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不揃いの連理 [Fuzoroi no Renri] #3
Assorted Entanglements, Vol. 3
Heke and Lala met as strangers in an online game― but in real life, they are a manga artist and her editor, working together as closely as any two people can. At work, they bicker and complain, day in and day out. But come nighttime, their game chat is a flood of honest feelings. Could they ever manage that face-to-face…?
162 pages, Paperback
Published September 19, 2023
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September 26, 2023
Entanglements gonna keep on entanglin’, now with a very shy gym teacher and a less shy student for your cringy pleasure. Or immense eye-rolling.
Outside of the new additions to the cast, which we’ll get to, this continues trucking along being disposable yuri entertainment that has some chuckles and at least one surprisingly sweet moment out of nowhere.
Of all these duos, the best pairing is by far the hapless mangaka, Heke, and her deadly serious editor who is also secretly the mangaka’s gaming buddy when she’s goofing off. I suspect the actual mangaka knows that too, because they get a fair amount of page time and the bonus pages this time out.
Shinohara, the editor, is masterful at just dashing Heke’s hopes to pieces by accident as she’s trying to cover for her own feelings and it’s pretty funny every time. Their visit to Disneyland knock-off Panda Land couldn’t possibly go any worse; it’s very fun.
Yes, there’s lots of ‘just for research’ dating here, which goes absolutely nowhere, typically because Shinohara is such an accidental buzzkill, plus the equating of tax returns to a marriage proposal.
These two also get to see I Got Reincarnated in Medieval Times and Had Some Fun, which is a pitch perfect parody of both dumb isekai titles and yuri LN titles I’ve seen. Big applause for that one.
Outside of these two, the other pairings progress to various degrees of success. The little sister obsessed with her older sister who keeps hanging out with the former girlfriend of said older sister’s new girlfriend (look, I said they would keep entangling) loses her incest angle in favour of being grumpy that her own presence is mellowing out how harsh the ex-girlfriend used to be.
That’s amusing enough for those two, honestly, as the delinquent is annoyed that her feelings are changing her for the better, but so is the person changing them, as she prefers her comrade to be harsher. It’s ridiculous, but not bad, and certainly an interesting take on it.
Minami and Iori continue to be much the same as always, although Iori has some surprisingly honest moments of real affection that are a sentiment above what the series normally achieves. It also contrasts well with Minami’s continually bad self-esteem and takes a few shots at gay rights in Japan.
Then there’s Kujou, the gym teacher, and Sugimoto, her student who also works as a maid. Kujou is a real hard-ass, but she’s also painfully shy about her sexuality and keeps ending up in Sugimoto’s workplace when she’s trying to enter the lesbian bar next door to find a partner (this ‘strange bedfellows’ business premise could easily sustain a series on its own).
Before you can say ‘inappropriate age gap power dynamics’, Sugimoto is invested in helping her teacher, often by picking on her and doing as much inappropriate stuff (as in, watching tv in her office, not what you probably thought) as she can get away with.
I’m not going to say this is a great idea, in fact I would say that it is a terrible one, although I am beginning to suspect Mikanuji has no precise definition of what a healthy relationship is, nor do they care. But, within the framework of a bad idea there are some nuggets of a good one that do make it at least semi-tolerable for those who are not here for student-teacher time.
Sugimoto is widely derided by the girls are her school for her looks, seemingly looked down on just because she’s pretty, and that’s a solid enough wrinkle. And the way Kujou gets back at her student’s tormentors is a pretty abuse of power, more or less. I like that they have at least a little bit more going on, and inverted power dynamics never hurt either.
Clearly this is not great yuri, but it’s entertaining enough at enough points that I let it coast by. There are decent jokes here and there, at least one actually okay pairing, and a couple moments that give certain characters more heart than they likely deserve.
The new pairing is kind of a miss, but at least if you’re way unhappy about it you can skim those parts and just focus on something else. That’s at least one benefit of how this is written.
3 stars - way too much iffy content to be worth more than this, plus the writing isn’t exactly great and the art can be a bit same-y with the faces. It has its moments, but it could definitely use a few more.
Outside of the new additions to the cast, which we’ll get to, this continues trucking along being disposable yuri entertainment that has some chuckles and at least one surprisingly sweet moment out of nowhere.
Of all these duos, the best pairing is by far the hapless mangaka, Heke, and her deadly serious editor who is also secretly the mangaka’s gaming buddy when she’s goofing off. I suspect the actual mangaka knows that too, because they get a fair amount of page time and the bonus pages this time out.
Shinohara, the editor, is masterful at just dashing Heke’s hopes to pieces by accident as she’s trying to cover for her own feelings and it’s pretty funny every time. Their visit to Disneyland knock-off Panda Land couldn’t possibly go any worse; it’s very fun.
Yes, there’s lots of ‘just for research’ dating here, which goes absolutely nowhere, typically because Shinohara is such an accidental buzzkill, plus the equating of tax returns to a marriage proposal.
These two also get to see I Got Reincarnated in Medieval Times and Had Some Fun, which is a pitch perfect parody of both dumb isekai titles and yuri LN titles I’ve seen. Big applause for that one.
Outside of these two, the other pairings progress to various degrees of success. The little sister obsessed with her older sister who keeps hanging out with the former girlfriend of said older sister’s new girlfriend (look, I said they would keep entangling) loses her incest angle in favour of being grumpy that her own presence is mellowing out how harsh the ex-girlfriend used to be.
That’s amusing enough for those two, honestly, as the delinquent is annoyed that her feelings are changing her for the better, but so is the person changing them, as she prefers her comrade to be harsher. It’s ridiculous, but not bad, and certainly an interesting take on it.
Minami and Iori continue to be much the same as always, although Iori has some surprisingly honest moments of real affection that are a sentiment above what the series normally achieves. It also contrasts well with Minami’s continually bad self-esteem and takes a few shots at gay rights in Japan.
Then there’s Kujou, the gym teacher, and Sugimoto, her student who also works as a maid. Kujou is a real hard-ass, but she’s also painfully shy about her sexuality and keeps ending up in Sugimoto’s workplace when she’s trying to enter the lesbian bar next door to find a partner (this ‘strange bedfellows’ business premise could easily sustain a series on its own).
Before you can say ‘inappropriate age gap power dynamics’, Sugimoto is invested in helping her teacher, often by picking on her and doing as much inappropriate stuff (as in, watching tv in her office, not what you probably thought) as she can get away with.
I’m not going to say this is a great idea, in fact I would say that it is a terrible one, although I am beginning to suspect Mikanuji has no precise definition of what a healthy relationship is, nor do they care. But, within the framework of a bad idea there are some nuggets of a good one that do make it at least semi-tolerable for those who are not here for student-teacher time.
Sugimoto is widely derided by the girls are her school for her looks, seemingly looked down on just because she’s pretty, and that’s a solid enough wrinkle. And the way Kujou gets back at her student’s tormentors is a pretty abuse of power, more or less. I like that they have at least a little bit more going on, and inverted power dynamics never hurt either.
Clearly this is not great yuri, but it’s entertaining enough at enough points that I let it coast by. There are decent jokes here and there, at least one actually okay pairing, and a couple moments that give certain characters more heart than they likely deserve.
The new pairing is kind of a miss, but at least if you’re way unhappy about it you can skim those parts and just focus on something else. That’s at least one benefit of how this is written.
3 stars - way too much iffy content to be worth more than this, plus the writing isn’t exactly great and the art can be a bit same-y with the faces. It has its moments, but it could definitely use a few more.
November 4, 2023
Another very enjoyable volume of messy people navigating yuri relationships and life in general as best they can. If you enjoyed the previous volumes, this one’s not going to be any exception!
I’m personally a big fan of using this series’s short chapters as pallet cleansers between other, heavier plotted manga. I find the short, vignettes about their messy lives (as in these folks *definitely* don’t ‘have it all together’) to be weirdly ‘comfy’ in the best possible way.
I’m already disappointed the next volume won’t be out for something like 3-4 months.
I’m personally a big fan of using this series’s short chapters as pallet cleansers between other, heavier plotted manga. I find the short, vignettes about their messy lives (as in these folks *definitely* don’t ‘have it all together’) to be weirdly ‘comfy’ in the best possible way.
I’m already disappointed the next volume won’t be out for something like 3-4 months.
November 6, 2023
Cute continuation; going to happily keep reading these.
March 11, 2023
Hyper décevant. Pour une fois qu'on a un GL avec de beaux graphismes, faut que ça normalise la violence sur sa compagne.
Pas ouf.
Pas ouf.
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