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LOVE-BULLET - Vol. 2 Ch. 9 - Field Trip
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Oh HELL NO! Get her another person. If the dude can’t respect a random wallflower he bumped into, being the best bf to the quiet girl on his class is too far-fetched. I smell douche material… Should have just said “sorry” and left, even if he didn’t mean it. Blaming it on the girl is… petty.
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Another straight romance? And then with this boy? Lmao. I really hope future chapters focus more on yuri romances. I just don't care about het relationships at all. if I wanted to see those, I would read literally anything else.
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well, there are ace ppl that still 'date', since you can be in a relationship and not have sex, but given how this series is about actual cupids, unless someone desperately in love/having a crush on an aro/ace target, i think they'd have plenty of other 'targets' to fill their 'quota' or whatever
or if you wanna go all the way to the extreme end, some 'escort'/brothel worker falling in love for real and needing to quit their job to be with their partner or so lol.
but for cupids other than 'having' to be reborn, or going to heaven/moving on or so after meeting the amount of points, it seems like not a bad 'afterlife job' or so , it'd be interesting if they could 'choose' to stick with this as a mentor to new cupids for centuries or so
A forced apology might be awkward but who knows maybe it'll end up with the cupids setting things up to keep seeing how 'rude' the boy is or whatever and seeing how terrible he is (if it's not some 4d plot twist for, despite her being 'shy'/she's also kinda a 'bad' person/personality issue where she likes seeing him treat other ppl badly), but irl, it can be a slippery slope of "If i apologize i can do what i want" so i can totally imagine some cases where the behavior 'escalates' and they start going "Sorry~ ;P" in some super obnoxious smarmy way but still not changing/fixing his attitude (other than a teacher watching over them and 'forcing' him to do more chores or so)
But yeah even if it was in a more 'light hearted rom com' i'm sure this boy would still be crappy (but there have been some old school shojo where there are toxic male leads/borderline abusive) but i imagine the JP side of the community (if there are public comments) would prolly be harsher on this given how heavy/tragic the last/earlier arc was
Tho i do expect to see some 'cliche flashback' where he's either some childhood friend that grew apart/moved away and 'reunited' or she sees his 'softer side' of like, taking in a kitten in the rain or some thing like that
(but understandable if ppl wanna wait like 4 more chapters to speed read past this part and enjoy the next arc [if the author doesn't troll us with some 'worse' boy target like those 'kept man' cliches that mooch off women])
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kanna's got some backstory brewing.
why'd she explode like that? where's the calm and collected kanna i know?
why'd she explode like that? where's the calm and collected kanna i know?
Ah yes, the nerdy girl falling for the delinquent trope. Girl, you can find someone better, and that guy? He can get hit by one of the cupids together with his boyfriends. They can go rearrange each other's guts behind a bush somewhere like the uncouth savages they are.
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Predictions on how this one’s gonna go
1. The two were childhood friends and the dude used to be really nice to her until they drifted apart and he changed because he’s trying to impress the “cool kids”
2. This is just a case of “I can fix him” and the girl saw a hidden nice side to the dude and now wants to bring that side of him out more
3. The dude is gay and act more harshly with the girls cause he didn’t like the way they talked to his friends/crush(?) and he’s normally not that much of a jerk (this one is the least likely to happen, but it would be interesting)
1. The two were childhood friends and the dude used to be really nice to her until they drifted apart and he changed because he’s trying to impress the “cool kids”
2. This is just a case of “I can fix him” and the girl saw a hidden nice side to the dude and now wants to bring that side of him out more
3. The dude is gay and act more harshly with the girls cause he didn’t like the way they talked to his friends/crush(?) and he’s normally not that much of a jerk (this one is the least likely to happen, but it would be interesting)
Volume 1 sold so poorly they had to make a bonus chapter begging people to buy it or they'd get the axe; since then male cupids were introduced and it's been all straight couples. I don't think it's a quota, more like an editor tapping the author on the shoulder and telling them to pivot away from yuri. If it was selling well they wouldn't care.
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You might be doing too much conjecture—if anything there's been more hints that the publisher is pushing the yuri aspect of this series (especially to help promos). After Volume 1 released, inee on twitter said her editor gave her the OK to add the "yuri" tag to the series on Comic Walker and Nico Nico (where the digital releases in Japan happen). And during her promo month of the Volume 1 in September, she had a sponsored PR article for Volume 1 released on Yuri Navi, a big Japanese yuri site that tracks yuri releases and makes review/interview articles of yuri series. That kind of advertising was either initiated by her editor/publisher or OKed by them, so it wouldn't make sense for them to start pushing the series as yuri and pressure inee to add more straight couples at the same time.
Even from the beginning, the story didn't shy away from adding male characters or considering them as "equal love candidates" to the female characters. The couple Koharu helped in Chapter 1 was a straight couple too. This story may have a strong yuri leaning (and potential yuri end for Koharu), but even from the beginning, it's never sold itself as the type of yuri that would only feature girls and yuri while straight couples and boys are ignored or demoted to faceless NPCs.
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Is this even yuri anymore? It keeps focusing on het couples, the cupids can't even fall in love with each other... where exactly is this going? Maybe there'll be some workaround with the cupids but I didn't come to watch heteros, I want yuri. Feels misleading at this point.
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Does a story need to only have women exist and only features lesbian couples to be considered yuri?
While the story is about Cupids, romance is not the main genre, it's only one alongside action and drama. The action and drama elements are much stronger than romance, so you shouldn't be expecting a straightforward "girl meets girl and the whole plot is them coming together". It's a more general coming-of-age story that has telegraphed romance in the future for our main character.
If you're worried about Koharu's sexuality, she has clearly expressed regrets that a Cupid didn't shoot her to fall in love with Aki and outright states feelings could have been mutual if she hadn't died, so we know she's not straight. Chapter 7 established that Koharu's main goal is to gather enough karma to 1) reunite with Aki as a human and 2) fall in love once she goes back, which is something Kanna promised to help her with. There doesn't have to be any "workarounds" with the Cupids because they'll all be able to fall in love again once they reincarnate and return to their human lives. The story has telegraphed that it's going there with Koharu, and we'll likely see whether her senpai Cupids are planning to reincarnate too/join her as the story goes on.
