I'm over the love triangle. \==___\==

last edited at Dec 4, 2019 10:25PM

I hate love triangles unless all three people are off being happy by the end of it, preferably with different partners. That's why I felt bad about the previous triangle with Inoue-san ending up hurt by the end, even though she deserved it. Ooooooooh, can she come back? I'm not asking for any particular, just wondering........

This is not even a love triangle. You need to have at least one part interested in the other to have a connection, therefore a triangle.
Mai is just someone interested in Nanoha.

I think it's pretty clear the author has no intention of making the central relationship very complex, so new characters causing things to happen is very welcome.

snort "the bear saw too" Oh. Don't mind me. I've had the latest batch open in a webbrower for days but haven't had time to get current.

I guess writing only about happy couple is too difficult for the author. I did think that this story might be different, just like A room for two. I was always waiting for another new innocent pure love idea from this serie to surprise me. But
again I see cheap dramas. π_π which is really saddd, especially this case.

Or maybe they just don't sell or something. (Which would be a shame if true).
I haven't read a fan fic in well over a decade. I wonder how often they use love triangles.

Well. For the new girl in the story. I root for her to find someone. it just probably isn't who she's eyeing right now.

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I'd prefer it if the author doesn't just find someone for Mai to love to get rid of her. Wrapping up rivals just by having them conveniently find someone else always feels kind of fake. Also, there's more to her character than just being hung up on Nanoha. At its core, Mai's conflict is that she after being injured she decided to throw away her old life and chase after Nanoha. She avoids all her old friends, and her new friends are just Nanoha's friends. Her conflict is very similar to that of the main character of Koi wa Ameagari no You ni. She's chasing a hopeless love as a form of escapism.

So as a character, I think the natural completion of her arc will occur when she realizes she's running away from her problems and decides to actually address them. Her doctor said she might be able to play again if she went through physical therapy; maybe she'll do that. Or maybe she'll decide that she really doesn't want to play anymore, but she'll reestablish ties with her old friends. Falling in love with someone else might be part of that, but if that's all that happens, then she'll really just be avoiding her real problems in a different way. Her conflict won't be resolved until she can honestly say that it was her decision to stop leave the team, or she admits that she really wishes she could play.

last edited at Dec 5, 2019 11:20PM

I'd prefer it if the author doesn't just find someone for Mai to love to get rid of her. Wrapping up rivals just by having them conveniently find someone else always feels kind of fake. Also, there's more to her character than just being hung up on Nanoha. At its core, Mai's conflict is that she after being injured she decided to throw away her old life and chase after Nanoha. She avoids all her old friends, and her new friends are just Nanoha's friends. Her conflict is very similar to that of the main character of Koi wa Ameagari no You ni. She's chasing a hopeless love as a form of escapism.

So as a character, I think the natural completion of her arc will occur when she realizes she's running away from her problems and decides to actually address them. Her doctor said she might be able to play again if she went through physical therapy; maybe she'll do that. Or maybe she'll decide that she really doesn't want to play anymore, but she'll reestablish ties with her old friends. Falling in love with someone else might be part of that, but if that's all that happens, then she'll really just be avoiding her real problems in a different way. Her conflict won't be resolved until she can honestly say that it was her decision to stop leave the team, or she admits that she really wishes she could play.

I meant to same something about new girls issues.

I feel like most stories I've read haven't given the loser in the love triangle someone. Then again, I had been avoiding stories with love triangles.

I'd prefer it if the author doesn't just find someone for Mai to love to get rid of her. Wrapping up rivals just by having them conveniently find someone else always feels kind of fake. Also, there's more to her character than just being hung up on Nanoha. At its core, Mai's conflict is that she after being injured she decided to throw away her old life and chase after Nanoha. She avoids all her old friends, and her new friends are just Nanoha's friends. Her conflict is very similar to that of the main character of Koi wa Ameagari no You ni. She's chasing a hopeless love as a form of escapism.

So as a character, I think the natural completion of her arc will occur when she realizes she's running away from her problems and decides to actually address them. Her doctor said she might be able to play again if she went through physical therapy; maybe she'll do that. Or maybe she'll decide that she really doesn't want to play anymore, but she'll reestablish ties with her old friends. Falling in love with someone else might be part of that, but if that's all that happens, then she'll really just be avoiding her real problems in a different way. Her conflict won't be resolved until she can honestly say that it was her decision to stop leave the team, or she admits that she really wishes she could play.

I meant to same something about new girls issues.

I feel like most stories I've read haven't given the loser in the love triangle someone. Then again, I had been avoiding stories with love triangles.

I read a lot of stories with love triangles. And it seems like half the time some minor character gets promoted or some new person shows up out of nowhere just to square the triangle.

Those also tend to be the stories where Everyone Is Gay, so I guess they aren't really going for realism in the first place.

last edited at Dec 6, 2019 5:37AM

The chapters are out of order (60,Volume 5 Extras,63,62,61)

Chapter 63–another master class in characters’ facial expressions.

Dunno why, but the idea of folding a love letter into a shirt is oddly adorable to me.

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I just died from that thrilling sweetness overload like ch. 63 is perfection.

To any mods that might read this: Chapter 61 marks the beginning of volume 6. 61-63 are currently categorized as part of volume 5 on the series page.

bruh this series honestly gonna give me diabetes

Dunno why, but the idea of folding a love letter into a shirt is oddly adorable to me.

Yeah I thought the same thing!
It looks really cute

bruh this series honestly gonna give me diabetes

We're comrades in yuri-cuteness-induced diabetes.

Chidori be like: you're not even a player

Chidori be like: you're not even a player

People are getting rustled over a love triangle, meanwhile Kouhai-chan is just an ant circling around the Yuri goodness. She never stood a chance.

^ Also, at least to me, she just feels far less intrusive or butting in than most other loser-in-love-triangle characters I've read.

I like how they are slowly learning more and more about each other :)

Really, most of the more recent chapters just feel more positively heart-touching than usual.

To anyone who read the raws of the chapters yet to be scanlated and put here;
How long should I expect this feeling I mentioned in the first sentence of this comment to hold up?

Really, most of the more recent chapters just feel more positively heart-touching than usual.

To anyone who read the raws of the chapters yet to be scanlated and put here;
How long should I expect this feeling I mentioned in the first sentence of this comment to hold up?

Well, it's a fluff series first and foremost. The next few are really cute and should be up relatively soon, then we go into another end of volume arc. People who have read the raws will have their speculations on what exactly happens, but until we actually get to it, they're all probably going to be inaccurate and / or overblown.

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Really, most of the more recent chapters just feel more positively heart-touching than usual.

To anyone who read the raws of the chapters yet to be scanlated and put here;
How long should I expect this feeling I mentioned in the first sentence of this comment to hold up?

Well, it's a fluff series first and foremost. The next few are really cute and should be up relatively soon, then we go into another end of volume arc. People who have read the raws will have their speculations on what exactly happens, but until we actually get to it, they're all probably going to be inaccurate and / or overblown.

Thank.

There’s 78 chapters and the latest one has a fascinating development. It seems that another girl has a crush on high af chan and she’s completely oblivious to it since she’s obsessing over Nanoha and Chidori

First of Law Of Yuridynamics, Conservation of Uselessness, confirmed.

Well, for now the chapters are adorable. If Mai's (for now) just here to give our main couple the push to get to know each other better (other than the biblical sense), then I'm all in for it :P

Aside, Mai noticed "it looks like the others still haven't noticed" - which makes me appreciate that this does not go against my theory of them already knowing but playing dumb or not caring (in any bad way). I mean, they hardly even react to Nanoha being all flustered after pulling something out of Chidori's hair :P ...So, yeah, I'll stick to that theory until the contrary is proven.

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