instead, actually i think above all else, this was an attempt at fantasizing the life of a dependent woman, from a working woman's (mangaka, duh) perspective.. thus all the angst, jealousy described in the manga grasping for 'love' while stressing women's need for independence almost to a feminist-like degree.. well of course, if you contribute to family income, very naturally your opinions and place in general in a relationship will be elevated.. it's not without reason why men tended to have higher social status before the economic crash in 08 (and diminished status after) and why richer people tend to have wider selection of wives/girl friends.. all in all seems like an independent women's desperate attempt to get pampered in a self created fantasy.. precisely because she can't get it in real life with all the work load mangaka does. well.. can't have both. with the kind of relationship she fantasizes, a lot of the physical parameters just don't make sense..
you wouldn't have as much energy and time to devote into a career, for instance, and generally a stay-home no-work girl who doesn't even think about going to college just does not have that much say in a relationship.. let alone jumping ship, going into a sexual harassment suspect's house, constantly lie and expect no backlash (again, has to do with status.. are you a career women and is your man feeding on you or not.. if he is, naturally he doesn't have as much of a say relatively to what you do. imagine life b4 you moved out of parents' house), so again, just doesn't make sense. yes she constantly lies to male lead while he is still at school and has no work, i realize that, but to expect memories/habit not to carry on to take a toll later in life is ridiculous. besides career oriented people have traits of work ethics very early on and their mentality generally is to be different--if you expect the guy to ever take care of the family as implied in the manga that is, since she doesn't seem like she will be working.
great art style and skill that surpasses many other female mangaka, unfortunately suffers from common symptom other females tend to have--simply poor in cold logic and facts. hard to ever mistake it for anything other than fantasy. male mangaka generally at least make things somewhat believable and treat illogical settings as a mistake on their own part, when they try to create their work. women mangaka doesn't seem to bother. the art did attract me.
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