Ah "its so deep you peasants are not smart enough to appreciate it" autists are coming out of the woodwork again.
Overly pretentious stories like these are filled with them and they are the target audience if we are being honest.
Real, if I knew this was 80% cosplay i would’ve never touched this till it finished"This is a cosplay manga with romcom elements"
Riiiiight, because I am sure 3/4ths of the people reading this did so so they could watch the author jelq about how good the cosplay his character made is, that's ABSOLUTELY the reason people started reading this. Of course.
"It's just because it's being published, once the arc concludes and you re-read it it you will see the pacing is fine"
BS the pacing is fine, back around when Gojo was losing his mind over the textile I went back to re-read the entire manga and you can tell how the pacing starts slowing to a crawl in the Nun Muder Party, let alone the making of the fucking Haniel cosplay, I'd personally argue it already starts dragging around the middle of the school festival, when the author really starts wanking themselves over how good and genuine the cosplays Gojo makes are
And I can already fucking tell that we won't even start progressing on the rift between Gojo and Marin, we will have a chapter that shows how scared Marin is of talking to Gojo, we will have a chapter where they meet, but it will be awkward and Gojo will say something that hurts Marin, THEN we will have a chapter where Gojo realizes what he did, and THEN they will start getting contacted by the big shots so we can drag this shit even further along
??? So If I pop a boner to some sexy cosplayer I have feeling for her, never knew thats how it worked. Your second point, "he masturbated to her" so what, even tho didn't really have friends and was a shut in before meeting Marin, he is still teen boy and I for sure know if somehow one of the hottest girls in the whole school comes to your home in a bikini to get her measurments, 99% of the boys would get horny and masturbate. (I can't believe that have to explain this)Are we really gonna pretend the aftermath of the Succubus cosplay didn't happen or did you genuinely forget because it's been so long since we got some actual romance
Dude popped a fucking boner under her and... i think he masturbated thinking about her???? But because it's ACTUALLY BEEN THAT LONG since the romance was in focus people genuinely go "Oh Marin's feelings are one-sided actually".
It's GENUINELY THAT BAD
I could repeat your first line back to you. This is a slow-paced manga about cosplay with romance elements, not a romcom with cosplay in the background.
Please move on if you can't deal with it.
This also goes to everyone else complaining. Story quality's still there, art quality's still there - it's not a fast story, though, so "oh no, my life is being actively ruined!!112112121!!!"
I think this might be the mangaka thought on was happened to expectations after the anime. As one who already read since the beginning and never saw the anime, it was clear from the start that this series takes romance things as complimentary to characters, which main intentions of the series is all about cosplay.One of the reasons Tokio hated the anime adaptation of his series because the production team did not understand the emotions and intent of his characters. [...] Everything he worked so hard on until now got ruined just like that, [...]