Haven't read Groupie yet, but I have read White Brand. My thoughts on threesomes:
In real life: MESSY, more often than not. In fic, though, I view it idealistically. I have a thing about building family out of choice rather than blood. People who decide to be devoted to each other through nothing but personality is highly romantic to me -- and I mean romantic in a more Victorian sense, not in a sexual sense. So, stories of good friends who are friends for life, and stories of families taking in a child that isn't their own, or kids adopting older people as grandparents, etc., make me mushy. When I think of my life-long OTPs in two-person romance, at least one of the characters is a "stray", all lonely and isolated or outcast, that makes his/her lover the center of his/her world. I could give more examples beyond Snape/Lupin and Iwaki/Katou if needed. ~_^
A true threesome, with all partners being equal, is hard to achieve. But if the three really love and are devoted to each other, the relationship is one they will constantly work on until all feel happy and safe with one another. It can take years, but if the love is there, it should override the pettinesses that can destroy any relationship.
All that said, I'm not sure I've ever found a true threesome in my BL manga reading. Not that I've read all the BL mangas in the world, but you'd think I would have stumbled across some by now. Most potential threesomes in a manga turn out much like Groupie, where three might mess around, but there's a lack of feeling for one and that person ends up on the wayside.
I have to wonder if Nitta meant to follow up on Atsushi at some point and maybe it was one of the many ideas that fell by the wayside of a popular mangaka. Many third wheels seem to end up in their own book or at least short story eventually, according to my studies, unless the third wheel was undeserving in some way.
Snapelike, do you think it's possible to get a list together of Nitta's works in chronological order? I think it's always important to understand when you are reading a mangaka's early efforts. Very few mangakas come out of the gate with mature work. I know White Brand is an early work, but I don't know where Groupie falls. Just from reading your comments, I imagine Groupie is also an early work.
I think if there was more to Hasta la Vista, I'd be wildly enthusiastic about Tomomi/Kumiya/Kentarou fan fic. As the story stands, though, I was highly disturbed by Tomomi's treatment of the baby. I understood where Nitta meant to go with that, but the story needed at least two more chapters of character development for that not to be creepy to me.
After reading so much Yoshizumi fic from you guys, you'd think I'd have picked an OTP for him, but I keep waffling on him, which means he really is the LBD of the Nittaverse! I think the only way I could accept a long-term Iwaki/Katou threesome is if it involved them taking in Yoshizumi. There's no other character deserving of their love and the opening of their sacred covenant.
In real life: MESSY, more often than not. In fic, though, I view it idealistically. I have a thing about building family out of choice rather than blood. People who decide to be devoted to each other through nothing but personality is highly romantic to me -- and I mean romantic in a more Victorian sense, not in a sexual sense. So, stories of good friends who are friends for life, and stories of families taking in a child that isn't their own, or kids adopting older people as grandparents, etc., make me mushy. When I think of my life-long OTPs in two-person romance, at least one of the characters is a "stray", all lonely and isolated or outcast, that makes his/her lover the center of his/her world. I could give more examples beyond Snape/Lupin and Iwaki/Katou if needed. ~_^
A true threesome, with all partners being equal, is hard to achieve. But if the three really love and are devoted to each other, the relationship is one they will constantly work on until all feel happy and safe with one another. It can take years, but if the love is there, it should override the pettinesses that can destroy any relationship.
All that said, I'm not sure I've ever found a true threesome in my BL manga reading. Not that I've read all the BL mangas in the world, but you'd think I would have stumbled across some by now. Most potential threesomes in a manga turn out much like Groupie, where three might mess around, but there's a lack of feeling for one and that person ends up on the wayside.
I have to wonder if Nitta meant to follow up on Atsushi at some point and maybe it was one of the many ideas that fell by the wayside of a popular mangaka. Many third wheels seem to end up in their own book or at least short story eventually, according to my studies, unless the third wheel was undeserving in some way.
Snapelike, do you think it's possible to get a list together of Nitta's works in chronological order? I think it's always important to understand when you are reading a mangaka's early efforts. Very few mangakas come out of the gate with mature work. I know White Brand is an early work, but I don't know where Groupie falls. Just from reading your comments, I imagine Groupie is also an early work.
I think if there was more to Hasta la Vista, I'd be wildly enthusiastic about Tomomi/Kumiya/Kentarou fan fic. As the story stands, though, I was highly disturbed by Tomomi's treatment of the baby. I understood where Nitta meant to go with that, but the story needed at least two more chapters of character development for that not to be creepy to me.
After reading so much Yoshizumi fic from you guys, you'd think I'd have picked an OTP for him, but I keep waffling on him, which means he really is the LBD of the Nittaverse! I think the only way I could accept a long-term Iwaki/Katou threesome is if it involved them taking in Yoshizumi. There's no other character deserving of their love and the opening of their sacred covenant.
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