With how people are review bombing the series and constantly posting how negative things, one would suspect otherwise. But Yes, I do agree, it's not ntr. The worse it could be is BSS, but even then, that wouldn't work given the info the WN gives us.
Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 26 - A Day Where Nothing Happened With Two People Where A Lot of Has Happened
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Okay since we’re getting a lot more (unnecessary insight because I really don’t care about this arc) it just makes me more confused about the fact that hikari had no idea her childhood friend/next door neighbor had a girlfriend and the only thing Im actually curious about now is how long were they together and why they broke up
Why would she know? She doesn't even know what goes on his school and the fact that some girl tried to confess to him in his house blindsided her, because she thought she was the only woman that might be interested in him.
I personally think they were together up until chapter 18, since Yuu's behavior was too noticeable different that even Hikari recognizes something was wrong.
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Boring boring boring. If you want conflict this way then might as well don’t hold back.
When can I get to see my cat fight.
Only author can redeem this with a proper cat fight
When can I get to see my cat fight.
Only author can redeem this with a proper cat fight
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I suspect that wouldn’t have made any difference. Except the anger would be directed in the other direction - Hikari
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BASED manga, not many dares to do this.
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Review bombing is an overused terms. People don't like the series or the direction it took and rated it appropriately to them.
Just because someone may like the series and doesn't like the fact that someone else can express their opinion is juvenile.
By the way the series is a poorly paced mess imo. People have to bring up the webnovel all the time to get context. If it was properly told in manga form that wouldn't be necessary. Also, yes I am aware that the managa adaptations usually do leave things out but this has been fairly egregious. What makes it more egregious is the writer and author are doing this together in unison. Because the manga has to stay on pace with the story released on the same day, it's unfair to the mangaka. There is not a mangaka in this world that could reimagine a web novel into a manga at the same time without leaving a lot out.
Death Note and Bakuman this is not. Those two stories are how an author and mangaka should write together.
Did you think it was a poorly paced mess before ch. 21 happened?
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Not for a romcom.
For a drama with serious elements? Yes. You need more exposition if your going to touch serious subjects.
That could have been what the author was going for too, tried to experiment and subvert expectations. The thing with subverting expectations though is that it is really hard to pull off. And it was pulled off poorly imo. Instead of most people gasping and being shocked, in a good way, he completely missed the mark and pissed off his initial audience.
He built up an initial audience for almost 8 months of what seemed something fun and fluffy to read quickly (small 4 page chapters) only to spit in a lot of their faces. Not to say that some people don't like that, but not people who thought they were enjoying a small quick romcom.
It's a shame too because I see a lot of potential with the series. They should have condensed the first 20 chapters down to about 7-9 chapters and added more elements from the web novel. I think they would have had a serious winner with that.
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Why not? Is it somehow allowed for a romcom to move at a stupidly slow pace with no progress, permanent status quo and repeated failed confessions? Where even readers laugh every time the heroine says "this time I am definitely confessing!"?
Which is exactly what's happening right now.
But that's exactly the problem. The bar for romcoms is so low and people are so used to no stake romcoms with nothing happening that they were completely happy with:
- Pacing (3 pages per 2 weeks chapters before were good but 8 pages per 2 weeks now are awful)
- Writing (compare the comments for ch 13 which were praising the writing and comments now saying author can't write for his life)
- Ignoring every single hint the author was giving them (I know that's a hindsight, but looking back everyone was really interpreting Yuu's evasive attitude and words all in favor of him actually being deeply in love with Hikari)
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Romcoms have the ability to be flexible (complex or simple), dramas can't be as flexible.
The exposition started 8 months after the start of release.
Yes the pacing was good for what it was before.
You are bringing comments from chapter 13 when there were really no good hints of what it was turning into and people saw it as a romcom. Which was appropriate for what people thought of what the genre was.
If the hints were ignored that's on the author and mangaka to present them better. Which is hard to do with so few pages. Which is why they constantly have to point them out on social media. You wouldn't have to constantly reference your own material if it was presented better.
So yes, it's overall a poorly paced and written mess for a story that could have been told much better. Which I note again, is a shame because if this was presented better it could have been more compelling because they're are good ideas here.
Don't see how the word "simple" is an excuse for no progress and status quo (speaking of low bar for romcoms again).
First 8 months were the exposition from one side of the conflict, now it's time for an exposition from the other side, and it's going great.
See the remark about the low bar.
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Title should be The Development Diaries.NTR chads just can't stop winning
On the other hand, a low bar for romcoms doesn't mean that a drama should necessarily be allowed to lower its own bar, either.
Besides, the main issue here isn't only that 20 chapters in is a bit late* to introduce a major source of drama, but that the series was essentially masquerading as something else until that point. Yes it read like a simple fluff romcom with slow pacing, but there is an established market for such things. The stakes ramped up way too suddenly, with at most 3 vague hints beforehand (of which all but one could be interpreted as Hikari already being "in").
There's also just the issue of audience. The manga drew in the fluffy/low-stakes romcom fans (hi that's me) and nearly 20 chapters in is just too far along in the plot to make such a pivot in genre without backlash from the existing readerbase.
I will say I'm curious where this is headed, but it's hard to invest myself into the series anymore because the expectation i built up for what I was reading was torn into shreds in the span of a chapter and then each individual piece was dragged across my heart to make as many papercuts as possible.
* title reference not intended
Tbf yeah, after some times, I can only grasp that the one at fault here is the guy I can’t lie. Fucking someone at his own bay while the fact is, the girl he fucks loved him so much she can’t help about it and not to mention still liking someone and being batshit insane about her while literally fucking someone and then there is this one scene that sparks the debate on these forums man, “I don’t want to fuck you anymore senpai, I will play victim and abuse my male protagonist privilege to get the girl that are unsullied that is not you, cyaa bitch”
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