This book did not age well :/. The paranormal plot is that the world will end on Y2K. Youch.

The book felt dated in uglier ways, as well. The messages were pretty toxic. You have a crush on someone at work, but they just want to keep things professional? Stalk them, they'll change their minds! You meet someone at work who is feeling suicidal? Guilt trip them about what a burden they are to the family and workers who will have to find their body! You learn that an old friend, a classmate who has become depressed and distant, was raped. Should you comfort them? Heck no, guilt trip them too, make them feel responsible for their mother's sorrow for having a distant daughter! On and on and on.

Even if I overlooked the lousy messages, and I were in the mood for a nostalgic 90's setting, I would still have had problems with how old-fashioned this book is for a manga. The art style reminded me of Dick Tracy XD. Such big shoulder pads, such weird hats! But more importantly, for being "the first boys love story published in The West", this book is outdated with its queer representation. It was almost as if they needed to make Subaru "safe": Giving him a twin sister who is a buffer in almost every scene Subaru and Seishiro share; Making him look small and effeminate and having him get mistaken for a girl; Having him rebuff Seishiro's confessions of love as if they're jokes... This book seemed not committed to the queer romance, at all, and like it wanted to leave plausible deniability for readers who might not be comfortable with such a thing.

Outdated, in every sense.