#kotoko iwanagawa

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Currently fixated on these two. LOVE them. They really should have more ship art. Or a ship name, at least.

Let’s see... Kotoko Iwanaga + Kuro Sakuragawa... Kurotoko? Sakuwanagi?

[hopeymchope]

Currently watching season 2 of the anime, and it strikes me how incredibly confusing their relationship's progression is. Admittedly, I've watched way more of the anime than I've read of the manga, and I've never touched the original novels at all (are they even available in English?), so I have no idea what additional context there may be within those sources.

Season 1: Kuro is initially reluctant to be involved with Iwanaga, comments that she's forcing her way into his life. When the main plot of this season kicks in, Iwanaga has taken to calling him her boyfriend while he's gone off alone and told her not to follow him, giving us mixed signals and making us doubt Iwanaga's claim. By the season's end, however, Kuro is openly referring to her at his girlfriend and even telling how beautiful she is and that he'd never want to send her away. Even so, it's still notable that Iwanaga observes on more than one occasion that Kuro never seems to want to have sex with her... or at least he never wants to take the initiative on such things? So uh, details on whether they're physically intimate at all are hazy. Could just be her fooling around/teasing like she often does.

Season 2: At the season's start, Iwanaga repeatedly introduces Kuro as her boyfriend, but he repeatedly denies/rejects this label or at least says it's not accurate to their relationship. So either he's willing to call her his girlfriend while not wanting to call himself her boyfriend (??is this because he doesn't think he meets the definition of 'boy' anymore or what??), or - more likely, IMO - their relationship has backslid/gone into a more negative place where he feels less inclined to be romantically entangled with her for whatever reason. And yet, interestingly, during this same period of the story, Kuro never once argues against them moving in together when Iwanaga starts suggesting the idea. He only questions the new apartment specifically. Furthermore, although the season starts off with Iwanga doing the usual possible-teasing(?) about their lack of a sex life, by the halfway point of the season there's an exchange that strongly implies they're sexually involved for sure. So maybe things have gotten better again between them? Uh, except this comes up shortly after one of the times when he denies being her boyfriend. Oookaaaay. So like, are they just casual fuckbuddies or WHAT at this point... ??

Currently fixated on these two. LOVE them. They really should have more ship art. Or a ship name, at least.

Let’s see… Kotoko Iwanaga + Kuro Sakuragawa… Kurotoko? Sakuwanagi?