Title: Chance!
By: Kawai Hideki (河井英槻)
Summary:
It was love at first sight for swimmer Kujou when he met Mizumura, a mysterious senpai at his school. Even though Mizumura does reciprocate the feelings and the two of them do get together. But for Mizumura, things at home begin to go downhill fast and he is forced to leave.
Commentary:
I think this might be the first time I am doing a rec for a legit BL manga (and not just a proper hot-blooded shounen JUMP series that my brain had twisted into BL materials...) *u*
So in reality, I don't think the fancy glitter-glitter cover do much justice to the story inside. Even though I do have to admit I was roped into reading it because of all that fancy sparkles around them and I was expecting nothing but pretty art and flat if not no plot at all. D:
BUT, the story was like 100 times better than my expectation. It was bittersweet, a little tragic and a whole lot of love. Art wise, it is simple with a rough almost messy sort of style for the characters but the background also have such gorgeous details. Both characters are not blatantly created to fit inside a seme/uke category, rather they are both so real in terms of personality and that really gives a realistic edge to the story, especially the hopelessly in love Kujou-kun. -thumbs up-
Sometimes, it is just hard to find quality BL that steps away from all that mindless excuses to screw... everywhere and I think this manga really steps up to the plate. So even though it may be way too clean (a few kiss scenes and a little bit of subtle touching) I still thought it was WELL worth the read.
2 comments:
Oho! Kawai Hideki! A bunch of fujoshi and I were talking about her just last Friday, sadly I've only read works by her that's scanlated. And they were ages ago... Thanks to your review, I shall hunt this down to read <3!!
This is probably the first book, I've read from her XD I took a glance at the other ones I found but they didn't seem as good DD:
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