Every character is a retard. Special props to the ex for being a cunt.
"I could tell you my side of the story and why I did what I did but I'd rather be ambiguous and prolong this shit, make everyone who I claim to like as miserable as possible, because the moment I tell the truth this series is dead."
I focus on her 'cause she's the most egregious but pretty much everyone is a sociopath.
Writing is hard but this author didn't even try.
Reading the other comment here that spoiled the reasoning for Reina's cheating, yeah, everyone is a sociopath in this shit
Natsuki just as much as Reina "I'm going to convince you your boyfriend is cheating on you when he isn't and then treat him like shit for breaking up with you" is absolutely crazy
Also why the fuck is the way Reina explains herself "So when I 'cheated' on you, I totally meant it, it was because I wanted to, I was totally 100% doing it on purpose and aware of what I was doing and also I feel zero guilt about it" when the actual situation was "I was jealous of you and your friend being close so I just wanted to test and see if having a close relationship with another guy would be okay to send if I could be okay with you hanging out with her"
Like those two things are not even remotely the same, she literally only phrases it like that to make the reader hate her more so when her reasoning is revealed later it's a bigger twist
Problem is if you make the reader hate a character enough, no amount of explaining their reasoning or reconning will undo it
Like, the fact that the author showed the way her brain works is 'if I hang out with another guy with full romantic intentions and hold hands with him fully knowing it's romantic and aware that it's crossing a line, it's not cheating' then later explaining that wasn't the situation doesn't just change the fact that we now know her brain works that way
I'm honestly more mad at myself for actually getting worked up about this. It's annoying because occasionally the stuff it says about cheating/getting cheated on actually checks out and is good. Like this most recent chapter, "if you have to ask yourself if it counts as cheating, that's probably how you know it's cheating" checks out
Then like 4 panels later the character who said that says "oh there were extenuating circumstances so it's fine actually" and it just sucks. It's walking all of that stuff back just so it can try to complicate this romcom plot more.
Like yeah the reality is relationship stuff in real life isn't super black and white and honestly if a relationship ends over holding hands with someone for 1.5 seconds and then immediately changing your mind, it wasn't a good relationship in the first place, like if they had a good relationship they would have said more than 6 words to each other when they broke up. No breakup happens that abruptly unless the people dating really just don't communicate at all. And if you aren't communicating why are you even dating in the first place.
But like. This is a story and the situation itself isn't realistic enough for me to feel like it's doing the 'relationships aren't black and white' well enough for this kind of insane behavior to be worth reading.
Also Natsuki just sucks so bad. Seriously, she gets the two characters to break up, then gets mad at one of them for breaking up. Like if the genders were swapped it'd be just as bad. She's just a genuinely horrible person.
Ahhh all this is so dumb it's just a manga and it's bad so it doesn't even deserve all the attention I'm giving it. I'm mostly just frustrated at myself for getting tricked by it into thinking it had anything going for it.
