I Cannot Reach You., Vol. 1

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Well, that was a slightly odd experience. I've read both volumes out in English to this point. After the blandness of the first volume, I expected to just be bored, but I've come out of the second with stronger, albeit mixed, feelings. And bonus points for not making any potential female love interests into villains! That’s a plot twist I am happy we avoided. I've only read the first two volumes but I'm interested to see how this relationship develops. There's nothing too deep here and it is indeed pretty simple but it's simple in a really good way. I am not a fan of cinematography. Many scenes were too bright to the point of slightly blurring out the details and the faces. Some cuts between the scenes were also a bit confusing. There was also an overwhelming amount of slow-motion scenes. It just felt a bit excessive. For all intents and purposes, it was a standard but cute childhood-friends-and-misunderstandings story. The leaps of logic these boys make to deny the other one likes them are pretty extreme, but there was something to the relationship that I found interesting enough to keep reading. I'll probably buy the rest when it comes out, though it might be the sunk cost getting to me.

The weird thing about this series is that it insists on staying light and fluffy, but the mangaka clearly has a strong untapped skill for setting a tense and heavy atmosphere. It's meant to be cute, but at times it just feels strangely ominous. It doesn't feel like Syundei, who is clearly good at both horror and comedy and sometimes uses horror tropes for comedy. Instead, it seems like Mika wants to emulate wholesome mangakas like Fujitobi, Atsuko Yusen (Deko-Boko) and Harusono (Sasaki to Miyano), but these little dark moments just keep breaking through the fluff. I'm 100% sure that it's unintentional too, but I can't exactly explain why I think that. I just don't think she sees her manga in the same way as it comes off, to me at least. Nov 25 i☆Ris the Movie - Full Energy!! - Anime Film Teaser Visual Revealed at i☆Ris Live Stage in Anime NYC & i☆Ris First Performance in New York Successfully CompletedBoth main leads fit and played the role perffectly! I was even a little surprised that Maeda Kentaro took on this role, as he has already starred in a few drama and doesnt actually need the BL hype. Kashiwagi Haru is so adorable as Kakeru. There is something about Japanese drama's 'awkward' acting that makes the scenes authentic. This is how we are in real life, and the way they talked to each other makes you really feel like you are watching the blossoming of love, the coming of age, raw and somewhat uninscripted. Listen. There is nothing objectively wrong with this story. It's the classic BL setup of a guy in love with his somewhat oblivious childhood friend and is scared of rejection. They're cute and enjoy spending time with each other. My problem is that it feels like I'm reading sort of messed up psychological horror. I liked the side characters too. Especially Yamato’s sister and Hisaka Yui, their classmate. Both of them were very open-minded and accepting of the two. It also helped Yamato and Kakeru feel more comfortable and not like what they are feeling for each other is wrong and unacceptable. There will always be people who might not be very open minded, but there will also always be people who will accept you no matter who you love. Kakeru y Yamato son dos amigos de la infancia que no podrían ser más diferentes. Kakeru es un chaval del montón, bajito, muy sociable y que no saca buenas notas y Yamato es un chico guapísimo, alto y con unas muy buenas calificaciones que triunfa con las chicas del instituto, cada poco declarándole su amor. Aunque van a la misma clase, Kakeru no puede evitar sentirse mal al ver que los demás chicos interpretan mal las acciones de Yamato. Kakeru, como su buen amigo de la infancia, sabe que Yamato es muy buen chico y que su cara seria o sus ademanes secos son a causa de su timidez. Porque, en realidad, Yamato es muy amable y él lo sabe mejor que nadie no en vano, cuando Kakeru está en clases de refuerzos por suspender el examen de matemáticas, su amigo va al rescate para ayudarlo a acabar los ejercicios. Es en ese momento que Kakeru aprovecha la oportunidad para preguntarle sobre la chica que se le ha declarado esa misma mañana. Yamato le dice que la ha rechazado, que no la conoce de nada y que no puede salir con alguien solamente por su apariencia. Entonces Kakeru le pregunta si le gusta alguien y Yamato responde a esa pregunta con un "Kakeru" de forma muy ambigua. Eso hace que, cuando Yamato se despida para ir a trabajar, Kakeru, que se ha hecho un poco el tonto, se sonroje y tiemble como una hoja. ¿Lo ha entendido bien? ¿¡Yamato a querido decirle que la persona que le gusta es él!?

The character dynamics here are great. Kakeru and Yamato are both well developed (for a BL at least) and are believable. I enjoy their interactions a lot and the pure awkwardness of it all. I totally buy that they've developed crushes on each other and while, yes, the problem would be solved if one of them just said something, it makes sense that they're both too nervous to do so because they're worried they'll destroy their friendship.There are times though that I wanted to know how their peers will react if they knew that the two best friends are now dating - there were in fact a lot of scenes that i thought the secret was revelead to the world but then it was glazed over. I do understand though that this BL is not about the acceptance of the world around them, its about the personal struggle of two boys realizing their feelings for each other. As the title suggests, the main conflict of the story does resolve around miscommunication. The two boys are not able to express their real feelings due to fear and other factors. However, this does not mean that the characters don’t communicate well. I really enjoyed that Yamato, no matter how much he hated that, was always honest with people who confessed to him. He never led anyone on. And even when things started going south between Yamato and Kakeru and the two were forced to be honest, they were both able to express themselves.