Otoyomegatari - Vol. 8 Ch. 44 - When the Roses Bloom

[shazeliqa]

I’m pretty disappointed with how this story is done. to me it looks like they want to make the story sensual while somehow still keeping the innocent type of love nuance. looks like they try to use religion to make this somewhat yuri arc more convenient, while not representing said religion accurately. (just as an example, polygamy in Islam prohibits wives to live under the same roof, and mixed bath (& showing private parts to anyone in general) is prohibited except for husband and wife.)
I’d rather the author just make this a wholesome polygamous relationship instead of (religion themed) borderline yuri..

 

[yourisekaiwitchess]

okay this sisterhood is making me anxious bc yikes sharing husband

 

[DARLINGBEAR]

loveddd this little story. some of yall are being weird w it tho

 

[sf7pakistan]

I’m pretty disappointed with how this story is done. to me it looks like they want to make the story sensual while somehow still keeping the innocent type of love nuance. looks like they try to use religion to make this somewhat yuri arc more convenient, while not representing said religion accurately. (just as an example, polygamy in Islam prohibits wives to live under the same roof, and mixed bath (& showing private parts to anyone in general) is prohibited except for husband and wife.)
I’d rather the author just make this a wholesome polygamous relationship instead of (religion themed) borderline yuri..

Precisely how I think about it too, while the whole idea is cute and what not the yuri subtext that seems to have been shoehorned into it is just so out of place. Especially when this type of thing wasn't present in the culture and the author is using Religion and cherished historical practices to hammer it in. This seriously could've just been a story of a lonely wife in a gilded palace finding a friend and a sister and when her friend's husband regretfully dies, she asks her to take her in. But no we had to have yuri thrown into it because how could Japan tolerate a story of two women who were just friends. And it reeks a lot of oriental bs too, especially of their perverse fascination with Muslim women and what they do out of sight of foreign (especially foreign men's) eyes. It's disgusting as it is to turn a bathhouse into a sensual boobfest seeing how the women won't be naked like that in there. But it's even more disgusting to think that two wives must be sexually attracted to one another otherwise why would they tolerate the other being chummy with her husband. This honestly was a whiplash from the earlier chapters which were so meticulously researched and the only criticism I had about them was that why was the author deliberately shy to mention Islam seeing how important a part of their daily life and culture it was and still is.

Oh but two women living under the same roof is allowed provided they both agree to it willingly, so maybe all is not wrong with this story

 

[BuyVelomobiles]

False alarm. I guess now we move on from this NTR thing.

Now finally back to the fascinating clan dynamics of Central Asia.