Erika and Komichi's setup points towards a romantic arc. However, I'd like to point out that Akebi's Sailor Uniform isn't in the yuri genre. It's a slice of life about girls. If this manga was in the yuri genre, with a romantic structure explicit from the get go, no one would wonder if Erika or Komichi are going to end up together. However, it's a slice of life about girls, a genre that is egregiously known for yuri baiting and girls saying "I love you" and "I want to be with you forever" and "you're the most important person to me" without ever stepping into firm romantic territory. We're in a genre that depicts intimate friendship between girls that never goes beyond that and working with the genre expectations.
Also, I'm hesitant to boldly claim an ending for a series that hasn't ended. There's never an assured ending, and the author might surprise us all. Still, I'm hopeful that Akebi's Sailor Uniform depicts Komichi and Erika falling in love. I'm not caught up on the recent chs, but the manga has already touched on sapphic love between the volleyball girl and the other gal. It also has Akebi explicitly set on a quest to discover romantic love for another person (ERIKA) for the sake of a romantic play inspired by her and ERIKA, so that she and ERIKA can remain together FOREVER.
The way the author writes is so sporadic. Plot elements just occur suddenly. I love that about this manga, but also it makes me hesitate to make any strong predictions, especially since the surprises have delighted me so far. I am hopeful but where else do you see sapphic love except in the genre specifically designed for sapphic love? NOWHERE. Sapphic love in a non-yuri work just doesn't exist often. I'm seeing the beginning of a careful, well thought out, well plotted slowburn love story between two girls that are the main characters to a slice of life story, in a non-love story. I am going crazy with excitement. I will be overjoyed. I will be killed. They have me by the throat.
It's clear by the author's writing style that whatever happens will be atypical, but touching and authentic.
OH MY GOD FINALY some one said it! we all know how some stories are all about friendship and it makes your head turn and try to twist itself into a pretzel when the ending AIN’T ROMANTIC AT ALL!!! there are A LOT of such manga, and the fact that the Yuri tag is by itself also represents Friendship unlike Yaoi or Bara >.> supposedly only men are allowed to have CLEAR GAY tags
Women get to have friendship+gay shit, like MAN i WISH there was an clear cut tag and not this wish wash way of doing things, cuz i tell you! you won’t have 0 Yaoi into GOD DAMN YAOI, cuz no one refers to friendship between man and uses the gayes tag! LOOL
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