yknow you say that fujiwara contradicts herself saying she has no friends yet has a lot of girls confess to her, isn't that kinda not the same thing? she says so herself, she has classmates, and people who come visit her at club, but all of them keep a distance from her. like it was stated, associating with others is not the same as actually being friends. and just because someone confesses to you when you don't want that kind of relationship doesn't mean they could be your friend. just cause they have romantic (or think they do) feelings for her, she has to then accept them as a friend? they obviously don't know much about her, and clearly have these idolized images built up about her. i personally find fangirling (like, the serious zealotry type they love to show in mangas or that you see at a justin bieber concert) kind of disgusting, and would myself not be interested in trying to build a friendship off of that. she's not lesbian, at least in the beginning of the story. so she finds all the confessions off putting, or, as she says, "i honestly don't know what to do with that sort of thing." the small text after that saying, "as to whether they are actually serious or not..." shows she understands that not all relationships in a girl's only school are "real," whether they at that time think so or not. and the first statement, considering she doesn't even have any idea what to do with both them and their confessions, i really doubt they even come up as friend material in her mind. so she has distant classmates/fans/club members, random girls she doesn't know making questionable love confessions, and that's it. doesn't sound to me like that's any friends. so where's the contradiction? remember, she never said no one liked her, just that she didn't have any FRIENDS. and she doesn't, and still doesn't, even with the appearance of hirosawa. you can still have someone to banter with and not be friends.
and where may i ask did you guys actually see a scene/conversation about the girls crying when giving a confession/getting turned down? i reread the whole thing and didn't see it anywhere. or was that a reference to kaori crying when talking to miu? because that's only one girl, out of how many, that has been shown to behave like that. and one girl, out of how many fangirls, to really actually have an honest to god lesbian thing for fujiwara, is an accurate development imo. the conditions under which she was "confessing" would naturally make her cry if she really did love fujiwara. i mean, how many other girls came up to miu for that same thing? none that the author showed or mentioned, so for us that's a solid 0. you can't really base the seriousness of all the other girls fujiwara mentions on this one girl considering the circumstances of the confession. unless of course it was all a reference to something else then ignore all that lol.
as for the whole extortion thing....fujiwara broke a vase, asked miu to keep it a secret, who clearly says in thought she wouldn't tell anyways, then states "i'll do anything!" so when miu asks her to go out with her, she agrees. She's the one who said she'd do anything, without a threat being placed on her for it. then later after the whole karaoke thing, clearly states the convenience for her to finally have it publicly out that they were "dating." yes, she didn't know miu wouldn't tell, and yes, japanese people are very subservient and have a difficult time saying no, but i can hardly look at the whole thing as "extortion." it would be if miu blatantly says, pretend to go out with me or i'll tell, without the offer to do anything she is asked to do already out there on the table. if anything, it's actually the other way around. i mean, miu is using fujiwara to see what it's like to date someone, which naturally will grow, however platonic, feelings towards each other. fujisawa on the other hand, is simply using miu to block off all the confessions. seems like that's a lot more cold hearted. but either way, that is taking both of those completely out of context in consideration of any actual feelings and situations they were said in. for fujiwara, that's really more of an added bonus, as shown in chp 1 she obviously didn't even consider that part, and pounced on the thought of having a friend. and as for miu, it was simply an opportunity that arose for her. the good looking "prince" of the school was begging for her silence, stating she would do anything, when she had just been thinking about the futility of a girl's school.
anyways...so far i like the whole premise and idea of the story, wish it could be longer to really flesh it out. whole lot better than the other story she is putting out atm lol, the school detective one. although i think kisses and sighs, considering the length she had to work with it, is my favorite even over girl friends. i liked the intensity that one had that girl friends didn't.
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