I love the art style of Ogeretsu Tanaka. I enjoyed the development of the characters, both male and female. I love the dirty scenes as well, don't get me wrong, but sometimes I feel they're a little long. But I love this story nonetheless.

⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING SEXUAL VIOLENCE ⚠️

A fully dysfunctional wreck of a romance. These boys are NOT sweet nor is their relationship. They’re verbally abusive, physically abusive, and there’s a single graphic scene of sexual violence.

And yet…the ride is exquisite! Watching the course of their relationship unfold reminds me of American soap operas. This is giving Luke X Noah from As the World Turns, toxicity levels high and rising. Utterly compelling shit, tbh.

There’s something uniquely human in our ability to lead toxic lives yet absolve our fiction of that very reality. Understandably a relationship such as this written into a narrative designed for heroic relationships worthy of cheer is a ballsy move!!

Hence, the 4-star rating. This writer might just be churning out another BL romance to pay her rent OR she might’ve just set up a longform romance arc meant to present (if not, represent) the human capacity to prop up certain toxicities all for the sake of “being in love.”

I’m interested to see which direction she takes these conflicted boys.

This was not what I expected. I thought I was going to get a cute romance, but it was just a typical toxic yaoi romance. Excessive sex, no communication, and some sexual assault that's completely brushed over. They don't really talk about anything really, but it's all happily ever after in the end. There's two more volumes though so maybe more happens? I have them so I'll continue, but for the most part the story itself was disappointing.

Felt like I got punched in the gut in the middle there oof

La mangaka Tanaka Ogeretsu y yo tenemos serios problemas desde que empece a consumirla. Bien es cierto que no es un conflicto tan doloroso como es el que me provoca disfrutar a Harada, pero si es bastante... extraño. Su obra cumbre, Yarinchi Club, es divertidisima y muy disfrutona en el anime, perooooooo..... Bueno, ya hablaremos de ella. Hoy hablemos de Escape Journey.

Este volumen lo podríamos reducir hasta su máximo exponente y es que la relación que empiezan en este primer tomo Naoto y Taichi es BASTANTE TOXICA, un extraño tira y afloja que termina siempre en gritos y, en ocasiones, en las manos. No digo que este tipo de historias no sean licitas de leer, si lo dijera sería una hipocrita perooooooooooo..... en esta ocasión yo esperaba otra cosa, algo más cute y no fue así.

Quizás una de las razones que más me ha hecho sufrir y dudar sobre si seguir esta historia es por Naoto, quien, de alguna forma, lo noto terriblemente cercano a mi persona. Una persona extrovertida y que conecta con todo el mundo en cualquier situación, cuyo corazón es benévolo y sin maldad, pero que el amor le ha terminado cambiando. Por otro lado, Taichi... sin perdón de Dios. Tiene su trasfondo, es cierto, pero no creo que sea excusa para tratar así a alguien e, incluso, usar la fuerza contra ella y más si la amas.

En definitiva, es una historia dura, pero muy cercana