RURIKO YOU IDIOT THIS WAS YOUR BIG CHANCE

I get how Ruriko feels. She's convinced that Kurumi doesn't love her romantically, or in a special way. She's convinced she values their interaction more, that it's skewed and one-sided, and swore to take this to the grave. So being kissed by Kurumi, especially whilst the woman is drunk, feels callous. She's thinking "Oh no I'm taking this way to seriously and she's just doing this because she's whimsical and independent and feeling it in the moment but not actually deeply in love with me the way I do her." Her knee-jerk reaction to GTFO makes sense. Also like, regardless of how she feels about Kurumi, it makes sense to react negatively if someone sprang a kiss on you if you aren't ready for it, which Ruriko isn't cause she's yknow, unrequited requited gay yearning.

Nice analysis, I agree with you.

We're no longer Useless Lesbians

We're now Destructive Lesbians

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lots of people who aren't turbovirgin lesbians hopelessly in love with straight friends for years over and over in this thread complaining about the slap

@Yasako LOL YUP MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY. Like jeez have you never had totally repressed emotions for someone you shouldn’t like even with LGBTQ+ modern day?

What jarringly specific circumstances necessary to apparently opine on this.

Like, yeah, people have different experiences. Some people literally can't be in similar situations, and reading about them/discussing them/ posting about them is one way to be shown and process them.

How can she slap!?

HOW CAN SHE SLAP HER!?!?

NOO BUT ALSO YES BUT ALSO NO BUT ALS-

She couldn't of just....pushed her a way?

She couldn't of just....pushed her a way?

it’s more dramatic with a slap since it HURTS phisicaly with the emotionaly pain

She couldn't of just....pushed her a way?

it’s more dramatic with a slap since it HURTS phisicaly with the emotionaly pain

It's a pity she's so drunk. If she was sober, she would sit there for a few seconds, shocked, then she would walk to Ruriko's room and demand an explanation.

Communication would ensue.

But, drunk as she is, it's a sure bet she ain't gonna do it. She's gonna do something stupid, irrational and dramatic; anything but the common sense thing. :/

It's a pity she's so drunk. If she was sober, she would sit there for a few seconds, shocked, then she would walk to Ruriko's room and demand an explanation.

Angst means development. I see this as an absolute win.

That slap sobered her up and made her absolutely miserable. Ouch.

Ok, never been in love or anything with a straight girl or someone who I was sure didn't like me back...but do people really slap others outta surprise? Like, what? I have backed away and pushed people away, but not slapped anyone. It just has never happened to me. Anyway, if irl, I'd like her to leave, one hit, I'm out, but since this is manga...let us see how they will solve this and talk about their feelings already!!!!

My ex was not straight by any means but she did react react badly the first time I kissed her by surprise. Granted that my timing was also really bad but still. I got an earful not long after the fact.
So yeah, that happens. It's not something that's completely out of the ordinary.

come the fuck on rofl

I get how Ruriko feels. She's convinced that Kurumi doesn't love her romantically, or in a special way. She's convinced she values their interaction more, that it's skewed and one-sided, and swore to take this to the grave. So being kissed by Kurumi, especially whilst the woman is drunk, feels callous. She's thinking "Oh no I'm taking this way to seriously and she's just doing this because she's whimsical and independent and feeling it in the moment but not actually deeply in love with me the way I do her." Her knee-jerk reaction to GTFO makes sense. Also like, regardless of how she feels about Kurumi, it makes sense to react negatively if someone sprang a kiss on you if you aren't ready for it, which Ruriko isn't cause she's yknow, unrequited requited gay yearning.

Love your analyis there. Hate how there is so many negative comment about these two. I am rooting for them so bad,they just need to actually confess TvT

I get how Ruriko feels. She's convinced that Kurumi doesn't love her romantically, or in a special way. She's convinced she values their interaction more, that it's skewed and one-sided, and swore to take this to the grave. So being kissed by Kurumi, especially whilst the woman is drunk, feels callous. She's thinking "Oh no I'm taking this way to seriously and she's just doing this because she's whimsical and independent and feeling it in the moment but not actually deeply in love with me the way I do her." Her knee-jerk reaction to GTFO makes sense. Also like, regardless of how she feels about Kurumi, it makes sense to react negatively if someone sprang a kiss on you if you aren't ready for it, which Ruriko isn't cause she's yknow, unrequited requited gay yearning.

Love your analyis there. Hate how there is so many negative comment about these two. I am rooting for them so bad,they just need to actually confess TvT

I obviously can’t speak for others, but I suspect that a lot of the negative comments are from people who also are “rooting for them so bad”—we first see their clinch from the side, so it looks like they actually are, or might be, kissing, then we switch around to see it’s a kiss on the cheek followed by the slap. IOW, our hopes are raised to the highest point then completely dashed.

It would have been possible to frame that sequence completely differently so as to remove that initial misdirection about how that kiss was being delivered and how it was received.

IOW, our hopes are raised to the highest point then completely dashed.

In other other words, just like Ruriko! Ruriko had a brief moment of hope before being utterly crushed by her interpretation that Kurumi was just fooling around while drunk. Funny how the forum denizen's vehement reaction to disappointment almost perfectly mirrors her own kneejerk reaction.

IOW, our hopes are raised to the highest point then completely dashed.

In other other words, just like Ruriko! Ruriko had a brief moment of hope before being utterly crushed by her interpretation that Kurumi was just fooling around while drunk. Funny how the forum denizen's vehement reaction to disappointment almost perfectly mirrors her own kneejerk reaction.

I don't think anybody is complaining about Ruriko reacting negatively to the kiss. Reacting negatively to the kiss makes sense in context.

I think people are reacting specifically to the fact that her negative reaction included physical violence.

I'm 55 years old. I have never slapped anybody out of shock/surprise in my life. It's completely foreign to my way of thinking. I can't imagine doing so in that context unless I thought the other person was a genuine threat to my physical well-being.

So when I see Ruriko slap Kurumi, I don't think "Wow, Ruriko must have been really pushed to her limit." I think "Wow, Ruriko really needs to work on her impulse control." Which is probably not the reaction the mangaka was hoping to provoke.

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Oh no!

Girl, you done f*cked up.

Oh gosh, I nearly cried when she slapped her. What a thing to do, and with no conversation about it afterwards. This is all the steps back. I wouldn't be surprised if Kurumi doesn't come out of her room for a while now.

I'm 55 years old. I have never slapped anybody out of shock/surprise in my life. It's completely foreign to my way of thinking. I can't imagine doing so in that context unless I thought the other person was a genuine threat to my physical well-being.

I'm 35, I've accidentally slapped people twice in my life. Yes, it's not something I go to, but it really is a reaction of shock sometimes. I hated it, apologised profusely afterwards, and have always tried to control myself better.

NOOOOOO THEY WERE SO CLOSE TO GREATNESS

Although I hope this finally pushes these two to actually talk about their feelings
And I really, REALLY hope the author doesn't drag this out

Well, some of us can't really understand why people would slap others as a reaction, some do, it's ok, we all are different, the important thing here is...This will most likely help them get to a point of acknowledging their feelings..OR one will kinda run away and create even more distance and we got 4 more chapters of that, I dunno, could be either way now for me.

I'm 55 years old. I have never slapped anybody out of shock/surprise in my life. It's completely foreign to my way of thinking. I can't imagine doing so in that context unless I thought the other person was a genuine threat to my physical well-being.

So when I see Ruriko slap Kurumi, I don't think "Wow, Ruriko must have been really pushed to her limit." I think "Wow, Ruriko really needs to work on her impulse control." Which is probably not the reaction the mangaka was hoping to provoke.

Fight/flight/fawn/freeze; everyone has a different response to shock/danger. There isn’t going to be a 100% common response to an unexpected stimuli for humans. We just aren’t all built the same.

Am I confused? Probably. This situation has nothing to do with a gay-perceived straight relationship. These girls are married. They present to the entire world as a lesbian couple. Even if they don’t think of themselves as anything but two people, they have explicitly put themselves on record as thinking that a same-sex relationship is fine and normal.
So why the slap? It seems totally out of character for Ruriko. And now I get confused, because I am unable to differentiate what I think Ruriko’s reaction should be and what mine would be. If I were in this situation, and was suddenly kissed by the woman I love, I would certainly not hit her. More likely would be that I would collapse in maelstrom of tears of happiness-confusion-fear of it not being real.
The conclusion. It’s a painful and unpleasant plot device.