This manga does not shy away from their feelings from one another and the end...oh, the end is breathtaking. in so many ways. Replay is a fantasy novel by American writer Ken Grimwood, first published by Arbor House in 1986. It won the 1988 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel. Yuta is pretty easy-going but you can't always tell how serious he is about things he says. Ritsu is reserved but has surprisingly passionate feelings. It was nice dynamic where them liking each other was never in question, just the deepness of it.

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Llegué a este libro por casualidad. Me atraen los viajes en el tiempo y en un artículo sobre películas y libros en los que predomina esta temática se citaba Replay junto a una mini reseña muy positiva. Tomé nota mental e investigué sobre la novela sin querer saber tampoco demasiado. Ese leo, pero sin leer me cautivó y unos días después ya la estaba devorando.

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Replay was such a cute and down to earth BL manga for me. We see two best-friends, Yuuta and Ritsu (Ri-ri!), who are considered the "married couple" of the school come to the realization of their feelings and struggles with letting go of their baseball past. This is the first sporty manga that I have read and I quite enjoyed it. I loved how sporty these two characters are and that this manga doesn't follow the stereotype of having a feminine gay and a masculine gay. I could definitely go for some more sporty manga's after this whether it be BL manga or shonen, or even shoujo! Hahah I have to branch out sometime right? Pamela and Jeff eventually fall in love and become convinced that they are soulmates. Complications arise when they notice that their replays are getting shorter and shorter, with Pamela not beginning her next replay until well after Jeff. Eventually, the two decide to try to find other replayers by placing cryptic messages in newspapers. The messages, which seem very vague to anyone who is not a replayer, generate a fair amount of dead-end responses until the pair receives a letter from a man who is clearly knowledgeable about future events. Jeff and Pamela decide to visit the stranger, only to discover that he is confined to a psychiatric hospital. Surprisingly, the staff does not pay attention to his discussion on the future, but it soon becomes clear why the man is institutionalized when he calmly states that he thinks aliens are forcing him to murder people for their own entertainment.

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I won’t reveal what actually happened to insure that history continued as before, but it becomes clear that there are certain events that must happen. The interesting point about the Kennedy assassination is that until 9/11 happened the death of Kennedy was the singular event, the most impactful moment in time, that most people, if given the means and opportunity would want to change the outcome. When I asked my mom a few years ago where she was when Kennedy died, her eyes filled with tears and she couldn’t speak for a few minutes. Almost fifty years after the event, and the emotions surrounding that tragedy are still as raw as if it had just happened.

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El caso es que conseguí terminarla y como punto positivo me quedo con esas reflexiones que propone y que genera. The author does a great job of illuminating the main character's inner dialog and questions about his predicament. At each point in the novel, the protagonist responds to his situation sensibly and/or understandably, demonstrating smarts, will-power, perseverance, and human fallibility (his patience can and does reach a limit). I liked the plot twists and turns ... at least for the first 2/3 of the book, I really had no idea WHAT was going to happen next. I was hoping it wouldn't end the way it did, simply because that's what I was guessing might happen ... but the author did keep me guessing for the majority of it, so I am mostly satisfied.

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I really liked Grimwood's take on it as, for once, I could relate with the main character's decisions and he added a nice twist to it. I loved the slow development of the relationship from friend to lovers. It was so well done and to watch Yuuta figure out why his heart hurt any time he thought of Riri having a girlfriend, it just tore at my heart. I loved the idea of them being in a relationship without realizing that what they had was a romantic relationship. It was beautiful and their love is just so gentle.

Fortunately, they find their common ground and start a sweet and beautiful relationship. In a few words this was a coming-to-age, friends-to-lovers kind of story. Ritsu is done with baseball and wants to lead a normal collage-life after their exams. Yuuta who still wants to play with him is hurt because he doesn't understand why Ritsu became so cold towards him. He also has to figure out if he really wants to pursue baseball seriously without Ritsu in the future. The plot? I say it doesn't work. Why? Because a plot asks why and why not. Does the hero ever do anything to try to find out why he has to replay this section of his life? I'm going to say something that I imagine most thinking people will expect, having read this far, but if not, this next part could be thought of as a spoiler. Here it is: The hero meets another replayer. A woman, natch. Together they start looking for others. They find one. It's the only truly great bit of writing in the book. I loved it. It gave us an explanation for the replayers. It even almost made sense, despite the fact that many readers won't be familiar with the concept as yoga understands it and as it is explained using the Bhagavad Gita by the one person who understands. But since most people who don't understand the yogic concepts have read Shakespeare (I'll paraphrase the next part): "All the world's a stage, and we but men and women acting on it... taking our exits and our entrances...." This reasoning, provided by someone who even tells our two replayers how and why the world is a stage for a certain group of people watching the replayers in the bloody stage of history they live in, a stage they make even worse, is an exciting concept! I so hoped it wouldn't turn out to be a cop-out. But, sadly, it did. The thought never runs through our replayers' minds again... The explanation was just insane. But I hung onto it. I hoped. I saw that there was an epilog. I didn't dare read it ahead of time in case I was wrong... I got to it at last. And no. The whole explanation had been presented and thrown away. End of spoiler. Grimwood toys with some interesting concepts along the way, but never really gets to the “why”? Which is something I don't ordinarily complain about, I don't have to be spoon-fed everything. Here it just feels like a cheat - like going to your favorite restaurant in anticipation of a grand meal only to find that it was closed by the Board of Health.