Satoh Inoue

This romance is too slow a waltz for me. The dance scenes are low energy, the two guys have little chemistry, and after a full volume they are so deep in the closet that they have made little to no progress toward starting a relationship or even realizing one is possible. I wouldn't avoid a second volume, but I won't seek it out either.

It's been a while since I picked up a new series, but a mxm ballroom dancing manga was too enticing to resist. This feels like it will be more of a slow burn, but I can already feel the underlying passion in this pair so I'm excited to see where it goes!

Billed as two suave masters of their craft butting heads, but halfway through volume 1 one of them has already shifted into being the emotional, unsophisticated baby while the other is a classic seme asshole. The explanations and depictions of dancing are muddy. Also um, the depiction of one of the dancers “cleaning up their image” inexplicably turns him white (from a greyscale depiction of a “Latino” skin tone.) Oh also pervasively and uncritically mysogynistic

Excellent MM ballroom dancing romance. Worth a read.