Alright I made an account just for this fade, cuz all these “realism” card spammers need to get off their high horses and open their eyes to reality and the truth. This perceived notion that “realism magically equals good manga writing” is simply incorrect. In this thread, it seems anyone who calls out this ridiculous downturn of events in the manga, which was forced in how it was presented and developed since volume 11, gets hit with “oh it’s realistic you don’t understand,” “you just want forced wholesomeness” “that’d be bad writing,” when we are in the midst of bad writing open your eyes people. So many users are parading the manga quality like it’s still amazing by using the wrong reasoning.
The realism champions think random and cheap drama equates to cinematic and top tier storytelling, because somehow this is amazing BECAUSE it appears realistic and grounded, but I would pose the question, does BokuYaba even need this? And is this what the manga set out to be in its earlier form? For the most part, the answer is no to both. Here’s the thing, the pro-realistic crowd is applauding this mid-tier presentation of issues as some kind of gospel, because for some reason BokuYaba must reflect real life dating and social issues for it to be good apparently. Are you all unaware to the fact that real life dating, modern dating, is in the gutter right now? I mean there’s tons of things wrong with modern dating that I won’t get into too many specifics, but from all the fakeness, emphasis on appearances and material gains, lack of loyalty, etc etc., why does BokuYaba need to stoop to this level? If it’s “just to be realistic” then that reasoning is dumb.
Here’s my main point, BokuYaba is not a realistic story, never was, never will be. If BokuYaba was “realistic” from the beginning, as all these defenders of this silly drama arc that was poorly created and executed keep spamming over and over, then a girl like Yamada would NEVER date a guy like Ichikawa, end of story. If you applied this story’s circumstances to the real world, all of this would never happen. And even in the rarest instance these two kinds of people got together, a girl like Yamada in the real world would’ve cheated on a guy like Ichikawa by now. In the actual manga, Ichikawa and Yamada had a fairytale-type of love story, they only had one significant hiccup in 9 volumes leading to the confession. Since BokuYaba wasn’t playing all this “realistic teen social status drama” before for 10 volumes, like you guys are so fervently defending now, then what right is there to criticize those who don’t like it and consider it to be forced when BokuYaba wasn’t like this from the start.
Using “realism” as a cheap buzzword to defend an overall drop in quality and a way to put down anyone who speaks out against this arc is frankly ridiculous.
