Mahoutsukai ni Narenakatta Onnanoko no Hanashi Episode 7 Discussion

Marinate1016 said:
NOOO they keep tryna make this Kyo and Yuzu ship a thing, SHE IS GAY GODDAMN IT

Marinate1016 said:
Yuzu being nice to Kurumi is still blowing my mind because it feels like it happened in a few minutes lol

NOOO they keep tryna make this Kyo and Yuzu ship a thing, SHE IS GAY GODDAMN IT. Anyway, she and Kurumi shined in the dungeon and it was awesome seeing their magic.

Yuzu being nice to Kurumi is still blowing my mind because it feels like it happened in a few minutes lol now she wants to hold hands, be called “yuzie” and even making snacks for Kurumi and checking on her, wow. I like it, but I feel for Maki. She gonna come back to her girl having a new gf lmao

motqalden said:
I'm getting pretty sick of the main character being so self depreciating... I feel like a lot of nothing happened this episode.

YordaTrico said:
@Marinate1016

it feels a bit like you are focusing on things that creators never tried to show us and not paying full attention to things creators did show us.



The show is listed as fantasy and I have never seen it listed as romance. I wouldn't expect there to be much of a heavy romance element regardless of who gets together but I have seen no evidence of this "ship" you and some others keep fixating on. Yuzu and Kurumi are just becoming friends and finding a new sense of appreciation for each other, why in this day and age does everything have to be romance just because two people smile at each other. Unless you are going to hit me with some revelation from the source material and in that case I will withdraw my point.




To me there is very clear growth here:

Episode 1 - mean girl

Episode 2 - still mostly a mean girl but we are actually getting to hear her express some of her views on how she thinks what they are doing in class in pointless and how Kurumi's goal to do magic is silly - all of which will be called back to later on.

Episode 4 - makes a smart comment to Kurumi meant as antagonistic but when Kurumi just smiles and says good morning she blushes and says good morning back, this is an important moment because it suggests Yuzu is just putting on a "front" and it might be easy to break her barriers down. In this episode she gets to show her skills at the potato challenge which gives her some sense of achievement, again this will be called back to. Ms Suzuki tells Yuzu that all her hard work has not been for nothing and we can see that she is really surprised by this because clearly she thought it was all pointless, this really increases her confidence and she is of course going to feel more open minded and less bitter, this will also make her feel a bit closer to Kurumi because maybe just for a fleeting moment she didn't think the goal of learning magic is quite so impossible and she can understand Kurumi.

Episode 5 - Yuzu might not admit it but she is inspired by Kurumi's positivity and will to try, and she ends up inspiring others to keep going in the race, this is truly expressed at the end of the episode when Yuzu approaches Kurumi in a friendly manner and they and they share a heartfelt moment of vulnerability together both expressing how they feel they failed at magic. Yuzu still makes what seems like a cheeky comment here when she says "I couldn't stand being the same as you" but she is smiling and you can tell she means it in an ironic way given the context of the conversation. They still don't really come off as friends here but it was a major growth moment for sure.

Episode 6 - Yuzu is tasked with handing out the tests and even seems to be enthusiastic about completing the task which is very different than E1&2, maybe Ms Suzuki gave her this task to help her confidence more. She expresses that she won't go home because she won't return until she has some achievement to tell her family, we can now look back on her previous actions and start to understand her better. She was skeptical of Ms Suzuki because if she wasn't doing magic she at least wanted to achieve academically and not waste her time on something she didn't think she could ever understand (ancient magic), and these same feelings also caused her to go against someone like Kurumi because she felt like Kurumi's dream of being a magician was as lost as hers. Yuzu and Kurumi then finds themselves in an unexpected situation in which they are the only ones not going home and given all the previous growth it is absolutely believable that they would not resist spending some time together, and now they find out they like each other and later on when Yuzu gets scared she finally admits to herself completely that Kurumi's positivity and will to try is something she sees strength in, so she looks to Kurumi for that strength in a scary moment.

I personally think this has been good development and not rushed at all. Yuzu was never a "Malfoy", she was just someone who was lashing out and being standoffish because she felt insecure about her own failures, we have all been guilty of that I am sure.

YordaTrico said:
@Marinate1016

I guess you needed some time to consider your response to someone correcting your lack of attention and understanding of simple story telling and you decided....

"Instead of addressing any of the points this person made I will pull the old classic of pretending I didn't read it even though I read every...single...word - and multiple times, and also make some strange jibe about number of quotes as if that is somehow relevant and changes the fact I had poor attention to detail and couldn't understand basic storytelling."


nice try though ;)

feel free to resume ignoring all of the intricacies of the story and just focus on brainless things like "OMG THIS CHARACTER SMILED AT THE OTHER SHIP SHIP SHIP"

Marinate1016 said:
Yuzu is gay