Dameinu Kanojo - Ch. 5

[thewomanliest]

sakurako needs to lock in 😭

 

[Manko-sensei]

I really hope Sakurako gets her act together.

I get the gimmick the author's going for, but one can fail and flounder only so much before it stops being cute and starts to become embarrassing, especially since she's the one trying to be so tough - it feels less "oh she's trying to top but she's just a bottom" and more "she's talking a big game but is actually just incompetent", and it feels like a distinction with significance.

But, thank you for the chapter. Looks like another person's going to get fully mixed into this now, too.

I actually feel like, in the middle of all this clumsiness, what the author is aiming for was making the new girl (the protagonist) clash with some of her girlfriends. Maybe it started with "the bottom who wants to be top" but what I see is a top who's tired of being top, that's why she's enjoying all this. In fact, this yandere-ish girl is the opposite to the protagonist and who knows how are the others, but for now I can see why our horny dog is seeking so much attention.

 

[zerio]

I get the feeling the story is going the route of making Yuhi's other friends with benefits bad people to justify her eventually cutting ties with them. Chiwa was shown tracking Yuhi's location this chapter for example. It seems the relationships Yuhi formed with these other girls aren't actually carefree like Yuhi currently assumes them to be.

As for Sakurako, my prediction is that she'll eventually achieve her goal of breaking Yuhi's heart by accident. Like say if Yuhi becomes more invested in her and then Sakurako gets closer to her friend Saki or something.

This is just my guess.
But I'm assuming that the one who gave Yuhi the necklace was her first gf. She rejected MC because she did have a gf. But then she got dumped; she felt lost and started playing around. And that's why she was carefree.

That said I find it interesting that we get a playgirl in a yuri manga.
Yuri harem exists, but I don't think that's where this manga is going.

 

[Ninoren]

I get the feeling the story is going the route of making Yuhi's other friends with benefits bad people to justify her eventually cutting ties with them. Chiwa was shown tracking Yuhi's location this chapter for example. It seems the relationships Yuhi formed with these other girls aren't actually carefree like Yuhi currently assumes them to be.

As for Sakurako, my prediction is that she'll eventually achieve her goal of breaking Yuhi's heart by accident. Like say if Yuhi becomes more invested in her and then Sakurako gets closer to her friend Saki or something.

Sakurako deserves better anyway, it's really weird to try and make "romance" work in that setting, while simultaneously showing the interest casually doing a plethora of other girls.

Honestly, even if they turn out to be psycho's it's on Yuhi for humouring it, girl speaks in third person and has ur classic crazy hairstyle 😶

Just hope it won't try and depict Yuhi as innocent Victim, considering the shamelessness we've been shown

 

[Mistilteinn]

Just hope it won't try and depict Yuhi as innocent Victim, considering the shamelessness we've been shown

While Yuhi's heartbreak is likely how she got started on her current path, I don't think the story is going to ignore that her choices since then have all been on her. Sakurako's internal narrations have included calling Yuhi out on her shamelessness, noticing that Yuhi lies to her when it's convenient, and also how manipulative Yuhi can be when she wants something or tries to smooth over someone calling her out on her behavior.

The current situation is all of Yuhi's making. Yuhi wants convenient friends with benefits for attention, affection, and sex. She'll humor what she observes to be their desires, but she really only cares about herself. This is what is causing Chiwa's meltdown. Now that it's becoming clearer to her that Yuhi doesn't really care about her outside of empty words when they're together, she wants payback for being neglected.

I consider the irony of the situation that Sakurako will have her "revenge" in a way. By just coming back into Yuhi's life, she was able to make enough of an impact on Yuhi to grab her attention, so that Yuhi starts treating her friends with benefits worse, resulting in her carefree lifestyle being brought to a forcible close. I also don't see Sakurako immediately agreeing to accept Yuhi when this happens. It'll likely be a rejection for some time due to Yuhi's current behavior leading to Sakurako being unable to trust her.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I also don't see Sakurako immediately agreeing to accept Yuhi when this happens. It'll likely be a rejection for some time due to Yuhi's current behavior leading to Sakurako being unable to trust her.

Which, if the previous person is correct about Yuhi's first girlfriend and subsequent transition into playgirl behavior, and you have an accurate read on how Sakurako both factors into Yuhi's shift of behavior toward her other FWBs and that Sakurako might reject Yuhi based on Yuhi's actions and mindset - that could be the catalyst for Yuhi to begin to change her ways - maybe see a chance to have a happy relationship again, that she'd given up on after that first breakup, and slowly push her toward giving up the playgirl life in favor of building a deeper relationship with Sakurako.