Chapter 93
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Author is doing a decent job at obscuring the winner. I’m not great at guessing meta besides super obvious things, so I’ve no idea who’s gonna win. Some say Lemon because she’s the titular character (even if that’s not the case with the JP title), while others feel recent developments have clearly put Lemon in the “friends, not lover” category, and it’s setting them up to be good friends and she’ll move to Germany, or something.
>>287539332She is still the titular character even if it doesn't call her by name, she's the "Kuso Onna."It's pretty clear it'll be Lemon to me, the story in this is rather typical outside of the drama being extremely low-key. I cannot see how Natsumi can win realistically, but it's not impossible it could happen.Either way, no matter who wins it's probably not even going to impact the three involved in the love triangle much. I expect what Akiyoshi will "pick" Natsumi, put off his confession until the body swap is resolved then switch to Lemon at the end as is typical for this kinda story.Personally I don't really care either way, I don't dislike either of the heroines and I think either of them would be fine moving on.
>>287540374I think I lean towards Lemon as well, if only because I think she tends to bring out the best in Sunao. He’s had plenty of moments in recent chapters where I’ve started to get irritated with him. While it’s not intentional, he’s essentially stringing both along at this point. His ability to maintain a decent relationship with Lemon despite not getting true closure for a long time is fairly high-minded of him, whereas I can’t pinpoint the strong part about his relationship with Koga that aren’t fairly standard things. I suppose that time he went out of his way to find her when she got interrupted was good. I guess laying it out like that, I could be overrating how strong his appeal is showing with Lemon, I dunno.
>>287541644I mean, Lemon and Sunao have a deeper connection than Sunao and Natsumi; this is one of the main themes of the story and it's why they are able to pretend to be each other well enough to fool most people (even their parents, apparently), why they dated in the first place and why Sunao was never really that hateful towards Lemon. On the other hand, his interactions with Natsumi are mostly the sort of first love stuff - especially the way younger teenagers (middle school and early high school) act, so their relationship on both ends comes down to "he/she is nice." I think the recent dates show this the best where the Lemon date feels very natural while the Natsumi one has them both kind of walking on eggshells. The intention there is clearly to show the difference between the types of relationships the girls have with Sunao.Natsumi has been getting a lot of screentime lately, so I think her chemistry with Sunao might get expanded on, it depends on going forward.
>>287542654I feel neither Natsumi nor Sunao really know one another to genuinely like each other. It's, on purpose, a superficial attraction, while Sunao's feelings for Lemon are clearly still strong enough even if different from the past. The story is doing a good job. I personally prefer Lemon because Natsumi feels like the standard boring kind girl and whether she understands it or not, part of the reasons she fell for Sunao is Lemon being in his body sometimes. Don't really care about the winner though because so far the story has been written well enough
>>287538745>turning her down now is the kind thing to do>doesn’t turn her downWhat did he mean by this?
>>287543907That deep down still likes her
https://rookie.shonenjump.com/info/entry/202604_blogHere's the author talking about the fashion in the manga.
