hey, sorry for just writing to you but it seems like you know a lot about Sasha Chan, I'm looking for someone who can answer my questions because I'd like to know more about the manga and how it relates to the doujin. And since I saw that you wrote Hagu on twitter, I also wanted to know what his name is? I'd really appreciate it.
There are slight conflicts, but the biggest part is really the tone-shift. That and early Sasha behavior not really making much sense when you know she has done the things she has.
So that means nothing is confirmed and people are making assumptions with no serious evidence. Also I feel like there wasn't really a serious tone shift, Sasha has always been very overtly sexual and the only thing that changed is that we now know she has multiple partners.
That confirmation is by itself a pretty massive tone-shift. It recontextualizes the initial premise into one most people (I assume from the backlash) aren’t fond of.
This is the target audience. The series sat at almost full 8 stars before the retcons. The only reason it's still this high, and not at the 4.66 the recent reviews get it to is because of the bait and switch in the first two volumes. People read them ages ago, gave the series a great score, then didn't come back to read the new chapters.
Most of those examples can be easily explained with character development happening offscreen. And if minor discrepancies were a sign of retcons in the first place then something like Jojo would be constantly getting retconned.
The target audience has always been people who already liked Haguhagu's work. Anyone who followed him would have known from the beginning that this Sasha isn't a virgin.
If you mean him confirming that each doujin is directly connected to the serialized work then I don’t think so. However, with characters being introduced in the main work that was only ever found in the doujins, it is more likely than not that the they are connected (other than the IFs and Futoshi’s route).
In that case it is still possible that the exact events that happen in the doujins aren't canon and Sasha's partners are also alternate universe versions in the manga just like Sasha. And if that's the case then we can't use the doujins to predict the exact timeline of the manga or determine whether there was a retcon because of conflicts with the doujins.
It is possible yes but highly unlikely. I would like to point out that the character representation within the doujins have remained pinpoint accurate with the serialized work. Most of the doujins occurred before Sasha even meets master and her behavior has remain consistent between all works as well.
Yeah the style, tone and mood is definitely the same as the doujins since that's been the whole point since the beginning, my point is just that debating their canonicity is meaningless for the minute details like whether there was a retcon or not.
The readers that complain about the retcon were moreso thrown into the manga believing that a) the serialized work would carry a different tone than the doujins (as in Sasha wouldn’t be sleeping around) and b) have no idea of who Sasha was to begin with and are parroting what people in the comment were already saying.
The problem is, even I'm into that shit, and I don't find this appealing. It's an entire bait-and-switch, where the main premise is that this girl is fucking around and the guy is using it as inspiration for the manga. That's not what was promised from the first 30 chapters. Ecchi, as all things, needs to be upfront about what they are.
