During class, Arata, bored out of his mind, tries to talk to his seatmate, Shun, but Shun doesn’t notice, lost in his anime songs through his earphones. When the teacher catches him and confiscates the earphones, Shun’s suspicious reaction sparks an idea in Arata—? (From short story "Noise")
A highly anticipated work by Shundei, embodying a nostalgic yet fresh take on "moe," featuring seven carefully crafted stories.
(Translator: DeepL)
A compilation of 7 more or less profoundly weird BL short stories
A short service announcement in case you came here from "Ganbare, Nakamura-kun" checking out the author's other works - don't expect to find the same silly romcom situations. In fact, this one here is relatively "tame", however many of the other works are deeply disturbing.
Putting that aside, I did enjoy this work despite having to put out plenty of trigger and content warnings which I will put below for each story.
It's definitely very unusual stories/settings, I actually liked the lowkey psychological part. The stories are completely unrelated to each other, and most of the stories are pretty open-ended, leaving the fate of the characters undecided.
The language was relatively easy, not too much text and I didn't find any complicated terms. However, two or three chapters partially contain Kansai-ben (which should be completely fine if you brush up with the most common sentence changes).
Spoiler warning!
ブレース キス : teeth, medical exams
凸凹 : begins as a pretty normal high school friendship story, a bit of coming of age, however there is out of the blue a very disturbing sexual assault scene (imaginary, but still very graphic)
電幻 : suicide
春眠 : sleepwalking
雑音 : manipulation, explicit content
別人 : masks? not really disturbing but there were some explicit scenes
犬恋 : gay dogs ....... it was cute until the end ... purge my eyes please