No, no those disgusting sexual feelings are way too impure for this beautiful non romantic relationship, where at least one partner turns down a willing woman he cares about for this man he's obsessed with. This is the 'non BL' where two boys who are not family and totally in love with each other kiss but it's 'not romantic'.

I think most people know about this already. They're not here to move the plot along, the plot is there to move them along. Shion and Nezumi's relationship is sweet and they're the reason to read this story. We're just supposed to read it and naturally come to the conclusion that man is bad and nature is always right, but not all men, just the ones in power. Except for the last few volumes where things pick up, it's very slow moving and unfocused. Nezumi has better things to do, except not really.Īt the end of the day everything felt rather juvenile.

The world is saved, people have their morals- that they never really lost- back and Shion and Nezumi run off into the sunset.not. In the end Shion and Nezumi interrupt their 'terrible and depressing' lovey dovey slum lives, to go save Safu- the girl who loves Shion, that's her character. Nature is good! Except not really, nature is just nature and humans are part of nature. Man is bad! Except not really man, just one or two obviously mentally unstable people who inexplicably have absolute authority. People who live at the top are gluttonous and evil- except not really. People who live at the bottom lose all morals- except not really. We just get brief snippets of narration that everything is not awesome. But they never go anywhere or do anything for half the story. Which is normal, they are the protagonists. For most of the novels we're stuck in Shion's and Nezumi's POV. I get that it's a kids book with mature post-apocalyptic Utopian themes, but I felt that the author could've gone deeper into the society and their actions. For half the volumes we're just told Riki's, the main character, personality and just told about his feats of awesomeness without experiencing it. It reminded me of Ai no Kusabi, another novel where the author has Tell Don't Show syndrome. This author has a real bad case of tell don't show. Some parts get developed too much and some don't. The story wasn't bad per se, it was just really really underdeveloped. Then I heard the novel was better so I read the translations. Because of its general popularity I got some volumes of the manga and I enjoyed it well enough.

No 6 atsuko asano novel