A Story About Becoming Temporary Lovers With a Classmate Who I Fell In Love With at First Sight - Oneshot

[Silfir]

@Pokari

That's true, satire was the other possibility I had in mind. In that case I would expect some kind of punchline. Say, a final page taking place the next day in which the guy has a sitdown with the school counselor to have a long talk about the importance of respecting boundaries.

It's difficult for satire to land when it's difficult to distinguish from the real thing - there are genuine attempts at romcom manga (or for that matter, romcoms outside of manga) with MCs that are like this or worse.

 

[Pokari]

@Silfir:

Well, manga in general has always had a tendency to be the very thing it is ostensibly parodying, or so I feel. (I vaguely remember slowly being disillusioned working out the exact nature of that apparent paradox back when watching Hayate no Gotoku some very many years ago, as it mercilessly parodied the particular sorts of shameless harem series that were in vogue at the time while being... a fully-functional shameless harem series, of just about exactly that sort). Just with a bit of tounge-in-cheek involved. The argument that this is probably that—participatory parodying, if you will—instead of a more rigorous and complete satirization seems... probably correct.

And so I'm not necessarily saying this manga is morally in the right as such. Just that the humour is there, and that the joke itself seems valid. Possible hypocrisy, or reprehensibility, notwithstanding... >_>;

_{I might say that, personally, for me the manga is too short, and especially being the joke of a premise that it is, I actually have no strong feelings about it all. Even if I were to take it somewhat seriously, the protagonist seems to me to be treading a line between "potentially endearingly awkward" and "totally irresponsibly clueless" (this is assuming he has no idea how inappropriate and disrespectful he's being, which seems to be an essential part of the premise?) for which I would need more information before I'd have any real strong feelings on.}