Nah, you just don't understand. A robot? Fucking identical stories of Morita-sensei with identical scenario is a spring afternoon? And Kodama is absolute zero? Like hell she is! She is mysterious storm with lightnings and thunder or an aurora in the North, or rather she is a boring Wednesday evening after a lot of work. Anything but not absolute zero.
3rd chapter is like a story from the real life, without illusional sweet both-sided school love. Kodama reminds us that things usually don't go as smoothly as manga describes. And that chapter is like a slightly open door to the brain of straight woman who is curious about lesbians and who plays with girl's feelings just to satisfy her own selfishness. The situation that's so familiar to many of us and yet so hurtful.
This is real life, chickens. After all it's an often deal when one gives another all their heart and another loves them back much less than we'd want.
First of all, it's Morishima. Second, let's see: School girl, adult life, office lady, age gap, NSFW, love triangle, incest, slice of life, 4-koma versus... drama, drama, drama, bullying, cheating, het and... more drama. Yeah, Morishima is definitely the one with the same story over and over again. Especially Yuri Kuma Arashi, that's totally something she's done before.
Secondly, real life isn't as happy as most yuri manga, or fictional stories in general, but it's also less sad than this. Pardon my slipping into theism, but our world isn't written by a single author trying to go for a certain feeling and ending, unlike a manga where it's destined to end up happy or sad. There's nothing "realistic" about scripted drama, especially a story like this where all the characters are so one-dimensional and hollow, whereas characters in a Morishima work, even while generally optimistic, come in various shades and have changes in mood. Kodama's are completely static and flat. They never learn. That's only realistic for a relatively small percentage of people.
This isn't real life, it's a melodramatic angstfest. Kodama's even admitted she loves corny soap operas and that her works are often based on them. Would it be realistic if they turned out to secretly be related, too? I'm sick and tired of people saying that super depressing, unrelentingly negative stories are "deep" and "realistic". Get a grip. The world might not be as good as it's shown in a children's show, but it's not as bad as it's depicted in "adult" works. And I'd rather have us think it could be like the former than it has to be like the latter.
@oguzhan96
I'll give you those two, also. I did say that there were a few exceptions like Renai Manga, but that doesn't seem to be the direction she's going in these days. It'd be one thing to be making stories both depressing and uplifting at the same time, but currently, Kodama's just on this downwards slope into endlessly cynical and bitter stories. Like Utoptia said, I don't hate this artist, I just dislike the current direction she's going in.
Does it really matter what Kodama's work heads to? In the end it doesn't really matter if her works represents a realistic outlook on life or not; there are 7 billion people in the world who have different situations from each other and that we cannot perfectly put them into a category. Some people's lives are filled with happiness, others filled with sadness. An author's work is not classified as a season, but as a color. Different colors mixed into one to make a unique work that we ourselves take those colors and form an opinion on their work. No author is one season, but rather an aurora of mixtures, just how one's life is too. Minority or majority doesn't matter that much, it's how a human decides their own path that makes it interesting.
