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The story is about Hime before anything and we all know who she likesWhat do you mean? This IS the main couple.
The story is about Hime before anything and we all know who she likesWhat do you mean? This IS the main couple.
Probably not the best way to shorten that word.can we go back to the main cp already??
There's something a little bit more happening here too.There’s an interesting line here, and I’m not sure how much is down to a complicated translation and how much is brewing drama: Kanoko says that Yoko “forced [her] to accept that ‘kissing and sex are essential to romance.’”
The thing is, this is almost exactly the opposite of Yoko’s point. Yoko wasn’t arguing that romance needs kissing, she was arguing that kissing needs romance, that the act of kissing is meaningful in a way Kanoko kept trying to deny. Yano kisses Hime and now Kanoko’s upset because that kiss meant something. Yoko kisses Kanoko and Kanoko’s upset because she’s lost something, because that kiss was a violation. The stated purpose of Yoko’s whole awful scheme was to get Kanoko to admit that kissing and sex, in themselves, carry emotional weight.
So Kanoko says “Gosh, Yoko was awful but I sure learned something!” but then, only a few pages later, she offers to kiss Sumika and Sumika has to be the one to turn her down. It’s interesting, is what I’m saying.
Yeah, Yoko is clearly of the opinion that Class S is naive, exploitive, and a sort of lesbianism with training wheels. Though the character's predatory nature unfortunately colors the perceived validity of her argument.There's something a little bit more happening here too.
From my read, Watayuri is, or at least, has become, a critical examination of Class - S. Yoko's point as Miman's villainous mouthpiece isn't exclusively kissing needs romance, or that romance needs kissing, it's something more foundational about the nature of how Kanoko (and the Class - S) genre views relationships as devoid of physicality and being a pure and purely emotional bond, just like the "sisterhood" stuff. Sumika's 'sin' which makes Yoko hate her is her rejection of romance while still being attached to this idealized "Sisterhood", which is ultimately, in Yoko's view, romance for cowards.
Yoko's argument isn't specifically romance → kissing or kissing → romance, but that these girls are in a cycle of deception and self-torture because they refuse to acknowledge their true desires and needs and feel the compulsion to pretend it's something much purer than it is.
That's why she got so insistent about Yano and Hime's kiss, or rather, Kanoko's denial of it mattering. Kanoko wanted to believe that there's this pure world of connection that she and Hime had, or could have, and that physicality couldn't, and wouldn't, intrude on it or matter. Yoko basically tells her "that's fucking dumb, you need to acknowledge your pain because you wish it was you who kissed her."