I was worried 'cause I misread that conversation at the beginning. I thought the director was firing them because Wako was a lesbian, but he was in fact going to use her as a marketing tool if he knew before hand. Don't actually know which one would have been worse...
Also to throw my hat into the ring.
That manga just has no sense of narrative flow, everything is either gruelingly slow or happening to fast to keep track of.
I'm gonna have to disagree 'cause the pacing of Sasameki Koto was fine aside from one or two completely out of nowhere drama spike near the beginning, but then the rest of it afterwards was perfect.
The only time I felt the story came to a screeching halt was that second last volume that has two completely unrelated stories, one of which I believe was a completely different author and was also het. There's nothing wrong with that, other than it being in the middle of a serialized yuri manga.
