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Cutest plot, lovely art. Coming of age at its finest.

This story could serve as example for the childhood friends to lovers trope, especially when done in sports settings.

It's a slow burn love that is presented in a very natural manner, with the characters and their context in life being the main focus at first, so we get immersed in their daily lives and naive struggles before getting to the romance.

The way the romance is laid out is very sweet and innocent, which I found refreshing, considering how many high school themed BL lack in realism on how it is to navigate a first crush, especially ... with same-gender relationships with an established friendship.

The art style is very organic and detailed, the backgrounds, textures and expressions are numerous and always beautiful/cute.

Overall, the only lacking point is that it's short haha. It has the potential to be like those huge Shoujos that have 30+ chapters just with a slice of life + romance combo.

It's a very light hearted read, I really recommend it for when you need to cheer up and that there's still joy and innocent love out there.

The art is nothing special but also not bad or low quality, the story itself seems more like a story about baseball than a romance one.
The first chapter is mostly baseball talk which felt a bit boring but I pushed through, the main point of the first few pages was how the MC has a thing that happens to baseball players which is psychological and prevents them from throwing good even though they used to be perfect pitchers, the doctors tell them everything is fine and nothing is broken. So him and his friend are trying to figure out why and what to do which ... makes the first two chapters mostly feel like a sports manga and not a romance one, In those two chaptes there is only one scene that gives off romance/BL however it is something small and innocent which only happens in one tiny part of the page and they both don't act like they are nervous or shy. It isn't until chapter 3 where we start getting more romance however the flow could have focused more on the romance and communication instead of the MC just avoiding the ML.


Even when they finally talk and confess to each other it was a short aww moment then back to baseball talk and once again feeling like a sports manga. They don't do anything until the extra chapter and even then it's cut short.

If you are looking for romance look elsewhere, since it doesn't really give much of that and pulls the reader out with all this baseball talk and lots of sports related dialog. Their romance is cute but you can find that in another romance BL.

If you don't mind all the sports dialog (AND I MEAN A LOT of sports dialog/talk) then feel free to read it. It does have a happy ending but it somehow didn't feel too happy since it just felt like a bit was lacking.