I'm really just echoing your point, but it's as if it's a science fiction story built on one key hypothetical that doesn't quite make sense--grant the premise and it's an outstanding story, but there's always this little twinge of "yes, but . . ."

Putting it like that made me realise that's pretty much exactly how I was thinking about it, I'm not good at putting my thoughts into words so thanks. It's nothing that affected my enjoyment of the amazing story, just a little thing nagging at the back of my mind.

Yuu feels like a real person to me. I feel all characters in this series feel very human but I feel Yuu's multidimensional character stands out. That's just my opinion though. Like I said, just because she's very smart on some areas doesn't mean she knows every real life issue. The story is about her understanding love after all.

I agree that all the characters do feel very human, especially considering how out there some of their issues are. Blastaar summed that up pretty well at the end of his post. I was really just being overly nitpicky about this one thing that had been nagging in the back of my mind as I was reading through the story.

I've only recently got into manga and yuri specifically. I had only read Kase-san before this, which I also loved. But I wasn't expecting this kind of unique and complex story.

Why did Yuu's idea of what love should feel like come from shoujo manga? She's generally a smart, perceptive, logical person. She sees through Touko's mask within days of meeting her when the only other person to know the real Touko is her best friend of several years. She seems like a pretty emotionally aware person, at least in regards to other people. It doesn't make sense to me that she would have such a weird view of love.

From the start of this manga I've had this uncomfortable feeling which I think was because I couldn't understand Yuu or Touko. Their mindsets seemed completely alien to me. As it went on we start to understand why Touko acts the way she does but Yuu's original thoughts on love still make no sense to me. She seems too smart to have had her whole idea on how love is supposed to happen come from fiction.

It's not a big deal in terms of the overall plot but it bothers me a bit and I don't know why. I still love this story and I'm looking forward to how things turn out.