okay what

I give up on this.

Wow, Ito is such a dick.... Only thing Sumika did wrong this time around was making friends with a turd like her

What the heck is Ito wants

Okay, so I'm guessing she was in love with the neighbor girl and probably thought her feelings were at least a little reciprocated. But not only was that not the case, neighbor girl didn't even really like her. The fact that neighbor girl never talked to Ito after she graduated high school shows she didn't really care about her. So Ito not only found out her love was reciprocated, but also had her, "Don't meet your heroes" moment. Now she's finding herself in a similar situation with Sumika and is doing what she can to pull back.

Ito's drama is so boring, like I don't need this gay-subtext back story with some older girl/sister-esque whatever the fuck kind of drama we have here. It's boring and just means she lashes out at Sumika for no real reason

I just want Sumika to keep being a cute lesbian with Ito like wow you're not the Sumika i expected kind of angst and then some school related shenanigans that keep pushing them together is that too much to ask

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I wish Ito’s drama was justified. Idk like I’m okay with main characters being little bitches and dicks but like, I don’t see how her backstory fuels THAT level of dickishness that goes above and beyond. For like 4 chapters we’ve had 0 development on Ito’s hesitancy. You’d think she’d be a little bit swayed but damn who needs change in the main character. Her dislike and low opinion of Idol girl feels so dragged on. It feels petty. Idol girl has shown she’s not even a bad person. When Ito’s overall opinion doesn’t change despite that she just kinda feels bland.

She wants to see the “real” idol girl but lacks clarity in herself AND the idol. She pushes away a perfectly fine person. The author by making Idol girl not actually that flawed and in need of changing it makes Ito’s insistence on Idol to change kinda offputting. It’s ironic because she herself is the one in need of change. Although possibly deliberate, the author is unable to portray a meaningful unlikeable character. Just an unlikeable one.

Extra points if the author was just trying to make a likeable flawed main character but failed entirely

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This is the biggest overreaction to the mildest slight. Ito acts like she endured some kind of horrible trauma when really she just lived through the extremely mundane experience of admiring someone who doesn't share your investment in the relationship. Like, yeah it sucks but maybe if you didn't invest so much of yourself into the fictionalized versions of people you project onto them it wouldn't hurt so much when they failed to meet your delusional expectations.

I am so lost.

Okay, so I'm guessing she was in love with the neighbor girl and probably thought her feelings were at least a little reciprocated. But not only was that not the case, neighbor girl didn't even really like her. The fact that neighbor girl never talked to Ito after she graduated high school shows she didn't really care about her. So Ito not only found out her love was reciprocated, but also had her, "Don't meet your heroes" moment. Now she's finding herself in a similar situation with Sumika and is doing what she can to pull back.

I came to the same conclusion, she is unconsciously trying to keep Sumika away because she doesn't want to live through another heart-break like she did with onee-sama
the part about not giving "false" hope for those that admire her was probably because she heard a lot of those empty pleasantries from her onee-sama and took them to heart, that made the realization that she was not special to her all the more hurtful

okay I kinda get it, but ito's behavior is too much
sumika is actually so sweet and ito is being a dick to her for no major reason except this little disappointment she went through with that older girl
idk man ito is being overly dramatic

Sumika didn’t even do anything... Ito is kinda ehh

Ya that's the weird part. Sumika only acts like a raging prima donna in work context, she goes out of her way to be nice to Ito who duly just looks like a bizarrely paranoid ingrate.

the MC is anoying as fuck

To be fair, we do see Ito trying to reign in these negative impulses a few times in this very chapter.

As for the story it's . . . Erm. A good premise but I'm not sure about the execution.

I am so lost.

I thought I was the only one

Ito is being a bit too dramatic but its not like her behaviour lacks explanation. She was bullied for her appearance at her previous school, then her first crush/onee-chan took advantage of her feelings and now she has to experience it all over again. Any kind of positivity is difficult to accept when you feel down but with emotional baggage? Just look at Sumika when she notices Itos reaction to being called super cute.

I really don't like this MC, kinda hard to keep reading, only hope is that her "backstory" makes at least a little bit of sense later on.

yiik tier bad mc

Ito is getting on my nerves.

Come on people, we dont even know whats going on in her head yet

Y'know, page 21 panel 3 and page 22 panel 4 are pretty legit issues that could be worth focusing on. But fuck if I have any idea whatever she's saying otherwise. And, huh, I can't say I have any idea what the Mina thing is about either.

As a side note it's always so weird to see my name in... Anything. Not a bad kind of weird, but it's weird.

This needs a "what the hell am I reading?" tag, have no idea what these people are on about. Can we introduce a therapist into the mix? They all need one.

I think we're being a little too hard on Ito. Yeah, she's being a dick to Sumika, but she's at least starting to be aware of that fact and shows a desire to overcome the past trauma that's causing her behavior. She's basically had her self-esteem trampled on in the past, both by people directly making fun of her appearance and by the girl she admired and maybe even loved showering her in kind words that later turned out to not have the sincerity behind them that she thought they did. She feels like she can't trust anyone or look at anyone truthfully anymore because of how Mina essentially pretended to care about her far more than she really did. Emotional scars caused by a breach of trust make it hard to trust people again.

jeez, this should be called "a series of totally coincidental events"...

I'm gonna give it one more chance just because I like the artstyle, but it's really pushing my limit for bland plots...