People really think they are so shallow as to break up just after one big fight? It's frustrating to see, but nothing out of the ordinary.

I do agree with what some have been saying, though. The format does not fit well for that kind of conflict. It drags on for too long and don't allow for proper discuss/resolution as everything has to fit in 4 pages. I really wish she would drop the format and do 8 pages long chapter every two weeks instead, or half chapter every week, but I guess it wouldn't work as well for social media.

I would have agreed some time ago but honestly? I think the format does work. It's just a little unorthodox, so the audience gets paranoid, with a double digit percentage of them rooting for the couple to break up at least temporarily. I love drama so for me the series is more interesting now than it has ever been since the first volume or so.

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The most offensive thing about this so far is that a character in a supposedly "yuri" game immediately got on her knees to look at a dick when she realized the MC has a male body. That's ridiculous and perpetuating a harmful trope.

dicks are not exclusively male genitals and lesbians are allowed to be attracted to them

That's not how it's portrayed though, at that moment she doesn't see the MC as a woman. She sees a man and gets insta thirsty. That is messed up.

I don't particularly like that moment, but I don't think this reading is right. Misono was just curious. It's an important detail that this girl says she has practically never seen a man before.

But more crucially, we never see her get on her knees, especially in a position that would imply submission. The one panel where her knees are visible, she is crouching to be level with Kaoru who was already sitting on the floor. In the panel where Misono puts her hands on Kaoru, Kaoru basically looks like a girl being sexually assaulted; very different from the typical fetishistic fantasy about lesbians secretly thirsting for men (and Misono could be just bi, for all that we know). If any character is under a fetishistic gaze in this scene, it's Kaoru.

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woah I think Kuzushiro drew more kisses in this than in the rest of her output in the last like ten years combined

I don't know what it is about this manga but it's just so... weird. Story is weird, pacing is weird, I'm even noticing that faces start to look weird, like what the hell is that on page 5.

It's weird in a way I find captivating. This chapter felt especially cinematic

LOL

But! Its the almighty overlord warrior yuri fan in me that makes me hate this, because ultimately this falls short of what would be yuri

If you can't recognize this as yuri, that's a skill issue. "This didn't make me happy therefore it's not yuri" is the attitude of an immature yuri fan, not a "warrior"

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I wasn't sure in the previous chapters but I get the dynamic now. It helps to know why Mashiro is trying to "win" at relationships by breaking hearts

I heard that this author is caught up in some kind of scandal. Apparently, there were some old tweets saying this manga isn’t yuri, but now that the anime has become so popular, they’re calling it yuri — or something about supporting a male character intruding into yuri pairings. I’m not sure if that’s actually true or not.

I don't know if we need to recognize that as a "scandal". Twitter encourages people to whip themselves up into a frenzy about some minor issue every day, and even said issue usually gets distorted through a game of telephone.

Even if you're conveying the facts accurately, a creator saying that his manga is not yuri should not be referred to as a scandal. It's very unlikely to cause harm to anybody. I won't address the other claim because even you admit you made no effort to verify it.

How does she do it man

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It feels like they're both dancing around the topic of homosexuality, or at least trying to not address it directly. Shouko says things that heavily imply it, and Yukari never prompts her to confirm anything. It's still hard to say if this is happening for internal character reasons or if it's the author trying to avoid being too direct.

(I do think the series is very good, to be clear.)

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so frickin cuuute !!

Nina is pretty funny so I'm down with almost any direction

Aomi has game though I wish Haijima didn't fall for her tricks so easily

The Mother Who Wants To Feed Me

The mask in that one panel on page 33 kind of reminds me of a pair of discarded underwear. And if you think about it, there is a topographical (?) similarity between the two items.

Wow, that means the editors are low-key pigeonholing her... rude!

Well... A Face You Shouldn't Show is kinky but less toxic than It's A Detached Relationship, which was in turn less extreme than Eve's Medicine.

^^ I don't believe this series ever had the Yuri tag on here.

I don't recall that either. I wonder if it gets a little overlooked here because it's not tagged as Subtext either

How nice, an AC unit that needs no power or maintenance

This is not the main point of the chapter but I love that Kanae called Natsuki just to ask about her date with Haneul

Caku said:

It's a bit interesting that the cultural norm is so focused on the thread when it explicitly doesn't work out for everyone. Some people only see it shortly before their death, which is an absolutely awful fate. If you just trust that the thread will lead you to the love you desire, you could spend your entire life up to your dying day just waiting for the thread to give you permission to fall in love, which is its own kind of fucked up.

It sort of is central to the core conflict set up in the story so far. Also, just because something is a cultural norm doesn't mean it's a good thing or logical or works for everyone. It's something which we as readers seem to be almost explicitly set up to question, I think it would be stranger if readers weren't discussing it.

Speaking of cultural norms... Though I don't expect the story to broach this topic, even if the Red String of Fate does not favor heterosexual couples (beyond what would be statistically likely), it's possible that its existence hasn't helped queer people in their struggle for liberation from discrimination by mainstream society. Because, from what we're told, each red string is only visible to the two people that it connects.

The whole phenomenon kind of resembles a collective hallucination. Each couple only has direct evidence of their own string; when they announce it to the world, they rely on other people taking their word for it. This could be why Tsumugi never heard of a precedent for the strings connecting two people of the same sex.

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This manga is awesome, but personally I am not a fan of battle shonen type of stories, which is the course this manga taking imo

Sexy women carry it for me

The basic ingredients of battle shonen can be summed up as a focus on action-packed adventure with an emphasis on strategy, unique power sets, male homosociality, and masculine self-actualization. (Also, beloved tropes like the hero solving problems by punching them really hard.) In this series, there are some characters with special abilities, but there is little interest in strategy or match-ups, so action scenes are short and scarce. And it's been a while since we've seen a named male character.

It's just interesting that a brief action scene involving female characters can somehow invite comparison to the genre where female heroes aren't just less common but their sidelining and general humiliation is basically part of the appeal.

Yes, Kaoru is technically not using any psychoactive drugs. Anne thinking that she's on something is not that strange because Kaoru is always a drooling mess in front of her. The crazy part with her is that she goes full steam on that suspicion and tries to solve it with literal weed killer.

Meh. Regardless of the characterization, Chu is a sociopath. They see Aya's mere presence as "provoking" and are distressed by the mere sight of her. Currently their response is shitty, mean comments, but the question is where this will escalate. Will Chu physically lash out at Aya to remove the "provocation"?

idk that seems like quite the jump to conclusions about a character who's so far just internally expressed vague feelings of discontent/annoyance for reasons as of yet unexplained.

And that one comment no one actually heard she muttered under her breath, to herself.

I like that every chapter is fertile ground for this sort of...ambitious speculation, for such a fluffy and chill series

Rikki would do this

This is going to be agonizing to keep up with chapter by chapter

Okay, so it looks like my predictions were wrong? This is what I meant by two volumes being too short to cover so much ground. Hikaru going from a happy marriage to leaving her husband with this lady in so few moves, that was the wild card option. As for how this affects the quality of the overall work, I will need more time to think.

Right? I thought we all realized what was really going on with Ruuka and why. They spelled it out.

I am so saaaaad. Maybe it's because it's been a bit since and people need a refresh, but :c I want Suuna to put that bitch in her place. Oh, that would be so gooooood.

I'm one of those people, I genuinely don't remember this at all