As much as she may dislike the string, Tsumugi is so much in love, she really needs to just accept it...

Akaito!

Wouldn't it be more drama say one day, say there is an exceptional classmate who could see the red string and is in love with Amamiya san, snatch the red string from Tsumugi san and attach it to hers?

Then there is a possible that adding few more chapters about how Tsumugi san realized that she loves Amamiya san after all, with or without the thread and decided to pursue her back?

But then.. will they able to fight against the red thread and tie back to each other..or Amamiya san would accept whoever that she's attached to?

Anyway, this is good to read.
Hope to see more release coming soon

Wouldn't it be more drama say one day, say there is an exceptional classmate who could see the red string and is in love with Amamiya san, snatch the red string from Tsumugi san and attach it to hers?

I don't think you can force fate like that...

As much as she may dislike the string, Tsumugi is so much in love, she really needs to just accept it...

I would like it if there was a twist in the whole string story. Like, maybe the string doesn't actually link compatible partners at all and people just assumed that. Or maybe their string is somehow fake or a mistake (and yet they get together anyway).

Caku said:

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.

Speaking of cultural norms... Though I don't expect the story to broach this topic, even if the Red String of Fate does not favor heterosexual couples (beyond what would be statistically likely), it's possible that its existence hasn't helped queer people in their struggle for liberation from discrimination by mainstream society. Because, from what we're told, each red string is only visible to the two people that it connects.

The whole phenomenon kind of resembles a collective hallucination. Each couple only has direct evidence of their own string; when they announce it to the world, they rely on other people taking their word for it. This could be why Tsumugi never heard of a precedent for the strings connecting two people of the same sex.

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The very existence of the strings does bring up a reason people would tend to avoid relationships without one, though. Imagine being in a relationship and one or both or you suddenly having a string manifest, connecting you to someone else... How many relationships would survive knowing there's someone else perfect for you or your partner out there, knowing how to find them, knowing they can find you, and having to trust that neither you nor your partner will act on this?

The very existence of the strings does bring up a reason people would tend to avoid relationships without one, though. Imagine being in a relationship and one or both or you suddenly having a string manifest, connecting you to someone else... How many relationships would survive knowing there's someone else perfect for you or your partner out there, knowing how to find them, knowing they can find you, and having to trust that neither you nor your partner will act on this?

Considering everything we've been shown says this phenomenon is recent, it must have at some point done that in the beginning. I wish they'd dive into that, how many instantly abandoned their families? How many fought to stay together? What sort of social backlash to the people who defy their string?

Wouldn't it be more drama say one day, say there is an exceptional classmate who could see the red string and is in love with Amamiya san, snatch the red string from Tsumugi san and attach it to hers?

I don't think you can force fate like that...

I think you're much likely correct about what you say! However, there's always an exception..THOUGH, I think in this manga setting, it's not possible at all, since it's already said that the red string can only be seen by the two fated ones

By the way, having assumed the red string works, wouldn't that exclude harem or polyamorous in this case?

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By the way, having assumed the red string works, wouldn't that exclude harem or polyamorous in this case?

I mean, our main character was surprised to find out it worked between two girls, so I'd say it's always possible for any other such options to work as well, just that they're even less widely known and talked about than lesbian strings.

A practical use for the string. And so much denial...

girl why tf would u say that?!

See inside of Tsumugi she's the biggest mixed signal queen in existence. half the time she's telling herself they need to stop or senapi needs to stop liking her and then the other half she's thinking of requests of wanting to kiss her and wishing she was on the same team as her for the race.

GET. YOUR. SHIT. TOGETHER.

This premise is gonna get old fast if she's just gonna keep push and pulling in her head. She's 100% gonna lose this race and Senpai is gonna make her go on a date or stop saying stuff like "quit liking me" or the other negative garbage that Tsumugi spits out on the regular.

Either way thanks for the translate and upload as always.

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what is this nonsense about granting a wish out of nowhere lmao

So far I'm not really sold on the premise here. It's interesting and well illustrated, but something about the protagonist wanting to fight fate and it also being a very obvious romance with an end goal just doesn't gel with the characters.

I think that the idea of a world where romance is supposedly absolute, and a girl who hates that and longs to dispell the idea entirely, is pretty compelling (especially since she's queer). But the upshot of this story seems to be clearly building towards the protagonist learning to accept her fate instead. It feels like a weird way to tell the story, and is one of those series where even though it's yuri, it feels like it lacks the bite of an actual queer narrative. The total lack of homophobia, or even the fact that every single other couple we've seen in the story that does have the red string has been straight, just makes the plot feel a little lifeless.

It reminds me of when a character says something along the lines of "Idk if I like women or not, I just like you" and how we're expected to see that as a romantic gesture I guess? But it always reads as kinda shallow to me.

I'm biased because I've always been a little put off by soulmate tropes, but this series feels like it set itself up to critique the idea of soulmates, but then decided to just play it straight

[chapter 5 page 7] "whoever wins grants a wish to the loser"
[chapter 5 page 10] "whoever loses grants a wish to the winning party"

slight translation error perhaps? unless fujima's deliberately switching-up on her words

bro omg the way these two are going is lowkirkenuinely infuriating

So far I'm not really sold on the premise here. It's interesting and well illustrated, but something about the protagonist wanting to fight fate and it also being a very obvious romance with an end goal just doesn't gel with the characters.

I think that the idea of a world where romance is supposedly absolute, and a girl who hates that and longs to dispell the idea entirely, is pretty compelling (especially since she's queer). But the upshot of this story seems to be clearly building towards the protagonist learning to accept her fate instead. It feels like a weird way to tell the story, and is one of those series where even though it's yuri, it feels like it lacks the bite of an actual queer narrative. The total lack of homophobia, or even the fact that every single other couple we've seen in the story that does have the red string has been straight, just makes the plot feel a little lifeless.

It reminds me of when a character says something along the lines of "Idk if I like women or not, I just like you" and how we're expected to see that as a romantic gesture I guess? But it always reads as kinda shallow to me.

I'm biased because I've always been a little put off by soulmate tropes, but this series feels like it set itself up to critique the idea of soulmates, but then decided to just play it straight

I agree with this. I'm hoping for a twist of some kind, because I quite like the anti-fate angle.

Welp, no matter how this goes, it will just end up by Tsumugi accept her senpai's love.

So far I'm not really sold on the premise here. It's interesting and well illustrated, but something about the protagonist wanting to fight fate and it also being a very obvious romance with an end goal just doesn't gel with the characters.

I think that the idea of a world where romance is supposedly absolute, and a girl who hates that and longs to dispell the idea entirely, is pretty compelling (especially since she's queer). But the upshot of this story seems to be clearly building towards the protagonist learning to accept her fate instead. It feels like a weird way to tell the story, and is one of those series where even though it's yuri, it feels like it lacks the bite of an actual queer narrative. The total lack of homophobia, or even the fact that every single other couple we've seen in the story that does have the red string has been straight, just makes the plot feel a little lifeless.

It reminds me of when a character says something along the lines of "Idk if I like women or not, I just like you" and how we're expected to see that as a romantic gesture I guess? But it always reads as kinda shallow to me.

I'm biased because I've always been a little put off by soulmate tropes, but this series feels like it set itself up to critique the idea of soulmates, but then decided to just play it straight

Fabled homophobic queer media

girl why tf would u say that?!

Unresolved childhood trauma about her parent's divorce and people's reaction to it that implied that it was a mistake for her to be born if only relationships created by the string are valid.

[chapter 5 page 7] "whoever wins grants a wish to the loser"
[chapter 5 page 10] "whoever loses grants a wish to the winning party"

slight translation error perhaps? unless fujima's deliberately switching-up on her words

holy shit how the f- did I mess that up! i'll fix it up in a bit when i'm free

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