A redemption arc can be good, BUT it has to be done correctly. She can't be forgiven, but she can move on and be a better person. Hopefully the author does it well.
Honestly I’m fine with it, she actually suffered and is reflecting. Though I’m a little concerned that the new girl might have worse motives than we’re being led to believe.
people saying "redemption arc" but i feel like it won't be that way.
something tells me that maybe this new girl is the whole reason Hanabi is the way she was in the first place.
she seems like an influential figure to Hanabi and that she's known her for awhile.
essentially she might just be a perfect manipulator and secret mean girl that Hanabi looked up to and mimicked.
ngl im close to dropping this because of this "redemption" bullshit, but I will believe this manga can pull it off and hope that Im wrong,
my senses tell me that im unfortunately correct tho and that this woman is gonna be used as an excuse for what she did wrong stripping or undermining blame and things shes done