Make Heroine o Katasetai!! - Ch. 25 - I Want to be Under the Twinkling Stars!

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I'm not gonna lie, page 18 and page 23 are some of the coolest panels I've ever seen in a romance manga.
 
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it's wild we can get romantic progress and still not know who's going to end up with who, this is a pretty talented author and it has just enough teenage angst as a cherry on top.
 
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"Primitive" generally describes something belonging to an early stage of development, or something that is basic, crude, or not advanced. Like, how is calling the primitive era primitive false? No one is saying that they're dumb in a degrading manner with it, it's just a stage of development.
The question is when does the early stage of development end? To someone from a thousand years from now aren't we primitive as we are in an early stage of development compared to them? And to someone 3000 years in the future isn't the person a thousand years into the Future Primitive compared to them? The problem is that we don't know when the early stages of development of a species actually ends.
 
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2. The narration in the Planetarium. Obviously the Summer Triangle (Vega, Altair, and Deneb) is refering to Manaka, Ayame, and Ei; but then comes a random star on Kimura which is then followed by a short conversation about how stars that are visible are the one that gets named. Which, for me, shows that Kimura doesnt just see himself as a random nameless star, but one that isn't even visible except. Which makes Manaka's moments of 'seeing' Kawashima nice to see.
Woof, that is deeper than my little anti-social brain could reach... I absolutely agree! It might not be what author-san was reaching for, but brilliant either way.
 
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Wait, we don't want her to choose Kimura? I'm a little confused...
She didn't confess to Kimura, she confessed to Ei. When Kimura fell through the rotten bridge, she went chasing after him, but here she is still confessing to Ei, so either author-san is playing a long game or Manaka is very fickle.
 
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But it's only the artist, not the writer here. They are the writer of all the pervy stuff, and it is trash. It follows the modern Japanese trend of making humour out of prostitution.
And normalising crap like idols and host clubs. Sometimes you can feel the yakuza money pouring in.
 
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She didn't confess to Kimura, she confessed to Ei. When Kimura fell through the rotten bridge, she went chasing after him, but here she is still confessing to Ei, so either author-san is playing a long game or Manaka is very fickle.
Ask yourself why she is so calm during it, why the reason she provides for why she loves him is a bunch of things that happened a long time ago, why she says "Or something like that" in a panel that obscures her eyes. Or why she doesn't even care about Ei's reply, and points him toward Manato and Ayame right away. That's not a confession made by someone who actually wants to "win". She just wants to close the book on her childhood crush and move on.

Even the line "My long hair always kept me from seeing what was right in front of me" is conspicuous. Consider how a couple of pages later she looks Kimura dead in the eyes and tells him "I don't want to lose sight of you".

There's no fickleness here that I can see. Manaka is all in on Kimura, and I don't think the author is even being particularly subtle about it.
 
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Ask yourself why she is so calm during it, why the reason she provides for why she loves him is a bunch of things that happened a long time ago, why she says "Or something like that" in a panel that obscures her eyes. Or why she doesn't even care about Ei's reply, and points him toward Manato and Ayame right away. That's not a confession made by someone who actually wants to "win". She just wants to close the book on her childhood crush and move on.

Even the line "My long hair always kept me from seeing what was right in front of me" is conspicuous. Consider how a couple of pages later she looks Kimura dead in the eyes and tells him "I don't want to lose sight of you".

There's no fickleness here that I can see. Manaka is all in on Kimura, and I don't think the author is even being particularly subtle about it.
You took the words right out if my mouth. Especially with this manga that has had insane layers of foreshadowing.
 

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