Joou-sama no Eshi - Vol. 4 Ch. 24 - Final Chapter

[RexNemorensis]

You win some, lose some, all the same to me

 

[Sifr]

>here, have your NTR yuri ending
Wow, what a cheap ass ending.

 

[feha]

Is it bad that I enjoyed that short story about the artist desert-prince more than the actual story of this manga?

 

[pharoahmutt]

Honestly this was expected and it’s hardly NTR. The MC never once returned her affections. Honestly, people are only mad because they were lowkey inserting as the MC and wanted him to get some action, even if he himself isn’t into it. This isn’t a masterpiece, but all the loose ends were tied up nicely and we get some sweet sweet yuri action. If you don’t like yuri then I guess that’s too bad but you can’t slander the story itself simply because it went into a genre you aren’t fond of.

 

[Lonewonder08]

Nice ending. A yuri route was hinted, but I was pleasantly surprised to see it realized.

 

[araarad3su]

the ending was very wholesome uwu

 

[Neushaartje]

The "sexual orientation swing" arguments are absurd. Nagase claimed to still be in love with Huzimaki but that Yukimori was "the only girl [he] could go for"; no one was "made a homosexual".

@pharoahmutt

Agreed, I enjoyed it, and I also see that I enjoyed it mostly because it appeals to my specific niche of casual sexual harassment. It had essentially a nonexistent plot, but I enjoyed the character interactions.

My ideal ending would honestly be that a weird four-way relationship develops where Yukimori admits that Miyazima is the only adult male he ever really found attractive and just goes with it; Nagase does what he does now with Yukimori, but also has sex with Huzimaki anyway; and the series ends on Huzimaki and Miyazima having sex on a dare of the other two to try it, because they're the only two only having one lover which also works out well with Miyazima being impotent, as Huzimaki is the only one of the four with a working penis, so...

That would actually be the most awesome ending ever; if the final scene is actually Yukimori and Nagase suggesting it half-jokingly but both then taking them up on the offer with "You only live once.".

@Huichelaar
>For those who'd rather blondie ended up with MC (assuming he even is the MC), would be even weirder, considering he never acknowledged blondie's flirting (to my recollection), unlike how blondie responded to the black-haired girl.

Good point; they're just mad that their self-insert didn't "get the girl" whom he wasn't even trying to get. He wanted to become a comic strip artist, not "get the girl".

@KazumaLee94
>You may find it awkward that the author treats human sexuality like a light switch that one can flip on the fly.

For that is what it is; this absurd theory of "rigid sexual orientations" has been debunked a million times by research already. Human beings are not homosexual or heterosexual but all a different shade of bisexual — and that's what this story accurately depicts in all four characters: Yukimori finds young males attractive and also seems to enjoy flirting with Miyazima; Nagase admits that Yukimori is "the one girl [he] could go for"; Miyazima is into crossdressing boys; and and Huzimaki gets turned on by females with a penis; that's the actual reality of "sexuality".

 

[BugDemon]

It's like people here have never heard of bisexuals before. There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary for Sarina to only realize she also has a certain attraction to the same sex after being confronted by it directly. This was actually set up halfway through the manga already, if you really pay attention. It was played out vague enough to go both in the friendship or romantic directions, but that's what the "coinflip kiss" was all about. It was intentional and Sarina was aware of it. She admits that she still has lingering feelings for Fuji, which just makes sense, you don't suddenly fall out of a 10 year crush like that. But ultimately Fuji never returned her feelings and she had a lot more chemistry with Yukimori all along.

Yukimori seemed to have resigned herself to being friendzoned from the start(hence why she tried to advance to college ahead of time), but that only makes her eventual "victory" all the sweeter. Nothing to complain here. I feel like her initial perversion and brashness really petered out by the later chapters (something I'm thankful for), but in retrospect she might have just sought an emotional outlet after all the shit she's been through in middle school.

Anyway, I didn't expect anything from this story itself, but am pleasantly surprised. Honestly it should not be viewed as a romantic comedy or something silly like that, but rather a slice out of the manga industry. I think Miyaji's journey here was actually quite inspiring and even emotional at times. He was definitely the central character and the most interesting. Fuji got the short end of the stick to be fair, because he is more of the gag character in it all. I however quite enjoy his development from just wanting to be a hentai artist because it was "easy" to trying to become a legit mangaka out of passion. I just wish we had gotten a bit more backstory on him and his family. In the end the whole poverty aspect was a bit underutilized.

This manga has given far more than it had any right to and that's definitely a positive for me.

 

[exxeld]

Biggest complaint is shafting the other relationships in the series just to end up with yuri sex. Sensei was easily the most interesting character and it felt like he got tossed aside in the end but such is the life of an axed manga.

 

[Xaelath]

@trapsarebetter Bruh you're everywhere on this kind of thing lmao

 

[CookieMonster]

I kinda confused why people talking about "changing sexual orientation" or "sudden ntr".
There are bisexuals you know? It just at some moment people discover that they are attracted to both sexes.
Romance relationship between Sarina and Fuji was pretty much one-sided and wasn't really prominent since the beginning of the manga. So much for "build-up" people are complaining about. The amount of that build-up were actually equally divided between Fuji and Reika routes. And while Sarina wanted have sex, Fuji didn't really give much shit about her and was thinking only about manga. It's not like they had steady romantic development or actual progress, so nothing "sudden" here. And it's not like Reika and Sarina are even real couple at the moment, Sarina still could come back to assaulting Fuji. It's just how hormon-heavy "love" works at 16. It's actually much more realistic than this "my teen first-love for entire life" manga cliche with dumb time skip to married with children future.

 

[DeerlordJ]

Some of the people commenting here have never heard of bisexuals smh

 

[Nylodale]

It’s okey to change an already heterosexual person into a homosexual but a homosexual to heterosexual is wrong?

if the straight girl became gay, then she wasn't straight to begin with

Sensei was easily the most interesting character and it felt like he got tossed aside in the end but such is the life of an axed manga.

he had the most character development of the bunch and had almost two whole chapters for himself by the end, i wouldn't say he "got tossed aside"