Like The Tomato
Nothing here but my musings about daily life, books, anime, and food.
- Anime Title: Sasaki and Miyano
- Episodes: 13
- Where to Watch: Crunchyroll
- Publisher: Kadokawa Pictures Inc.
Ah the story of young love. You know how it is. Your first love. I mean the feeling of yearning, being scared that the person you love will run away once you confess your feelings, the excitement when you see that person walking the corridors, the butterflies in your stomach when that person just even smiles at you. Yeah, all that packaged in this nice BL/Yaoi anime.
I picked this up because it’s BL, which is my romance preference. But I got so much more from it. From the moment that they met, until they got together, it was such a ride. I mean, my experiences were nothing like this but it did give me a sense of nostalgia as I think about that moment I saw him during P.E. class back in high school. Anyway, we will not rehash my ill fated first “love” here. We are going to talk about this anime.
One thing that stood out for me was the character development and internal struggles. Both the main characters – Sasaki and Miyano – have good character arcs. From Sasaki’s struggle with hiding his true feelings for Miyano just to not scare him away. To Miyano’s struggle with his sexuality. The anime was really good in depicting these emotions. (Ask my boyfriend, if you do not believe me)
The sweet moments were such gems. I still remember Sasaki’s reaction when Miyano gave him a gift for White Day. It still makes me smile. That reaction was too precious and basically lives in my head rent free.
The supporting characters, their friends, were also such good ones. You cannot find better friends than these boys. I mean, seriously, they are so supportive that it hurts when I think that not all friends are like these guys in real life. Such treasures.
Voice acting were done beautifully. I watched the anime both in dubbed and subbed versions. The actors were superb! I did prefer the dubbed version more, which does not happen often when I watch anime. I have rewatched this anime so many times in the dubbed version because the voice actors just did great.
I have watched a fair share of yaoi anime, and this for sure does not follow the regular trope that I am used to. This is such a slow burn romance that leads to that one moment in episode 12. I loved every minute of anticipation, every minute of the journey these two characters took to get together.
This post does not give the anime any justice whatsoever. It was so much more. My hun gave this anime a 10/10, a person whose preference does not fall in this category. But he enjoyed it a lot. And I am glad that I shared this with him.
I have not gone hungry since I arrived here in SoCal. I honestly think I have been overeating, to be honest. Not complaining – I am just stating a fact. My parents like to eat. Breakfast, snack, lunch, snack, dinner. Yeah. The meals are not light either. I do not even consider their snacks actual snacks. I feel like they are full meals.
I am again having some major food coma issues. I really just want to crawl in bed and pass out. When I really should not. I have not done anything productive since Thursday. I was just watching TV with my folks and stuffing my face with food. I have not read at all. And I brought three books with me! Because I thought I would be able to pick them up and read. I guess not. That needs to change.
Tomorrow, I should be free to do some resume updating so that I can apply to jobs aggressively. And hopefully I get to read! Well I want to read tonight. Last night I passed out even if I did not want to. That was sad. I have been reading webtoons though. I just really need to sit and read tonight. Planning on finishing one book tonight.
I also need to do some laundry tomorrow. Hopefully I can get to that as well. And one more load so I can do it closer to the day when I go back to the PNW. I’d really rather not take any dirty clothes back up North. But that is not happening. We shall see.
My brother and sister-in-law visited today. Also the reason why we have so much food today. After eating lunch, we watched a move called Me Time. A movie with Kevin Hart and Matt Wahlberg. Funny. I was fine. It was funny. I mean, it’s not the best comedy but it was funny and my brother and I had a good laugh.
I watched Only You with my folks this morning. A Filipino romance movie. It was refreshing. I mean, the love interest is not the typical drop dead handsome prince charming BS that Filipino movies love to cast. It was cute in its own right and I appreciated how unconventional it is. But I had a question about what happened to the love interest because I really did not see the point of why it was done. Just to get some tears from the viewers maybe? I mean sure I was sad about it, but I was irritated at that. Like I said, I did not see the point of why it happened.
Anyway, I guess I should try and read now if I plan on finishing a book tonight.