#cherry magic spoilers

[himawaari]

how can i express the affection i have for him? words aren't enough

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[eiichiro]

30-SAI MADE DOUTEI DA TO MAHOU TSUKAI NI NARERU RASHII (2024) created by toyota yuu

[metalandmagi]

For anyone who either didn't watch or hasn't heard of the anime Cherry Magic: 30 Years of Virginity Made Me A Wizard.......please watch it. Yes the title is fucking ridiculous. No it's not a masterpiece. Sure the animation is passable, standard for a BL romance at the very least. What makes it worth watching are the expectation subversions it delivers around every episode.

The main character can read minds because he's a 30 year old virgin, so you'd think he'd use this to his advantage to sleep with people? Wrong. He's awkward as hell and feels insanely guilty about this power that he can do nothing about.

Since Love Interest-kun is in love with Protagonist-kun, he must take advantage of him like nearly all BL stories, right? Wrong. Love Interest-kun is a dork with the most vanilla fantasies you can imagine who still manages to be a gentleman even when he's consumed by lust.

But surely Protagonist-kun keeps his power a secret from his love interest, right? Wrong. When he and Love Interest-kun start getting serious, he tells him, because again, he's insanely guilty about it.

But surely Love Interest-kun takes the news that his boyfriend can read his mind and has been invading his privacy poorly, right? Wrong. He's totally cool with it.

But there's a woman at the office they work at who takes an interest in them. Surely she must be romantically interested in one of them and screws up their dynamic, right? Wrong. She's just a fujoshi who wants her ship to be happy.

So it ends with the couple finally going on a date or kissing right? Wrong. They got that stuff out of the way early. They end up getting married and living happily ever after.

I'm not going to pretend this show was outrageously amazing, but I feel like it deserves more love because every time I thought it was going to play into the typical BL tropes, it proved me wrong.

[thedooristhebluecushion]

Okay but the way Jinta & Min love and support each other in their successes is actually art.

[given-tree]

Masato and Minato in the newest chapters just 😭😭😭

[seekers-who-are-lovers]

Ah, the balcony scene and the Chiaki Kobayashi scream that I am so familiar with.

(Heya, @anitazara !)

[fracturediron]

You know it's true love when Min says Jinta smells like his grandparents and Jinta's just fixated on how Min called him charming

[lesbianpegbar]

happy wedding <333

[coffeebookslovegt]

Ese es Karan. Si quieres elegir a alguien de la oficina como modelo a seguir... debería ser él.

[stitch-me-not]

ACHIIII MY BOOYYY!!! HE KISSED KARAN AND HES SMILING, THEYRE BOTH SMILING IM IN TEARS

[himawaari]

when i gained the ability to read people's minds, i wondered why it had to be like this... but after touching kurosawa's heart over and over... for the first time, i want to get to know him better

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[eiichiro]

[kjthenbee]

***CHERRY MAGIC ANIME EP 5 SPOILERS***

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Woooo we got Kurosawa's love confession in episode 5!! One of the most refresshing things about Cherry Magic in all of its adaptations is how little time it takes things to progress. Idk how many eps are left (I'm guessing there's gonna be 12ish eps in total?) but the anime seems to be following the manga very closely (moreso than the drama, though I still adore it) so far, which means we've still got a lot of content left!. With this week's episode ending on the cliffhanger of Adachi's internal crisis, I'm very glad that I read the manga and watched the drama first so I'm not dying for the next week while waiting for ep 6 lmao.

Also I just realized that the next ep is going to be released on Valentine's Day!! Very fitting considering what happens next... Manga fans will know :)

[kyriefae]

Lotta hullabaloo around the Doccy Who finale. Lots a finger-pointin' & sign posting but I only got one thing to say:

Cherry Sunday FINALLY got her damn cuppa!

That is a happy ending & I for one celebrate this episode for giving us the well-deserved and completed arc on that specific plot point. 🎉🤩✨🤭🎉

*insert jubilant marching music & streamers galore; exit stage left as the rotten tomatoes come soaring in*

[redxx95]

Tachibana & Kurosawa parallels that are making me go insane

Hey guys so I had some Thoughts that are not letting me go so I did some digging and now I'm gonna present yall with my findings. They are horrible. (Spoilers for volume 14)

So how this all started is me wondering if Kurosawa ever feels a little guilty about entering a relationship with Adachi, since things could've been a lot easier for him if he'd simply gone out with a woman (to him it would've been Fujisaki) instead. He often mentions Adachi could've been happy without him, after all.

Then I remembered this bit from the end of volume 14 about how Adachi doesn't know how to deal with advances because Kurosawa was always intercepting them for him and decided to properly translate all of it.

"Adachi felt guilty, but him not understanding the tactics of love or how to evade invitations is my fault. I don't want anyone to take him away, but I also don't want him to ever learn any of this. Of course I can't tell him that though."

Tactics of love, huh. You mean like...

Giving little compliments... (The phrasing here is almost the same in japanese except Tachibana is using polite speech)

Offering favors...

Invading personal space...

Going "hey you like this thing, why don't we do this thing together?" ...

Helping out when they're weak and vulnerable...

You mean tactics like that? Man it sure is convenient that Adachi remains blissfully unaware of any of this huh. Okay So. Before you raise your pitchforks at me, yes there's obviously some nuance in all of this. Kurosawa is doing all of this to befriend Adachi, first and foremost. He wants to be closer to him because he loves him. Tachibana (as far as I can tell) just wants to get in his pants lmao Also Adachi's a Grown Ass Man and can definitely make his own decisions, and it's not like he got really manipulated either, since he could read Kurosawa's thoughts and intentions the whole time. I could still see Kurosawa having some self-doubts about their relationship though, if he ever realizes that he might have "manipulated" Adachi into a relationship that is objectively worse for him, considering the alternative of being with a woman and completely evading all the problems they've had with homophobia. Not to mention that Adachi is clearly good with kids and might want some of his own, which is something he can't have with Kurosawa, since adoption requires couples to be married in Japan and gay marriage is illegal, as we know. What if Kurosawa ruined Adachi's chances to lead a happy life, for his own selfish reasons?

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Now, here come my truly insane speculations about vol 15 and how this could tie in with drama around Matsuura :)

So on that last page she's clearly approaching Tachibana, who, as we can read pages before, wants to get black-out drunk to forget all his romantic woes. Which means he will be very talkative to a nosy Matsuura. There's no doubt in my mind that he'll reveal literally everything to her, how he wanted to go for this cute, inexperienced coworker named Adachi and how he got told to back off by his big scary boyfriend named Kurosawa. "Oh yea they work together at Toyokawa. I even told him it's really risky to date coworkers, can you believe it?!" Matsuura just goes "Oh that is Interesting."

She might even try to get under Kurosawa's skin by drawing parallels to his harassment in vol 1 and him pursuing Adachi, since Kurosawa has a higher position in their company and earns more, and Adachi being inexperienced. One could easily construe this as a power imbalance between them. Throw into the mix the issue of being "forced into a relationship that's looked down upon by society" and the looming threat of their relationship being revealed to their workplace and Kurosawa might truly spiral, maybe even breaking up with Adachi, just to fulfill yet another parallel to Tachibana.

Man would that be fucked up or what haha

[fuck-i-like-too-much-stuff]

Tay and New did one series being lovey dovey and went "never again, bicker and banter it is."