#aww!!

AWWWW THESE ARE SO CUTESY oh my gawd. striking resemblance.

the height difference too 😭😭and their enormous eyes i love it need to learn to make these.

“Want a lollipop too? You need a lollipop right?”

Also love your stories and how you write the chain lol ❤️

Oh this is the cutest idea.

Reader does little commissions then and BAM they are the court artist.

And it doesn't click until some royalty (it doesn't matter which universe to be honest) asks them to move to their property and paint for them only.

Which Reader doesn't get because well.. Them? You sure? Being paid is nice and all but it's not their job.

To which everyone's jaws drop.

"We've been paying you for nearly five years to do portraits of us. We thought this was your job!"

"This is like.. a side thing... that I do when I have time. And for my friends."

"...."

"...."

First, as a gay person, I have quite antagonistic stance about BL and yaoi in general because most of them fetishize and romanticize gay relationship. Like, gay sex has to be that sliva-filled affair. Please, that's ... yuck! or how relationships have to revolve around bottom being harassed by top. There is a difference between dating and coercion, you know?

But this series blew me away. First, I'm a music lover and I'm aiming to be guitarist so the story about music AND relationship sort of hooks me right in. Then, the character developments. First between Mafuyu and Ritsuka, this is what I'd call realistic gay relationship development. Especially if one party is late bloomer (Ue...), it's not that Ue turns from straight to gay, but rather he discovers that he is gay because he meets Mafuyu and the fact that their relationship is not sexual even after they date (only one very brief kiss near the end of anime and another brief kiss after they date). And the fact that this story is about healing, trauma and relationship makes it even better. This is like, I don't know what to say. I just love it. Then another couple, Aki and Haruki they also develop quite well. But I shan't say no more. For I'll spoil everything.

Oh, and songs were great too. Frankly, without this anime, I'd never try getting into music again and I'd never settle my past without it. It kinda heals me too. So I'd love to pay it some respect.

Ok, brief mbti and sortings. (full version later, I'll indulge myself by watching and reading them all again first ><)

Mafuyu: INFP 9w1 sp/so. Double Badger.

Ritsuka: ISTP 6w5 sp/so. Badger-Bird.

Akihiko: ESTP 9w8 sp/sx. Double Snake.

Haruki: ESFJ 2w3 so/sp. Double Badger.

Ugetsu: ISFP 4w3 so/sx. Lion-Bird.

Hiiragi: ESFP 7w8 so/sp. Double Lion.

Shizusumi: ISTP 9w1 so/sp. Exploded Snake primary-Bird secondary.

PS. No, I will not sort Yuuki. As much as I like him, he doesn't have enough screen time to explore his motivations and methods. Enneagram and mbti wise, from his brief screen time after episode 9, I'd say he is ESTP 8w7. He said the sea was killing him (well, it's winter, so ...) but after Mafuyu said it's his first time coming to the ocean, he immediately said "Ocean is great!" to which Mafuyu replied something along the line "lying is your second nature isn't it".