Dore ga Koi ka ga Wakaranai - Ch. 53

[Hresvelg_]

Poly? All these girls just want to date the MC. But the MC doesn't really deserve any of them, so why would you want a harem ending

 

[nameless0ne]

These dorks deserve each other!

 

[DaoFox]

the way each love interest has a particular sensual bias for getting attracted to her is just too tasty. I really love the psychology going on with each of the girls.

I can't choose a single girl to favour over the others T-T even the first love girl seems nice. aaah please author-san do right by our easily falling in love girl.

 

[KitsuKyouno]

Well, Maria doesn't knos that Mei is turning down one by one

 

[DoboDoboDobo]

Poly? All these girls just want to date the MC. But the MC doesn't really deserve any of them

You just described a harem manga.

 

[Jhosy]

Man, this story is really crazy.
Like one chapter Maria-sensei was all angst drama because she couldn't be together but wanted to and then she is pushing another girl to the playground I mean...
It felt like a filler chapter but there is no information if it was so....What is even going on!?

 

[faaresemo]

oh dang, I certainly didn't expect that we'd get a loser's gallery making color commentary. that's kinda cool

I can't even remember why they all want mei's love lol.

Poly route would be interesting but as always, maria-sensei is where it's at <3

Riri likes how Mei feels
Maria likes Mei for her looks
Karin likes how Mei tastes
Kaoru likes Mei's girlstink
Minato likes Mei's voice

are people actually thinking this is poly?

I did
from the start until like 15 chapters ago
each new chapter since the beach house has been making it more and more clear that it's doomed poly

heck, even just looking at the cover art has it made clear. volume 7 just released with all 6 girls on the cover. if it was gonna be a poly end, that would be the final cover
the first 6 covers were each character being featured
with rumors this is ending soon here, the final volume count would be 8. and the last cover is probly gonna be high school crush alone, or Mei with high school crush

 

[faaresemo]

that said while poly would now be a cop out, I don't think we can get an ending that's not a cop out anymore

• poly? cops out of the final trajectory of the series
• single? cops out of the entire premise of the series
• high school crush? cops out of actually developing chemistry of the endgame victor
• Maria? cops out of being interesting (it would have to end on a timeskip where Mei just somehow managed to luck into being faithful for 3 more years lmao)
• the other 3 rejects? cops out of the emotional damage of having to see them make their resolutions

at this point the only ending that won't feel like a cop out will be Riri and that's just gonna feel weird for other reasons. and that's contingent in how this date plays out
but also that will just put us in "first girl wins" trope and I doubt we all wanna retread that ground again

p.s. yes I know Maria is the favored of the forums. we all want mommy to step on us, and we're all using Mei as an audience surrogate to get that. but she plays just like any other teacher romance story that we've read 20 times

 

[arcosapphire]

Doesn’t poly seem a cop out? Mei has rejected all her love interests and I have a feeling she’ll reject Maria sensei in the end as well.
Mei still doesn’t know what she wants and is aimlessly going on along…

Perhaps that's because no single choice feels satisfactory to her and she doesn't realize there's an alternative.

A lot of poly people in the world believe they have no choice but to have monogamous relationships, and never really feel complete. If they finally discover they don't have to stuff themselves into that box, it can create considerable liberation.

 

[Prismatic-chan]

i have never seen a good harem in my entire life, apart from a single one:
The Death Defying Princess Creates a Yuri Harem to Survive

not only is it not making any empty promisses and says what it is exactly in it's title, but it also delivers.
it just delivers, all the time, every single time, and it keeps it coming.
at least i can see Maria getting all the girls, i'm 100% supporting her conquest.

meanwhile, Soraike is absolutely useless.

 

[dogmeister238]

Hm...maybe the polyamory is back on. If it was ever off in the first place

I mean gay marriage isn’t legal in Japan anyway so might as well go all the way with harem endings right? It’s not like there are legal issues with it with marriage off the table anyway.

 

[dogmeister238]

Perhaps that's because no single choice feels satisfactory to her and she doesn't realize there's an alternative.

A lot of poly people in the world believe they have no choice but to have monogamous relationships, and never really feel complete. If they finally discover they don't have to stuff themselves into that box, it can create considerable liberation.

Poly relationships are kind of a lot of work though, especially if everyone else is monogamous towards one person, cuz then that one person has to do like 5 times the work (in this case).

Also, I haven’t really seen any mangaka write a good poly ending. It’s always depicted in a sort of gag or unserious way that doesn’t progress commitment/take the relationship to the next level and leaves it kind of open.

 

[arcosapphire]

Also, I haven’t really seen any mangaka write a good poly ending. It’s always depicted in a sort of gag or unserious way that doesn’t progress commitment/take the relationship to the next level and leaves it kind of open.

There are a couple of exceptions, but I haven't seen it done in a long series, just short ones.