Sweet Revolution

First things first - Izuna can help purify my chi ANY day of the week. Now that that's out of the way...the story in Sweet Revolution was an odd one (not to mention the title itself and what it has in any way to do with it, but that's BL for you), it felt like the second part was a completely different story than the first but with the same two main characters...in the middle it very quickly switches from a stereotypical school setting to a mysterious otherworldly realm (if you read/watch a lot of manga/anime, one simply accepts this), and after that leap they donot mix again. Still, the pacing was good and the story fun to follow, and it unfolded in a really intriguing way. Let's get to the important part though: Tatsuki is a spicy meatball, but IZUNA - oh baby! WHY NOT MORE IZUNA? For the record I feel like the author shares this sentiment, considering the Afterword is literally just an entire page about the speculation on whether Izuna is the pitcher or the catcher (you never really find out, by the way, to the disappointment of probably every single person who has read this book). The two main characters were interesting enough, Tatsuki was at least more than one-dimensional and got more complex as the story went on, while Ohta was very much a classic uke. The author is really good at building mystery and intrigue about what exactly their dysfunction is in the first part, which made for a real page-turner (also pretty sure the part when Misaki goes up to their apartment made me actually go "whoa" out loud). The mangaka is really good with using shading and subtle visual cues to create atmosphere (for example, the interior of Tatsuki's apartment is always dark or dimly lit by a single light source, which heightens the ambiguity about what freaky shit he is into up there.) The second half of the story was a bit predictable at that point but, you know, Izuna, so whatever. At the end I was satisfied overall with this book and thought it was an interesting, original, well laid out story with nice art and some verrry nice bishies!