Yeah, nice to get a happy ending, but nothing that had the energy for me of this early bottom panel:
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/how_i_lose_bets_with_my_sadistic_gifted_childhood_friend_and_she_steals_all_of_my_firsts_ch01#4
(take 'bottom' either way, heh)
Tsun to hard dere like others covered aside, I mildly dislike how the sexual aspect is handled in these types of stories. The "toxic yuri" narrative has problematic emotional relations get expressed in sexual interactions. This leads to development in the characters but, in the mean time, it's implied they're both at least partially enjoying it. When the toxic emotional aspect gets resolved, they then go full vanilla or something close to it.
I am not on the team who complains about the lack of healthy BDSM representation in manga. I would still prefer the resolution be one instead of implying you go vanilla once you stop being toxic. In the end, I don't mind this too much, as a narrative convention rather than any kind of statement about how sexual interactions should work. The author wouldn't write a story like this if they thought power exchange was inherently toxic.
i mean, the context matters in that power exchange, or did you some how forgot what the foundation for BDSM is build out of?
it’s clearly it was a toxic one because of the context not that the author thinks power exchange itself is toxic lmao
We are talking about a piece of fiction where part of what makes it readable is that Komaki isn't really doing traumatic things Komaki hates. I think I'm allowed to find this style of narrative resolution, where that's overcome and discarded rather than reformed, unsatisfying regardless of how real relationships work.
By the way, how real relationship work would be nothing like anything that happens in this story regardless.
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