Kyou wa Kanojo ga Inai kara - Vol. 8 Ch. 39 - Shared Emptiness
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If I want anything from this series, it's a Taki win though 
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I feel so bad for Taki, just find someone else and be happy together away from this mess T-T
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Mashiro being written as a completely unapologetic antagonistic figure is almost refreshing.
Every other member of the cast to this point has "sides" to them, that give rationale to their behavior and choices and thought processes at least in part. Even if you don't agree with or can't excuse what they say or do, there's something behind, that informs their worldview and decision-making.
Mashiro...doesn't have that, by all appearances. There's no genesis of trauma, no point in development wherein some incident or occurrence "created" the person she is. Perhaps it's simply not been revealed at this time, but this feels like the exact moment such a revelation would be made, if the author really were looking to ground Mashiro in some external precedence, like they have with Fuuko, Yuni, Nanase, and Yuka. Whatever the reader's feelings about each of them, there's a through-line in their story arc and characterization that shows how they've gotten to the point they're at, at least to some degree. So for Mashiro to be this wholly contained character who rejects everything that Fuuko--and Yuni, notably--is yearning for, and even actively seeks to corrupt that yearning and desire and pervert it or destroy it, makes her an outlier in my eyes.
But that's also kind of nice--there's a lack of nuance to her, in terms of any veneer of rationalization she can hide behind to defend her actions. She wears her truth openly, and by all appearances revels in it, taking joy in simply taking from others as she sees fit. There's a simplicity in her that doesn't exist in the others, and at the same time it almost makes all the rest more sympathetic. They all have reasons for their actions, whether good or bad. Mashiro simply is, and being a force that purely acts on Taki's character might have greater implications for Taki later on, and how she deals with Yuni (and by extention Nanase, and Yuka). She's never shown actively pushing back against Mashiro, after all--which to me shows Mashiro as almost a force of the narrative, rather than a person existing within the setting, coupled with her being much more straightforward than the rest of the cast. So I wonder if Taki will simply have to escape her, and will never be able to "defeat" her.
Makes this dance with Taki all the more tragic, given just how much she craves connection and some form of stability and comfort and bond with another. Mashiro capturing her at a formative point in time and twisting her to this extent makes me wonder what resolution lays ahead for Taki's character, and how that might look, and who (all) it will involve. Because if she's still being sucked in by Mashiro even after having learned the truth about what existed between them, I wonder if she can truly break away, given her apparent hopes were placed in Yuni, who is isolated in her own way fighting her own battle.
I don't see this letting off the gas anytime soon, though, and much darker days lay ahead.
Every other member of the cast to this point has "sides" to them, that give rationale to their behavior and choices and thought processes at least in part. Even if you don't agree with or can't excuse what they say or do, there's something behind, that informs their worldview and decision-making.
Mashiro...doesn't have that, by all appearances. There's no genesis of trauma, no point in development wherein some incident or occurrence "created" the person she is. Perhaps it's simply not been revealed at this time, but this feels like the exact moment such a revelation would be made, if the author really were looking to ground Mashiro in some external precedence, like they have with Fuuko, Yuni, Nanase, and Yuka. Whatever the reader's feelings about each of them, there's a through-line in their story arc and characterization that shows how they've gotten to the point they're at, at least to some degree. So for Mashiro to be this wholly contained character who rejects everything that Fuuko--and Yuni, notably--is yearning for, and even actively seeks to corrupt that yearning and desire and pervert it or destroy it, makes her an outlier in my eyes.
But that's also kind of nice--there's a lack of nuance to her, in terms of any veneer of rationalization she can hide behind to defend her actions. She wears her truth openly, and by all appearances revels in it, taking joy in simply taking from others as she sees fit. There's a simplicity in her that doesn't exist in the others, and at the same time it almost makes all the rest more sympathetic. They all have reasons for their actions, whether good or bad. Mashiro simply is, and being a force that purely acts on Taki's character might have greater implications for Taki later on, and how she deals with Yuni (and by extention Nanase, and Yuka). She's never shown actively pushing back against Mashiro, after all--which to me shows Mashiro as almost a force of the narrative, rather than a person existing within the setting, coupled with her being much more straightforward than the rest of the cast. So I wonder if Taki will simply have to escape her, and will never be able to "defeat" her.
Makes this dance with Taki all the more tragic, given just how much she craves connection and some form of stability and comfort and bond with another. Mashiro capturing her at a formative point in time and twisting her to this extent makes me wonder what resolution lays ahead for Taki's character, and how that might look, and who (all) it will involve. Because if she's still being sucked in by Mashiro even after having learned the truth about what existed between them, I wonder if she can truly break away, given her apparent hopes were placed in Yuni, who is isolated in her own way fighting her own battle.
I don't see this letting off the gas anytime soon, though, and much darker days lay ahead.
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yes, everyone knows aromanticism has high comorbidity with personality disorders.
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O SHIT! YOU'RE RIGHT!
She might be aromantic, but she's much more... she's an aromantic psychopath (or is she a sociopath... not enough information on her yet)...
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as if this manga is not toxic enough, now they introduce a legit psychopath wtf
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I feel genuinely ill after reading that
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