>>4439565
>Frankly, the manga could've worked without the yuri but the artist decided to include it because why the fuck not.
Yeah, I liked that. If this was coming from the yuri manga tradition, it would probably be about how sad it was they never got to experience a more adult love. Here the relationship was already basically emotionally complete and the fact that in a few years they'd have been making out is more of a spice. Even though the 18-year-old Sora is devastated that she didn't tell Iroha she was in love with her too, or that's how I understood that scene anyway.
>Maybe it affected the story
There are some hints that Iroha was going to do something darker, like Shinobu defining "ai" as pure, unselfish love and "koi" as love where you want something from the other over a picture of Iroha, and Shimon telling Iroha her trying to avert Sora's death could end up hurting others.
Well, now the first one just reads as Shinobu being a little bitter about losing the Sorabowl and Iroha just being that good.
