tbh...

I agree with you completely.

And by the way, I'm asexual and gay! XD (well, panromantic)

I had so many awkward feelings when I read the first or second chapter where Nao kicked Kyousuke. And it continued until I finished reading the series. Honestly, I don't know why I read this, probably because I liked the struggle between being friends to lovers but DAMN so many sexist statements there is a need to force myself swallow them. I also liked the art and smexy times.

Well, it's a Japanese story. I don't know whether it's common knowledge or not, but basically Japan and a number of other Asian countries are at the very bottom of gender equality.
Women are urged quit their jobs to become the perfect house wive after getting married. They are supposed to be delicate, beautiful and youthful. But it's not just women who have to deal with stupid stereotypes... Men are supposed to be hardworking, strong and intelligent.
There are some efforts to promote gender equality in Japan but it will probably take a generation or two until the mindset of the majority of people has changed.

I do. I guess that's why I still read such mangas, either shoujo or yaoi, because I accept that this is how it is in Japan and I can't do anything about it. Though they press my buttons.

I've been in Japan for some time and sadly, you're completely right. Be it men or women, each of them have to fit in their category, letting no option to be who they really want to be (I've discussed with straight Okama and gays). It's even more sad when Japanese background History had (male) homosexuality in its religious & military fields and it wasn't considered as deviant or abnormal until Western countries started dealing with Japan and influenced them with their mindset. And the vision of fragile, weak, docile women who are bound to hold the house is really tiring >.> fortunately, I've been meeting more and more Japanese women (young <25y) who want to change that and aren't willing to do as tradition instructs. More generally, Japanese people who want to escape their society's rules and narrow-minded binary mindset try to study abroad when they can (I've met several Japanese in France who all told me they couldn't stand their society expectations and they were truly feeling oppressed. And paradoxically, it's easier for a foreigner to live there than for a Japanese even if the Japanese society tend to look down on them x)). Anyway, like you said, it's a japanese author who did this work, it was an interesting plot at the beginning but ended up being too narrow-minded at the end imo and I don't think the author themselves has this vision since the Editing House's will is almighty and they have the power to urge mangaka to redraw/delete some scenes they don't find good enough or basically wrong. *sigh* Thanks for replying to my comment! I thought I was gonna draw all the irked people who loved this story XD

Oh and I just wanted to add one last thing: even of it's fictional, it might have an unconscious impact on readers (not all of them ofc). And I truly believe that making stories that blow up clichés and stereotypes are the first step to get to a more open-minded state and get away of shoujo/yaoi tropes =) slowly establishing new sets that will throw clichés in the dustbin XD (lately I'm totally into "Why Did Men Stop Wearing High Heels?" which is a good example of all what I'm defending. I looove this story that isn't even a yaoi or shounen-ai, has an awesome plot and MC XD)

I agree so much with this!ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ

Yeah I keep seeing the manga praised but it had a lot of sexist and homophobic dialogue and messaging....not very cute...

i agree with you for the most part on Japanese society hell my former father in law is a business man in japan who came out as gay to his family friends and business partners years ago and he is accepted just fine my daughter however who is currently living in japan and attending university there has been constantly harassed for being an out lesbian with 2 kids and a wife so i can completely understand on some parts but really it is just wrong we are all people at the end of the day . now onto the manga i love this manga because what is described in this manga ie emergence is something that i wish to god was real keep in mind my account name is trinityanne the name is my daughter's name first and my mom's middle name i however am male i have more children than i originally wanted however i love them all i just do not like hardly anything to do with my own body due to the simple fact that having a dick and balls sucks for me i am constantly sitting on my balls or doing my best to not zip myself up or having to adjust myself which sucks ass not to mention as a man i hate men most so called men i have met in my nearly 40 years of life are narrow minded fuck wits that need a major wake up call even more so when it comes to how they treat women

Everyone on this thread should go watch rachel and jun's video on youtube. Japanese women are basically having a twitter/online #metoo kind of movement by discussing the sexist encounters they've experienced during their lives, personal and business. The tweets are incredibly sad because Japanese women work so incredibly hard and deserve to be treated with respect like everyone else but Japan is still incredibly sexist even in this modern age and it needs to change. No country is currently treating its women as they deserve but my country compared to Japan is so much better. I mean, pretty much EVERY Japanese woman has been sexually assaulted. Sexual assault is extremely common there, but unreported because they are told it isn't assault and that what happens to them is their fault. Almost every Japanese girl has a story about being touched inappropriately on a train and that is just sad and disgusting. All women deserve better, Japanese women deserve better!!

I always hate the things where someone finds out their intersex and feels like they have to now identify as a different gender.