Damn I love how the more things are revealed the more context and understanding we get for the character dynamics. I loved how volume 2 explored feelings and relationships more, it’s always incredible when a gag manga has a real moment and starts to progress a bit, it’s a cerntain special feeling that’s hard to describe—like with handsome girl and sheltered girl. Is it just me, or do y’all feel that too?
I understand sooo much what you are saying
Okay yeah, it's not just me. Maybe this is a weird comparison, but it's kind of like how part of what makes Kill la Kill exciting is that it smashes genre expectations? Like we get jaded to a certain style of doing things, and by completely changing it, it's like the first time you read a yuri manga again.
Or maybe not even that--remember the era when (almost) all of yuri was this super platonic "will-they-won't-they," the whole time, or it was a relationship where they never got past maybe kissing, or it was just straight up porn? I feel like recently we've been seeing new yuri where it's like, "will they won't they, messing around with their feelings and wistful glances--and then they figure it out, and they fuck, and now they're in a relationship and it keeps going--or during their flirting they get like massively turned on, and it always feels like, whoa, you can do this? I'm thinking of "it was just once but I regret it" as well; basically, we expect a yuri story is gonna be a certain way, and then it's like, no, the author actually has an actionable artistic vision beyond iterations on this one scenario. Shit really happens, and it's fresh, and exciting, and it feels like real life, like being a teenager and discovering your sexuality, or your orientation, and being like, "oh shit, the scrolls permit this? it can happen?"
Idk, but yeah. I'm loving it.
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