- #138
Okay, I have read 100's of manga's to do with very serious love triangles such as this, however I have gone out of my way to make a post about this one chapter as it has infuriated me to within an inch of sending my personal opinion to the mangika.
I won't refer to the characters by name because I don't think it makes any difference to that which I am most stressed about. My example is thus, Man A and B both love woman C. This love is amassed through issues with life and issues with themselves. Woman C knows this fact however she has a *double persona*. One of which is a 17 year old woman who up until recently was a human. She is now the 2nd/3rd strongest vampire in current exsistence due to her lineage. These are her personas.
She is fully aware of both Man A and B loving her. For reasons that can only be construed as confusion, she has yet to determine which man will receive her fullest attention. As a woman she has a huge crush on A and a seemingly tsundere relationship with B. As a vampire she is the sister/fiancé of A and now has a questionably close relationship with B as he is turning into a ghoul, perhaps through sympathy or maybe something else.
Now to where my frustrations lie most. As a woman she had the power to love both equally and perhaps through a not so friendly rivalry, A and B could have battled it out to win over said woman. In most love triangles this is cliché but not boring with the right script. However, she is now a vampire, with power no less. Man A is trying to protect her from the pain of being a pureblood whilst also trying to complete a plan to end a war with the humans. Noble. Man B is madly in love with her, despite knowing he is a breed of person who should hunt vampires. Both a gesture of the human heart and the power love. At this point the war between A and B over the vampire female looks interesting, but that is about to end in 1 chapter out of 89.
Forgetting that as a woman she felt love for both A and B, and also forgetting her place as a person, she decides to take action by alterating the stasis quo by removing her presense, forcefully. Forcing it onto a man who did not want to forget. Despicable is one word, but many more I could right save for it not being decent for a forum to read. She then later finds about the intensions of A and in what appears to me a bid to stop him from commiting seppuku admits her love for him and then later beds him.
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Infuriating? Not even close. There have been heroines who I have wished would just die. But none have come to close to what I now feel, for Yuuki Kuran. I hope that when Zero regains his memories, the first person he puts a bullet through the head of, is Yuuki. Not out of spite, not out of hatred or anger, but purely for having the arrogance and audacity to take which is not hers. Feelings. Memories. Love. My personal hatred for this woman *and in some parts for the mangika for writing that script* is currently infinite ...