Yume to Koi dewa Tsuriawanai - Ch. 4 - Disgusting

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Honestly, it's crazy getting a recontextualization of everything from Kira's perspective. Definitely love the parallels between Hikaru and Kairi regarding their perspectives on love before they started their relationship. And I honestly think it's really sad that Kira has realized that she likes Hikaru romantically but is disgusted with herself for her initial motivations of starting a relationship with her just to see her fall. This series is amazing!
 
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An actually good backstory, AND THIS WAS FROM A ONESHOT!??? Author, you have my applause.
The oneshot had basically no deeper backstory or characterisation, and was short enough to not get overly caught up in itself, so going from there to here was relatively easy - the setting and character development is almost entirely built for this serialisation.

None of which is a criticism - a oneshot should be tightly focused, only presenting the bits that are important. A oneshot is a short story, and the key thing about short stories is that they're short - if there's too much in the final version of the story then it ends up muddy and confused, the true art (and greatest challenge) of the short story is cutting out everything that doesn't explicitly need to be there, without cutting any of the bits that do need to be there. Which really is amazingly difficult to do well . . . but it also leaves things very open when it comes to a longer work inspired by a short story done well - there's so much less detail tying you down and constraining what you can do.
 
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the past three chapters have been so fluffy and sweet that I almost forgot that this Yuri comes with skull and crossbones labels.
All it took to being back that magic toxicity of the first chapter was putting us in Kira's head and boy is homegirl messed up!
Good thing she has a gf who doesn't know the meaning of low effort.
 
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Honestly, if a few more things happened to Kira that really hurt her she might’ve gotten really twisted as was shown in this chapter, but I’m glad she hadn’t yet crossed the line of no return and that theres room for character growth. I’m excited to see how it happens
 

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