Name: Breathless Momentum, Vol.1
ISBN: 9781647110499

Zeniko Sumiya

Jun Shizuki and Yukiji Yano are both in the same woodwind choir. Shizuki is a bartender who plays the sax and hits on anything that moves. Yano is a gifted flute player who is incredibly nice and is well-regarded within the choir. No one would ever suspect that these guys would have anything in common, but could these two polar opposites actually be in a relationship?!

Breathless Momentum, Vol.1

This is on me because I don't read descriptions unless I absolutely have to (I just go by tags) but I wasn't ready to be reading some innuendos and dealing with this certain philia. Still, I'm having fun so far! I don't hate any of the characters yet so that's a plus for me, I'm loving that we actually don't see any sex scenes despite how sexually motivated Shizuki and Yano are, a lot of conversations felt very straightforward and normal for a BL (which I loved). I'm just having a fun little time so far.

The only thing that actually got to me a little was Junko's little bit. They pointed out she's a minor multiple times and I liked that her crush on Yano wasn't entertained, just joked on. But it kinda overstayed its welcome for me. I like her but some of the stuff she said had me going “??? girl you're 16 or 17, calm down". Maybe because I was never liked that as a teen and neither were my friends so I was never exposed to teenagers fawning over an adult the way Junko did. It does seem like this is a volume 1 thing so HOPEFULLY I don't have to worry about this joke later on.

Actually, I know I said Junko's crush bit was the only thing that annoyed me but… the internet slang stuff was killing me. I hate reading modern and internet slang in anything and seeing words like “fap" and “cringe" and “vibe" makes me sleep forever. Vibe is whatever, to be honest, but one of the worst things the internet's done is using the word cringe to mean lame. I swear to God, if I ever read the word “goon" or “gooner" in any of these manga I'm gonna cry. I'm just gonna break down and cry. I don't know if it's the translator or what because one of the other Zeniko books had this problem and I know this is a different translator than the other 3 I've read.

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This is on me because I don't read descriptions unless I absolutely have to (I just go by tags) but I wasn't ready to be reading some innuendos and dealing with this certain philia. Still, I'm having fun so far! I don't hate any of the characters yet so that's a plus for me, I'm loving that we actually don't see any sex scenes despite how sexually motivated Shizuki and Yano are, a lot of conversations felt very straightforward and normal for a BL (which I loved). I'm just having a fun little time so far.

The only thing that actually got to me a little was Junko's little bit. They pointed out she's a minor multiple times and I liked that her crush on Yano wasn't entertained, just joked on. But it kinda overstayed its welcome for me. I like her but some of the stuff she said had me going “??? girl you're 16 or 17, calm down". Maybe because I was never liked that as a teen and neither were my friends so I was never exposed to teenagers fawning over an adult the way Junko did. It does seem like this is a volume 1 thing so HOPEFULLY I don't have to worry about this joke later on.

Actually, I know I said Junko's crush bit was the only thing that annoyed me but… the internet slang stuff was killing me. I hate reading modern and internet slang in anything and seeing words like “fap" and “cringe" and “vibe" makes me sleep forever. Vibe is whatever, to be honest, but one of the worst things the internet's done is using the word cringe to mean lame. I swear to God, if I ever read the word “goon" or “gooner" in any of these manga I'm gonna cry. I'm just gonna break down and cry. I don't know if it's the translator or what because one of the other Zeniko books had this problem and I know this is a different translator than the other 3 I've read.

Breathless Momentum, Vol.1

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