First: The first 9 episodes of them in high school took forever, quite tedious and couldn't even call it a slow burn.
Second, they REALLY wanted to spend a considerable portion of the last episodes of runtime on Eiw's mom and her death.
Third: very preachy. Alcohol isn't evil, but the abuse of it is. And, yeah smoking is harmful but thirdhand smoking as a plot device that conferred aggressive stage 4 cancer? I'm a non-smoker and I found the message a bit much. Even after all that, the last scene of the series they throw away a pack of cigarettes. LOL. Speaking of alcohol, it's a shame that a bout of drunkenness is the reason Cake and Eiw finally talked about their feelings for each other. Feels a bit cheap.
Lastly, I really would have liked to see more about how going from practially brothers to lovers changes things, especially adding physical intimacy to a formerly platonic relationship.
Cute but the writing isn't great. They didn't have the skill to properly write the 1 year gap. As others pointed out, they didn't call or text each other the whole time? Maybe it would have worked before cell phones but makes no sense these days. This isn't the only example of weak writing but definitely is a blaring example of it.
First: The first 9 episodes of them in high school took forever, quite tedious and couldn't even call it a slow burn.
Second, they REALLY wanted to spend a considerable portion of the last episodes of runtime on Eiw's mom and her death.
Third: very preachy. Alcohol isn't evil, but the abuse of it is. And, yeah smoking is harmful but thirdhand smoking as a plot device that conferred aggressive stage 4 cancer? I'm a non-smoker and I found the message a bit much. Even after all that, the last scene of the series they throw away a pack of cigarettes. LOL. Speaking of alcohol, it's a shame that a bout of drunkenness is the reason Cake and Eiw finally talked about their feelings for each other. Feels a bit cheap.
Lastly, I really would have liked to see more about how going from practially brothers to lovers changes things, especially adding physical intimacy to a formerly platonic relationship.