can we vote somewhere for "Kaoru snaps gay"? maybe author will just add a glimpse of the brighter future...
so much suffering... it kinda becomes more and more of a depressing as fuck

Them dating isn't the only option for a happy ending. Also, it's very hard to ship them at this point, one of the reasons why you mentioned above. Kaoru is not only weak but also selfish.

I don't think there's any chance of Kaoru and Uta being the endgame couple. As the "title" suggest, the plot is more about Uta dealing with her "unrequited love" for Kaoru. It's as straightforward as it can be.

It's just insufferable and frustrating at the same time to see Uta be dragged down into this rabbit hole.

My thoughts exactly after reading this chapter.

I don't think there's any chance of Kaoru and Uta being the endgame couple. As the "title" suggest, the plot is more about Uta dealing with her "unrequited love" for Kaoru. It's as straightforward as it can be.

It's just insufferable and frustrating at the same time to see Uta be dragged down into this rabbit hole.

My thoughts exactly after reading this chapter.

Kek, there is so much unrequited love in this manga that one getting requited isn't a big deal.

I thought they were going to sleep in the bed

I thought they were going to sleep in the bed

Same, sleeping like that can't be good for your back.

I'm all for Kaoru snaps gay please.

Jesus when will they DO IT!!! I’m gettinng bored here… even 1/2 is getting more interesting than this…

There's the whole "needed by one you love" thing from early on: https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_unrequited_love_ch09#27

Kaoru's need increasing...

Also man, I'd forgotten pretty much all the side characters until I re-read a lot last night.

The other manga "Living with my brother's wife" is gayer than My Unrequited Love even though it doesn't have a yuri tag on it.

It kinda drives you nuts to see Kaoru and Uta have these emotional almost romantic moments only for Uta or Kaoru to snap us back to reality every time they mentions Reiichi into their conversation ruining the moment for all us. Yuri-baiting at its finest.

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Stupid boxblocking onii-sans! Whether dead or alive.

It kinda drives you nuts to see Kaoru and Uta have these emotional almost romantic moments only for Uta or Kaoru to snap us back to reality

oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Rabbit, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that easy? No
He won't have it, he knows his whole back's to these ropes

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Reminder that it's not just Reichii lying to Kaoru; Risako did too. https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/my_unrequited_love_ch26#24

Wait, if Uta's mom was a doctor who got suspended and went to work abroad, why is Uta with her nearby in Japan now?

Wait, if Uta's mom was a doctor who got suspended and went to work abroad, why is Uta with her nearby in Japan now?

Chapters 16 & 17: She "came back to fulfill her duty as a mom." She was going to live with her husband and wanted Uta to come with her.

The whole thing makes no sense except as a mechanical plot device to get Uta out of the house--so she can then come running back.

• The mom still can't practice medicine in Japan.
• The dad won't even talk to the mother about living together until she agrees to a divorce.
• Once Uta moves back, her mother isn't around anyway because the mother "prioritizes her work [which either isn't as a doctor or isn't in Japan] anyway."

So much for "fulfilling her duty as a mother."

I thought they were going to sleep in the bed

Same, sleeping like that can't be good for your back.

I wanted to hold my back when I saw Kaoru's sleeping position.

Both Kaoru and Reiichi are neglecting their relationship. The only one attending is Uta, and she really shouldn't be. I kind of feel like she invited Kaoru's "cruelness". The rhetorical question about Kaoru's feelings toward Reiichi not changing was borderline masochistic. The girl needs to learn how to set boundaries, hah. (I'm not saying Uta deserved the hand holding. That was still a selfish move on Kaoru's part; however, she did position herself as a doormat.)

It would probably be out of character, but I'd find it refreshing if Risako showed up and confessed to Kaoru. Then maybe she and Uta could bond over the futility of their feelings. :D

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'Chapters 16 & 17: She "came back to fulfill her duty as a mom." She was going to live with her husband and wanted Uta to come with her.'

Right, so at first I thought that she was taking Uta back overseas with her, but obviously not. Yeah, seems like a lame plot device. Disappointing.

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Condescending much? Your pretense of speaking for "most people" is truly hilarious.

As always, you "win."

rolls eyes

'Chapters 16 & 17: She "came back to fulfill her duty as a mom." She was going to live with her husband and wanted Uta to come with her.'

Right, so at first I thought that she was taking Uta back overseas with her, but obviously not. Yeah, seems like a lame plot device. Disappointing.

Not to mention (implied):

Mom: "I want us to be a family again."

Dad: "Fine--as long as you agree to a divorce first."

Kaoru is being extremely selfish here, not only she's "using" Uta to get comfort, she's ignoring her feelings and efforts to forget about her and move on, such behavior will only result in Uta getting more hurt and thus will still have lingering feelings despite her efforts to turn the page, she said in a previous chapter that she will love kaoru forever although that can be true it simply won't be the case in a couple of years, she can still have these affectionate feelings towards her sister in law but they can't be as intense as they used to be. Uta is still young and as the title suggests we're not getting our girl on girl action chapter albeit we all want one, i would love to see a new love interest for our poor Uta just so she can close this chapter of her life and strive for someone better.

she said in a previous chapter that she will love kaoru forever although that can be true it simply won't be the case in a couple of years, she can still have these affectionate feelings towards her sister in law but they can't be as intense as they used to be

I especially agree with this part 100 percent. This manga presents these unrequired love feelings as a "death" sentence in a way that it's way too pessimistic regarding people's abilities to move on. But that's not true at all. A happy ending would be Uta moving on and being able to love someone else.
Wasting her life without ever being able to love someone else like that is worse than Kaoru never returning her feelings.

'Chapters 16 & 17: She "came back to fulfill her duty as a mom." She was going to live with her husband and wanted Uta to come with her.'

Right, so at first I thought that she was taking Uta back overseas with her, but obviously not. Yeah, seems like a lame plot device. Disappointing.

Not to mention (implied):

Mom: "I want us to be a family again."

Dad: "Fine--as long as you agree to a divorce first."

I'm not sure why you think she was being honest, nothing we know about her leads us to that. She is playing an angle, maybe trying to improve her bargaining position in the divorce, or protect her image as a mother. She might even have come back simply because her visa expired and the rest is just window dressing.

Her reasons don't have any bearing on the story, and she is clearly not the sort of person who would confide them in others anyway. Not so long ago you were complaining about the story spending too much time on background info.

she said in a previous chapter that she will love kaoru forever although that can be true it simply won't be the case in a couple of years, she can still have these affectionate feelings towards her sister in law but they can't be as intense as they used to be

I especially agree with this part 100 percent. This manga presents these unrequired love feelings as a "death" sentence in a way that it's way too pessimistic regarding people's abilities to move on. But that's not true at all. A happy ending would be Uta moving on and being able to love someone else.
Wasting her life without ever being able to love someone else like that is worse than Kaoru never returning her feelings.

It has only been a little over a year since she realised her feelings, and just months since she confessed, not exactly a lifetime.

Angsty relationships aren't exactly uncommon for teenagers, or particularly concerning. Uta is healthy, she is keeping up with school, and has a good group of friends: she isn't in a bad place at all. She is learning a lot about herself, and about relationships and life - which is basically her job a teenager.

'Chapters 16 & 17: She "came back to fulfill her duty as a mom." She was going to live with her husband and wanted Uta to come with her.'

Right, so at first I thought that she was taking Uta back overseas with her, but obviously not. Yeah, seems like a lame plot device. Disappointing.

Not to mention (implied):

Mom: "I want us to be a family again."

Dad: "Fine--as long as you agree to a divorce first."

I'm not sure why you think she was being honest, nothing we know about her leads us to that. She is playing an angle, maybe trying to improve her bargaining position in the divorce, or protect her image as a mother. She might even have come back simply because her visa expired and the rest is just window dressing.

Her reasons don't have any bearing on the story, and she is clearly not the sort of person who would confide them in others anyway. Not so long ago you were complaining about the story spending too much time on background info.

Excuse me? When did I ever complain that we were given too much information about the characters? I've consistently criticized this story for the exact opposite--that basic information about the characters was being withheld from readers for no discernible reason.

Sure, theoretically the mother may be lying--she may just be out to be a bitch and to boss Uta and her estranged husband around. But what other evidence have we been given for her motivations except what she says?

"Her reasons don't have any bearing on the story." The amount of material in this series that has been defined as having "no bearing on the story" and therefore should be ignored as irrelevant is quite staggering, as are the psychic powers of those select readers who so easily distinguish what has bearing on the "real" story from what doesn't.

Not to mention (implied):

Mom: "I want us to be a family again."

Dad: "Fine--as long as you agree to a divorce first."

I'm not sure why you think she was being honest, nothing we know about her leads us to that. She is playing an angle, maybe trying to improve her bargaining position in the divorce, or protect her image as a mother. She might even have come back simply because her visa expired and the rest is just window dressing.

Her reasons don't have any bearing on the story, and she is clearly not the sort of person who would confide them in others anyway. Not so long ago you were complaining about the story spending too much time on background info.

Excuse me? When did I ever complain that we were given too much information about the characters? I've consistently criticized this story for the exact opposite--that basic information about the characters was being withheld from readers for no discernible reason.

Sure, theoretically the mother may be lying--she may just be out to be a bitch and to boss Uta and her estranged husband around. But what other evidence have we been given for her motivations except what she says?

"Her reasons don't have any bearing on the story." The amount of material in this series that has been defined as having "no bearing on the story" and therefore should be ignored as irrelevant is quite staggering, as are the psychic powers of those select readers who so easily distinguish what has bearing on the "real" story from what doesn't.

I said too much time - you have complained frequently about "lack of focus" when the story has taken time to fill in the history and motivations of characters, and without a context for the reason it would just pushing back your complaint about arbitrary choices one layer with no real change. Why did she become a doctor, why was she friends with Kaoru's mother, why did such a self involved person have children, there is no real ending if you are determined to pick things apart.

As for not telling the truth - try the reactions of the characters that know her - everything Reiichi and Uta have said implies their parents, and especially their mother, are toxic and self-involved. Even Kaoru was worried about Uta going back, did Uta say "Mom isn't that bad", or "give her a chance", no, she said "I've grown up a lot, I can handle her" - not exactly a glowing endorsement.

How many manga have you read where protagonists are transferred between schools "because of their parents' job" no other detail given (promotion, demotion, career change, midlife crisis)? Do you pick those apart too, or just accept the move itself is the relevant part for the plot?

I said too much time - you have complained frequently about "lack of focus" when the story has taken time to fill in the history and motivations of characters,

This is completely false, and an indication of bad-faith argumentation. If in fact the story had been "filling in the history and motivations of the characters," I would be overjoyed. The story instead has wandered around without telling us precisely those things. This series has generated an extensive list of questions about these characters and their past histories that I would have expected any coherently structured story to address, and I've continually been told those "don't matter."

You seem determined to characterize my comments about the poorly motivated or confused plot elements, the presentation of irrelevancies, and (what seems to me to be) ad-hoc story mechanics as mere "picking the story apart," as if there's some masterfully told core story that I'm perversely ignoring in favor of carping about minor details.

Your arguments have certainly convinced me that the story is much better focused if one simply ignores or dismisses much of what is contained in it.

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