yoshida should figure out a way to get the fuck our of there before komi gets to them.
komi is fucking autistic. like, unironically. she is literally on the spectrum. she's an unhinged sperg.
So are Tomoko, Yuri, Futaki, (edit: Sayaka too) and Tomoki himself. Kotori is not compatible with Tomoki because of being too similar to Tomoko. Sachi is a '''high-functioning''' sociopath obsessed with social rules and subversion. Wouldn't work with Tomoki who would find the lack of honesty a pain in the ass. Kotori is sincere, but can't keep it to herself in public. Yoshida is the only one that has real tension with him and could get emotionally intimate.
8 years that got nowhere.
Multiple gay characters? The only characters confirmed lgbt at all are Tomoko, who's clearly bisexual, and Emoji, who's always treated as a punchline, everyone else is open to interpretation.
Fandom being yuri leaning is meaningless since that don't stop many works of being bait that goes nowhere or even outright end in het.
And the group translating it is also meaningless.
Problem isn't simply that last year has been dragging Tomoki and the festival plot lines, but that in this time all plot related to him have been unquestionably romantic, even if he has no interest in any of the girls.
Literally 4 girls wanting to get into his pants, with Yoshida and Sachi maaaaaybe actually getting somewhere in the long run.
Sure it's obviously played for comedy, but it's still more or less straight up using harem plot we see in het romance manga unironically.
Meanwhile none of the yuri subtext was taken seriously, Tomoki had more actual romantic progress in 1 year than Tomoko had in fucking 8 years.
And as a bonus we are basically canonically losing Mako x Yoshida pairing, which was also always treated as a joke.
Seriously, makes it feel like all the yuri teasing so far was nothing but bait.
You might not want to see things too much in a negative light, but I know better than to trust or have expectations from non yuri authors.
I think no character is confirmed, we only get varied amounts of Bayesian evidence for each. Really strong for Tomoko and Emiri, moderate for Asuka, weak for the others. Did I miss some Word Of God?
oh god that face
shes too good for him and likewise he deserves a normal woman or no one
This story is about how all characters are real human beings that can all be a little socially awkward. Yoshida has no experience hiding her feelings unlike Sachi. Her awkward expression there is not that unexpected. A nice thing of Watamote is it shows how not even neurotypicals have perfect social skills. Truth In Television as far as I've observed.
Also remember that the characters are still teenagers, even if the audience is no longer, so we might project expectations and personalities of our stage of life in characters that are still green. (Sachi has had awkward moments too!)
Do you remember the poll for "favorite pairings". I think it was very clear what that was about. Btw, the top 20 results were:
- Tomoko and Yuri (19,485)
- Tomoko and Nemo (10,189)
- Tomoko and Ucchi (6,505)
- Sachi and Koharu (5,840)
- Yuri and Nemo (5,696)
- Tomoko and Asuka (4,973)
- Tomoko and Tomoki (4,408)
- Tomoko and Kotomi (2,858)
- Mako and Yoshida (2,616)
- Tomoki and Sachi (2,383)
- Tomoko and Yoshida (2,218)
- Tomoko and Yuu (2,189)
- Hokari and Kotomi (2,104)
- Koharu and Futaki (1,838)
- Tomoko and Megumi (1,736)
- Tomoko and Sasaki (1,726)
- Tomoki and Yoshida (1,565)
- Tokomo and Shizuku (1,522)
- Yuri and Yoshida (1,408)
- Tomoko and Kiko (1,364)
Granted, that was a few years ago at this point, but they still wrote obviously shippy one-shots for the top five. So while I think this arc has gone on too long, I don't really think it's justified to be massively betrayed or whatever. Given the history and the fanbase of the manga, they'd have to be pretty fuckin' dumb to just ditch that. I say that, but then again, remember what Kaishaku did with Amnesian? Jesus fucking christ that was bad.
Of the Tomoko pairings, only Tomoko x Asuka and Tomoko x Nemoto make sense. Tomoko has had no sexual tension with anyone else. A lot with Asuka and not much on Nemo's part. Tomoko maybe sees her that way but does Nemo?
Tomoko could go out with Emiri out of curiosity if the had the guts to confess, but it probably wouldn't go far.
Yuri is jealous for Tomoko's attention, similar to Sachi and Koharu. But those are emotional dependence. Koharu is childish and dependent, and Sachi is used to Koharu's attention. Fear of abandonment? Narcissist need for attention? Anyway, jealously doesn't happen in romance alone. Weak evidence, would be very surprising if Sachi and Koharu ended together.
There are a lot of jokes with Mako being a lesbian, so much ships with her, but I really can't see any evidence. What did I miss?
Honestly, I think Yoshida is the only solid character that could get with Tomoki. Everyone else are a bit too weird. Maybe once Tomoki gets over his prejudice with Yoshida, he could appreciate her.
It's not a matter of being weird; they all are. Given autism is strongly genetic, Tomoki is probably just well-masked and high-functioning. Or just barely neurotypical.
This is a matter of compatibility. As I said, I think Yoshida is more compatible with Tomoki.
Agreed, especially the part about it's probably because he's the only male character they could use.
In lack of a better term, Tomoki is too much of a "normie" to be in his sister's universe and should be left alone as an unfortunate bystander / side character to her shenanigans as it was before.
Kiko (the cousin) and Emoji's dynamic was the best interaction I've read in a while.
I remember Nemo used to hang out with some guys in her circle before befriending Tomoko, but I guess the story has gone way too far to explore their development. Glasses Guy shows up once in a while but it's probably too late.
I'm also biased because I just really dislike Sachi. Her story with Minami just gives a toxic vibe to me and I honestly just skim through whenever they show up.
And no worries about the ranting
we're all just expressing out our frustration with the Tomoki/cultural festival arc. We have to get it out of our system and get ready for the next one. Ranting in the internet is a-ok
Tomoki doesn't completely feel like a normie.
Yeah if the story keeps spawning arcs for secondary characters in the arc, and more for the secondaries in those we'd en up with seven billion arcs. I find it very nice that we can see the social dynamics and thoughts of so many characters that feel like real people (anime was not a mistake) and move from the protagonist-centered view and Tomoko as cringe humor phase. It's great that we get to know all these loners and non-loners but it can get very dilluted and having so many long arcs at once, which guarantees some long periods of being in an arc with characters or plots that some don't like.
But it doesn't feel like the author is trying to please everyone. I think they are writting whatever they want, and so far, it's awesome.
