Manga Monday: "I Love You, As a Friend" (series; ch. 01)

Apr 14, 2025 5:40 AM

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Author: Yuuchi Mikumi. Read right to left

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More school encounters
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Both characters seem insufferable so can't really root for anyone here

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We live in a society

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This doujin sure is taking a while to get to the action scenes

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What are you talking about? There's uncensored, semi-consensual hand-licking on page 18!

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The japanese apparently have no word for "consent".

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that's like readng the first twenty pages of an Agatha Christie and concluding that the English love murder

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Its weird because it feels like the entire script was rewritten, which somehow makes it funnier to me even if its the real text.

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https://mangadex.org/title/fac0d1c0-bfe9-4668-ac36-0ed1c47eb423 If you want to continue reading. 17 chapters, so short and somewhat sweet.

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Yeah tbh that's not where I thought it was gonna go but it was defo one of those this ended because the manga decided to pull it and not because it was ready to end.

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I love you... as a friend... for posting this. Thank you.

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That is against the rules

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Not everyone uses the updated version of the app, so they don't have the new follow system.

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Just pages of sexual harassment, not cute. This ain't it chief.
Gonna go wash my eyeballs now.

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I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it, but she gets a lot better pretty quickly. Most stories involve people doing something illegal, immoral, or problematic that someone won't approve of; it's hard have growth otherwise, and humans are not perfect.

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Most works of narrative art involve bad things happening: war, deception, aggression (often murder)... What do you watch?

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For some things it is quite important how they are handled. This isn't about war, but about sexual harassment directed at a young man, which is portrayed in a very normalized, even supposedly cute way.
That shit is not okay in my book.

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what does this have to do with anything?

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Basically you seem to want want a certain treatment where bad things are portrayed in a moral light.

(downvotes in a conversation are rude - please don't do that if you care about the one you're having)

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Not taking no for an answer is creepy and why I am falling out of love with Japan and anime in general.
At least Ghost in the shell and Jojos bizarre adventure are coming..

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Yeah, I read part of Twilight, and now I hate all of American culture as a whole. /S

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Boy do I have bad news about western romance movies...

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Oh bro... I don't watch any of that... fuck, I think the last real movie I watched and enjoyed was John Carter just because goofy aliens...

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LOTS of anime isn't about being a sex pest

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MOST of it really is.

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Spoken like someone who's only exposure to anime is hearing/seeing people talk about it.

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Then you won't have any problem making a list of such examples from my hundreds of posts.

1 year ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

That says more about what one has watched (or heard). This is my list of watched, watching and plan to watch anime, 186 works.

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A lot of it is written by horny teenagers for horny teenagers

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I know. Can't wait for the ones that aren't.

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try these, spanning from the 90s

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If I may... I have watched Anime for the last 34 years... and I am 38.
From Tororo and Armitage 3rd, Akira, Venus Wars, Tenchi Muyo and almost any other classic... even sailor moon, all the way to today with Dr. Stone, Solo Leveling, Rising shield hero, even the shit that has stuff I generally think is cringe like mushoku tensei.
Your list here... was my lonely have no friends weekend.

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Good, you know you anime. So why "fall out of love" with the medium in general? It's like saying "I hate music".

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That is very cute, but she needs to understand that “no” means “no”. Consent is everything

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He's just playing hard to get, girls don't like guys who give in too easily. /s

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Girls don't like boys; they like cars and money.

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MINOR SPOILERS: After seeing this I actually went and read the whole series, and what you're saying is a fairly important theme/topic of the story. She basically has zero impulse control or understanding of proper social etiquette and he helps her learn what's right and wrong. It doesn't go the trashy-romance direction that seems like the set-up here. I really enjoyed it actually.

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Yeah, it's only cute because it's fictional.

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*it's only cute because it's a girl doing it and not a guy

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That too.

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SPOILERS IN REPLY TO THIS COMMENT

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The series was axed so only has 17 chapters, but basically he promises to be her friend if she can follow his Rules of Friendship.

After that, it's about him helping her in overcoming her social issues, learning boundaries, and gaining actual friends (rather than guys taking advantage of her because of her warped and toxic views).

There is no explicit romantic development between them, though it's implied there might be in the future, and that she will keep growing as a person.

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Thank you for sharing and including a spoiler. Might still read just sucks that it was cancelled.

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That sounds like an amazing series! Why did it get axed?

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Difficult to say, but based on my understanding of the Japanese market as a western manga reader... probably because it didn't lean into trashy romance/ecchi?

Quite a few series popular in the west get axed because they didn't sell enough back in Japan. Meanwhile, tons of trashy soap opera style stuff will keep going and just drag on forever with no real development or resolutions because it has cute girls and a self-insert lead, until sales start dropping and they rush an ending and move on.

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Also bad is the toxic purity culture that this pushes.

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It’s bad to say that consent is important?

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Where did i say that was bad? 'Also bad' implies both are bad?

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I'm 7 chapters in now and still haven't found the purity culture you mentioned. The "rules guy" is a fairly standard trope in manga and it's usually not presented as the "right" perspective.

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Purity culture in manga is so pervasive ( The hand holding memes is just the start) that it's so much larger than the "rules guy" trope. In chapter 1 they had it, we don't need 6 more chapters to find it. The whole chapter is dedicated to it. It starts with her running from other girls because she is "loose" and finds the rules guy who says: " And what's more, I've no interest in someone with such a loose sense of virtue" The entire premise is a sexual girl interacting with a "normal" world.

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Really, really not the point of the manga.

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And I think you're ascribing a Western (particularly an American) morality to the very Japanese trope of handholding. Which is not about promoting purity culture but poking fun at a stereotypical shyness of Japanese people (and perhaps particularly otaku) towards relationships and physical contact in general.

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That stereotypical shyness towards relationships and physical contact is purity culture. It's not by chance that a great deal of manga is sexist, this coincides with toxic purity. It goes from the mundane like hand holding or "You have to marry me because you saw me naked" to the abusive: Where MCs consistently say things like " Don't touch my women" or women being slaves ( Shield Hero, GATE, Redo of Healer).

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