He's a male character in a yuri manga. He will not get much sympathy from me.
Even though he is most pure character in this manga.
Why pure?
All Takeda's legit done in the entire series, is be nice, and desperate to get laid. Ofc you can be both nice and horny, one isn't necessarily the motive for the other, but I'm just.. I'm just personally on guard when it concerns him.
If by "pure" you mean innocent, and not as in "untainted", but "not guilty", how he didn't actually do anything backhanded that lead to hurting someone else, then yeah I agree.
But even though action-wise, he never really hurt anyone (I'm considering Yuma being sad/dumped, the consequences of making him feel rejected), I don't really care about him either.
Takeda is the most boring character of them all. He's like a bystander, a casualty from Yuma/Hotaru's mess, it's more what he represents, some kind of generic, plain boyfriend that is second best compared to Hotaru, someone to prove that Hotaru is more important, rather than who he is.
You guys just highlighted the reasons I hate this manga.
Hakeda wanted to bang her .. well, because Hotaru did not ? One was behaving as nice as he could to achieve it and because he loved Yuma, the other manipulated her, toyed with her heart and guess who's being praised ?
The Yuma / Hotaru relationship is so unhealthy because Hotaru has a complete control of the so-called relationship. She NTR'd Hakeda and made Yuma fall in love with her (she was not in the beginning) to reject her, move on as @Asukaori stated and she's the one who can decide to put an end or not at the relationship. The two absolutely aren't on an equal footing with each other.
I don't even care about Fujiwara, he can stab himself to death, it wouldn't change anything. I firmly believe the worst is by far Hotaru. She may be more than a simple manipulative and bad person, but it doesn't change how destructive she is, even if she isn't purposely.
Sure, this will probably get a "happy" yuri end where the girls will end up together, but in an unhealthy relationship whence nothing good will come from, because of what I explained above.
99% of time in a yuri manga with het / bi, yuri end is the most suitable and wanted, because it's usually the purest / most honest / where the real love lies. Kodama Naoko just broke this and made the [hated] het ending the best choice; to likely end the story with the yuri end one.
Good job, Kodama ! (This is why I have respect for this author, they really have skill to make nauseus stories. I don't recall any other author this talented to write stories like this. Once again, it's just not my cup of tea).
Edit : Utoptia and Brolquiorra VS the world. United, we stand.
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