A Shoulder to Cry On

xyst Dec 31, 2019

3

Disclaimer: Haven't finished it so perhaps you may like it.  I reccommend to give it a go since other the other reviews seem to like it.  I just cannot go on anymore due to the utter shit the uke is going through. Ok.  So i can't really write a proper review since i haven't read it all but here goes nothing... I hate the seme.  And i hate the fact that this is supposed to be a love story between the two of them.  The seme RUINED the uke's life, accusing him of trying to rape him.  That is not something that can be taken lightly.  He made the uke lose everything.  Uke's parents, classmates and teachers won't look at him the same anymore.  Uke lost his place on a sports team as well.  I really can't ship them.   Perhaps the seme could have a horrible past.  While that may make me empathise for him, that doesn't ever justify his actions.  Sorry, but no. Maybe the seme has character evoluation at the end and regrets everything he did to the uke.  Maybe the uke will forgive him.  I can't forgive him.  At all.  Ok, you feel remorseful, but that doesn't change the fact you FREAKING RUINED an innocent student's life.  You put that dude through so much.  Imagine waking up everyday knowing everyone, including your OWN parents, thinks you are a rapist... On the side note,  the art was actually really beautiful and the characters (even the seme) are really illustrated well :) EDIT: I wrote this review some time ago but nevertheless, stand by my words.  A reply to this review states some informative things but contains spoilers but I advise checking it out as it gives us the seme's backstory.  I disagree with the statement that it is invalid for myself to rate it a 3/10 due to the fact that I don't settle with a character's personality.  A character is actually one of the more important priority for me when judging a manga (characters > story/plot > art >genre).  It is not unfair, yes, I may be putting the manga off for some readers but with the plentiful of good reviews, I am sure it is fine it we all don't collectively agree on the rating, but with that argument, no one can rate anything bad or be critical as it would put it off to new readers.  For example, an easy target, I am sure the author has worked very hard for this but that doesn't mean critisisms are not allowed as personally, this fails to please me for any reasons.

Florentiniuks Apr 28, 2020

5

You know how your opinion depends and fully forms only after you've read it all. So I read it all, I loved the art, the charachters were quite good and the story maybe started nasty and had a few turns, but it was quite good. And then it ended. That's it. When I thought that "finally, something's gonna happen". It just ended. Right there, at that same moment, then there was something like a time jump and well it was like a glaze for a burnt cake.  What made me upset the most, was that Taehyun's emotions never got figured out, fixed or dealt with! In the very last chapter it was just kind of mentioned that "whoops, he was not okay", and then they just left it.  I mean, tell me, how am I supoosted to live knowing that Taehyun is not okay? The story was nice, very nice, but the ending is just sh*t. And the pure fact that my overall opinion depends on the sotry's ending is just ruining it all.

barBEARian Apr 3, 2020

9.5

This was so amazing! let me start this off by saying that at first, I didn't like it at all; I felt that the characters hated each other too much for me to ship them, I nearly dropped the series all together but I'm so glad I didn't. as the comic went on I found my self liking and understanding the characters and story more and more. motivations and plot points were revealed relatively slowly but had very satisfying explanations in the end. I think what really brought the story together for me was the epilogue, it exposed a little more of the characters, their relationship, and feelings toward each other, and I really enjoyed that. overall this comic was very well done with amazing art and amazing characters and I would definitely recommend this to anyone who likes BL.