| For lack of a better term I think I'd describe the manga as troublesome. The way the story concluded, the message given to the reader at the end, to me personally it just seemed to be preaching about a similar thing as basically every other japanese story, "go outside, get job, fit into the mass", usually directed at otaku who have their lives out of order in some way (like kurosawa). Ignoring the already present insensitivity of this sort of message however, most of the stories featuring it, unlike this one, don't also happen to feature a mentally ill girl who gets bullied as the closest thing to a villain. The only two possibilities for why the author wrote this kind of thing featuring such stupid borderline victim blaming is because he was once a bullying victim but "got over it" and now through his story he's trying to tell kitahara to do the same, or he got so focused on writing this preachy conclusion that he forgot that there was an actual bullying victim in the story that needed her resolution and not just the moron that is the main character. In the end you just got this sloppy mess that doesn't have a real conclusion for kitahara's character arc, her way of getting over her issue is bullshit, and she is shown as a bad person for not wanting to go to the gathering where the people who ruined her high school life were. I was okay with it while reading for the most part, but reflection after finishing the story just made me angry at how hideous the situation actually is. It's prob one of the ugliest examples of virtue signaling I've seen in a manga. Of course I'm not saying that she did nothing wrong because she definitely didn't do right with her retaliation, but she was punished for trying to fight back against people who wronged her, who then went unpunished like they were clean of wrongdoing, which is dogshit and also completely sheepish of the writer and frankly kinda makes me disgusted with the story in the end Absolutely more power to u if u could enjoy it tho in spite of this |
| If you ask me, Kurosawa is an asshole for hanging out with Sugawa. He's basically conveying to Kitahara a message of "Hey, you know that girl who bullied you so badly, you went totally berserk? We're besties now!" |
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| Kitahara is still somewhat portrayed as the villain with the way the story concluded and my opinion remains that way. I absolutely agree that the author should've at least given Kitahara an optimistic conclusion bcuz she's victimized and her overall character was left quite unaddressed. Maybe it's just me, but I can't forgive Kitahara for how she excessively blackmailed Kurosawa after everything he's done for her. She knew damn well about Kurosawa's feelings towards Takigawa, yet she forced his cum onto Takigawa.. All bcuz Takigawa occasionally gave Kitahara unpleasent looks? If anything, that's just being emotionally unbalanced, I don't remember much of the manga tbf but I don't blame anyone for believing Kitahara's character deserves justice, I couldn't care any less about her though. |
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