YUMI THOUGHT SACHIKO WAS GOING TO DO SOME SORT OF DISCIPLINE UPON HER HANDS. WHAT???

where is the fic lol

The relationship between Sachiko and Yumi is soooooo weirdly impossible to put into a box

She's like super proud. But also kind and extremely pretty as the animation likes to remind us

The Yuri anime takes on gender stereotypes!!!

LOL yoshino goes: damn kinda jealous of your whirlwind romance with Sachiko, Yumi... And Rei goes: pfft your Sachiko sure is playing it up now that she's captured you, Yumi, geeze

Its actually kinda cool how they make the cool older love interest a total idiot baby hahahaha. Sachiko-sama...what came first, strawberry panic or this...?

But also the rose council are such assholes to sachiko ??? Pfffft they were like: hm you didn't show up to our meetings with the boys, now you're paired up with one, sachiko repeatedly is like: I DONT want to dance with some boy, and they're like uh lol you dont even have a mentee/lil sister so you don't get a say (AFTER SHE GOT REJECTED BY A GIRL WHO IS IN THE ROOM) and then when she gets herself a random girl, they're like hm right you just grabbed a random girl right? And sachiko straight up goes: HOW DARE YOU IMPLY I'D USE THIS RANDOM GIRL FOR MY OWN GAIN??? (she is). Nobody even thought to ask Yumi what the heck she'd want except shimako. And then it turns out the council only pushed Sachiko so hard because they wanted to know why she was so against dancing with some guy even though her mentor KNOWS she's just generally averse to men. They even go: hm we're not really fit to be student council if we force a junior to do something she doesn't wanna do. And then sachiko goes for the 'solution'/ bet anyway??? Just call them out on their immoral behaviour that they've just admitted to girl! Her mentor is literally like: oh sachiko is a pushover (sincere) so she'll just do what people ask. SHE KNOWS THIS. And then this one thing that Sachiko hates to do and tries to refuse she pushes her on, Sachiko stands up and says about this one thing: no I don't wanna do it, and the whole council gangs up on her to pressure her anyway. WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE GUYS?? GIRLS??? No wonder that Sachiko went around shouting about it and roping in random girls to get out of it - shes never said no to anyone ever in her life and the one time she does they put her under extreme duress.

Anyway it's not that deep and the narrative doesn't intend for me to look at the current rose council and think what huge assholes. But this does explain why I was like: ??????? In a general sense about the whole character of Sachiko about 15 years ago

Oh i forgot that they all come on to Yumi in different ways. WHY did Yumi run away in a gay panic after seeing Sachiko dance. Lol

Wow they had all these conniving shitheads going: hehehe we're doing fun games! And then Yumi actually suffering from it.

This is HILARIOUS! I dont know but like. This is actually kind of refreshing??? The girl you admire and like so much suddenly invites into some sort of Christian sisterhood! And she's like a really bad boyfriend who just keeps pushing.

Rosa gigantea is fun, but she doesn't give a fuck about hurting Yumi's feelings. I guess she's kind of an adult who sees all this as nothing much important

Sachiko is such a weirdo pfffjd. I guess that's what comes with being some rich girl. She hates to lose!

These stakes are SO ridiculous yet executed so well!!! What the heck

Is the student council seriously putting on a show with just them as the leads???

Ok???? So they all care about Sachiko but put her in a position that made her vulnerable to the guy she's in an arranged marriage with and who feels entitled to kissing her when she doesn't want to. Well done guys!!!

Oh ok so she was in love with this guy but he isn't in love with her but he'll marry her for personal gain. So a real world parallel to Sachiko proposing to Yumi for personal gain