Stupid. She’s tough so she’s not a girl but she loves sweets so she actually is a girl. This is the logic of the deranged and neurotic. I love food and cooking as much as anyone but personally I’ve had enough dessert. When the manga girls are eating headcheese and offal, I’ll be interested. Conservative censorship, otaku fordism, and gacha mindsets have created a vacuum of creative intrigue. The artists with an appreciation for the eroticism of liberated young women railing lines and having affairs no longer find an outlet in manga. We desperately need our delinquents back. 90% of new releases are the fantasy of people who both fear and shun the DoorDash courier and all the world they cannot see from their gaming chair. And oh, she’s a violent gang leader who secretly eats pastries all day and mostly just accosts street artists minding their own business? She’s a cop.
it's just a romcom pal chill
I get where they're coming from though. I really am not a fan of these one-note premises. Just way too shallow. Maison Ikkoku was a romcom and from 40 years ago. Why can't we have a yuri romcom like that? This is just air and nothing.
Have you WATCHED Maison Ikkoku again recently? I was fond of it, but everyone was pretty much one-note. And most of the episodes were filler. And there was a ton of "Take step forward, forget it ever happened by next time". It was fresh because all the stuff it was doing hadn't been done to death yet, and it was good because the characters' single features were good ones. It had good features, but in general I think we often remember old stuff as better than it really was. I mean, I remember when Strawberry Shake Sweet was about as good as yuri usually got. And thinking back dispassionately, it was kind of fun but quite frustrating and really made pretty much no sense at all. (Girl Friends is still awesome though)
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