Basically the way I would explain this series is that the author looked at Adachi & Shimamura, noticed how those two are desperately in need of therapy and went, "Wait but you never actually deal with any of that in the story, they just get together eventually! It would be more interesting if...
I think one of the strengths of this story is that while they have a weird messed up relationship with plenty of weird kinky stuff, the author never mistakes that for the endgame. A lot of stories like this have some weird power imbalance or consent issues and you can tell the author is like...
The one bit about a boyfriend was Sendai's friend bitching, not Sendai. I'd have to double check the manga chapters, but from what I remember in the books
I like YoshiMako as a story about a girl kinda fucking up a friendship because she's into the friend. It's very high school. I'm undecided if Mako's actually conscious about being into Yoshida or if she thinks she's just really extra invested in being friends, but either way she's definitely...
Feels like an understandable push-back against the like, literal decades of yuri being almost exclusively cute fluffy chaste romance.
One of the things I really like about this series is how
It never quite becomes text, but in Girlfriend, Girlfriend one of the ongoing subtextual gags is that the harem isn't actually Naoya's, it's basically Saki's. She's the one who decides who's allowed into their polycule, she's blatantly attracted to some of the other girls, she is super into the...
"I'll pay you to hang out with me once a week"
"Whoa hey I'm not into sex with girls and I definitely don't want to lick your toes!!!"
We got a regular Ucchi over here. That's just immediately where your mind goes as the only possible explanation, huh Sendai?