I Can Die For You - Vol. 1 Ch. 3
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The teacher is spot on with his analysis of her. I don't think things are going to move in the direction of reconciliation, but it's probable Nemu has to "overcome" how easily swayed she is to make progress with the teacher.
Cottoncandy is an interesting name. Maybe because it is sweet but dissipates quickly? Or is "full of air?"
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Honey, shoujo before 2018 had it all like this. It was all normal. Date toue teacher and marry them? Normal shoujo. The point of shoujo is that it's the romance we fantasize but know it's never gonna happen so that's a good thing.
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She's in high school. Everyone is boy/girl crazy in high school. Lots are like that.
Cotton candy suits her imo.
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I expected our girl to be different and laser-focused on the bad idea in front of her! I mean, I'm specifically disappointed that she was able to recognize that Kei's argument made sense and that faraway, abstract concepts like 'the future' were even worth considering.
I think you're onto something, where the theme of the whole series is that "when you take pulp heisei shoujo and swap the leads for a couple certifiable lunatics, very little changes."
What I was hoping for, and what the first couple chapters suggested to me, was that the joke was going to be "when you take the worst personality traits of shoujo lead archetypes, acknowledge them as unhealthy, and then dial them all up to 11, absolute chaos follows" where these two idiots would be pointlessly topping one another in craziness every week. I want to be able to root for Nemu to overpower Rindou through sheer determination and overbearing love alone, and I want her to learn nothing along the way because she's perfect just the way she is.
First couple chapters totally felt like they captured the stupid, manic energy of being Nemu in love, equally breathless and brainless, and I liked it a lot. I don't really want a story about how "actually Keippi's a decent but lonely guy that's unconditionally in love with the girl who groomed him into something that bores her," because that's super sad and I'm not great at turning off that part of my brain. I wanted him to be an obsessive idiot playboy who's easy to laugh at when all his usual PUA shit explodes in his face because of how unhinged his target is.
I'll still be reading and hoping to be pleasantly surprised by whatever this DOES turn out to be.
What I was hoping for, and what the first couple chapters suggested to me, was that the joke was going to be "when you take the worst personality traits of shoujo lead archetypes, acknowledge them as unhealthy, and then dial them all up to 11, absolute chaos follows" where these two idiots would be pointlessly topping one another in craziness every week. I want to be able to root for Nemu to overpower Rindou through sheer determination and overbearing love alone, and I want her to learn nothing along the way because she's perfect just the way she is.
First couple chapters totally felt like they captured the stupid, manic energy of being Nemu in love, equally breathless and brainless, and I liked it a lot. I don't really want a story about how "actually Keippi's a decent but lonely guy that's unconditionally in love with the girl who groomed him into something that bores her," because that's super sad and I'm not great at turning off that part of my brain. I wanted him to be an obsessive idiot playboy who's easy to laugh at when all his usual PUA shit explodes in his face because of how unhinged his target is.
I'll still be reading and hoping to be pleasantly surprised by whatever this DOES turn out to be.
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