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Just binged through this, and it's so wholesome.  (OK maybe not Yamai.) I think what I like most is that I can see a lot of my partner and I in Komi/Tadano, in that we're also both anxious-but-empathic slightly-extroverted-introverts, ready to be present for and hold space for our friends. I've been thinking a lot about this too: DisDisDis posted:is komi san teh best gay representation as well as the best trans representation in all o manga skaianDestiny posted:As a fan of this series? Hardly. And, yep. I mean, it is surprisingly better than average in its gay representation, for what's otherwise a pretty heternormative love story? But no.
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Also thanks to Dis for these takes, which put into words how I feel about Najimi a lot better than I could:DisDisDis posted:this is a dumb way to frame the discussion. Weird bathroom jokes don't become not weird if you fill up the 'cast is nice to trans character' meter enough. I like Najimi and their existence was a big part of me wanting to read the manga. The manga also mines Tadano being weird about their gender for comedy, that's just a fact. I've forgotten the specifics of it but I thought the bit when Tadano sees them in HS for the first time was p reasonable and not mean spirited. By contrast the changing room bit feels really bad to me because it undermines the way the rest of the cast and the manga in general treat Najimi. Like, the punchline is to a really standard ecchi joke setup where the sneaky pervert character is trying to peep on the girls locker room or w/e and the straight man protagonist grabs them by the shirt collar and goes 'not so fast' and we the audience laugh. Except Najimi isn't ever portrayed by the manga to be that archetype (to its credit) and none of the girls treat Najimi heading to the lockers with them as at all out of the ordinary, and they'd obviously look way more out of place in the mens'. But the scene ends right there with the concluding text box that's like "in the end they used the single occupancy" iirc, legitimizing Tadano's viewpoint. DisDisDis posted:I always read them as nonbinary but I think criticisms kind of apply regardless of how you read them. DisDisDis posted:no najimi romance no sale
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I thought the ninja-dude delusion was about Najimi-san for a second and got excited.
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Nihilarian posted:najimi was in the first delusion Nah that's Ase Shibuki the sweaty girl. This manga has over 100 named characters. Several of them besides Najimi also have short/medium blonde hair.
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Oh yeah, so they were... https://mangadex.org/chapter/34008/3
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Yeah Katai is the big ripped dude. That was Najimi. Also lol at Najimi pointing out that Tadano is surrounded by a super hot girl and a ripped guy (both of whom are into him).
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Wittgen posted:Komi and Tadano have been pretty obviously into each other for a while. Good on Manbagi for not setting herself up for disaster. Yeah really. This was some excellent self-awareness and communication around feelings on both their parts, despite all the awkwardness. It's a major growth moment for both Manbagi and Tadano as characters, and models good relationship practices for readers. It may even be a deliberate pivotal moment for the comic, given that one of the main themes is overcoming barriers to communication. MJP posted:Anyone else think that Tadano has a pretty bad case of impostor syndrome? Absolutely. But impostor syndrome is part of Komi's thing too, which is why they're so well-suited to each other. One of the more endearing parts of this comic (for me) is watching them figure this out in parallel and grow together in the process.
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Mors Rattus posted:Honestly, I’m still not over the clear and logical chain of puns that got from Nerf to Enough. "Nuff" to "Nerf" isn't exactly a big jump though?
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