I’m happy to see this being picked up here, because on other sites like Dex it only has about two chapters and has been that way for a while. Hopefully we’ll get to see the other chapters here too. :)

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I’m happy to see this being picked up here, because on other sites like Dex it only has about two chapters and has been that way for a while. Hopefully we’ll get to see the other chapters here too. :)

It's the exact same group on Mdex and here

I’m happy to see this being picked up here, because on other sites like Dex it only has about two chapters and has been that way for a while. Hopefully we’ll get to see the other chapters here too. :)

It's a newly released series and it's only been around a month since the first chapter was posted (20 days since chapter 2). I don't think that's long enough yet to be considered "a while" lol.

I’m happy to see this being picked up here, because on other sites like Dex it only has about two chapters and has been that way for a while. Hopefully we’ll get to see the other chapters here too. :)

These are the chapters from Mangadex. The group asked to be hosted here, too.

Oh I remember reading this a week or so ago. Really enjoyed the first two chapters nice to reread them can't wait for more of this.

I like the idea of wanting to not follow the red string. And her being born from two parents not tied to it and that love still not lasting. Hating the string yet also falling for your fated person is really gonna mess with her head should be interesting since she wants to find real love but as she falls for the cutie with the black hair she's gonna try so hard to push against that all because of the string itself.

The art is absolutely gorgeous. I think Senpai would do better if she told Tsumugi that she fell in love before the string, although my guess is that the string appeared for them when Senpai realized her feelings for the first time.

Also, I can't imagine they're the first non-het people to fall in love from the string, so I'm surprised there was no commentary about societal changes from the red string. Or maybe queer people who have the red string of fate hide their love still in this world.

“Soulmate” is a very strange topic that is difficult to handle, because it’s literally FATE telling people to get together because they’re meant to. No matter if they’re compatible now or not. If it happens, life will find a way.

And for this one, what I would love most to see is if one day, after all the shenanigans, their string disappeared, but she still believe she could make it work somehow.

That’s going to be really fun. I love seeing people fight fate. And I get to see Yuri on the way with this one!

I really don't see the problem here. They clearly spoke of their feelings for each other even before the thread appeared (even if it seems she wasn't quite aware a relationship like this could be possible as well), so it shouldn't make that much of a difference now. She did still find her love without the help of the thread, it only helped confirm it. (Although I guess she would have liked to spend her life with her love without a thread, just to show the doubters it would be possible.)

I had a feeling it'll have an arc where her divorced parents say something that will change her mind.

I had a feeling it'll have an arc where her divorced parents say something that will change her mind.

Kinda reminds me of "Love and Dreams Don't Mix"

I wonder if threaded relationships are actually a lifelong thing or if that's just a cultural bias. Since only the people with the thread can see it, someone could get stuck in a relationship that isn't working anymore but because it started threaded there's a social pressure to keep up appearances. There could also be people who pretend to be threaded when they aren't.

Is threading a stand-in for heteronormativity and the pressure to have a "normal love" and find "real happiness"?

Is threading a stand-in for heteronormativity and the pressure to have a "normal love" and find "real happiness"?

Seeing how we have two girls bound by a thread here, no.

This reminds me of that one-shot here where the main character could see the red string of fate between her and her teacher who was already married and her friend was also in love with her. That’s the opposite of this one since that one was about fighting destiny while this one will be about embracing destiny, I guess. I think the artstyle and characters look vaguely similar too, although it’s been a while since I read that one so I might just be misremembering. I don’t remember the name, so does anyone know what that one’s called? At any rate, while I do prefer “fighting destiny” stories, this one’s interesting and I definitely like it a lot so far. Attempting to fight destiny is a great premise too for sure.

Edit: So, that one’s The Thing That Binds You and I by Hino Arashi. Yeah, I definitely like that premise more since she goes with her friend who’s not her fated lover, but this one’s still interesting. I still do think the art styles look a bit similar though. There was also You Are My Soulmate by Takemiya Jin. I can’t deny that I still think Omegaverse is a bit weird even though I’ve read and liked a bunch of Omegaverse yuri at this point. Anyway, that was the only time I remember where I thought the Omegaverse aspect actually made the story better with the whole picking someone over her soulmate thing.

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Is threading a stand-in for heteronormativity and the pressure to have a "normal love" and find "real happiness"?

Seeing how we have two girls bound by a thread here, no.

So, the main character being teased for having unusual perspectives about romance, and how they deviate from what is culturally perceived as "normal" and "the correct way", and how people just assume that because their parents love wasn't "correct" meant that it was doomed from the start, doesn't at all strike you as symbolic of heteronormativity? Even when the first chapter also had the MC being surprised that the thread could even tie a homosexual couple together? Not even a little?

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/fate_is_useless_ch01#7
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/fate_is_useless_ch01#9
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/fate_is_useless_ch01#21
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/fate_is_useless_ch01#36

Also another thought I had rereading Ch1 for those, is this face that Senpai makes:
https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/fate_is_useless_ch01#23
I wonder if senpai was already in love with our MC before the thread appeared, and might be pretending she wasn't because she knows our MC doesn't want to be in a binded relationship. Maybe grappling with her own cultural biases versus trying to respect her crush's own wants and needs. Either way, that doesn't strike me as the face of someone who has no feelings for the other, especially when it comes right after they say "I love you", even if it is a more friendly love than romantic one...

I think it would be more interesting if the characters were in love despite NOT being fated. As it is the conflict is simply the main character needing to accept fate and that society's expectations are right. That's not a very compelling premise IMO and feels kind of counter productive, especially for a yuri manga. I really can't understand why the mangaka chose this premise of all things.

Don't fight fate darling, that never ends well. Just ask Odin.

I think it would be more interesting if the characters were in love despite NOT being fated. As it is the conflict is simply the main character needing to accept fate and that society's expectations are right. That's not a very compelling premise IMO and feels kind of counter productive, especially for a yuri manga. I really can't understand why the mangaka chose this premise of all things.

For me it depends on if the story delves into exactly what the red string represents and seriously picks apart what it means and causes. I agree that everything boiling down to "society was right all along" would be incredibly boring, but I don't think it's the guaranteed outcome yet and honestly "making a romance work despite society expecting it to fail" has kind of passed the point of being original imo, so it wouldn't be all that much better.

The whole concept of this red thread thing as presented so far is wild - seems like it didn't always exist (as classmates are telling Tsumugi that "times have changed", and unbinded love is unusual "in this era", and they used to make unbinded love movies but they rarely do now), so it's something that just suddenly started happening at some point in time?

That birth rates billboard might even imply this is somehow a part of government plan to fight the issue, which would be a wild combination of science fiction and supernatural, because how exactly do you engineer something like that? :P I'm kind of sad that this manga will probably not dive too deep into any of that.

And yes, I agree that so far this shapes up to be an interesting concept that will most likely be squandered, and it went in the direction that seems opposite of what would be interesting, as this probably will just converge to the usual romance, just in a slightly unusual world. But maybe it's unfair to say that after 2 chapters, I'm certainly still interested :P

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“Soulmate” is a very strange topic that is difficult to handle, because it’s literally FATE telling people to get together because they’re meant to. No matter if they’re compatible now or not

Or it's simply revealing that they are super-compatible and will get along great.

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YO ITS FINALLY BEING TRANSLATEDDD

Might want to double check the translation? As far as I can tell the first 3 pages are mostly mistranslated.
Group1:
the こんな顔 meaning is completely deleted for no good reason, the resulting sentence makes no logical sense at all.
jp:
私は / この人のこんな顔を / 知らない
translated as:
I... / don't know what this person... / looks like..
supposed meaning:
I've never seen her make a face like that.

Group2:
どこかの誰かが is who named it not where the string attaches to
jp:
ある日 / 世界中の人類に赤い糸が現れた / 左手の薬指に現れたそれを / どこかの誰かが / 「運命の赤い糸」と言った
translated as:
One day... / a red thread will appear on each and every one of us. / It shows up on your left hand's ring finger... / and is attached on someone else... / It's called "The Red Thread of Fate."
supposed meaning:
One day, red threads appeared on all of humanity. Someone out there started calling the thread on our left ring fingers the 'Red Thread of Fate'.

I mean this seems so obvious but i'll say it anyway, if the manga goes on long enough the red string is going to vanish after there's some real feelings caught, then the girl who hates fated romance is going to have to strongly pursue the black haired girl.

It's a bit interesting that the cultural norm is so focused on the thread when it explicitly doesn't work out for everyone. Some people only see it shortly before their death, which is an absolutely awful fate. If you just trust that the thread will lead you to the love you desire, you could spend your entire life up to your dying day just waiting for the thread to give you permission to fall in love, which is its own kind of fucked up.

It's a bit interesting that the cultural norm is so focused on the thread when it explicitly doesn't work out for everyone. Some people only see it shortly before their death, which is an absolutely awful fate. If you just trust that the thread will lead you to the love you desire, you could spend your entire life up to your dying day just waiting for the thread to give you permission to fall in love, which is its own kind of fucked up.

It sort of is central to the core conflict set up in the story so far. Also, just because something is a cultural norm doesn't mean it's a good thing or logical or works for everyone. It's something which we as readers seem to be almost explicitly set up to question, I think it would be stranger if readers weren't discussing it.