If you're excited for this book, ignore me, this review is not for you, this book is probably for you!!!
This book is so not for me, and I should have put it aside when I read the first few pages and realized that it wasn't for me, but it was short and I decided to keep going, and then it was the last day before my day off (important: I read this on my breaks at work) so I wasn't gonna start a new one, so I finished it and we're here. By the end I didn't like it more or less, it was exactly what it showed me it was in the beginning, and I learned a lesson to put books aside.
This was a romance and a dynamic that didn't click with me, I normally like established relationships, but this one takes place in the work place, and he's his boss, and that's really central in their relationship, and it made me deeply uncomfortable... and then there's also possessiveness which is a character trait I really do not like... and then there's these reactions to each other and each other's bodies that again didn't feel natural, and I didn't expect so much going around underdressed, which I've talked before, unless it's fanfic, I don't care for it...
Again, ignore my review, I was just dumb to pick up something I knew nothing about because I liked the cover and title, and then to keep reading when this clearly had tropes I did not like. If this is your thing, read it, you'll probably love it!!!
The design and the story was cute but the book didn’t click for me. The way the story was told wasn’t the way I expected and didn’t grab me. Overall ok. But just that.
Acho que era suposto achar este livro fofo, mas... Não achei, de todo. Não sei se é pelas diferenças culturais, mas achei este casal imaturo. Já para não falar dos ciúmes e da sua normalização 🤷🏻♀️ Os balões de fala também não são sempre claros.
While GoodReads has yet to update data for this comic, I have read the Aloha Comics English translation of this book. All in all, this is a very cute, fast read to introduce us to an office romance. I'm not entirely sure I'll keep going with it, but it was definitely worth reading this first volume and I enjoyed the characters and what we got of their backstories.
I like the episodic nature of this book. Overall the story is nice, even if I would have preferred to have a better idea about the start of their relationship.
The art style is wonderful!
The biggest problem I had with this was the translation. I really hate to feel like I'm shitting on someone's hard work, but this was really not it. The dialogue at times felt very stiff. At one point sexuality was confused with gender - which bugged me a bit -, and it felt like it was literally translated from the original language. Additionally, at times if felt like multiple people translated different parts of the book. When they change from formal office speech to informal speech, it feels like two people looked at the text and had different interpretations.
I wanted to like this more because this is exactly the sort of manwha / graphic novels / webtoons I usually gravitate towards, but left me wanting a lot more.
Um livro que nos faz apaixonar pelos personagens e à espera de mais. Dailygreens, se me ouves, FAZ MAIS DOIS TRÊS QUATRO LIVROS com eles. Eu preciso. Apaixonada por eles.
C'est mignon, mais je n'ai pas tellement aimé. Plusieurs trucs m'ont ennuyé. Je crois que ce type de BL n'est plus trop fait pour moi.
Je n'ai pas aimé le fait qu'un personnage appelle toujours son copain chef, puisqu'il est son assistant (bon déjà bof). Ce n'est pas tant cela en soi, mais plutôt le fait que l'un des personnages semble presque passif dans l'histoire qui a fini par me fatiguer.
En revanche les doubles pages de chapitre sont très belles.
Mes gros bébés d'amour 🫶 Suivant la parution du webcomic, j'ai pris tellement de plaisir à re-découvrir Xiaofei et Dongyun en version papier. Une romance de bureau toute douce qui se dévore toute seule !
A cute little read with lovely art but next to no substance.
The whole book felt more like a collection of bonus stories for a full story that existed elsewhere. The snippets were nice, gentle, little day-to-day stories, but there wasn't really a cohesiveness to it, nor was there a nice set up for the characters. You were just kind of thrust into the story and learned a little bit about them as you read.
Still, as said, definitely cute and I enjoyed the art style.
I would ideally give it a 3.5 star rating. I really enjoyed the characters a lot in this book, they were very interesting to read about. Also the chapters were very funny and cute, so much so that I found myself giggling at times. The only thing I would ask for is a little bit more structure and more definied time-line in the story. For exemple I would've loved to know a little bit more about each of them individually and what lives they have led until they meat each other but only small glances were mentioned. Overall really enjoyed reading it!
I read the English publication of this by Aloha comics. I didn’t know anything about this going in, so it was a nice light read. Perfect for any public library’s general collection or a college library. It’s a office romance and there was nothing beyond kissing in it. They attempted at one point to go all the way and showed the products to do so safely but they didn’t accomplish it. This is one of the only manhua printed in English in the us that I know of so I’m excited to see more be published here.
It’s a 3,5 ⭐️ Its a really easy and calming book to read with just the right amount of spice. If you don’t feel like reading this one would help you go back into reading. Although there’s some chapters that I found quite confusing, but it could be the cultural difference. And lack of attachment to the characters but that’s not anything obligatory for a book to have,so it’s really just personal. It’s a good book, i enjoyed my reading but it’s one of the book i enjoy once and wouldn’t read again really.
Dia de folga é uma bd fofa que nos mostra a vida diária do casal Hua Xiaofei e Shi Dongyun. A sua relação ainda é recente, o que acaba por se refletir nas suas interações que são muito engraçadas. É uma bd leve, perfeita para estes dias de verão. O final traz alguma tensão para as personagens com a introdução da família de Shi Dongyun - que, ao que tudo indica, poderá ser contra o romance entre os dois - e os rumores do seu caso no escritório.
Extrait : Nouvelle série, proposée à l’achat avec la suite d’une autre série de l’éditeur lors de la réalisation du Ulule, j’en ai donc profité pour le prendre également. C’est donc mon second Boys love (enfin, c’est la seconde série que je sais qu’il s’agit d’un boys love). En plus, il s’agit aussi d’un webtoon en format papier, mais avec une présentation différente, dont je reparle plus loin.
Déjà il s’agit d’une série Taïwanaise, apparemment la série serait toujours en cours, mais ça reste à vérifier. L’intrigue est très clairement assez basique, puisque deux employés de bureau vont tomber amoureux l’un de l’autre. L’un des deux est le supérieur de l’autre également et visiblement, il ignorait jusqu’à cette rencontre qu’il pouvait aimer un autre homme. Pour le subordonné, c’est l’inverse, il a rapidement su son orientation et a déjà eu des petites relations. Malheureusement, comme dans de nombreux pays, l’homosexualité n’est pas bien chez eux et le subordonné en à déjà bien souffert. Le présent n’est pas non plus toujours évident, le supérieur n’ayant pas vraiment parlé à sa famille de ce sujet et il a bien raison, c’est sa vie pas la leur ! Ce point n’est pas vraiment abordé pour l’instant, l’intrigue se concentrant vraiment sur les moments de leurs vies à deux, que ce soit au boulot ou dans le privé. Seul le frère ainé du supérieur fait son apparition et indique à son frère que leur père ne serait pas ravi d’une telle nouvelle. Il ne va pas le vendre ou le rabaisser pour autant, insistant juste sur le fait de séparer le privé du boulot, afin d’éviter les ragots. J’imagine que c’est un peu tard pour ça… les ragots commencent même s’ils sont imprécis, reste à savoir si ça ira jusqu’aux oreilles de leur père qui semble avoir une bonne place dans la société (peut-être même que c’est le patron, je ne sais déjà plus).
La série est un peu un titre tranche de vie, sans prise de tête, surtout pour profiter de moments mignons entre les différents personnages. Il n’y a que peu de passages où le fait d’être homosexuel est vu comme quelque chose de mal. Malheureusement, l’homophobie n’est jamais bien loin, mais la série montre, indirectement, qu’il y a plus de bons moments que de mauvais. Au final, il faut laisser dire les autres, passer outre et vivre sa propre vie, car le reste est juste une perte de temps. Les autres peuvent bien vous critiquez, si vous n’y portez pas attention et vivez votre vie, il n’y aura alors que des bons moments. Le temps ne peut être récupéré, donc inutile de le perdre face à des imbéciles, n’est-ce pas ? Cette scène fera surtout réfléchir le duo, notamment le supérieur qui avouera ne pas avoir été assez courageux pour intervenir. Le subordonné lui, à l’habitude, bien sûr, ça ne veut pas dire que c’est une bonne chose pour autant, mais répondre à ses individus, c’est leur donner raison, donc autant faire en sorte qu’ils soient les seuls à perdre leur temps non ?
from reading it on webtoon regularly years ago, to buying a hardback copy in a kinokunya bookstore in LA in august 2024, to meeting and interviewing the artist and authors in paris in november of the same year..
this slow slice of life, office romance between a manager and his subordinate, was so sweet. it has become a comfort and gravitate towards every once in a while when i need an short angst-free sweet romance.
It is a cute book! I normally don't really enjoy established relationship romances, but this was OK! It is a short read, and a quick one. Pretty fluffy, with a little bit of spice some times.
It was a gift from friends, and I did enjoy it a lot! :)
I mean it was fine I guess? Idk I didn’t feel the chemistry between the leads and the workplace romance thing was just kind of weird the way it was done since he always calls him boss even outside of work. It made it feel very imbalanced, and that was made worse by the boss calling the other a kid all the time idk…. Just felt imbalanced and kind of boring.
Title: Day Off Where I Purchased It: Kickstarter via @alohacomics . The RayView: ✨✨✨✨ The HeatRay: 🔥 How It Be Spicin’?: 0.5🌶️ . What a very sweet manhua. Near the end it began to lean towards the relationship heating up a bit but overall a very wholesome start. I love a good office romance and this one is giving, for sure. Oh and the supportive family? A+
Sinto que precisava de um livro leve e de leitura rápida como este para ganhar ritmo de leitura. Os desenhos são muito giros e as personagens mesmo fofas. Só me fez confusão uma das personagens chamar "Chefe" ao outro o livro todo ahahah e a história ser muito "saltitada", com histórias muito curtas. Mas foi mesmo uma excelente experiência de leitura e ri-me imenso ahahah!
This was a cute, light and fluffy office bl. The only thing I did not like was the boss and worker dynamic. They knew they couldn't be open about it at work. This volume consists of short, quick slice of life snapshots of their relationship.