Goddamn, this is amazing. I’ve had this in my radar for a few months now. Just lying dormant in my reading list. I read the first chapter because I see the yuri tag and the story interested me. So I kept it.
Now that I’m finally back to it, I’m happy I am. Calling this story a yuri, as of chapter 18, is like calling a spoon a steak cutter. I mean you could but it’s not necessarily matching. What this does right tho is showing how people perceive you based on your previous rapport. When you’re associated with something, it’s hard to move out of it. This causes anything you do to be looked at from a perspective different to someone without that cannotation.
A prime specimen of a good manga. I haven’t enjoyed reading something this much in a while. I mean, this is the first time I finished reading a long manga in a long long while, maybe even more than a year. Though the ending was… subpar. Okay, not the Sao thing but the whole Komachi thing. The manga wasn’t bad, not by a long shot. The ending gave me big If I could Reach you vibes and I didn’t like that much. Everything sort of made perfect sense right up until the last chapter and I was like, wait what!? Because making satsuki really good at math and her ability to calculate the future is a fun thought experiment. Same for Prez but come on, not Komachi too. I knew all along she was a fucking psychopath but at least stick to it!
Anyways, I really enjoyed this, there’s no doubt about that. And it made me think too, which is pretty rare. About not only me but the people I consider friends too. And the duality between right and wrong. I love how this manga approaches things and sticks to how vivid good and bad is. Whole giving us an entertaining story through the eyes of someone who considers things as black and white. Hell, even Prez was so well written I wouldn’t have minded him to be the protag either.