Got around to reading this waiting for the next A Face You Shouldnt Show chapter and binged it in a day. FLOWERCHILD is such an excellent mangaka, her characters are beautiful messes full of flaws and trauma, her storytelling is paced interestingly, never predictable and always full with drama that sucks you in, and her art is so scrumptious i wanna put it in my mouth.

I really love how she inverts the power dynamic in this one by making Sei the vulnerable part of the relationship and being the catalyst for Aya to get a hold of her own life and grow as a person to take care of the woman she reluctantly fell in love with, which in turn helped Sei to do more than just going with the motions of life waiting for Yoru to return to her. All of that culminating with Aya overflowing with tears of joy when Sei finally promises her to take responsibility for her, confirming all of Aya's work has borne fruit. They both came such a long way and you can really feel that in the epilogue.

I love a story about two very broken women coming together and healing each other and this one scratched that itch many times over. Its a really wholesome and satisfying story wrapped in the most toxic packaging that will scare many people off or power through it and misread most of what actually happened on the page, but that's what makes it so good in my opinion.
Also, good grief are the sex scenes hot. FLOWERCHILD is a freak in all the best ways possible and it only could've been hotter if it involved BDSM, but that's what her ongoing story is for. Still, nothing was hotter than the frames of Aya vowing to become a more virulent poison that yoru has ever been and Aya almost ritually consuming Yoru's effigy. I love it when a lesbian is a bit of a maniac for her woman and the cannibalistic undertones are thematically appropriate and also really hot.

100/10 give it a read if you dare!

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