After thinking on it a bit, stating that love WILL fix every problem is honestly more irresponsible than saying it doesn't. Probably should have had a follow-up clarification for the little bro though.

that is the theme of this arc! and tbh one that i think yuri readers need to reckon with. a lot of readers are highkey aki in this situation, struggling to accept that two people loving each other does not mean they’re automatically going to live happily ever after. love is hard work and being lesbians in a yuri comic does not change that haha

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Ok ok ok let me get this straight so in chapter 167 we see a tipsy aya pulling an emotionally unwell mitsuki on top of her after saying “come here i’m lonely“ and now… everyone is assuming that mitsuki r*ped aya? what? we don’t even know if they did anything sexual. they literally could have just fooled around. the writer has never indicated that they do anything explicitly sexual when aya is drunk. she has written in aya getting really handsy with mitsuki after drinking … probably because my girl has a hard time being vulnerable without some liquid courage yes I said it aya also has a hard time being vulnerable in this relationship that is why she needs to drink to allow herself to get clingy and cuddly with her girlfriend of literallyyyyyyy several years. both girls have so many issues because they are young and inexperienced and they. do. not. communicate directly or in a healthy way. but thats the entire point of the comic. they are both a mess and we are here watching them come to grips with how these patterns of behavior are negatively impacting their relationship because love is not enough to keep a relationship afloat.

This story is dragging this melodrama out way too long, and I mean that in a critical way, not on a "oh it hurts so good" way. It's not just the relationship that's suffering from all this melodrama (which was the writer's intention), but the story itself is suffering too.

The context for this arc isn't helping either. We got new side characters for this arc and wrote off literally everyone the main couple knew before the time skip (ballsy because it also means we only have the two main cast to be familiar with for this arc and our protagonists now have zero support network). The pacing has also been far more focused on the drama and not much else tbh (even most of the cutesy/fun moments, what few there were, were connected to the underlying drama). We also had a massive break on a melodramatic cliffhanger which further set the tone for the arc as mainly unease one compared to previous arcs. Also it feels like even the musical motifs have taken a backseat to the drama (might've been intentional on the author's part to show Mitsuki's disconnect to music atm, but it's done in such a way that it makes the arc feel more flat since now it's literally no different from any other melodramatic young love story).

But the worst part is: it's the same fucking bullshit we got last time and every fucking time with this manga: No heart to heart communication until things blow up and then they one of them has to do some over the top gesture to resolve things and I'm calling the author out on it.

It's literally happened every plot arc.

Original Plot: Mitsuki and Aya refused to talk about Aya mistaking Mitsuki for a hot guy until things blew up and Mitsuki did a performance for her.

Next plot: Mitsuki and Aya refused to talk about wanting to be closer friends until things blew up and Aya climbed through Mitsuki's window to confront her it.

Next plot: Mitsuki and Aya refused to talk about their personal problems (Aya with study anxiety and Mitsuki with her musical career) AND Mitsuki and Aya didn't talk about their relationship changing from close friendship to something deeper (especially on the wake of Mitsuki's sudden popularity) until things blew up and they had a very cheesy but sweet prom night.

Now: Mitsuki and Aya can't talk openly about Mitsuki's anxiety with music after multiple failed bands (don't pretend Aya snapping at and confronting Mitsuki after midnight was genuine communication, that was just more melodramatic bullshit from the author) and now Mitsuki just assuming Aya is getting ready to leave her instead of AGAIN just talking things out with her lover. So again, things are blowing up and may blow up even further given how the plot has been getting more melodramatic with every new chapter.

I'm also expecting some more drama like another even bigger fight or them sulking until some outside party forces some sense into one or both of them because I fully don't expect the author to have either of them do it of their own accord with how their writing has been going. As for the over the top gesture, Mitsuki finally faces her fears and picks up the guitar again (maybe with the event her coworker was telling her about) to show Aya the music she wants to do and not just the music she was forced to do with her old bands and show Aya she wants her to hear that music too. Incidentally, I'm expecting the author to also say Mitsuki was sooo hung up on not showing/doing anything musical with Aya because she both was ashamed of what she did show her and wasn't confident in finding her music after so many bad band fits.

It's dramatic, it's cliche and I'm sure some people will eat it up... but honestly it all could've and should've been summed up in a midway chapter having a heart to heart and then the rest of the volume focusing on Mitsuki establishing her own band. But instead the entire arc seems focused solely around their inability to communicate and dragging it out for months on end.

As it stands, the manga is experiencing sitcom levels of character development: reset all character growth and communication skills at the end of every episode (or plot arc in this manga's case) to milk the same drama later on, again and again until it's no longer profitable. That style of writing is fucking over this story's potential and the writer needs to stop relying on it.

The author fucked up with thinking relationship drama was all that important to the story when the couple's journey through life was what truly made this story shine.

I'm hoping the author learns how to do proper character development for the main couple and have them deal with new plot arcs with their developed characterizations instead of resetting Mitsuki's and Aya's communication and critical thinking skills to Chapter 1 levels of development every fucking new plot arc.

That way, we don't get them STILL having over melodramatic relationship issues due to them not being able to healthily communicate for the entire fucking series and developing an honestly dysfunctional relationship. Instead I want to get more interesting stories about them tackling life's challenges together as a couple and still arguing at times and facing hardships that make them cling tightly together as they navigate through the storms and eventually find they've lived a full life well-lived and well-loved together.

God forbid an author tell their story with their characters the way they want to. Humanity and complexity and flaws? Those things we all are made up of? We should just get rid of them in favor of everyone just magically resolving all of their issues like we all do in real life, right?

The story you want may be interesting to you but it is not the story the author is trying to tell. Stories are not told simply for you to enjoy them—they are told because there is an overarching theme to the work. Characters hurt each other because they are representations of real people with messy and complex subjectivities. It is obvious that the author is not interested in telling the story that you want them to but maybe that’s a good thing. Maybe the overarching theme and message will be much better than two queer girls who resolve all of their issues in record time.

I am really wondering if any of you have ever been an 18 year old lesbian in your very first relationship. This kind of conflict is very very realistic. Being young, queer and in love and in your very first relationship with another girl is not easy. There are no scripts for you to follow and no elders to help guide you. You fight over every little thing because you don’t know how to recognize what it is you’re feeling, much less communicate that to your partner who is likely also emotionally disregulated because they’re also like freaking 18 years old. If anything, these two are handling this conflict in a better way than most lesbians would—certainly better than I handled conflict when I was their age. I get that it’s not exciting to read but it’s honest and relatable to those of us who have been there or are currently there now. And to be honest, the author is telling us a story about two queer girls trying to figure out how to be together. They’re not feeding us content on TikTok. Not every installation is going to make you feel instantly warm and fuzzy inside because that’s not the point of the series.

I just want to know why the heck the art style has changed so much. I could handle this dumb ass plot line if the art was still gorgeous and romantic but it feels so stiff and odd lately?? Anyone else notice that??

Bruuuhhh this story is freaking wild! I know she is deeply messed up but I feel so bad for Fuuko. She fell in love with her babysitter as a kid, felt rejected by her when she got married and is now like desperate to have Yuni love her back to make up for that. She so badly wants Yuni to chose her over Nanase because she felt like her babysitter chose someone else over her. This obvs doesn’t excuse her behavior but I feel for the girl. Who doesn’t want to feel chosen!