[DeepL Translation - needs review] On that late winter morning, a boy died. Thomas Werner. And Yuri was left with a letter. This is my love, this is the sound of my heart. Yuri struggles in the dark abyss of faith, Oscar holds on to his feelings for his father and Yuri, and Erik, a new student who is the spitting image of Thomas, ....... The love, trials, and blessings thrown upon the boys of Gimnazium, who spend the transparent season of their lives. A great masterpiece from the early days ...
One of the foundational BL classics
I'm not quite sure what to think of トーマの心臓. On one hand, the artwork is gorgeous; you can really see the roots of shoujo manga here. The story deals with some fun symbolic themes and keeps the pace fairly quick for such a long story. Our characters are all generally well fleshed-out, and this being set in a boys' school in Germany is pretty neat.
On the other, the melodrama never really ends; you have a bunch of 13/14 year old boys running around, already traumatized in various ways, wrangling