Sasha-chan to Classmate Otaku-kun - Vol. 3 Ch. 33 - Only Their Secret.

[theblasblas]

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Yeah, the vast majority of manga pander to that kind of unconstructive and unrealistic conception of purity and unconditional love. It's refreshing with a work that breaks away from that frankly kind of weird fantasy. It's also not at all a done deal that she wants to go 100% exclusive with the MC at this point. She likes spending time with him, she likes him as a person, she's attracted to him physically, and that may develop into something committed at some point, but at this point, she's just having fun and feeling things out. She's never had this conception of yours that you're either 100% in love or you're not in love, and if you're in love, you must be 100% dedicated heart, body and soul to the object of your love, whether you're in a relationship or not. It's also not usually how it is in real life either, in my experience. And thinking like that tends to lead to bad outcomes. Also, neither one of them even understand what being in a relationship is about, seeing as how they have no experience with it and are still children, but they're basically in the process of starting to figure that out through this friendship.

The beauty of fiction is that it doesn't have to be like real life.

To be frank, I have been the target of such a possessive love in the past. It was annoying... it was suffocating. But fiction is free of such weight!

Going back to the specifics of this manga, I think it's clear that the MCs mere presence is enough to deter Sasha from having sex with other men*, that as long as the MC is with her she won't even look at other men, and so long as that remains to be the case, I'll be happy.

*

Spoiler

unless he asks for it, which from spoilers I've seen he does, but it's just to fulfill his curiosity as a mangaka and not a fetish of his

 

[dementati]

The beauty of fiction is that it doesn't have to be like real life.

To be frank, I have been the target of such a possessive love in the past. It was annoying... it was suffocating. But fiction is free of such weight!

Going back to the specifics of this manga, I think it's clear that the MCs mere presence is enough to deter Sasha from having sex with other men*, that as long as the MC is with her she won't even look at other men, and so long as that remains to be the case, I'll be happy.

*

Spoiler

unless he asks for it, which from spoilers I've seen he does, but it's just to fulfill his curiosity as a mangaka and not a fetish of his

I mean, her having sex with others while growing closer to him, her not having sex with others while growing closer to him, or her having sex with others for the purpose of helping him develop his craft, all of these scenarios are totally fine, plausible and do not reflect poorly on her in my book. What bothers me with the comment section of nearly every chapter of this manga are the hosts of people who project the idea that anything EXCEPT that possessive love you talk about is disgusting. I'm not saying every manga has to be realistic. I'm not saying they shouldn't read other works that are more virgin fantasy-like than this one is. It just annoys me that they seem to take offense that this work exists, continuing to read it just to rag on it every single chapter, and that this manga has an average rating in the 5s despite actually being objectively really well-written and drawn.

 

[weleasewodger]

Just leave. It's not worth it.

How so?

All he has to say is please be my girlfriend

 

[LilBurglar]

It was my fault for reading this

 

[reicchimaster]

I got curious of this manga because of the ntr memes. Author really did a good job on fckin with the readers' minds lol.

This manga is absolute madness I'm loving it.

 

[Huichelaar]

It's always fun to see a clash between a traditional interpretation of intimacy and a modern/different one. I hope this time it won't just be "Tradition wins! The end." It'd be nice if MC could learn something from this. Also, I wonder if he'll try to consult with adults instead of search engines.