Yuri Project
joined Mar 3, 2022
Honestly, this is such a huge letdown. "Just keep putting up with things" is the absolutely worst thing you could tell people.
Lots of people have repeated this sentiment but I really don’t think that this story has a message, at least I did not interpret it that way. This story, overall, is intended to depict failure — it’s a story about failure. There’s no moral communicated, it’s just two people who made decisions that seemed reasonable at the time but turned out to have bad consequences. But that’s fine, since it’s made quite clear by the story that they had no way of knowing.
Another way of putting it, it’s art without hope. I will acknowledge that this genre is controversial in and of itself, but personally I think that it can be very enjoyable and empowering to read in its own way.
The sense of betrayal is justified. I do think it’s funny though.