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English version: The drawing style is too beautiful and the characters are really beautiful (I even saw people comparing torikai to young leonardo dicaprio, he is so handsome). The story is cool, it's just not memorable. So so. Lucky for the author that they knew how to write a cute couple with chemistry. Since those are the only qualities of the romance. Portuguese version: Muito lindo o estilo de desenho e os personagens realmente são bonitos (até vi compararem o torikai com o leonardo dicaprio novo, de tão bonito que ele é). A história é legal, só não é memorável. Muito morna e sem sal. Sorte do autor queele soube escrever um casal fofo e com química. Já que essas são as únicas qualidades deles.

this is quite the perfect rivals to lovers story IMO. the transition from rivals to "something weird" to frival to lovers is really really smooth and, most of all, makes sense to their characters. the "rival" aspect of this pair really does NOT serve as mere gimmick. it's part of one of the character's conflicted past, one of the reasons of them getting to know each other, one of the reasons for one of them to fall for the other, one of the reasons of their character growth, and one of the reason of their recent conflict. not to mention, the characters feel quite complex. theirfears, goals, reactions toward stuff, etc makes sense and i find no single loopholes. their personalities also don't feel stereotypical and i really like their character designs except for the 1 thing i dislike which i'll mention in the last paragraph. the art is SO good. it's not like... groundbreaking or unique considering it doesn't have to have crazy scenes (wide shot of a city or unique angle view or crazy battle scenes), but what needs to be drawn are drawn well. plus, the expressions of the characters are good IMO. i can feel their passion and tension during the sex scenes and insecurities and pain during a conflict. the only downsides are 1) most of the characters who are of the same age have similar facial feature and structure, so it's hard to distinguish them when they're wearing their firefighter outfits that hides their hair 2) that i feel like yajima has been doing a lot of the heavywork when it comes to the relationship and communication, so it'd be nice to see torikai getting his character development on that front quick so my score is 8 for the story, 8 for the characters, 6 for the art, 8 for the overall feeling, which average to 7.5, rounded to 8