Lol i came back here bcs this story is popping again but...
Im sorry but i hate this for soooo many reasons wow, this is one of them lgbt stories for straight people
And that homophobia debate wow, just for them to all stay friends with no conclusion whatsoever... for me it just sounded like a homophobes feelings matter too type situation boohoo
Also, girl stressing out about liking girls for 50 chapters ends up with man, problem solved! Is like putting a bandaid on a bullet hole
Bi is definitely a thing. However due the building of her character and the lack of foreshadowing her ending felt very poorly done.
Bcs of her constant worries about liking girls it would have been nice to see her come to terms with it in the ending, however the way it ended for her just seemed like a cheap escape route by the author idk
As readers, we literally had no clue about her liking boys until her husband appears in the last chapter and its just so lackluster because thereās no conclusion to her struggles as a wlw
The whole point of the manga was to accept that not everyone is the same and not be judgmental. The mangaka makes it clear that it's important to view things from a balanced perspective and understand that what's right and what's wrong is not always set in stone and it's important to accept that different people have different perspective and we don't all have to agree to be able to get along. It's not just about "coming to terms with liking someone of the same gender".
As for Masumi, it's not like she liked only girls in her school years. In fact, the only girl she liked is Kuze. When you look at how her husband is shown, you can see the parallels with Kuze. Both are scatter-brained, low on self confidence and look at Masumi with awe and adoration. Possibly, that's her type. It's likely that she liked a girl because Kuze was a girl rather than liking Kuze because she is a girl.
Also, we see her husband and Touma in the last chapter talking about how it's difficult to be married to a bi person because you are worried when they are with both men and women coz Taichi was dating Kuze before he ended up with Touma.
Same with Kensuke's point of view that he doesn't like the idea of gay relationships. Perspectives differ and there's no reason to look down our noses at people who think differently. There are people who enjoy their fried chicken and others who can't understand how anyone could enjoy eating the flesh of a living thing whose life was cut short just to provide a person 1 enjoyable meal. There is no real reason to look down on or demonize either point of view. If we can't do that much, then we are just replacing one kind of intolerance with another.
Omg you just completely missed the point of my comment didnt you? What intolerance are you talking about? My comment is abt how rushed the ending was and faults i found in the manga
And pls they didnt mention that she liked boys until the ending, that why i said it was bad. Im criticizing the ending and how the author handled thing omg
And pls, not you telling me that homophobia is a perspective and comparing it to liking fried chiken.. what was that about?
(you do realize that that guy beat touma up bcs he found out that he was gay right? And then proceeded to justify his actions in that whole debate scene)
It drove me crazy, how much talking there was in this manga-- Just everybody talking around in a circular conversation that goes nowhere. I wanted the author to do more showing, less telling, and she didn't even show touma at the end. Of course, I know it was supposed to be a pleasant surprise, but it wouldn't have hurt to add at least show us a picture of the happy couple on the last page or something.
I know theyāre trying to make us like sagawa with the last chapters, but i dont like him, he was horrible and harsh to the mc, blaming him and insulting him for something that already traumatized him, especially the part where he intruded on their date and tried to "expose" him to mcās friend/lover.
Im sorry but its going to be a no for me
Omg so apparently this has a sequel called bitter cigar
I would do anything for it to be translated
pleaaaaase someone pick this up