulled that thing I don’t like where they shove in the characters having met as children to make it more meaningful.
What I thought was just a story that wasn’t that new: regular kid is friends with really popular guy that everyone wants to date. He’s secretly into the regular kid and the regular kid grows flustered and confused when he finds out. Not exactly a novel BL storyline.
It somehow was even less appealing with the added backstory that these two didn’t meet by chance at a video store and bond over a love for movies. While not novel and exciting, there’s the appeal of the popular guy liking being around there regular kid that gets the obsession he has with film.
Instead, this story turns into “Hey, my mother used to mess with me psychologically by forcing me to wear girl’s clothing, which I absolutely hated. You found me in a forest one day, made me feel like I could finally tell her I hated it and I’ve been obsessed with you ever since. That organize meeting where we happened to bond over film wasn’t organic at all; it was orchestrated. I followed you into that store intending to make you my friend”. It’s not really cute and the story changed completely.
So, I get that others enjoyed this but it just wasn’t for me.