能美先輩の弁明

I can see why this won awards

I wasn't going to pick this one up, but it seemed to have good reviews and has an award so why not. And I'm glad I did. I don't know if it really brings anything new to the genre, but it does what it does very well. The characters are fun, the illustrations are skilled, and the story gave me a good mix of humour, angst and squee. I was worried I wouldn't understand any philosophy talk, and well, I don't know French but I could understand the Japanese. All in all, this one was really well done so

I saw the author's twitter page and I loved the art style, the characters are so pretty--like just look at the first panel, 能美 is just beautiful--so I bought it in an instant (like I usually discover new BL to read cough cough).

I liked the character's a lot, 能美 who's just living like floating on life's river, and 瑛人 who seems bad-spirited but also challenging. I thought they had good chemistry.

I wish the author would go a little deeper into the philosophy theme, for me it seemed that they