insaneneko

I had a pretty bad day yesterday, but was comforted by a completely cliched book called Kimi ga dare no tonari ni itemo by Tsukigami Hinako and illustrated by Yamada Yugi. I think it was the fact that it just hit every single convention and cliche possible for this type of story but didn't overdo any of them (there is a good argument to be made that the sum of the parts was too much, but sometimes too much can be good). Hibiya Yuuichi (henceforth to be called "Uke"--I wrote the summary up without the book around for reference and stuck "uke" and "seme" in for the characters' names) is a yuzen artist who had been a school teacher six years ago. He'd broken up with Kuryuu Akinari ("Seme"), a student at his school who'd pure-heartedly pursued him until he'd give in, so that he wouldn't ruin seme's bright future. Of course neither uke nor the seme could forget each other, so when they run into each other six years later...we get angst and conflict (Or what passes for angst and conflict for this author)! Anyone surprised?


( the story )

( the pics )

One big plus of reading this book--I checked out examples of yuzen to get a clue as to what the uke was doing all the time. I was amazed at how beautiful it is. XD