This is an absolutely wild premise to be using for a light-hearted food manga lmaoooo. So oddly overdramatic, especially since the resolution is just "oh well I guess she's sorry!"
SHE STOLE AN INFANT AND THEN WOULDN'T EXPLAIN WHERE HE WAS.
I'm with you and IRLthicc. I don't want Tokio to "fix" Chita. It'd be out of character for both of them to suddenly conform to a typical relationship like the other two couples. If they need to commit to being in some sort of relationship, this being a romance manga and all, at least let it stay...
I love everyone blaming the guy for apparently getting sexually assaulted.
What the fuck is this anymore? Coercion for cheap drama isn't suddenly more interesting when the genders are switched.
It's definitely melodramatic like a soap opera, yeah. I do appreciate Tei getting more of character agency; she is the one who wants to comfort this person and reconnects with her desire to be an actress. I hope the mention about her being a director is actual foreshadowing.
It's still skeevy to use your friends' bodies for clicks on social media, especially because Chii seemingly wants to be an influencer (not a photographer or videographer, for instance, where her posing their bodies is more out of a sense of wanting to capture their aesthetics or beauty), but at...
Right, yes. Like, just on its own removed from the context of the other couples if the manga was "about this," I'd probably like a growth story of someone being extremely immature and insecure about her place in the world.
but that's more or less Ana's character arc done worse. Ana started as...
Aw, I hope Qianmo finds her inner baddie and realizes Ludwig is trash. She's actually cute and sweet. She just needs to not throw herself after trash men.