User Reviews For: The First Cigarette

Can definitely see people having a lot to say about this. I was hoping for a weird positive twist. But if this is the end...hmmm

Overall I liked this story, so not mad about the points spent on it. I wish it was a bit longer, so the hints of something *more* beneath the surface of Tooru's character could be given a chance to be explored. It seems like a typical plot of "virgin gets snapped up by a playboy, then gets ghosted by the playboy bc of Family Expectations" with a side of marriage as an antagonistic plot device, but there's more to it than that I think. Tooru is definitely scum, but there's nuance to it, and he seems to... have actual attachment to Kan? And Kan is just as terrible, making excuses and refusing to let go of Tooru... man, I really wish there was more of this story, I want to know more!! I recommend it for the art, and also if you like layered angst. If a story featuring cheating or scum characters isn't for you, I don't recommend it.

I honestly want more. I feel like it should be longer or have more volumes. It is almost as if they were going to do that, but decided just to close it out. Overall I did actually really like it, but I just felt depressed at the end. The story should have gone another direction for sure.

Toru is absolute scum. Kan deserved better and Arisa deserved better. This is so unsatisfying, I don't know why I ever clicked on it.

I thought the story was a good start, I'm voicing what at least 2 other reviewers are saying here, Toru's a gay reformed man-slut, who's using Kanichis (Kan) sister (he married her, got her pregnant) all to make his Grandmother happy. He doesn't seem to love Kans sister at all. He also seems to be obsessed with Kan, stalking him, purposely getting into fights, & then asking for Kan (& only Kan), to take care of him. He's a reformed man-slut with an obsessive fixation on his Brother-in-law (Kan). He's basically stalking Kan. Toru needs to be Arrested, put in the Mental Ward under Max Security, in another Prefecture (preferably the northernmost), & Kan needs to get a Max Level Restraining Order against Toru. This story is also unfinished. This is a weird story, I don't think I've read 1 quite like this 1 on this site before. I honestly don't know if I recommend this one or not, you'll just have to decide for yourself, I guess. :|