>Nobody would have preferred if those characters were guys.
Are you joking? We could have gotten a reverse harem instead.

I lost all interest and stopped reading when yuribaiting started, though I liked the manga overall, bleh

>>24110
But she's literally me!

I still read it occasionally, but Tomoko's a lot less fun now that she's more well-adjusted. She also keeps sexually harassing the others a little too boldly.

My favorite scene is the one where she misplaced her umbrella and plots to murder everyone for perceived theft until she finds it. That is so me!

>>24112
Same
I don't even dislike yuri but it just lost what made it special

>>24110
I really liked it. Tomoko is cute but not by modern anime standards which makes her unique. I don't mind yuribait, it's good that she made some friends. I actually cosplayed Tomoko before the rona happened, still my favourite character to cosplay, mostly because I can really relate to her.

I heard the author is a scrote, which would honestly explain the "yuri" bait attracting so many moids

>>24142
I think it's a team with a male writer and a female artist. I don't know which one saw the dick pics though

Should've just ended with the anime ending.
Going further was a mistake.

I would enjoy the idea if she actually ended up with a girlfriend.
Bi Tomoko is peak relatability (and wish fulfillment). Although I doubt it would be written well, the degen closeted baby bi signs early on rang true to life. Yuri harem is less real.

>>26179
Is it still relatable even if you're not gay? I feel like lesbians have a vastly different experience being lonely (internalized homophobia, homophobic parents/town, small dating pool, etc)

>>26184
I'm bi and found it eerily relatable. But I'm also a mess.

>>24110
>>26179
It's interesting either way.It's so honest and raw. The cringe is large, but it's really good.

>>26179
To be honest, I never really liked My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness for the simple fact that the author comes off as very unlikeable, with zero self awareness, a need to make everything in her life melodramatic and what a cowards version of self-importance. Had she been born in the west, she would've absolutely become some variant of deranged libfem.
Memoirs are hard thing to do because you need to strike a good balance between being able to talk about yourself whilst giving the audience a reason to care, which is hard to do when most of your work reads like an angsty teenager's diary entries, rather than an solid narrative.
Don't get me wrong, the genre of comic memoirs can and has been done right (although I won't rec any here since they technically don't fit what OP is looking for) but in all honesty, you're better off skipping this one.

I like the idea of it becoming yuri, but wish it wasn't bait/harem. Dropped the manga indefinitely because it's just a bit too scrote scented.

And this would obviously not be marketable to men, but the normification of Tomoko paired with her slowly accepting that she also finds girls attractive would be tailored to me, specifically. The anime came out when I was an angry, anxious, and horny teen bisexual myself and seeing Tomoko's social struggles AS WELL as her being hot/gross for everyone was so "wow she is literally me."

>>26180
Am straight. It is very relatable, sometimes painful. I find it kind of sad that people keep pushing for identifying the author as lesbian when the author herself doesn't even seem certain about it.

If I recall correctly, she admits that her attraction to women may be a result of being mentally fucked up, implying that it's not the attraction that lesbians feel. I might be wrong though, was a year or two since I read the latest installments.

>>26523
>I find it kind of sad that people keep pushing for identifying the author as lesbian when the author herself doesn't even seem certain about it.
She literally calls herself a lesbian so why wouldn't other people refer to her that way?

>>26179
even though I remember liking the MLEL, I remember disliking the fact that the mc financially coerces a woman into having sex with her iirc. I'm just very anti sex work

>>26526
I don't remember this, source?
I also found it relatable as a straight woman and I actually feel bad when it gets recommended to lesbians. The English title is kind of a mess, like it's looking for a different audience than an accurate translation would have brought.

>>26179
i thought the sequel was called my solo exchange diary