Lily Marble - Vol. 3 Ch. 28

[MangaDex]

 

[dokidoki]

ahhhhhh yeahhhhhh finally this pairing is starting to go somewhere, feelsgoodman

 

[BaronDoppio]

good chapter but i'm growing tired of the "being cute and femenine" trope in mangas

 

[HauntedPizza]

It's nice to see her explore her identity, she didn't think she could be cute and feminine before but now having someone to help guide her, she's able to explore herself better.

 

[Lithe]

The next step is to get naked and bury yourself in the other's embrace.

 

[Jhosy]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
THE BEST COUPLE IN THIS STORY!
love them ♥

 

[Jhosy]

good chapter but i'm growing tired of the "being cute and femenine" trope in mangas

I share the same thought.
What is wrong in be a butch? Hope she can see this and be herself, femenine or not.

 

[Clarence94]

hahaha so gaay I love it.

 

[BaronDoppio]

@HauntedPizza thats cool but i'm talking when theres some sort of espectation in female characters of being "cute" i want to see more cool and handsome sort of female characters that stays that way and not like "she wants to be cute, she is a woman after all" kind of thing. you know what i mean?

 

[Monpetitlys]

Sigh, it’s cute but like... The trope of feminizing masculine women to make them palatable is wearing thin... I mean at least she thinks Tsubasa is cute and alluring when she’s masculine but... idk

 

[HauntedPizza]

Okay...but what if she just wants to be cute? And never thought it was possible with her more boyish looks, that it wouldn't fit her. I don't get what's wrong with her being allowed to explore herself.

People here keep saying what's wrong with being masculine, but also what's wrong with being cute I ask? What if someone just wants to be cute and they're not obeying any "female norms", it's just something that they want to explore for themselves.

 

[HeyLanda]

I LOVE THEMMMM

 

[breizh]

@barondoppio I get what you mean but in this particular case I think it’s fine. She is stuck and labelled as boyish and she wants to escape from that, it doesn’t seem like she’s following a social norm.
If she wants to feel cute for herself, what’s the harm ?

 

[SoloSera]

Unfortunately, I can strongly empathize with Tsubasa's situation. 😑

 

[mikl]

> "I'm in my 30s and bringing a minor over to my place"

Wait hold on how old is Tsubasa again? I'd thought she was in her early 20s (like 22 or 23), but that's still of age.

 

[stephquiroz]

loooove them!!! so kawaii!!

 

[Kiyomi-chan]

@mikl she's stated earlier in the manga to be 19. in Japan you're considered an adult when you're 20.

 

[faaresemo]

Okay...but what if she just wants to be cute? And never thought it was possible with her more boyish looks, that it wouldn't fit her. I don't get what's wrong with her being allowed to explore herself.

the issue is not with Tsubasa herself, but with the trope. of course people are allowed to explore themselves. but there's a depressingly high number of women in Japanese fiction that are written as tomboys, just to then have a mini-arc devoted to them apparently having been forced into the tomboy role all along, and that they've always wanted to be girlypop. each case on its own is fine, but all together it creates a pattern of invalidating tomboys as unnatural

ironically on the flip side, it ends up with a bunch of small storylines scattered across Japanese media that run really well as a transfem narrative. like this one in particular, having a close and accepting woman offering to do your makeup for you for the first time, and lending her clothes to boot? that's very much a real experience that a handful of trans women have. heck I had mine before I even knew transitioning was a thing