As for the now also added volume 4 extra: Clever girl.

And also!!!

Nicely solved.

And nothing makes Momo happy quite like realizing her lover wanting her right there had nothing to do with the moon.

Utterly destroyed, both Shizuku and my own heart...

I really hope they don't execute her...

I am pretty sure that every evil deed Baiser announces is meant to be an invitation towards heroic magical girls to foil her. This is how it's always been and that's how Utena likes it. If there is one character trait (except being a top-level domme) that Utena has never strayed from, it's her love for genuine magical girls and what they do.

To quote Ackbar-senpai, "it's a trap".

Consider me terribly amused by everyone repeating the comment I use by default for the BtR ships I don't care for.

Why are we being introduced to some random childhood friend guy at this late point in the story ?? With an obviously, perfunctory ''you shold totally marry him in order to save the school Mei '' subplot to boot ? AGAIN ? Haven't we been through this already ? I swear to god, Saburouta will do anything but write about Yuzu and Mei at this point (^^) This is getting dangerously close to fanfic level writing.

Not that I don't agree that this addition came way out of the left field, but no, he made it pretty clear with the discussion with his father that we are not going in that direction this time.

Since it seems like it's just an excuse to get Yuzu jealous,

I could swear it was Yuzu who cluelessly got his number. If at all, it's Mei's turn to be jealous now for once.

Mei in full unconscious flirt mode is a critical hit on Yuzu. :D

Can someone help me. I'm mad confused by the chapter sequence. I read this on mangadex and after getting to vol 4, i searched it up. And found this and re-read from vol 1. First few chapters actually take place somewhere in between the first volume and the other chapters also kind of don't seem to have a continuous storytelling.

Here you go.

Cute.

Cute.

Adorable. :D

Lovely.

Adorable. ^_^

Cute.

Good.

Nice.

Cute.

Very nice. ^_^

Lovely. ^_^

Cute.

:D

Which is why I'm glad you have properly explained why just because Aki feels guilty about this, it doesn't mean the author is actually holding her responsible.

Characters are not independent beings with free will (even if good writing gives that illusion), they're pretty much bounded to the author will. Aki didn't reach the conclusion that it was her fault cuz it made sense, she did it because the author wanted to.
Let's compare this mess with a Manga that successfully pulled off this cliche
In bloom into you touko makes yuu promise her that she won't fall in love with her and is implied that if she were to do so their relationship would change drastically. When yuu falls in love with touko she desperately tries to hide it out of fear of how she'll react. When yuu finally confesses she's shivers in fear of what's going to happen, when touko notices this she comes to the realization that she put unreasonable expectations on yuu and by not noticing her feelings and act accordingly she deeply hurt her and is her fault that she's feeling that way right now

Let's say for the sake of argument that aki noticed shiho s feelings. What exactly was she supposed to do? was she's supposed to repress her feelings for yori to not hurt shiho? Was she supposed to date her even tho she doesn't like her that way? What train of thought would lead her to assume it was her fault and that she had a way of preventing this whole mess

The proper equivalent for this in Yagate Kimi ni Naru would be believing that it was indeed Yuu's fault for falling in love and confessing, as she too mistakenly found herself thinking after Touko apologized. And we all know this was neither actually so, not the author showing it to be.

Gotta love how dismissive some people were when I speculate that aki was gonna blame herself and probably gonna be the one to apologize
Even if it's clear to everyone that all of shiho s struggles are self inflicted, I legit think Takeshima eku is trying to convince people that they aren't and that she isn't at fault

Yea, ive seen several people in this thread claim with full confidence that takeshima will absolutely show shiho as the one at fault and have her apologize/repent, but honestly i think theres a legitimate chance that wont happen. It might well be a "both sides made mistakes" thing if even that. Alot of manga in general can be really bad at having their characters take accountability, having them commit misdeeds of varying severity and then get away if a quick "sorry" if even that. (Like a chapter i recently read, not sure if on here, had a character try to push another character down the stairs and then was like "sorry, i was jelous" and every1 is like yea that checks out)

"Snow Thaw & Love Letter," I believe.

Although I feel I need to point out that she did not do this out of jealousy. She wasn't even really a fan of the "prince". She just thought the new girl was trying to come between what she mistakenly thought was a happy couple. Not that this excuses what she was trying to do, but it's certainly much easier to forgive. Spoiler tagged out of respect for those who might not have read it.

But I can see how someone who misunderstood that chapter despite it being literally spelled out for you would have trouble understanding Aki's situation.

Aki's response has a least a little of that (to me) weird Asian narrative trope (if not cultural norm--I have no idea if it's real) of taking on second or third-hand responsibility/guilt when bad things happen. I see it in Kdramas all the time: "If I hadn't had something else to do I could have gone shopping with my friend downtown, but instead she went to the mall and got picked up by a serial killer, so her death was my fault."

The fact that Shiho never confessed to Aki and Aki never confessed to Iori makes the central romantic-angst conflict rather ridiculous. We seem to have at least started down the path of characters apologizing for failing to perceive what the other characters have steadfastly avoided telling them.

Which is why I'm glad you have properly explained why just because Aki feels guilty about this, it doesn't mean the author is actually holding her responsible.

last edited at Mar 20, 2023 12:50PM

No giving up on her girl now.