Giglio

Try as you might, you can't contain a story such as this in three short chapters, and it shows. While it was ambitious in its characters and plot, the story wasn't allowed to properly unfold. Story: There's a story here, that is to be sure. However, what should have been fleshed out over several chapters, and, really, there's enough here for several volumes, is instead crammed into three very short chapters. It fails to be cohesive, with jumps between several points in time and only the bare-bones of the story allowed to slip through. While sometimes keeping things short may serve to enhance the effect ofthe read and is a viable method of storytelling, I feel that it wasn't carried out well at all in this manga. Characters: The characters are the focal point in this manga. They aren't simply a means of telling the story, they are the story. Because of this, it is impossible for them not to receive some care in the ongoings of the manga as to their motivations and past. In fact, as I've said, this is the entire story for the most part. Though, as I've also said, only the bare-bones gets through because that's all that was allowed within such a small amount of material. Art: The art is very good in this, I will say, and only furthers my belief that this would have been a very good manga should it have been given more time to expand and carefully construct the story and its characters. The suitably detailed artwork compliments the setting and the realistic tone the story wishes to keep with it throughout. Overall, this could have been one of the better yaoi manga out there, but it couldn't live up to its potential due to the constraints placed on it.