Dekoboko Sugar Days (Mou Ikkai!)
Dekoboko Bittersweet Days

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The best ever! I love how everything I thought was going to happen ended up being something more wonderful and absolutely beautiful. While volume 1 had you laughing like crazy for their silly antics and funny moments, this completely took those characters and made them into something more than what you expected. I was literally tearing up trying to hold my tears because the growth and development they have was so beautiful and touching you can't help but be proud of how far they have come. It feels like you're part of their lives and you get to grow up with them and then when ... they're old enough you know they can handle themselves all on their own. They basically grew up to become such remarkable adults and you can really see how much potential the story goes as you read it. I am so in love with these characters and this story is just one of the most heartwarming and poignant ones I've read. It makes me so happy my heart feels so full right now.

And now I'm gonna go to the corner and cry my heart out...

To me, the prequel manga “Dekoboko Sugar Days” was the complete package. In that story, BL tropes were executed perfectly, making for one of the most enjoyable reads I’ve experienced in the genre!

Unfortunately, I don’t think that “Dekoboko Bittersweet Days” is as successful as its predecessor.

The first half of the manga consists of some really cute scenarios, while also presenting Yuujirou and Rui’s hopes and anxieties about how their relationship will progress in the future. This is a very promising setup that I was excited to see the narrative explore, but it ended up falling rather flat.

I feel like there are a lot of interesting ... ways that the protagonists’ relationship could have developed as they navigated adulthood, but instead, the second half of the story is centered around an annoying, contrived conflict. A lack of communication between the couple leads to a number of problems that feel completely avoidable. Yuujirou’s behaviour, in particular, comes across as unnatural and forced; the storytelling in these moments seems both lazy and uninspired.

With that being said, the art continues to be exceptionally cute, carrying the manga through its duller periods. It’s still an enjoyable read overall, but “Bittersweet Days” just doesn’t reach the same heights as the original.

Though this was ultimately disappointing for me, it was still nice to revisit these characters and see how they changed by the end of the story.