The last probably 2-3 volumes of this are where the story really just.. nose dives into the ground. I finished this in 2020 but read Scum's Wish recently and saw Domekanojo recommended, honestly crazy considering the train wreck this series turns into. It's one of the few series to truly disappoint me by the end. This ending is by far one of the most horrendous i've ever read, It's done so poorly that I genuinely wish Sasuga won't ever get serialized again over it. It's such a crazy bastardization of everything that the story built and I never want to see her do something like this again.
Domestic na Kanojo
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Time to re read this!
Also unpopular opinion: Ending makes sense, but the execution was terrible. Rushing faster than my dad going to get milk
Also unpopular opinion: Ending makes sense, but the execution was terrible. Rushing faster than my dad going to get milk
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After the reread I still think it is unironically one of the best romance manga I have read
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I changed my mind. After a reread, I agree with the ending but it feels very rushed which made it not very well received. Other than that it's a straight 10/10
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THIS ENDING SUCKSS WTF
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I waste 6 hour reading this shit . The story is good but the ending is so ass ... fuck man what the fuck ... now i know why this manga only 6.3
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What a shit ass ending, I hope the author suffers from stage 4 cancer and dies a painful death for that ending. Everything was perfect till ch270 so why switch up all of the sudden? Goddammit gotta read the fanfictions now to override my pain.
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My wife and I had been friends with this other couple for years. It was only after a while that the wives had started talking, and both found out that we the husbands had been involved in the Hina-Rui wars in the 2010s. Up until then, we had never said a word about it, never mentioned it. It was so divisive, it was like having an alcoholic father, "Shhh, we don't talk about that!" And the manga fandom had been like that with Domestic Girlfriend, and it's been only very recently that Gen X and the Millennials are starting to say, "What happened? What happened?"
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Kei Sasuga's Domestic Girlfrend manga began in obscurity. It ended, six years later, in failure, witnessed by the entire manga world. It was begun in good faith by a decent artist out of fateful lack of planning, artistic over-confidence, and editorial miscalculation. And it was prolonged because it seemed easier to muddle through than to admit that it had been caused by tragic decisions, made under a series of editors, belonging to multiple editorial philosophies.
Domestic Girlfriend seemed to call everything into question: The value of sacrifice and love; the qualities of cruelty and mercy; the candor of the artists' intentions, and what it means to be a manga fan. And those who read through it have never been able to erase its memory, have never stopped arguing about what really happened, and who was to blame, why everything went so badly wrong - and whether it was all worth it.
"In waifu wars, there is no victory. There is only destruction. Some may celebrate the triumph or defeat of this waifu or another, but it is all hollow. Only those who never fought like to talk about who won or lost."
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Kei Sasuga's Domestic Girlfrend manga began in obscurity. It ended, six years later, in failure, witnessed by the entire manga world. It was begun in good faith by a decent artist out of fateful lack of planning, artistic over-confidence, and editorial miscalculation. And it was prolonged because it seemed easier to muddle through than to admit that it had been caused by tragic decisions, made under a series of editors, belonging to multiple editorial philosophies.
Domestic Girlfriend seemed to call everything into question: The value of sacrifice and love; the qualities of cruelty and mercy; the candor of the artists' intentions, and what it means to be a manga fan. And those who read through it have never been able to erase its memory, have never stopped arguing about what really happened, and who was to blame, why everything went so badly wrong - and whether it was all worth it.
"In waifu wars, there is no victory. There is only destruction. Some may celebrate the triumph or defeat of this waifu or another, but it is all hollow. Only those who never fought like to talk about who won or lost."
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Lixo por ser hétero, lixo por ser incesto, protagonista lixo e lixo por existir
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this is an amazing work. all characters have interesting roles for the development of the story. the complications run smoothly which makes me impatient to read the next chapter. thank you sasuga kei! i really like your story and also maybe this is the most memorable one for my life.
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Peak Drama Romance. The ending is mixed feeling. I had fun reading this. Can see the character development and the thought of writing every plot.
Sometimes reading it makes me feel happy, sad, hate, jealous, petty, etc.. I mean damn! What a Roller-coaster ride.
It peaked my interest even though I'm not into drama. I really cried out this one. I also once wanted to punch someone while reading some part, which I needed timeout reading, then continue after. Author really did bring out readers emotions on this one.
Sometimes reading it makes me feel happy, sad, hate, jealous, petty, etc.. I mean damn! What a Roller-coaster ride.
It peaked my interest even though I'm not into drama. I really cried out this one. I also once wanted to punch someone while reading some part, which I needed timeout reading, then continue after. Author really did bring out readers emotions on this one.
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What a waste of a manga... genuinely just threw the relationship build up between natsuo and rui. Way too rushed
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Terrible ending. Extremely rushed.
I think what pissed people off the most is Sasuga's absolute refusal to entertain the idea of having an even just semi-polyamorous ending of any kind, like sure you can still have a "single marriage" (legal stuff) but come on. The idea of two close sisters who love each other and sacrifice for each other as much as Sasuga depicted could certainly lead to them being completely happy with sharing a boyfriend/husband. People all over the world do it all the time, although it's rare for the women to be actual sisters.
Instead Sasuga focuses on the completely unrealistic, ridiculous idea of the losing heroine somehow still being emotionally ok with remaining as domestic help, also working a super stressful fulltime job (professional executive chef is one of the most stressful jobs in the world), both for up to 20 years (roughly the amount of time it would take for their shared child to fully become independent in Japan).
Because of how Rui "breaks up" with the Natsuo while she is pregnant with their kid (discarding the marriage paperwork and removing the jewellery symbolizing their love), the implication is that the relationship is sexless and platonic yet somehow "faithful" with no one getting any on the side while they live together - Sasuga spends literally zero pages examining the domestic relationship dynamics of Natsuo and Rui after they've "broken up" - leaving readers pissed off and completely unsatisfied. She also doesn't explain how Hina factors in at the house with raising the child or how domestic responsibilities are split after she wakes up and recovers her physical health. They showed more of that domestic shit while there was only fumbly immature dating going on for fucks sake.
Terrible authorial decision, and she had bad editors that let her do it (or at the very least couldn't convince her to go on for at least one more volume).
All of this could have been solved by having Rui and Natsuo marry, then mutually agree to separate/divorce if Hina woke up, or even just open the marriage to include Hina with a private committment ceremony (not legally sanctioned). Not complicated and everyone would have been happy with that ending. Manga readers have seen weirder romances. Hina even makes it sound like she'd be OK with sharing with Rui, and is utterly reluctant to compeltely "take" Natsuo away from Rui. Rui has to yell at her and get angry in order to convince her to take Natsuo fully away from her. Utterly ridiculous.
Instead Sasuga shoe-horns some weird idea that Rui's "love story crossed the finish line" as if that's a thing that happens. You're either in love with someone or you're not, and it's obvious Rui did not fall out of love with Natsuo and is just doing some weird sister loyalty shit. She also openly states that she's done with romance and will never take another lover - which also implies she's still emotionally "taken" by Natsuo and is unable to "betray" him despite literally giving him away. So weird. Sasuga wanted so badly to make sure readers understood this "Rui will never take another lover and will be alone after her kid is grown up" idea that she even showed the weird pushy guy who works with Rui realizing he's been permanently friend-zoned and deciding to "give up" on her during the wedding reception event.
It's also possible for a man to be fully in love with two women at the same time. In fact it's mundane and commonplace. Writing Natsuo in such a way as to appear incapable of such just makes him look even more indecisive and more emasculated than he already was. He's the poster child for what an emotionally weak and unready man looks like.
This ending is just some weird compulsion Sasuga has with only endorsing/depicting monogamous couples, even though she spent chapter after chapter building up a vibe between the sisters that made it seem like polyamory was OK with both of them because of their deep filial love for each other as sisters and not necessarily needing to wholly "possess" Natsuo on their own (given how easily they seem to be willing to pass him back and forth between each other).
I think what pissed people off the most is Sasuga's absolute refusal to entertain the idea of having an even just semi-polyamorous ending of any kind, like sure you can still have a "single marriage" (legal stuff) but come on. The idea of two close sisters who love each other and sacrifice for each other as much as Sasuga depicted could certainly lead to them being completely happy with sharing a boyfriend/husband. People all over the world do it all the time, although it's rare for the women to be actual sisters.
Instead Sasuga focuses on the completely unrealistic, ridiculous idea of the losing heroine somehow still being emotionally ok with remaining as domestic help, also working a super stressful fulltime job (professional executive chef is one of the most stressful jobs in the world), both for up to 20 years (roughly the amount of time it would take for their shared child to fully become independent in Japan).
Because of how Rui "breaks up" with the Natsuo while she is pregnant with their kid (discarding the marriage paperwork and removing the jewellery symbolizing their love), the implication is that the relationship is sexless and platonic yet somehow "faithful" with no one getting any on the side while they live together - Sasuga spends literally zero pages examining the domestic relationship dynamics of Natsuo and Rui after they've "broken up" - leaving readers pissed off and completely unsatisfied. She also doesn't explain how Hina factors in at the house with raising the child or how domestic responsibilities are split after she wakes up and recovers her physical health. They showed more of that domestic shit while there was only fumbly immature dating going on for fucks sake.
Terrible authorial decision, and she had bad editors that let her do it (or at the very least couldn't convince her to go on for at least one more volume).
All of this could have been solved by having Rui and Natsuo marry, then mutually agree to separate/divorce if Hina woke up, or even just open the marriage to include Hina with a private committment ceremony (not legally sanctioned). Not complicated and everyone would have been happy with that ending. Manga readers have seen weirder romances. Hina even makes it sound like she'd be OK with sharing with Rui, and is utterly reluctant to compeltely "take" Natsuo away from Rui. Rui has to yell at her and get angry in order to convince her to take Natsuo fully away from her. Utterly ridiculous.
Instead Sasuga shoe-horns some weird idea that Rui's "love story crossed the finish line" as if that's a thing that happens. You're either in love with someone or you're not, and it's obvious Rui did not fall out of love with Natsuo and is just doing some weird sister loyalty shit. She also openly states that she's done with romance and will never take another lover - which also implies she's still emotionally "taken" by Natsuo and is unable to "betray" him despite literally giving him away. So weird. Sasuga wanted so badly to make sure readers understood this "Rui will never take another lover and will be alone after her kid is grown up" idea that she even showed the weird pushy guy who works with Rui realizing he's been permanently friend-zoned and deciding to "give up" on her during the wedding reception event.
It's also possible for a man to be fully in love with two women at the same time. In fact it's mundane and commonplace. Writing Natsuo in such a way as to appear incapable of such just makes him look even more indecisive and more emasculated than he already was. He's the poster child for what an emotionally weak and unready man looks like.
This ending is just some weird compulsion Sasuga has with only endorsing/depicting monogamous couples, even though she spent chapter after chapter building up a vibe between the sisters that made it seem like polyamory was OK with both of them because of their deep filial love for each other as sisters and not necessarily needing to wholly "possess" Natsuo on their own (given how easily they seem to be willing to pass him back and forth between each other).
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