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solaris_zip's Reviews (201)
Me gusta mucho. El manga es muy bonito y el personajes soy guapísimo. Bachira, Shidou y Reo es mi favoritos
I don’t feel like giving a rated review so I’m going to express only my feelings. I read sex or love years ago when it was only a wattpad book and releasing every or so weeks. I was around 13 when I read it for the first time and now at 22, I see the book under a different light. This book, will always hold a special place in my heart. It was part of me while growing up, I feel this characters part of me. However, the book is very poorly written. From the strange dialogues to the repetitive and long story, that could have been shorten up more than once. The book also holds different aspects that now, I truly cannot ignore. From subtle sexism, to fatphobia, to the toxic relationship between Luca and Beatrice. As a 22 years old, this book is absolutely unreadable. Because you’re reading about this soon to be 18 years old acting like they are 12, doing this pull and push and on top of that having the worst miscommunication trope in history. After all it’s a wattpad book from the mid 2000s, but still, I think the author could have done better to avoid certain aspects in her writing
Look, I understand Isagi is the main character. And thus, his grow will be slower than the side characters, who seem already 10 steps ahead of him. And that’s where the issue comes. He seems so far behind everyone else because despite gathering small bits and pieces after each game he is still not as good as the rest. Or, for a lack of better terms, his ability of scoring and being a “good player” comes all from a shoot of luck and a bit of extra thinking. His physical abilities are in a normal range, no where close to people like Rin, Reo, Chigiri or even Bachira.
Reading 6 chapters back to back of Isagi trying to level up, but ultimately failing to do so, not only it’s extremely repetitive but also frustrating. The story feels stuck. You either level him up or he is good as gone.
Moreover, this volume was absolutely, ass. One way to destroy Reo’s character and the development he made. In whatever way you wish to see it, Nagi and Reo’s relationship always had romantic subtones to it. Their pull and push feel like the one of a toxic couple who has no boundaries. Once again, after Reo had made his mind up, here comes Nagi stealing his spotlight and making him his dog. It’s such a shame. Because his character is pretty much reduced to A) pretty rich talented boy or B) Nagi’s shadow. That’s it. He has nothing going on for him but that. It’s always “I need to level up to show *nagi* that I am better than him” or, even worse “I’m going to work to make *nagi* the best in the world”… I BEG YOUR PARDON? WHAT?
We just got a glimpse of what his capacity is. What he can archive if he pushes himself into the full “blue lock egoist mode” and what do you do? Bring him back to square one? Stop making them depend on each other.
That aside, Chigiri, I absolutely love you. He keeps slaying while looking pretty as always. 💅🏻
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
The art style? Absolutely immaculate. From the modern aspect, the fashion, the design and some of the talking to the characters, the manga is rather enjoyable. The characters, both primary and secondary are so cute! The story/ world building is a bit confusing as it’s not fully developed and explored. We know what fangs is, a vampire agency. But we know nothing else. From how En got turned and why, there is just this slight sense of confusion because you get to learn things as you’re reading them, which is not something I particularly mind to be honest. Overall, what sold this manga to me (besides the art) is the relationship between En and Ichii. It was built rather fast, but to the author’s credit, we were thrown into the story immediately within page one. I would have appreciated a tinge more of build up, slow burn even, but it’s not necessarily bad. There is some yearning, and the two are genuine sweet together. I hope for a better continuation in the next volumes!
Definitely very cute. Better than their first volume. The only downside is that this author sometimes tends to push the boundaries between consensual and nc in at least one intimacy scene in each manga and it’s really frustrating. It’s just unsettling and we can do it less without it. Overall though, the characters are loveable and the story has began to grow more in intensity, which is nice. We got left on a cliffhanger 😭 patiently waiting for volume 6