This kind of goes back to the importance of Nagi Mio meeting and them discussing Shinobu which everyone wrote off because it didn't go exactly as they envisioned. When Sakura sees Shinobu again she'll at the very least talk with him after all this time.
I can see that happening, but with the time skip I could also see KA just forcing a quicker reunion. Given the levels of Sakura hate, doing an extended split perspective story might tank interest even more.
Not going to be hard for them to cross paths again, also the direction is not too different either. Sakura's offer is not Shinobu's movie atm but both MC's are now faced with having to explore a deeper "sensuality" for their career.
Sakura just needs to hear the truth, and then suffer, but being passed around the AV industry is a bit too far and I doubt KA is going to be that silly with it....probably. Fucboi needs to develop ED.
In agreement with ya here, once he stopped moping around Shinobu just instantly started winning (but man did those 4 chapters suck for him) which is great. As for Sakura, yes she deserves the hate, but she's still more pitiable than fucboi will ever be, punk ass horndog.
like @hugorito420 pointed out, fucboi an ntr rom-com villain. I'll always have hope as an og Team Sakura, but at a bare minimum I just need to have that moment where Sakura realizes her fuck up and we go from there in a reasonable fashion.
A permanent abandonment of Sakura would be evil (there are still signs of life in 133), but then again I look at what happened to Shinobu in those 4 chapters and it's well within KA' arsenal to do this to characters that she's been writing for 3 years. I just think writing something different...
Everyone is probably in agreement on the 1st half, I'm with you for all the rest. Shinobu was needlessly done so dirty and cruelly for basically 4 chapters almost (131 was slightly more lenient with the director opportunity and Fumi time).
Fumi is most certainly not hiding anything, there's no point to have her be that type of character, if ShiKura needs to reconnect Fumi will just end up self-sacrificing at the very worst.