I remembered this today, and I hope it does update again sooner than later; I want to see the last body dragged from the wreckage.

Plus, I kind of wanted to recommend it by necro-ing the thread. It's a very interesting take on an intense, abusive, codependent relationship. It's a miserable love that's like a trap neither main character can really understand, or escape.

The art has its problems, but I rather like it for trying for this exaggerated realism rather than the more anime style that manga about homosexual relationships tends towards. I think it helps emphasize how squalid, how awful, how physical the world of this story can be.

The overall pace of Stretch is so languorous, so webcomic-slow, that it's hard to believe that anything in the story might be changing.

I am curious just where this chapter is going, and if the author has like a planned arc beyond "keep going until out of stretches/readers."

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G-group play. I'm shipping the harem end.

I don't know; I think it's assuming a lot about these characters' competence, to think they could focus on anything long enough for it to progress.

It's the essence of moe! Characters so scattershot and cutesy you kinda wonder if their school was designed for special needs.

(I don't know; St. Ikeda's School for the Absent-Minded?)

This manga has slowly grown on me, because it can take such odd circuitous routes to its central sentimental theme about learning to accept the differences of oneself and others, in order to achieve happiness.

Like George Romero beating up hell; holy shit.

Can anyone from China explain tattletale to me? Is he like a very ardent communist nationalist? Is that the joke? And if so, is that a common trope?

I don't think it's that the Communist leanings are the joke, so much as the contrasting attitudes expressed by the side character.

The nickname "Tattletale" and the businesslike-appearance suggests a character that is bossy, stuck-up, toadying; a born bureaucrat.

However, the dramatic and romanticized patriotism of protecting the Chinese Communist flag from the rain doesn't immediately fit that fussy image. It's strangely old-fashioned. And as the other characters note by their surprised reactions, it's bizarrely dashing.

Additionally, there's his appearance as a sort of epilogue to the three friends seeing the confession umbrella. As the more "main" characters are still processing the day's events and on getting home, Tattletale skips off in the rain like a dandy.

Effectively, he's a straitlaced-looking individual that is actually surprisingly odd.

I apologize if this is too many words; I think I enjoy over-explaining things.

edit: oh yeah, not from China. But hopefully it was informational.

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