One Room Angel

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A story that has touched my soul and has left a little hole in my heart. An intense and deep single volume, with an exquisite drawing and narrative. A tragic, deep, bittersweet and realistic story. That touches on topics such as su1c1d3, the search for value in our lives and the search for happiness, through a thirty-year-old man and an angel.

As for the BL label, I don't consider it as such, I see them as two friends who have formed a very special bond and who have helped each other at their most critical moment.

Is it really worth living? What is my purpose in ... life? Am I taking advantage of it? Does my life make sense? The feeling of loneliness, feeling deep down a bit hurts... Even if life sucks... It's worth moving on.

Yes, life is hard, life is a constant change, we are going to stumble many times, we are going to get stung by the thorns of many roses, we are going to lose ourselves more than once, our life is going to take unexpected turns when it least expects it. let's hope... We will be afraid of many things, we will question many others, even if we make mistakes, life is unique and wonderful. Let's learn to read between the lines of our life's story. Even if we fall 1,000 times, let's get up 1,001.

The two protagonists are very well written and developed. The secondary characters also have a nice essence. You can identify with anyone.

A story that will make you reflect on the true value of our lives. Solxs we can't always handle everything, let's learn to lean on someone's shoulder when we need it most, a person who helps us see the positive side of our existence, as the angel did with Koki.

Not everything is drama in the story, it has some very good touches of humor, and always focusing on optimism.

The drawing is very nice.

Highly recommended, it has changed my life a bit.

One Room Angel is a beautiful, bittersweet story about finding the will to live even when life sucks, and wanting to become a better person for the people that you love.

It's short, but very impactful. Both characters are very well fleshed out and, despite being a one-volume manga, it's easy to care about them. Their dynamics are really touching at times while really fun at some moments too and the story focuses a lot on their bond and how they can help each other but, even though it is a BL, I think it can be enjoyed even by people who typically don't like ... romance.

The story is very well written and, while it deals with a lot of hard, dark topics such as suicide or bullying, it keeps a hopeful tone and doesn't just do drama for the sake of drama. It DOES have sad, tragic moments, and might not be a good manga to read if you're in a bad mental place at the moment, but the overall message is more touching and hopeful than sad.

All in all, a beautifully written manga with gorgeous art that I would recommend to pretty much anyone (unless you really can't handle reading about topics like suicide idealization or bullying), even those who don't really like BL. It really stands out from other mangas, both in the BL genre and overall.

I liked this story. I did, until I realized it's supposed to be a romance.

So many opportunities were lost. This could've been a cute father-and-son relationship, but it became a weird pedophilic fantasy. Sure, it can be interpreted as platonic but being marketed as a romance and serialized by OnBlue is enough for me. I'm sure this would've been one of my favorites if not for this. And it's not just the labels. There are several unnecessary and weird scenes in this that if removed could've made it so much better and not left room for doubt, even without whatever label you can slap ... onto this.

First, Angel did not need to ask Kouki to go out with him. They could've done all those fun things without this. Plus he explained his reasoning afterward so it made no sense. Second, that grabbing scene was disturbing and the definition of unnecessary. It's clear that the mangaka is trying to add in elements of BL which is very disgusting when it's concerning a man in his 30s and a kid in middle school.

I don't see how Kouki views Angel as his son either. They have more of a friendship (as stated, his "imaginary friend") which is already weird. I don't think even a man with no friends should be friends with a small boy unless they have a father-and-son relationship but there's absolutely no effort put into this to make it seem like that.

And the fanbase is full of pedophiles and fetishizers, so it's quite clear what the mangaka was trying to do.