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Sep 29, 2022
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I'm happy that Kodama is still writing yuri manga to this day. Saying that though, I see very little improvement over most of her previous work. The art is fine, not really anything bad. But the main problem is the story.

I'm also going to talk about the author here. Kodama writing is... usually bad. Her art is pretty good and from what I can tell she does it all by herself, but I feel like her story telling is barely getting any better. Shes someone whos work you can usually tell was made by them just by looking/reading it, and its not a good trope either. She mainly likes to write something along the lines of "lesbian sibling forcing herself on her straight sibling" and it gets old quick. Her best work "Oya ga Urusai node Kouhai (♀) to Gisou Kekkon Shitemita" is the only one that really deviates from this, and its the only one of her work that I would label as good. She also explained the same manga that she has "2 sides" but it feels like only 1 side is in her work except for in that manga. Her usual trope is one that I really dislike.

However, her usual trope is pushed to an extreme end here, with not only a lesbian forcing her on another girl, but also the girl is her half sister. I think she missed a great opportunity to "fix" her usual tropes with this one especially. The only characters I really "liked" was the hotel manager lady. The rest are either dumb or actual psychopaths. The main conflict of this series was that the mc lost her "boyfriend" to her best friend after her best friend got impregnated by him. However, around the halfway point, most of that conflict is lost because one, her best friend got a miscarriage, two, her best friend came to find her for literally no reason apart from making her life worse for no reason, and three, SHE ISN'T EVEN VILLAINIZED OR GIVEN ANY REDEMPTION, SHE HAS A BABY IN THE END WITH THE GUY AND IS APPARENTLY "FRIENDS" WITH HER AGAIN. The whole half-sister incest plot is also really stupid. You could've just made them friends, or hell even just make her parents die and make them NOT blood related.

I really want to see her improve her writing. She clearly has a talent for drawing yuri, and I don't think she has to write anything game changing like Bloom into You or Adachi and Shimamura if she doesn't have the time. But at the same time, I want to see her deviate from her usual tropes since people only really seem to remember her as the lady who write the same story like 3 times.
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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