Truth be told she made some serious self inflicted mishaps.
After 129 She basically made posts defending how it is a rom-com, and basically everyone who thinks it isnt, is wrong. She also initially went after foreigners right after 129 and also made it sound like the majority of comments on magapoke and twitter were praising her (just wrong).
A lot of her posts immediately after felt like rubbing it in people's faces. She went much more radio silent up untill 136.
Then she immediately went after foreigners again. Right or wrong this is such a bad idea, stoking flames. Never should have said anything about foreigners or the rom-com thing. Her initial responses after 129, and then the sub par writing following, set her up for this now
Yeah, that's just total sore loser hack attitude, it's pretty evident she is lying and scapegoating foreigners, it's one of the saddest things I've read. I dropped this almost in the beggining because I wasn't in the mood for Potential Lawsuit in the Workplace Romcom: The Manga, but I can understand that if you are into that, god bless you and hope you enjoy it. But I went to read the mentioned chapter 129 onwards and some chapters earlier for reference and no one with 1+ functioning braincells believes this is not controversial in Japan because the tone was totally different from that point onward, plus it only would have happened if everyone in this story just became so stupid they forget the act of communication with other human beings.
I'm sorry, not talking to your significant other about a possible cheating situation, go cheating yourself and us readers witnessing is not like she was doing it out of spite or not giving a fuck about her relationship anymore, but something that happened to her and she just accepted it, with no pushback or inner turmoil, only would happen if that girl was suddenly mentally unfit and in need of a legal guardian. I'm sorry if it sounds harsh, but just only that is such an amount of bullshit that would need chinese industry 5 year planification levels of suspension of disbelief. And a woman whose line of work is borderline sex work, no less.
The other thing is the ending. We know you are aiming for an hentai level plot development (derogatory). It's just hack writing through and through. The idea of him doing this kind of emotional artsy NTR film scene is something only a 14yo doing fanfics, or a stupid person who believes this is what an auteur does, would think it's profound. This is just cringe.
This person can lie to herself all she wants about only foreigners complaining about her writing, but at some point she has to understand this is the end of the line for her art if she surrenders to her denial of the situation. You are not a good writer nor you will get better if this is your answer for something that is very obvious a really bad piece of writing for everyone who has read it. And you cannot be a bad writer and be such a sore loser when criticized, just soldier on, uninstall your social media, seek help from your editor and get better. I would be assblasted if I did something evidently wrong in my job and still scapegoated to my coworkers, why the fuck this woman thinks she is exempt of critique?
What a sad state of affairs.
