Yuri Project
joined Jul 14, 2016
There's just something wrong with this manga. It's composed entirely of cliches (really reminds me of Girl Friends in that regard) but somehow the message just feels so much more toxic than usual. It feels like this mangaka's sole interaction with human society is via reading romance manga (written by authors whose sole interaction with human society was via reading romance manga, and so on 5 levels deep).
The absurd focus on appearance is just too much. The only thing the characters care about is looking cute, and the only attacks they're vulnerable to are being criticized for not being cute—everything else they just shrug off. They don't need friends as long as they can look cute.
The worst was probably those guys at the pool. They're the usual really pushy guys who just haunt every pool, beach, and downtown shopping district in every romance manga, But when they switch tactics from trying to pick up Fujishiro to insulting Kurokawa, she completely flips her shit. They're random strangers who were just harassing you, why do you even care what they're saying? You were just yelling at them to leave you alone seconds before, and now their negative opinions are some kind of existential threat? You need to prove them wrong by tearing off Kurokawa's glasses and showing off her face?
Something is deeply wrong with the world of this manga, and wrong with the characters as well. This pursuit of cuteness is framed as some kind of critical quest for self-acceptance rather than the shallow consumerist bullshit that it is, and there's only rarely a glimpse of anything deeper than that.