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Originally Posted by jokesock
I started reading this manga to be amused, not to become aggravated..
With the way the recent chapters have been going, it feels like a lot of the targeted audience for this series are going to start dropping it.
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Well, the backlash is huge on 2ch but consider that
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Shou knows Sempai for like 3 years and has been carrying the torch for as long. Combined with the fact that her feelings for Utsumi are ONLY AT the budding stage (those feelings are real, but they are still not fully realised). Objectively speaking, if sempai is to compete directly with Utsumi, our man really don't stand a chance.
I don't take it as Shou is shallow. She likes the (in her eyes) wonderful sempai, who she knows for far longer, was dumped by his girlfriend (getting sympathy points) and says he "loves" her now (which is what she wanted, but cannot get, for so long). Of course, we feel aggrevation for Utsumi because we empathise (or sympathise) with him, but I do not think Shou is really shallow. Unless everyone's defination of shallow is being true to her own feelings.
Remember, Shou doesn't really know if Sempai is a playboy or anything. The sempai she knows for 3 years seemed only to show her his "good, wonderful side"
Despite all that I do agree that "person" gives off very bad vibes to me. Namely because,
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The sempai said he was dumped and he came back to Shou. But something about him feels off, he seems too slick, too experienced at reading and manipulating people to be that type who gets dumped. This can be seen in his correct inference of Shou and Utsumi's reactions (there was no indication he knew about that before), his quick disarming of Shou and correctly detecting Shou liked him enough to be taken so easily. We easily get the impression that he might actually be trying to two-time (but this is unlikely because he never went after Shou while he had a girlfriend...unless he is lying about his girlfriend dumping him now) or he is some kind of predatory serial woman hunter. Another possibility, is that Sempai wants to use Shou to make his girlfriend jealous (if he was indeed dumped by her).
Of course, Shou likes him too much, and is too used to his wonderful side (2-3 years of interaction), to look at the Sempai carefully like an uninvolved observer (the readers). And it can be possible that our inferences are actually wrong (though that doesn't seem likely)
It would suck if there was some utlerior motive, we see such cases happen too much in real life. Are those girls shallow? I don't know, but I would like to think they love the person who cheated on them enough to believe their lies. I hope nothing bad happens to Shou, she is a nice girl...just a little naive.
As for Chapter 8 and Chapter 11,
On the other hand, Magazine's target audience is towards the upper age end of the shonen demograph. The reason why we empathise or sympathise the main character(s) is because they are written well (and some what realistically). Lets see if these see will really lose its audience (by checking out its ranking on the magazine front covers for the next few weeks).