Stand by Me (OHYA Kazumi)

Description

Story of Hatta Shuuji's encounter with problem-child and popular model Haru. Incidentally Shuuji is the childhood friend and ex-housekeeper of Maruyama Mie from .

Type

Manga

Related Series

Ai o Chodai! (Adapted From)

Associated Names

ขอเพียงมีกันและกัน

スタンド・バイ・ミー (OHYA Kazumi)

與我為伴

스탠 바이 미

Groups Scanlating

Paradise Love Scanlations

Latest Release(s)

v.1 c.3 by Paradise Love Scanlations 10 years ago

v.1 c.2 by Paradise Love Scanlations 10 years ago

v.1 c.1 by Paradise Love Scanlations 10 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

3 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8.5 / 10.0 (17 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.09 / 10.0

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12%

35%

Last Updated

February 28th, 2021 11:05pm PST - 4 years ago

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Genre

Drama Romance Slice of Life Yaoi
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Category Recommendations

Kono Yo ni tada Hitori

Recommendations

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Author(s)

OHYA Kazumi

Artist(s)

OHYA Kazumi

Year

2010

Original Publisher

Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)

Mobafura (Shogakukan)

Petit Comic (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

English Publisher

N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #766

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Monthly Pos #1756

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3 Month Pos #2310

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6 Month Pos #4708

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Year Pos #5703

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List Stats

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On 166 wish lists

On 12 completed lists

On 7 unfinished lists

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Rushed ending

by lilychrysalis
4 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

You know the premise already. There's an emotionally closed-off MC with a tragic backstory and a generally oblivious but kind MC, a vague love triangle situation, and unnecessary misunderstandings because people are can't or won't say what they're thinking. Still, I was surprised at how well the characters developed over the first two volumes - the MCs grow and change in a natural and believable way. As of right now there are only three chapters scanlated to English and it looks like it's been dropped for years, which is a bit of a shame, because the characters are, shall we say, unusually emotionally appropriate (relative to most yaoi) for their stated ages (early/mid-20s) and backgrounds, which makes it a better read than other similarly-premised series.

The pacing of volume 3 is pretty jarring after the slow burn of the first two volumes. I think that one additional volume in the series would have let things progress more naturally and would have gotten a higher rating from me.

The presentation of the "we can't be together even though we both clearly love each other" breakup and emotional reasoning behind it were so close to being excellent, but just rushed/truncated enough to not fully resonate emotionally. The timeline of getting back together might be reasonable chronologically (although it seems pretty unlikely that Shuuji could keep it completely secret from his friends that Haru is back in his life) but because it's crammed into far too few pages, it seems that everything happens abruptly.

This was previously marked as josei; I changed it to yaoi because it is most definitely centered on a romantic relationship between two adult males. There's (mostly implied) sex but nothing explicit.

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