Sensitive Boy - Ch. 81 - Mahiro and Hina

[malu]

you know, the fact that Hina was upset at Mahiro's confession means she recognize her love as legitimate as any confession from a guy and not just '' a phase'' or '' but you are wrong, you can't love me, you just haven't met the right one yet !''

so hoorray i guess ?

 

[muraismuse]

I understand Hina’s point of view completely

 

[muraismuse]

I'm gonna keep it brief: Hina is stupid asf for thinking that Mahiro was never her friend just because she had feelings for her.

Did you not see the flashback of her past or are you just incapable of understanding context

 

[Goodbyefrankenstein]

I get it. As a lesbian who has had both guy and girl friends confess to me, it just sort of feels like betrayal.

But that's only if they liked you from the start, because it feels like they only got close to you due to that so your friendship was built on false pretense.

If it started off as genuine friendship, and the feelings grew from that, then nobody is really to blame. It just happens, you cant control how you feel.

 

[Sparrowhawk]

Hint for Mahiro… confess and get consent first before going in for a kiss. Poor Hina. That super sucks,

 

[Nocturnal_Jay]

FUCK I'M CAUGHT UP NO!

 

[RazeTheRaven]

Spoiler: Chapter page

I thought we were friends

No, You still ARE friends.

Guess what: my wife is my best friend despite us bonking and clapping each other's cheeks. What difference does it make, when did the sexual attraction appear? That doesn't make your friendship meaningless, or any of the moments you had, all the experience, and all the other stuff that you guys did. If anything, it just makes things complicated and in need to be sorted out. There are boundaries that need to be set. But it doesn't mean there wasn't friendship, trust or support for all these years.

No wonder Japan is in a demographic decline, if anything that this manga potrays is in any way true. Sometimes these characters act like fucking aliens.
Jesus Fucking Christ.

Hina's stupidity (which I guess is the biggest and real tragedy of this whole manga) should be enough to turn Mahiro to the straight-side, I'm not even joking. If I were in her shoes, I'd immediately nope out the fucking room, because I wouldn't want to deal with a person who is still emotionally a child.

Just bonk Asahi at this point, he's way more clever and emotionally mature than this idiot and they both are a good fit.

 

[Fari]

thx for the tl

Sad to see

but I never understand that argument, the "you didn't see me as a friend?" to someone who has feelings for you that is the same sex. Friendship and romantic feelings aren't opposite sides of relational boundaries, they are the same side with different boundaries. Im generalizing here, I get that its prolly cus of the unexpectedness of the situation and processing the feelings of the person confessing, but i don't get why people say that. Why would someone confessing to you think they wouldn't want to be friends with you. You couldn't love someone if you didn't do the stuff that is considered friendship with them. It just feels like a parasocial relationship if you are in love with someone, but didn't want to spend time with them. I also don't get that line cus what does that say about you. When people say that, I always wonder, do you not want to be friends with the people you have romantic feelings for? It doesn't make sense to me. But tbf it was clear that she was spiraling from past trauma of fake ass friends, so I sympathize with her for pulling back thinking like she was lied to.

I'm not saying shes homophobic, its clear that she wasn't expecting this at all as well as she just was non consenually kissed, so its not fair to say she's that, she's clearly not, using this moment as an example, but I never get why people use that type of line when they get confessed by someone they never thought was homosexual

I agree and also hate the idea they're mutually exclusive things instead of two things in combination for any good relationship, but considering this girl had a history with 'only people who like her would tolerate her' briefly eluded to, I do see how she could have hangups like that, thinking it's only one of the two. That's still obviously a very shallow read that is uncharitable to her best friend but I can understand how she'd think that.

Hope she'll understand soon that no obviously it's not some shallow crush that kept her by her side all this time, though. I'd say regardless her view of them being separated doesn't seem like a same sex issue IMO.

That said your assessment that you can only love someone without friendship first is... while something I agree all Good relationships need, absolutely not something a lot of relationships do have. People that go straight to dates often never view their partner as a friend, that is in fact just a reality a lot of people live, and considering she quickly met a guy and started dating him, I'd say it's very much the reality she's immersed in too.

I do get your point about how these things can be and are applied to same sex confessions in some stuff, and I can't disagree it's a bad take, but yeah I wouldn't attribute it here.
I think in the case of actual homophobic applications it might be a matter of a certain distaste for the confession leading someone to try to rationalize why they feel distaste as if it was a betrayal of friendship? Dunno.

 

[AkodoRyu]

While I'm also into the "friends and lovers are basically the same" camp, I also think it's an understandable reaction, considering her history, and the fact that they are kids with barely any life experiences. It's a nice conflict, and I'm sure they will figure it out as soon as they actually spend more than 15 seconds talking about it. Mahiro was already thinking it after all, just didn't manage to say it out loud.

 

[Stickerparty]

Hint for Mahiro… confess and get consent first before going in for a kiss. Poor Hina. That super sucks,

Yeah, I really hate kiss scenes like this. It’s really uncool to do this no matter the gender or sexuality.

 

[EchoGirl]

Dang what shitty 'friends', i think acting 'cutesy' is only annoying if you're obviously fake/only doing it to trying to get guys to like you (which would make more sense if she accidentally 'stole' a bf from one of the girls or so), like Ruby from Yumi's cells lol

I imagine most wouldn't come out to strangers so casually if you had to see them everyday as a coworker/classmate but i wonder if there are stories at the start or so like "i'm gay, we can be friends but ppl know so don't blame me if ppl start rumors about us" or something