#more than a couple less than lovers

[jayswing103-blog]

A bunch of Akari styles.

#Watanabe Akari #Akari Watanabe #Fuufu Ijou Koibito Miman #Fuufu Ijou #Fuukoi #more than a couple less than lovers #more than a married couple less than lovers #more than a married couple but not lovers

[thelreads]

YES! THANK YOU! THIS GIRL IS THE BEST CHARACTER, DEAR GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE ACTUALLY WENT "I'M SICK OF THIS SHIT YOU TWO SIT DOWN AND TALK LIKE ACTUAL FUCKING HUMAN BEINGS" RATHER THAN ALLOW A MISUNDERSTANDING TO SPIRAL OUT FOR 100 CHAPTERS THANK YOU

#theLreads #inbetween #RA #random assortment #Freeblogging #more than a couple less than lovers

[evor20]

#akari watanabe #more than a couple less than lovers #fuufu ijou koibito miman #manga #manga cap #mangacap #my manga cap

[anime-fyi]

Imagine you lived in a world where as a high schooler you were matched up with a partner for “marriage training.” What’s that entail? Well, you’d move into an apartment with this person and have to act as a couple, your every action watched and graded by the school. That’s the setting for More than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers.

Something to keep in mind, your partner isn’t of your choosing. For the show, we’re introduced to the geeky, rather anti-social, Jirou Yakuin who gets paired with Akari Watanabe, a gyaru who is about as social and out there as it gets. It’s awkward, more so because both of them have someone they’d prefer to have been paired with, who it turns out were paired themselves. The school allows the top ten performers to switch partners, so the goal becomes to rank high and get the partners they’d actually prefer.

While I’m one to enjoy a good romance or comedy, but this show felt all too formulaic. The attractive girl starts to fall for the geek? Check. The geek starts to fall for the attractive girl? Check. The childhood friend’s in danger of losing her love interest? Check. Lucky incidents happen that bring each girl closer to main characters in steamy ways? Check. It all felt by the book, but hey, maybe the premise saves it. About that, if I honestly think about it, and take it more seriously than I would for most shows, isn’t that a pseudo arranged marriage? I’m not really OK with that, more so since it’s implied it’s normal for some pairs to start dating as things go on. Like, is that really love? Is that romance? And are they being watched all the time?

Recommended? No. It’s not a terrible show, not by a long stretch, but it just doesn’t stand out in the sea of romances out there. The premise is unique, yes, but it feels more like a way to tie everyone together than meaningful in it’s own right. At least it looks cool, I’ll give it that. The colors, use of banding, textures and flourishes, it’s unique. Not enough to save it, but enough to be worth note.

#chris talks anime #anime review #more than a couple less than lovers #fuufu ijou koibito miman

[alpaca-llamasama]

#Fuufu Ijou Koibito Miman #more than a couple less than lovers #mangacap

[songweaver]

#more than a couple less than lovers #akari watanabe #jiro yakuin

[ephemeralvalkyrie]

Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman - More than a Married Couple, but <not/less than> Lovers.

Let me begin with saying that I hate this show.

Let me follow that up with I also don’t hate this show at all.

I am annoyed at how fast I binged the first 6 episodes faster than running up my credit card at Macy’s on a black friday sale.

This anime falls into that category of shows I want to tell people about when they say that anime is just cartoons and people shouting at one another about the power of friendship and shit. However, it’s also absolutely drenched in most of common anime stereotypes. 

Nosebleeds, Tsunderes, High School Drama, and that loathsome self-deprecating nerd thing that so many shows do. If I hadn’t already seen a clip of it mid episode somewhere else, I probably wouldn’t have bothered to watch it at all. But I did, and now I’m fucking invested in the drama. Damn it, here we go again.

SO, here’s the rundown: 

It’s a take on the high school thing where students pair up in the class and have a pseudo-family for a grade. In older times, I believe it was something like “raising” a bag of flour, or a plant or an egg or an actual doll to simulate the experience of parenthood and married life. Supposedly teaching the value of cooperation and communication. Personally, I never got to experience this project firsthand, but if I’m being completely honest it’s something I’m sad I missed. High school was an awkward time for me, but that’s another story for another time. I digress.

Anyway, so we have the students being paired up and instead of raising a fake kid, they’re just required to share a dormitory together and emulate what it’s like being with and around someone else to share your life with. For a grade.

I mean like, obviously that’s gonna lead to some shit. A bunch of high schoolers shacking up together on the school’s dime? What could possibly go wrong?

I was skeptical that it was going to be “crazy” (read: overused) antics like guys getting caught peeping in on girls showering and getting slapped or some shit like that, but I’ve been pleasantly surprised that this particular trope has been dropped in favor of actual character development.

Instead we are treated to what will eventually become (what I hope) is an intricate allbeit predictable series of relationship triangles and an actual look into the characters true thoughts and feelings. It’s very clearly still an anime, but we do have moments of genuine anger, jealousy, envy, and sorrow

The characters are somewhat objectively generic; Nerd boy Virgin-kun, Main character-haired Gyaru-chan, Nerd boy Virgin-kun’s best friend Otaku-kun, Meek and squeaky Pigtail-chan, Super popular sporty Fuckboy-kun, MC-haired Gyaru-chan’s friends, Sporty-therefore she must be a lesbian-chan, and some other faceless people to clutter up the screen once an a while. 

I mean, yes, all of these characters have other aspects to them, but let’s be real; this is exactly what they want you to see these characters as.

Virgin-kun and Pigtail-chan have been friends since grade school. Virgin-kun obviously has a thing for her, and repeatedly kicks himself for not having the cajones to say anything to her about it. Pigtail-chan likes to pretend she’s not aware of this, but shyly admits to Lesbian-chan that she’s 150% got a thing for him too. Who could’ve possibly guessed that?

Gyaru-chan is literally drooling over Fuckboy-kun’s jockstrap, but Fuckboy-kun doesn’t even know what fucking day it is. But hey, pretty people like pretty people, no surprises there.

Well, for this little class experiment, and I know this may come as a shock to you...but Virgin-kun gets paired up with Gyaru-chan. What?!!? You mean the Nerdboy and the Popular girl are forced to work together? What a fucking plot twist!

Stay with me here, it gets even deeper; Pigtail-chan and Fuckboy-kun get partnered up too! What in the actual fuck is going on here?!?!?! Mind= blown. Amazing. I am figuratively speechless. Never saw that one coming at all.

I have to poke fun at this because you can’t possibly watch anime taking it seriously all the time. They needed a starting point, and by gosh they’ve gone and done it.

Now, onto the parts that actual keep me interested:

Majority of the first 6 episodes centers around the “main” couple of Virgin-kun and Gyaru-chan’s everyday cohabitation. There are of course some predictable slapstick moments, but what I actually enjoy is how the tone is lighthearted but also somewhat serious. They’re aware of the situation they’ve gotten themselves into, and they know it’s important for this project to go well if they have any hope of achieving their shared goals. Surprisingly, Gyaru-chan is the one that pushes things forward, but not like in a commanding way. She decides to give it some real effort and fulfill her duties as a wife, and she ain’t too bad at it either. If anything it’s Virgin-kun that can’t manage to get his shit together. He’s not particularly bad at it either, but he struggles with his own insecurities, repeatedly. Still, for what it’s worth, they’re believable.

And wouldn’t you know it, that’s the problem. 

I should mention that the one caveat of this experiment is that if you keep your score up high enough, you can choose to spouse-swap with another couple of equal standing.

Potential drama? Of course. Why the fuck not.

In the following episodes we’re shown a variety of up and down situations as Gyaru-chan and Virgin-kun’s relationship grows, while things between Pigtail-chan and Fuckboy-kun become rather murky as well.

Virgin-kun and Pigtail-chan share a few somewhat innocent moments, just so we’re clear that there’s still something going on there while Gyaru-chan may or may not be on Fuckboy-kun’s radar at all.

But what is Fuckboy-kun really after? His motives are questionable at best.

Is-she-actually-a-Lesbian-chan has her own issues to deal with but still encourages Pigtail-chan to pursue her dreams and not to give up just cause she doesn’t actually know how to talk to boys any more than Virgin-kun can talk to girls.(but they can talk to each other???)

And Otaku-kun...is clearly just there as cannon fodder and the “i don’t want to make our audience uncomfortable dealing with these awkward situations so I’m gonna say some dumb shit” guy.

So I’ll say it again: I hate this show

and also, I don’t hate this show at all.

I hate this show because it’s fuckin sappy. I get frustrated and throw my pillow at the wall when simple shit could be avoided by actual communication

But I also don’t hate it because I realize that these are all part of the characters development. It’s like watching a B-list horror movie that makes you yell “don’t go into the fucking shed” at the screen like an idiot. It’s not that i like yelling at screens, it’s that the show pulled me into this mess and I’m invested. 

I don’t care if everyone gets their happy ending. I’m fully expecting at least 1 if not all of these characters to end up heartbroken or otherwise emotionally damaged. 

But really, the reason I’m going to keep watching is because they make you care about them...just enough.

...and to be honest, it’s pretty fuckin cute.

#anime #anime review #rant #fuufu ijou koibito miman #more than a couple less than lovers #i wanted to sleep but then I started watching this damn show #i'm obviously a sap

[ekyanimehd]

Watch Fuufu Ijou, Koibito Miman Episode 12 online or download the full episode and the rest of the series in HD.

#Fuufu Ijou #Koibito Miman #More than a married couple but not lovers #Fuukoi #More than a Couple Less than Lovers

[ever-vale]

We're not together because it's complicated. We don't talk much this days because life is chaotic. You go hot and cold because everything around you is a mess and you don't want to hurt me.

If this works out, i know it's gonna be one of the best relationship, i could never had hoped for better

If it doesn't work out, i'm going to be absolutely devastated

Either way, i hope we manage to stay in each others lives. Because anything would be better than losing one of the best people I had the chance to meet

#falling in love #love couple #love quote #love quotes #couple love #him #love #relationship #situationship #i miss his smile #i miss his voice #i miss it #i miss him #i miss you #we're more than friends but less than lovers

[beeapocalypse]

trying to craft a funger oc like aughhhh i can see him i can picture him in my head right now [image of the most off putting little man possible]

#he does not have a name yet but he DOES have a vague concept. author from the eastern union who got drafted into the military and-- #--met another guy during the 1 week he had b4 getting shipped out to basic training. they immediately develop a WAY intense relationship-- #--and constantly send letters to each other. author is a total chickenshit and comes to cope w the violence of war thru-- #--alcoholism and a complete retreat into his obsession w the other man. gets a couple wires crossed and has his lust morph into more + more #--violent fantasies that the other man plays along w bc its Fun+Wild (at its core its the authors desire for CONTROL. if hes the one-- #--bringing the pain then hes safe. even better if its with the single person in existence he feels like he can trust during that-- #--period of time). manages to live throughout the rest of the war and rushes back to his lover. spends a slowly degrading week w him where- #--the man comes to realize what he thought of as simple metaphor+exaggeration was TRUE desire from the author + the author flounders-- #--without the then expected+familiar terror day in and day out. culminates in the man demanding the author leave and never try to contact-- #--him again (saying their romance was wild and exciting and unlike anything hed ever experienced but the only good way it couldve ended-- #--was if the author died out on the front and forever left him Wanting without the actual reality of those desires realized) and the-- #--author either tries to shoot himself or the man (fails to do so. lol) b4 running off to the first train out of town. worlds messiest guy #ya it leans a bit into samarie territory but hes fun. his theoretical ending b would probably have smth to do w sylvian worship + marriages #even more vague idea for his moonscorched form is a sopping wet pathetic red wolf ('red wolf' being one of the mans terms of endearment-- #--thru their wartime love letters) w its legs tangled up in barbed wire so it has to drag itself around. red bc its incredibly-- #--thin skin (<-- do you get it .) splits and bleeds thru with every movement. a lot of whining and incoherent babbling as it hesitates to-- #--ACTUALLY attack anybody. should have some cock horror element but ive no ideas on that front LOL #skill ideas are persistence predator (more melee damage dealt the less mind hes got- a backstory choice where he focuses entirely on the-- #--love letters rather than splitting focus on his on-pause career with short stories) and an unnamed one playing into his terror/lust deal- #--where he gets a buff to either melee damage or speed when his phobia is active. want to come up with at least one more though #mmmaybe him being an author doesnt play that well into his concept as a whole but hes my strangeguy so whatever

[tsunderrated]

me

#fuufu ijou koibito miman #more than a married couple but not lovers #more than a married couple less than lovers #manga #screencap

[jayswing103-blog]

Look at how far they've come.

#fuufu ijou koibito miman #fuufu ijou #akari watanabe #jirou yakuin #yakuin jirou #watanabe akari #more than a married couple but not lovers #more than a couple less than lovers #more than a married couple less than lovers

[thelreads]

Oh this is gonna be good

#theLreads #inbetween #RA #random assortment #Freeblogging #more than a couple less than lovers

[evor20]

#fuufu ijou koibito miman. #More than a married couple but not lovers. #More than a Couple Less than Lovers. Fuukoi #mygifs #my gif sets #anime gif #mypost #akari watanabe

[tokruta]

I HATE THIS I HATE THIS I HATE THIS

GET THAT 40 YEAR OLD MAN AWAY FROM THAT LITTLE GIRL SHE WAS 14 AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It was already so bad when the marriage registration said he was 37 and she was 15, it became worse somehow when I double checked with their birth registrations and it turns out he was 39 and she was 14.

He registered his intent to marry 2 months (2!!!!!!!!! 2 FUCKING MONTHS) after her 14th birthday. How long was this fucking creep around that baby? I just…

Ain’t no way anyone liked that man, right? How was this legally allowed? Was it because they lied about her age? 15 and 37 isn’t any better just because she’s “a woman” at 15 (one of the reasons I didn’t have a quince, I resented the idea that I was a woman ready for marriage at 15, even if it is just symbolic nowadays rather than literal)

Oh who am I kidding, I bet people were completely fine with him.

I just….

Why are there so many child brides? I’ve found too many.

That poor girl, I’m so fucking mad.

At least that fucking pedo died literally less than 6 months later, rest in fucking piss

...so, I left this post in my drafts to cool down. I continued on to the next siblings and I figured out how he knew her.

His youngest sister married the girl's father 2 years before he married his daughter. This man married his fucking step-niece! The sister was okay with her almost 40 year old brother marrying her fucking 14 year old step daughter! How old was she when they met? 11? 12? younger?

I hate this group of people. Hope my great*3 grandmother was against her brother's shit but who knows.

#genealogy #tw child marriage #he was my great*3 grandmother’s older brother #i just….keep thinking about a tiktok i saw recently that said #young girls who married hundreds of years ago were marrying young boys #and that in the rare cases of young girls marrying old fucking men it was a trade thing amongst those in power #and like…it doesn't help me deal with the psychological damage i'm dealt when i find married couples like this! #luckily these extreme cases aren’t too too common (maybe 1 in 15-ish couples i find fit this extreme to an extent not exactly this bad) #most of the time they are less than 10 years apart and the girl is at least 16/17 in most cases #not the best but much more in line with what i expected #there are the rare young lovers (1 couple i found married at 16 and 17. youngsters) #and i do find couples that are very much adults when they marry. #it doesn’t take away the disgust and anger in these cases but it helps that they aren’t the majority or even super common #more common than i’d like but any amount is too much #hasan't #personal

[alpaca-llamasama]

Broken Kite

#fuufu ijou koibito miman #more than a couple less than lovers #mangacap