ゲッシング・ゲーム | L29 finished! I am a very slow student, haha; this is like book three of the curriculum.
Anyway, I more-or-less enjoyed this. Full story spoilers below:
We follow protagonist ミシェル, a young French man who’s hated by his half-brother ルパート for some reason. Turns out Michel’s mother died while he was young, and he had basically no other (caring) family growing up, so he comes across as pretty maladjusted. He’s both skittish and standoffish to strangers and invested way too emotionally in those, like Rupert (okay, it’s pretty much just Rupert) he considers family.
That emotional investment is where we stray into the BL part, but this is, like the other works, definitely not the BL of today. There’s no romance of any kind of in the book; it’s mostly just alternating scenes of “why is Michel such a weirdo” and “tragic story flashback”. Michel needs a therapist more than anything.
Anyway, surprisingly we didn’t end with tragedy; I was expecting Michel to commit suicide at the end, having still not obtained his brother’s acceptance, but instead of was left as pretty open-ended, insofar as Michel still had a chance at an accepting family with Rupert, which surprised me.
I’m curious how the author’s early yuri works compare; I wonder what early yuri is like compared to early BL? I would expect similar themes, since I would expect them both to be offshoots of the same early shoujo, but I’ll have to wait until @暁のルナ can read some and let us know.
トーマの心臓 | L24?? next! (Edit: wait, why is this ¥1100 digitally?)
