*Reread 4/7/2022*
It's barely been a month since I've last read this, but I found out it's on renta so I bought the official English translation and had to reread it. I also decided that I wanted to read all of Harada's works in order of publication because there have been a few I've read that I've missed context for because I hadn't read a previous work so I'm starting from the beginning! Minus the Gintama djs. I don't think I need to read those lol.
I want to bump up my rating to a 3.5 I think. Maybe now that I have more context, I find Momo more endearing than annoying. I've warmed up a ton to Harada and their style of writing as well. They're quickly becoming a favorite. I love how messy their story telling is and how nothing is really meant to be clean or beautiful. All of their works have this like dirty, gritty feel to it. I can't even remember the feeling of not liking it on this read. I didn't get a feeling of it being the best thing I ever read or anything, but I didn't dislike it.
Honestly even if their writing wasn't that great I think I would still support Harada for the art alone. It's just so fucking good. I can't get over it, which is probably why I continued to read their stuff despite not liking it at first. I'm glad I've converted.
*Original Review 3/6/2022*
More of a 2.5?
I guess I'm just reading through harada's works? I don't think I like them, but like I want to continue reading? This one was better than Asa and Yoru, at least the relationship was. I feel like they're pretty equal, but Yatamomo didn't make me uncomfortable in the same way. The storyline is similar to others I've read and enjoyed, but I don't what it is about this one. It's all about the execution. I can't even explicitly say what's bad about it, but there's something. I like Yata and I don't. I like Momo, but he can be very annoying. I think the way they communicate bothers me and the lack of emotional and mental development. There's some serious shit happening and Yata does talk about it, but it just felt like such an empty conversation. It was going in a decent direction and then it just fell flat.
Idk it's hard for me to explain.