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This manga, even if it's not finished yet, has been a huge disappointment for me. I started reading it because Takarai Rihito's art style is beautiful and when I read the plot, I thought, "hey, this could be nice!" but since the very beginning, it wasn't what I was looking for.

My lowest scoring is for the characters. Both, Shirotani and Kurose are so flat and stereotyped that it's disgusting. Shirotani is the typical shy and insecure uke, and you can probably say that's because of his phobia, but I rather think it's the opposite – the mangaka seems to use his phobia to make him ... such a passive man.

On the other hand, we have Kurose, who at first you can think he's a nice and careful guy, maybe a little quiet, but kind of gentle in general. I thought so, but I was wrong. From the second volume on, he started to change in a very bad way. He became that sadistic seme who is so controlling over his boyfriend. He even reminded me of Christian Grey sometimes. Clichéd.

I think the story could have had a better development, but it focus on the sexual matter. This manga isn't about how Shirotani overcome his phobia thanks to Kurose and fall in love, it's about how Shirotani overcome his phobia thanks to having sex with Kurose (and fall in love, yeah). This has been something very present since the first volume, but in the third one it's the only matter.

Overall, I rate this manga 6/10 because I think this mangaka's art style is very pretty, but it became so PWP that I couldn't keep reading. I recommend this manga to those people who are ok with a whole chapter describing the seme boy fingering the uke boy (... this isn't a spoiler, is it? I hope not).