How does Asa begin to mourn a father she never really knew? No strong feelings of love or hate, a presence in her life that upon further reflection was more like an absence.
As for the form of the storytelling I like how the panels feel more cinematic rather than a traditional comic layout...
@djalexdubcheck if you read through the chapters you’ll see every once in awhile comments from different characters how ordinary kiyo’s cooking is. But ordinary is also bound up with feelings of comfort and soothing. So although it’s sometimes treated like a punchline, it also serves as a way to...
Dancer in the Dark was such a curveball, but it seems like an appropriate one for Yuri. I love these two the most, no “yuri” vibes, just total ply a funny awkward friendship built off of shared misanthropy
I love that otaku and high schoolers really like food where they just put bread around something that doesn’t need bread, like croquette or Yakisoba haha.
I think hotaka actually wants wahei to fight for them, rather than her having to make some life altering decision. She wants to be with a family that truly wants to be family.
Neko character is useless and is so over the top, that you can really see the mangaka struggling to try to write themselves out of this hellhole of an arc. They even introduced an angelic father figure to rationalize her boneheaded relationship with neko, but it’s still pretty unbelievable overall.
All the people complaining about these arcs must’ve not read the first chapter onward. The storytelling has been ridiculous and outlandish since the beginning. This is an action rom com that is absurd, surreal, soapy, camp, melodramatic, etc. it’s supposed to be this way, and that’s what gives...