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MFrontier
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I think you can definitely tell the author has past experience drawing more...explicit romances because there's more of a presence and awareness of physical attraction and sexuality than your usual Shojo romance. And also the desire for very...forceful male leads.
I mean, we even see our Heroine straight up moan in episode 2 after Tsunagu touches her cheek. It straight up acknowledges how both girls and guys can get mutually horny for each other! Of course still at the heart of the story is a budding, pure, romance between Mari and Tsunagu and how that crosses racial divides. Just like with Tsunagu's parents (who were apparently the leads in the authors' prior work!). Yukihiro Best Bro. |
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SaiyanHeretic
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Yukihiro really locked his two new friends in his own bedroom like "Go ahead and see how far around the bases you can go before things get out of hand."
One of my issues with shoujo has always been the weirdly sweet and chaste teenage romances written by adults who obviously don't remember how messy and embarrassing actual teenage romances could be. Maybe it's just a cultural difference, but I sure as hell never saw any of my peers giggling, blushing, gazing longingly, or fumbling over their words. In my experience, it's a lot more along the lines of stumbling headlong into doing things we're both likely to regret. So in that regard, I appreciate that this series is using its premise to tell a story about fools rushing in, and if it's a good story, they'll circle back around to figuring out whether there's something deeper to their relationship. |
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Piglet the Grate
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If With You, Our Love Will Make it Through is supposed to be about overcoming xenophobia and racism, it has already undercut itself by showing (and telling explicitly) that Beastfolk have uncontrollable sexual urges towards not just each other but also Homo sapiens sapiens. Those who are old enough will remember that this was a commonly held view in the USA regarding black men and white women (common enough for miscegenation to be illegal but only enforced for black men/white women and not the other way around) and led to lynching of black men by white supremacist vigilante mobs to occur.
Out of genuine curiosity do people who found shows such as Nekopara and Cross Ange to be squicky approve of the "forceful attractive male" and "woman who fantasizes about being ravaged by said male" trope to be acceptable or not? I was fine with Episode 1 until the final scene, but the locked together in a room scene in Episode 2 made watching uncomfortable enough that I am dropping this. As always, your mileage may vary. |
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MFrontier
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If the plan was to slowly win over their class/school, starting with Mari winning over her friends' who had their biases' and prejudice against him is a good first step.
Yukihiro is such a bro that it makes him having a hopeless crush on Mari while also helping Tsunagu so much hurt even more. I really appreciate how direct and clear Mari is with her feelings. I feel like most Heroines would never show so much initiative or actually directly ask their crush out on a date instead of the other way around, but she goes for it (with some imploring by her friend, mind you). Of course in true romance fashion her love interest misreads her intentions and makes it a friend group outing.
I viewed it through more of a Beastars lens though I guess the racial undertones of the story is also quite clear. |
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TiramyISCUTE
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Great job on the review. I think this is a rare example of a shojo furry anime, based on manga made with female teen demographic in mind. It really does make the series feel pretty unique when its actually written by a woman, for women. This is not the best furry shojo anime I saw (Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts was really good and is also these same things), but, this one also has my attention.
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TiramyISCUTE
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Another great review! I am glad you are continuing to review the show!
Also, I am so sorry about this, but I think I accidentally set up broken links on the Official Website section of this show ^^' even though my links were legit official links, I didn't know how the page submission feature worked (I thought it was like a message box to send a message to the admins, I didn't think my suggestions would get published exactly as I typed them. I am really sorry, heh. I was just trying to help by suggesting these links, I did not expect it to get published anime#34321 |
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SaiyanHeretic
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As far as Aida's feelings go, I think making a new friend and kinda falling in love with them a little bit is a perfectly normal experience. I don't expect anything much to come of this, especially since there's that catgirl in the OP who is likely to join their friend group in the future, establishing the genre prerequisite secondary romance.
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njprogfan
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Literally, I was thinking the exact same thing seeing that catgirl in the OP. 
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MFrontier
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This show has surprisingly paced out its relationship well while exploring the lead couples' physical and emotional attraction. In a stage where you're more than friends, but not lovers, yet you can't deny how much you want to be with and cherish that person.
Aida is a great guy even if he's destined to lose. |
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njprogfan
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Now that the cat girl is introduced, how about Yukihiro and her hook up and double date with our main characters and let the fur fly.
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MFrontier
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I appreciate that Kisara is not only very chic and fashionable for a catgirl, but that she's such an archetypal childhood friend Losing Heroine.
The Beastfolk village seems very quaint and nice despite the fact that you effectively have to enter it like you're going to visit someone in a prison. |
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njprogfan
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The horniness of this show is getting close to legendary, Good Lordie!! A huge thumbs up for Kisara! She's such a great side character and her design is fantastic, especially those piercings. I'm looking forward to any appearances of her in the future
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MFrontier
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I have to admire Kisara for acknowledging how good a girl Mari is and basically conceding respectfully. I guess she could also read the pheromones in the room and knew there was no point in her confessing since she'd inevitably get rejected.
"I thought the show would get progressively more intense as it went on, but this felt tame compared to the last interaction." - We straight up had Tsunagu undress Mari and feeling her skin through her bra and Mari looking like she was ready to go all the way up until the end. And this is the toned down version!? It was a nice symbolic narrative moment for our main trio to stand in-between festivals happening on both sides...though I wish we had gotten to see Mari wear a yukata. |
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YFox
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Yes the show is very very toned down compared to the source manga. This manga/anime is a sequel to a 2 volume manga which is called Hanna and the Beast man which is 60% porn 40% story about how Tsunagu's parents meet. The writer is very much one who came from porn stories before she did a mainstream one like "With you our love will make it through" So you'd think they knew what they where getting into turning this into an anime. In the manga volume for this episode Tsunagu unclips Mari's bra slips his hand underneath and cups her breast, pinches her nipple and does a full panty barely hiding anything ass/crotch grope. Which was an actual proper escalation from 1st to 2nd base but in the anime that didn't happen so it feels like not much changed from their previous intimacy. I'm wondering how the show will keep dealing with their growing intimacy because spoilers: spoiler[ They full on f*ck one manga volume from now which is over 20 pages long in the manga from her getting eaten out to being lovingly/passionately railed by a bare ass Tsunagu ] Last edited by YFox on Tue Dec 16, 2025 12:29 am; edited 2 times in total |
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YFox
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So, I know this probably isn't the right place to ask/mention this but is there any way to contact the author who reviews the show every week because for the past 2 reviews including this one he keeps confusing Yukihiro with Tsunagu which makes for a very messy and confusing read that almost makes it seem as if it's being written by ChatGPT.
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