I can see why everyone in the comments seems so riled up, but personally I love this!
I usually prefer fluff, but there's something so visceral about this story that makes it impossible to look away. It's almost cathartic.
Ah yes, the great definitional “cheating vs ntr” philosophical debate—makes the old “yuri vs shojou ai” maunderings sound like the Academy of Athens.
All NTR is cheating, but not all cheating is NTR.
Ten years down the line these three -- Nanase playing her ball games or whatever, Fuuko scoring with some hot sugar mama, Yuni in a trash heap somewhere -- look back and think to themselves, "that sure happened in high school huh? Oh well"
LMAO
The whole situation stems from the fact Nanase's unable to read and respond to Yuni's emotions and needs, and for that reason, their relationship's falling apart. And the fact Yuni doesn't confront her is because IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU DO EASILY IN THEIR CULTURE. There needs to be a real crisis for them to speak their mind, like in the latest chapter. Yuni's at the end of her rope. She loves Nanase, but she finds in Fuuko everything she lacking in her own relationship and she's at an impasse.[...]
I can agree with the cultural point, to a degree, but leaning too much into it fringes on exceptionalism, like the Japanese are somehow a special breed that follows completely different rules from all other human beings.
Nanase is simply a bad girlfriend because she's too immature and doesn't value her lover, not because her being japanese maker her unable to do so. And Yuni is a bad girlfriend because instead of communicating her discomfort she chose to scream into the void (Twitter) and, again, she chose to do so, not because her culture mandates it.
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