Well let’s agree to disagree then. In my opinion although the situations in NTR were played up for the drama, which happens in almost every manga out there, the situations are totally believable including Yuma’s obliviousness. Maybe you don’t think it’s believable and simply disregard it as “trash” because you haven’t seen anything similar.
I didn't have to read farther than that to indeed disagree. Anyone who thinks Yuma's harem protagonist level density and indeciveness that border on a disability is "realistic" can't possibly judge things objectively.
So I mentioned real life simply because if something happens in real life, in my opinion even if it seems contrived in writing, it takes guts for an author to show it as it is even when it doesn’t seem like a good story to write. To show that a lot of people are dumb, selfish, passive aggressive, and do stuff just to make others squirm.
But that is not what the manga does. It portrays absurdly bad caricatures of real life stereotpyes in the most unstructured way possible.
Needless to say, despite the torrent of complaints about the characters being awful people, from page 1 to the last in the thread, apparently lots of people continued reading including I am assuming yourself LOL
That's no argument. "You kept reading" has no relevance to quality. Just like I sometimes can't pull my head away from looking at a car accident, I also read this manga to completion. To be fair, I didn't have to wait for new chapters, I read it all in one go, so that was probably the main reason I pulled through. Having to wait 1 month for a new chapter in which nothing happens, 12 months in a row, would definitely get even me to quit.
Any explanations I have seen you give about why the story is bad, are pretty obviously just rationalization on the fact that you disliked the characters because you can’t relate to them and doesn’t find taking their perspective interesting.
Cute that you think you can analyze me, when you can't even do it with the characters you defend. I was giving you plenty of non-character related arguments for why that manga was a trashfire, but if you need more, why don't you reply to @schuyguy for once, who took it apart even further?
Which is fair enough, but in terms of actual storytelling quality, I cannot see why the story is any worse than most of the manga on this site. It has beginning, middle, and a satisfying if a bit rushed ending, with most stuff explained and good suspense. Heck, it even has some makeout scenes and the characters even have sex (!). Kodama literally delivered all the goods lol It is just not a cute fluffy story.
Your personal bias is rather tragic. Storytelling structure is something you don't care about, considering you found Bloom Into You was not very good because it actually had one.
There was no satisfying ending and the fact that you of all people applaud a straightforward predictable rushed happy end seems out of character. Almost like you only defend the story, because you like the trashy characters and gratuitous sex scenes so much... Hmmm.
The most suspense it had was in the first third of the manga. Everything else was a drag. And even worse, all the cliffhangers led to literally nothing, which made all suspense they could have created meaningless. By the 6th time people catch on to that kind of thing.
Kodama delivered almost nothing, but as long as it fits your 3 preferences you're willing to ignore it lol
