Harapeko Oyako to Motokare Yanushi - Ch. 11

[Tinker_OwO]

JUST TALK TO EACH OTHER, PLEASE!

Just be honest and let things be

 

[essensue]

I think it's already explained between the lines, even in this chapter. He's reserved, quiet, and probably not easy to connect with. My guess is that she probably didn't feel that she got the affection and closeness she wanted. Maybe he's mostly the same that he was back then, I think guys in general change less than women over the years, but she's probably matured a bit more emotionally and got more secure at least and can handle someone not being direct with their emotions.

Maybe the ways dudes change are less dramatic, but they're definitely equally important to being able to have an adult relationship. If this is the chill, pushing-40 version of him, then it's hard to imagine putting up with the Art Student young adult version of him that's emotionally volatile.

I actually really like the way he's characterized, because it's definitely A Type Of Guy I know in real life, even if he's totally exasperating to deal with or read about. Specifically, he's the kind of guy who starts a sentence with the word "No" in order to agree with you.

So she was the one who suddenly broke up and then just popped up again with her daughter.. I see 😐..

Honestly curious how the story will try to paint her in a better light, cause right now her likability is questionable at best, considering that's a unhealthy degree of shamelessness

I'm pretty torn between wanting to know what happened back then and also knowing that right now it doesn't really matter. What hits you as "unhealthy degree of shamelessness" strikes me as "charming degree of unpretentiousness," but I think my opinion of her is buoyed by two important factors: One, she's exactly the kind of rare individual who could tolerate MC and bring the needed whimsy and lightness to brighten his gray, rigid days; and two, for all her weirdness, it's implied that she's a functional adult at the end of the day, who's made it work as a single mom for some number of years.

She's weird, but it certainly seems like a harmless flavor of weird. There definitely doesn't seem to be any room in her heart for malice, so I guess I'm kinda surprised that she's still such a divisive character with readers who are sticking around for chapter 11. Her cuteness and patience in dealing with the MC is one of the factors keeping me reading, along with the mysteries and holy crap the art.
dammit, those soft watercolor pages that opened the chapter enchanted me

 

[kn4ll]

Apparently you don't know anything about female physiology, as that's complete bollocks. Unless you meant it as a joke and forgot /s ?

It's probably a joke and a reference to that lizard girl manga.

 

[kn4ll]

Maybe the ways dudes change are less dramatic, but they're definitely equally important to being able to have an adult relationship. If this is the chill, pushing-40 version of him, then it's hard to imagine putting up with the Art Student young adult version of him that's emotionally volatile.

I actually really like the way he's characterized, because it's definitely A Type Of Guy I know in real life, even if he's totally exasperating to deal with or read about. Specifically, he's the kind of guy who starts a sentence with the word "No" in order to agree with you.


I'm pretty torn between wanting to know what happened back then and also knowing that right now it doesn't really matter. What hits you as "unhealthy degree of shamelessness" strikes me as "charming degree of unpretentiousness," but I think my opinion of her is buoyed by two important factors: One, she's exactly the kind of rare individual who could tolerate MC and bring the needed whimsy and lightness to brighten his gray, rigid days; and two, for all her weirdness, it's implied that she's a functional adult at the end of the day, who's made it work as a single mom for some number of years.

She's weird, but it certainly seems like a harmless flavor of weird. There definitely doesn't seem to be any room in her heart for malice, so I guess I'm kinda surprised that she's still such a divisive character with readers who are sticking around for chapter 11. Her cuteness and patience in dealing with the MC is one of the factors keeping me reading, along with the mysteries and holy crap the art.
dammit, those soft watercolor pages that opened the chapter enchanted me

I don't think she is that hard to get, she's happy go lucky and easygoing. Know more than enough people with personality as her. I would know because I'm basically one of them myself.

 

[Lynkaster]

I hate the bitter-sweetness around this story

 

[izumabakumatsu]

Minori worried about getting caught eating the daifuku was surprisingly adorable.

And that 1st page was amazingly erotic for some reason.

 

[Shibanova]

So, they won't move over. More opportunities for ex's daughter x MC ship

🤳 "Hello? Yes officer it's this one, right here yes right now"

 

[Nivek]

So, they won't move over. More opportunities for ex's daughter x MC ship

Oyakodon OT3

 

[Weoooo]

She's weird, but it certainly seems like a harmless flavor of weird. There definitely doesn't seem to be any room in her heart for malice, so I guess I'm kinda surprised that she's still such a divisive character with readers who are sticking around for chapter 11. Her cuteness and patience in dealing with the MC is one of the factors keeping me reading, along with the mysteries and holy crap the art.
dammit, those soft watercolor pages that opened the chapter enchanted me

She's a fluffy dream girl. I'm honestly surprised that people hate her so much too!

 

[Saybah]

They have such a good chemistry I hope they end up together

 

[lolfacesayshi]

I feel like this manga could go all they way to marriage ending without explaining anything about the The Lost Years.

And I think it intends to.

EDIT: got me thinking about what is different with this one over all the other "surprise family" mangas, and it's this absolute level of secrecy that they've been keeping about the father, and the near-zero romance angle. So we're left asking questions instead of just reading, and doing so with very low level of investment into their happiness.

Telling us that "no, it's absolutely not the MC" is worse. Okay. Then who is it? They're dead and no one good, so she wants him forgotten and not even a memory? Great, then that means that she hooked up with an A-hole who died.

A good person who died? Cool, then MC will always be second for someone who cares very little for him, not even enough to tell him why while asking for help.

 

[Attqqqq]

“You’re gonna make me a bad mother teehee”

bitch you ARE a bad mother, you forget you’re mooching and freeloading at your ex’s, with daughter in tow?
“Haha it’s ok she does dishes and her daughter does laundry sometimes uwuuu” if you had any idea the effort it takes to cook for 3 people and it’s just being handwaved off. This guy is offering room and board, meals included for the price of ‘chores you would ask you 8 year old child to do’

But she got them real honkers so deep in his heart, he can’t say no. Fuckin honker havers

 

[_hng_]

So, they won't move over. More opportunities for ex's daughter x MC ship

I am a gourmet, I really enjoy the dish called oyakodon from Japan.

 

[MrIncognito]

I have a feeling that it will be that something happened that either made her feel guilty or feel like a burden to him, so she in her mind she was leaving him for his own sake.

Perhaps something to do with his art. Maybe he had the opportunity of a lifetime but was going to give it up to stay with her.

 

[mdqp]

I wasn't expecting another chapter so soon. Then again, I wasn't expecting a lot of things from this manga, yet here we are! Chapter 11!

I like how "work for me as a model" translates to "work for me as a model FOR AS LONG AS YOU ARE HERE". Well, she was leaving already, so I guess her work is finished, right? RIGHT? Of course, this is just another transparent plot device to stall and continue to keep things ambiguous, so she'll stay for an unspecified amount of time (it doesn't sound like they have set any basic boundaries like "x number of days" or "x number of paintings", so her leaving will be milked for maximum drama later on at the author's discretion).

They don't even MENTION the possibility of moving out and working as a model for him, because that would be sensible. It's so funny that they didn't show the most awkward part of the dialogue: "you can help me by working for me as a model... By the way, you HAVE to live here for as long as that's a thing. It's how this stuff works I don't make the rules". Who even brought that up and how, exactly?
I also like how this whole thing seems like an "Achille and the Tortoise" paradox, where she is paying him back for staying there by working... And staying there, which she'll have to pay for too, maybe? Is the protagonist secretly a genius stalker and managed to trap Kyou forever with this one simple trick?

Speaking of Kyou, she just can't help herself, she HAS to lie to her daughter. What's more infuriating, is that she is also lying to herself, and it's extremely sad, as usual: "I am betraying my daughter's trust, but I am not doing it for love, really I am just paying him back so it's fine". She continuosly flip-flops between "I'd never make Midori cry" and "I'll flirt with my ex whenever the mood is right" just to rub salt in the wound. Good thing is that, as moody as Midori might be, she is probably more mature than Kyou, and even if she doesn't express it, she IS grateful for the guy's efforts, deep down, and is more accepting of the MC than before.

As many speculated, Kyou is the one who broke up with him. Now, since this story just turns into a drama if she was a bitch to him and then came back as if nothing happened, we can expect this was either directly or indirectly caused by Takaharu, or that they'll find an excuse to make him at least partly guilty. Heck, he is already characterizing this whole situation as "we are such selfish and unfair adults" because the scales must be in balance.

All in all, we are back to moving the plot forward by changing absolutely nothing. I wish I could hit the back of Kyou's head when she joked about him making her a bad mother ("What do you mean!?! Please, act like an adult for once, for ONCE, woman!"), but other than that it's just more of the same: a whole lot of nothing and a teaspoon of exposition/progress. It's one of the bad chapters, but it's not the worst one, and the series is mostly composed of bad chapters anyway. I just hope the funny moments return, or it will be hard to follow this, even ironically.

Edit: Going back to my post for chapter 9, I realized that I called out this development already, and I quote: "...Kyou flip-flopping between staying and leaving at least 10 times (with at least one fake out, where they leave but eventually come back)."

I just didn't have the foresight to imagine they'd leave without leaving, I guess. This also leaves (get it?) on the table the possibility to recycle this idea, so that they actually move and come back! The author is truly an evil mastermind when it comes to trite clichès, so at this point I might have to bet on the next plot developments, easy money!

 

[asbun123]

“You’re gonna make me a bad mother teehee”

bitch you ARE a bad mother

But, she's a fluffy dream girl uwu

 

[Rafalga]

Can't really expect the lonely people of dex to see the whole red flag prade of this situation becuase mom is a pixie dream girl. It's really pitiful.

 

[Trevoga]

y'all ready for that single panel to be the only thing that even comes close to addressing it for 10 more chapters?

 

[Daviidcou]

I do hope they stick with the "he's not the father" plot.

I mean, imagine if they went "oh, the daughter is actually X years, she's just short and had to miss a few years of school because of Y reason, she's actually MC daughter and mother left because she didn't want to burden MC with a baby" that would be a shit twist

 

[VooXoo]

MMhh...didn't expect that, she was the one to break up with MC.
Her face was pretty serious too, and I doubt MC did anything wrong.
Maybe she fell in love with someone else, the girl real father, but then things didn't go well.