Text says "Reason" so I suspect Mai is about to lose it

I feel violated. This went to a very dark and entirely unnecessary place.

I'm astonished to admit it but I think this calls for the "Wholesome" tag

This, taken in light of the developments in the most recent novel is HILARIOUS. (I won't spoil anything but lets just say the bad guy is ABSOLUTELY Satsuki in this situation)

I'm torn. I want to see them get together but Lara treated Mari VERY badly and so seeing her just come back and immediately be accepted leaves me with a bitter aftertaste.

Is this analog? Because it really looks like it - In a good way

El Cazador ends with a love confession

@johnb: There are several, but most of them are older or are for little girls. El Cazador De La Bruja, Kiddy Girl And, Waccha Primagi, and Mahou Tsukai Precure come to mind. Toji no Miko, too.

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In a world where Lara is good enough for Mari

Also I think this warrants the Yandere tag tbh

I do not like where this is going

VYKNIGHT is likely correct. I certainly don't want to see any more of it; It hurts too much knowing that we got played again.

LAMO at the guy in the seat in front of them

This ship is always really funny to me.

Femme Suletta and Top Miorine. Perfection.

EDIT: THIS FILE'S NAME IS LARA HOLY SHIT

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I think the question is "Do we really WANT to claim this trashfire as trans rep?"
There are other things we can claim instead! Ansatsu Kyoshitsu! Zombieland Saga! Pandora in the Crimson Shell!
Y'know, things that don't suck.

Gonna join the "Seeing fanart just makes me angry" group.

Look, this isn't the first time, or the second time that this has happened to us. This has happened to us over and over and over again. There was a major argument during the show's run about how people were worried this was going to happen to us.
The issue isn't that the series ends with the characters going their separate ways. It's that this was not foreshadowed or explained.
At the end of the Locodol Manga, the main character's love interest goes away to study, but this is set up, explained, and it's established that she's coming back.

Same thing happens at the end of Himitsu Aipri S2 and that's a children's toy commercial.

The reason people are angry at Goodbye Lara is that it very abruptly drives off the side of the road in the last six minutes. The whole episode and in fact series up to that point was building to a different conclusion then the one we ultimately got.

Moreover, this is not happening in a vacuum. We're supposed to believe that this was a creative choice and not cowardice when there was an extremely public fight between the suits and the creative team over G-Witch declaring Miorine and Suletta married? We're supposed to find this original and brilliant when it's something that happens all the goddamn time in this genre, and it's usually better done than this?

I mean seriously.

I'm going to say it: The show is visually gorgeous but the writing has always been bad. Lara's inability to pick up even very basic facts about how the world works was executed very badly and rendered her extremely annoying. She's perpetually treated as if she's three years old: She can't read and doesn't bother to learn, she has no grasp of the concept of money, despite having spent time in human civilization before, and she takes Mari and Mari's family for granted for the entire show.

Then there's Luca. Luca exists purely to scare the hell out of the viewers who are expecting a Lara/Mari ending. Freaking Project A-Ko handled the concept of comphet much better and the people making it might not even have known what comphet WAS. Luca has no personality whatsoever beyond "painter, falls down a lot" because he's a plot device and nothing more.

Finally, there's Mari. We get a lot of religious imagery associated with Mari, and that all winds up meaning nothing. We also see how Mari has experienced horrific loss and that also winds up meaning nothing. Hell, the plot basically takes a crowbar to her by having her experience horrific loss AGAIN with the death of Grace, and then after she risks her life and DIES to try and rescue Lara, Lara leaves her standing on the station platform for no explained reason whatsoever. Oh, and the treasured memento of her mother is destroyed too.

Media is ideas given form, and so it always has a message, even if that message is vapid or manipulative. The message of Goodbye Lara appears to be "It's okay to use other people and then leave them with nothing" and that CANNOT be intentional. It can only be the product of extremely poor storytelling.

It is deeply funny that people act like Renako is a gigachad when she is in fact just the world's easiest woman

I was like "Who tf is Renee" and then I remembered that it's Mai's mom

Yep, this is one of the most brutal response to a love confession I've ever seen.

I think the one from "2DK, G-pen, Alarm clock" still wins

If we're talking about the one where she just ignores it, then I'd say it's close, but not quite this bad. Because that was the result of panic, and this deliberate psychological abuse.

Honestly the "aaaaaaangst" "Drama" and "What the fuck am I reading" tags would not be out of line for this chapter.

The way I read it, the blame is 10/90. Magical girl should not be projecting onto evil general, but she might not even know she's doing it. And more to the point, Former General basically just lured the magical girl into a romantic setup just to rip out her heart and step on it.

Here's the thing: The worst thing that can happen is not being told no, or the other party being disgusted. Because the opposite of love is not hate, it's disinterest. Magical girl is clearly pushing herself really hard to be able to do this, and Evil General cuts her off, rejects not her feelings but the validity of the feelings, and then proceeds to mockingly tear into her for allegedly using the general as a replacement.

That's not just a rejection, it's psychological warfare.

This is hilariously out of character for everyone involved

I see Miku correctly being depicted as the top

Someone's read the books