Meguro-san wa Hajimete ja Nai - Vol. 11 Ch. 77 - Takes a lot of courage

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Hey, at least that one had enough common sense to recognise how fucked up the girl was. Plus, she thanked him for being her mom's ex, not for fucking.
That series is such ass but it's so goddamn funny.
I feel like this shit is softcore compared to erotica novels directed at women.
 
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That series is such ass but it's so goddamn funny.
I feel like this shit is softcore compared to erotica novels directed at women.
It's total bullshit but it's a self aware bullshit that's grounded by MC being the straight man trying to react like a normal person.
 
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Arguably, the story featuring zero actual cucking makes it even more batshit insane, because it means that Meguro caused all of the final arc drama purely due to freaking about her exams. Cheating, as vile as it is, at least has a logic that can be understood, but dumping your boyfriend because you can't take stress of the exams and then almost forgetting to tell him what the fuck were you doing is just pure insanity, unshackled from any human reason.

The most horrific part isn't that she cheated her boyfriend. It's that she did it all without any intent of cheating and remained faithful to him. Being able to casually distance yourself from your partner like that for something as mundane as stressful exams is a behaviour that's several degrees of insanity higher than normal cheating. She really is unable to actually form a proper human bonds.


As I have said, her doing all this bullshit without even a sliver of ill intent towards her boyfriend makes it much more insane than cheating would. Cheating makes you piece of shit. Putting your whole relationship on a backburner for over a month makes you a stone cold bitch.

I agree with that, to be honest. I mean, no matter what people say it wasn't an NTR arc because Meguro spent whole arc not doing anything with other men. It's much weirder/abnormal than cheating. She literally put her relationship on backburner and then proceeded to live her life without even thinking about cheating until her friends told her to quit this crap.
It didn’t feature any actual cucking, but it heavily suggested the author's inclinations throughout the entire series. The protagonist's indifference, the constant references to her many past partners, and how that might have affected her, their relationship, and their lives are all implied. However, neither she nor her partner seem to care about it. The last eight chapters, in particular, are utterly insane in how far everything escalates.

She clearly doesn’t feel "real" love for Koga—up until the end, the person she confesses to is the sensei, and we never even see her confess to her boyfriend first. Koga, on the other hand, seems willing to accept anything she does to him. This dynamic is unhealthy for both of them, and it sends a deeply disturbing message. The one trying to normalize this fetish appears to be the author, and that’s what I’m getting at. Their relationship completely unravels in those final chapters. They didn’t have a particularly "healthy" relationship to begin with, but there was still a lot that could’ve been clarified and developed for both characters—something that could have been improved.

As I mentioned earlier, if someone were to push their views onto her, suggesting that being with someone else wouldn’t affect Koga, do you really think she wouldn’t go along with it? Seriously, think about it. Even in the last chapter, people had to do everything for her because she couldn’t, even though she knew Koga would simply accept her back. And if that happened, do you think Koga would actually do anything about it? This manga is pure insanity, just as you described it yourself.
 
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It didn’t feature any actual cucking, but it heavily suggested the author's inclinations throughout the entire series. The protagonist's indifference, the constant references to her many past partners, and how that might have affected her, their relationship, and their lives are all implied. However, neither she nor her partner seem to care about it. The last eight chapters, in particular, are utterly insane in how far everything escalates.

She clearly doesn’t feel "real" love for Koga—up until the end, the person she confesses to is the sensei, and we never even see her confess to her boyfriend first. Koga, on the other hand, seems willing to accept anything she does to him. This dynamic is unhealthy for both of them, and it sends a deeply disturbing message. The one trying to normalize this fetish appears to be the author, and that’s what I’m getting at. Their relationship completely unravels in those final chapters. They didn’t have a particularly "healthy" relationship to begin with, but there was still a lot that could’ve been clarified and developed for both characters—something that could have been improved.

As I mentioned earlier, if someone were to push their views onto her, suggesting that being with someone else wouldn’t affect Koga, do you really think she wouldn’t go along with it? Seriously, think about it. Even in the last chapter, people had to do everything for her because she couldn’t, even though she knew Koga would simply accept her back. And if that happened, do you think Koga would actually do anything about it? This manga is pure insanity, just as you described it yourself.
I feel like you are overreaching with that interpretation a bit. I'm not going defend Meguro since I do agree that she's overly passive and simply lacks the capability to form a proper bond with Koga, but I'm not going to act as if what happened was NTR, since it simply wasn't. She didn't cheat. She's a serial monogamist, but not a cheater.

I think that the reason for this disaster of an arc was that author became too absorbed into the notion that this is a wholesome series that they couldn't bring themselves to actually make the meeting with shitstain sensei end with the drama it deserved. They've written themselves into the corner and tried to resolve it as fast as possible before they run out of the allotted manga chapters.
 
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WELL, I, sure as hell, am glad I remembered this existed and came to see what the comments were up to. What a hoot it's been to read the last two chapters worth of comments.
Thanks to everyone that contributed to them. I had more fun reading them than I ever did torturing myself with this garbage.:02:
Also special thanks to Shigure Scans for scanlating this so that we may have such a travesty to discuss~:salute:

PS. See y'all in the final chapter comments!:smugchisato:
 

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