The Lungfish Diaries

This week, Chizuru explained herself. Satisfying as that was, I want to focus on the two important prongs of Chizuru’s state of mind: that she would be trampling on Ruka’s feelings and that she has acted unprofessionally. What’s notable, to me, is that these ideas basically do not exist before a certain point in the manga. It may be time to man up, but the person who put Chizuru in this position in the first place… is Miyajima himself. What was there before: Chizuru’s jealousy Chizuru has long been jealous of Kazuya and Ruka’s relationship. She distanced herself from him after telling him to go out with Ruka. She distanced herself again when she thought he slept with Ruka, and then she did it again when Ruka tried it again . We have seen her, more than once, looking on as Ruka hangs over Kazuya (186). Chizuru has all but admitted she desires that kind of closeness, speaking Kazuya’s name without honorifics to herself (144), just as Ruka had done in front of her. Mor...