Soredemo Ashita mo Kareshi ga Ii - Ch. 6

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Creo que la autora intenta mantener la empatía de la FMC con sus constantes afirmaciones de "yo soy el problema" y "algo anda mal conmigo". Pero no funciona porque la conclusión a la que llegó al principio fue acostarse con otro hombre. No hay redención para esto.

El otro problema, claro, es la protagonista. Ella sugirió romper antes de empezar a acostarse con otros (aunque también había arreglado un par de sexo antes de que hablaran, jaja), pero por alguna razón, la protagonista simplemente le hizo caso. E incluso después de toda esta mierda, como que el otro se acostara con FMC y con la otra chica justo delante de él, simplemente no se cansa. Ve la libreta con todas las marcas de "no se siente bien" y sigue intentando convencerse de quedarse con ella como si fuera una damisela desinteresada.

Bueno, si se separaran, la historia terminaría al instante, así que el autor solo está tirando cosas a la pared a ver qué se pega. Pero la premisa es tan escandalosa que nada puede pegar.

FMC obviamente es una masoquista empedernida. Le gusta que la dominen y la maltraten. Por eso su "problema" con el protagonista es que es demasiado amable. Y ahora intenta convertirlo en lo que ella quiere. Obviamente no funcionará, pero se niegan a romper de todos modos porque la historia se acabaría.

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The problem it has is the “glue” that makes one character love another—the characters’ motivations that make them want to stay together, or why the protagonist tolerates a situation that bothers him and makes him feel bad. You can’t just say “they love each other” in your synopsis and expect that to be enough for the entire work. There has to be logic behind everything you do; you can’t keep changing direction. For example, two chapters ago Hina and Hikaru end by saying they’re getting married, and in the very next chapter Hina shows up again saying they’re not getting married, that they broke up. I suppose that breakup was so that Hikaru could reappear in future chapters. So... why reconcile them? So that your protagonist can be humiliated? But by doing things randomly, I think it takes away from the significance of everything that happens to him.

What I’m trying to say is that, as readers, we should be able to answer the question “Why are they together?” or “Why don’t they break up?” In this manga, the only answer we can give is “because the MC is dumb.”

Most likely the author pitched some idea to the editor, watched a partner-swapping and cuckold porn movie, took the premise and adapted it into a manga. In a porn movie, the reasoning and motivations of the characters don’t really matter (that’s why Mako just enjoys being with others and Kohai simply accepts it, no further explanation), and the author has just kept following that structure—so the plot is falling apart. For example, Mako can’t say she doesn’t enjoy sex with her boyfriend because he’s “too kind” when she was the one who agreed to date him in the first place. If she doesn’t like kind guys, she shouldn’t have started dating him. Is it because he’s her boyfriend? Then why doesn’t she go to a psychologist? These may sound like silly questions, but they affect the story, and the answers would give it meaning and prevent the classic issue of “if he/she did that, the story would end.”