Rating (Out of 5): ~4
Publisher: SuBLime (VIZ Media)
Release Date: December 2018
Volumes: 6.
Spoilers?: No.
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Goodreads Synopsis:
Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder in this doctor-patient romance fraught with compulsion!
Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani’s attraction to his counselor grows.
Corporate secretary Shirotani suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. One day he meets Kurose, a therapist who offers to take him through a ten-step program to cure him of his compulsion. As the two go through each of the ten steps, Shirotani’s attraction to his counselor grows.
Review:
This is the final volume of the series, though I was unaware. We see
Shirotani face some of his traumatic history in this volume, the girl
who scarred him, and how Kurose reacts to that, despite not knowing
the whole story. Shirotani has to get over a few of his issues, in
his attempt at being better with his OCD. And he does get better in
some ways, and he knows he still has more work to do, and that
there's only so much he can do. This issue isn't an easy-step-process
to being cured, and I appreciate that that's addressed at the end of
the book. They both acknowledge that he isn't going to be magically
better, but that he can still work to overcome some of this.
Throughout all of this, we see the couple grow more stable with each
other, grow closer and better together.
I completely understand that a lot of people don't like this series.
It's problematic—there's no arguing that. But I still really liked
it. It's very hot, and I like the possible D/s elements it plays
with. It's a definite guilty pleasure read. To me, it reads and feels
very much like a Fifty Shades of Grey, or a Sylvia Day, kind of
romance. It has very problematic themes and romanticizes not-good
things and somewhat-unbelievable, problematic characters. And yet,
it's still a book that I enjoy reading, and that I continue despite
being unable to really defend it. It is bad, but it's also so good and fun/hot to read.
I enjoy this series, the good and the bad. I liked it a lot. And I
would definitely read more of Takarai's work.
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