I don’t think having Fujiwara as a villain is misogynistic ('ω')

This story is SO cute (^○^)
Kakeru and Yamato are so adorable together and Yamato is definitely a perv under all that nonchalance and indifference and definitely a perv for Kakeru loll. This story is so adorbs and great for ppl with sweet tooths when comes to sappiness! ALSO Yamato is such a yearner, I LOVE YEANERS.



I see a lot of comments talking about how they hate Fujiwara cuz shes a bitch or they just hate that she’s “trying to get between Kakeru and Yamato” or how they hate the author for continuing the angst instead of more romantic content or how they dislike either the author or Fujiwara for the misogyny of making the new character a women.

To be honest it doesn’t seem that surprising for the story to take this route, I get how it seems very misogynistic to insert Fujiwara as an “obstacle” but throughout this entire story we’ve had women characters who’ve not only been supporting characters but also likeable-ish (I’m talking about Yamato’s sister Mikato cuz something was definitely weird about her lowkenuienly). It’s not as if Fujiwara is our first and only female presence and she’s a complete psycho whose dead set on planning inhumane shit to get Yamato and Kakeru to break up (at least not yet, I’ll take everything back if she does in the later chapters (^◇^;)) so I don’t get why people seem to think she’s such a one demential bitch or why people are calling the author misogynistic when we’ve only had a couple panels with her in it in the three or four chapters we’ve known abt her.

Fujiwara, from what we’ve seen so far, is pretty much still a mystery. She’s definitely a bitch to Kakeru and obviously she isn’t meant to be a positive presence on Kakeru and Yamato’s journey nor the overall story so far but I think she’s not inserted for some love triangle situation.

Throughout the story since the very first chapter Kakeru has had lots of insecurities and anxieties about his appearance, intellect, personality, achievements, everything. Fujino points it out plainly. Then we get reminders of it again and again that Kakeru is insecure being with Yamato, he doesn’t think he deserves the spot he has next to Yamato and it’s caused problems throughout their entire getting together journey already.

Fujiwara isn’t meant to serve as a misogynistic example of how horrible women are and how evil and cruel or manipulative they can be or how they’re a bitch. She needs to be a woman for her character to work. She’s meant to serve as what society thinks is acceptable for a person like Yamato. Fujiwara is smart, she’s skilled, she’s beautiful and has a great personality (socially), she’s very accomplished and is a woman, someone “worthy” of being with Yamato and just like how Fujiwara is worthy, Yamato is the only one “worthy” enough to be with Fujiwara. Her character is meant to be the perfect socially acceptable person that people see as Yamato’s partner and Kakeru is the complete opposite. It’s stated again and again, they are opposites, how are they even friends? Yamato is perfect Kakeru is not.

She’s an obstacle so Kakeru can overcome his insecurities by forming his own base of confidence in his relationship with Yamato or by overcoming society’s judgments on his worthiness to even be near Yamato. The story has given us hints that, while the people Kakeru and Yamato are friends with are open minded and fine with their relationship, their society they live in doesn’t see it as a norm nor something entirely normal or common yet which makes them hesitant about being open with their relationship.

Fujiwara needs to be a woman because that’s what’s expected, “Obviously Yamato will be with an amazing GIRL like Fujiwara”. Her being a woman matters to the entire plot of Volume 9, not just for some stupid love triangle bullshit. If it were a male character instead of a woman, Yamato and said hypothetical male antagonist would just be fetishized by the people in their school for being males, it wouldn’t confront Kakeru’s true turmoil as a character. And besides she doesn’t seem romantically interested in Yamato, moreso his status/popularity/intellect and stuff.

I’m kinda hoping she ends up with some crazy complex story where the only reason she’s picking Yamato is cuz he’s her “equal” so she can use him to gain something bigger or secure her status and not just because she wants to be petty about her crush. Her saying “He’s truly the only one worthy.” Or something like that doesn’t really seem like she likes him but rather his reputation and overall image. That he’s genuinely a good person but is also “superior” in everyway.




Anyway about the sister, OMG that’s what we really need to focus on (°▽°). I think the author is definitely a lil freaked on Twitter or sumthing because they keep framing it as though Mikato loves her brother a little romantically. Obviously it can be seen as her also having a crush on Kakeru but she doesn’t acknowledge it because she knows her brother likes Kakeru but NO IT REALLY DOESNT.

The hairtie, the gossiping, that pancake scene, her inner monologues about lovers and the entire topic about dating and stuff. Like you srsly can’t tell me after those few chapters about Mikato that she doesn’t like Yamato romantically? I could literally go through and mark at least more than 5 moments where she’s been a little weird about Yamato. Like they bring up the topic of how “even tho so and so liked this person first, someone else got to them.” and then shes like “yeah exactly my situation” and then she CONTINUES TO THINK ABOUT HER BROTHER . I think it’s kinda gross to be teasing this brocon situation even if it ends up being revealed she liked Kakeru, it doesn’t change the fact the author was absolutely trying to tease and hint at Mikato liking her brother. The entire hairtie situation wasn’t even cute to me because after all we’ve seen it just seems so weird for her to be happy he got her a cute gift and for her to react like that. I think it’s even weirder because she has no reason to be like that towards Yamato. They weren’t overly close growing up, their parents are both still alive and well (the dad is better now so it counts :P), they had loving parents. The dynamic just doesn’t work.

Also that pancake scene completely confirmed to me that the author is trying to hint at Mikato liking Yamato romantically at least a little. So weird for the story to have that moment, like it was completely unnecessary to their relationship as siblings. There was never a conflict where people misunderstood their relationship before or anything that hindered their ability to BE siblings.

Anyway awesome story, hope it doesn’t take a year to finish Volume 9