Workplace political maneuvering + secretly violent rivalry + sexual tension
This was great, sometimes just short of [what the fuck am I reading?]. It's almost surreal how the situation becomes violent or sexual while staying competition, like an parody or just two abusive people abusing hatefucking. It's somehow not disgusting and has convinced me leg kabedon can be physically threatening.
The downside is that Shirakawa and Kuroda share the same broad goal as careerists. They're not competing for clear and specific sub-goals and they don't have other priorities or complications in life. So they're slightly boring and underdeveloped characters, which the premise compensates for less and less each chapter. This can improve quickly though.
I think Ou-chan figured out, by the scent of the paper Shirakawa and Kuroda worked on, that they are... entangled. By the way, Ou also shares Tamaki's great design from I Want To Stare down to having the facial expressions of a lizard. I guess Sal Jiang is one of those authors who repeats their fave designs because it's probably not the same character.
last edited at May 20, 2022 1:59AM
