Namaiki Asahi-chan wo Wakarasetai - Ch. 5 - You Can't be Serious

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Of course the busty student council president gal is being developed (no pun intended) into the rival character. I already see it now, he beats her, and gets top score, and she becomes a legit love rival because he makes her feel something she never felt before.
 
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One of the few over the top, completely removed from reality manga tropes that i just cant bring myself to dislike is the overpowered student council president.

Like, you go girl, decide a clubs existence on a whim. go ahead and make an ultimatum without any paperwork. Fuck it, destroy private or school property just because you want to.

Its just so funny to me every time and idk why. Maybe because i was friends with a student council president way back?

Anyways, thanks for the translation, appreachiate the work!
 
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As usual, the second heroine is much more interesting than the main heroine. We all know she will lose to the main heroine..

I quite like her though.
The rival is always better than the main girl (whether in looks, personality, body type, hair, etc), that's the reason why she is the rival. It gives a sense of accomplishment when the main girl clearly beats someone who is far superior to her. There is no sense of accomplishment if the main girl is the best girl, and she "punches down" and beats the romantic rival.
 
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The rival is always better than the main girl (whether in looks, personality, body type, hair, etc), that's the reason why she is the rival. It gives a sense of accomplishment when the main girl clearly beats someone who is far superior to her. There is no sense of accomplishment if the main girl is the best girl, and she "punches down" and beats the romantic rival.
That makes you wonder if mangas like this have a female author self inserting into the for some reason incredibly annoying and dislikable FMC?
 
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That makes you wonder if mangas like this have a female author self inserting into the for some reason incredibly annoying and dislikable FMC?
Looking at her previous work, all of it is shojo manga. This is actually the manga artist's first non-shojo manga. I am taking a guess here, but since 95% of shojo manga artists are women, odds are extremely high that the manga artist is also a woman.

So yes, there might be some degree of self-insertion in the storyline, not that it's a bad thing or anything. It does explain why the main character, who is an otaku, is also hot for a shonen manga. A male manga artist would definitely make him more frumpy to be a self-insert.
 
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So yes, there might be some degree of self-insertion in the storyline, not that it's a bad thing or anything. It does explain why the main character, who is an otaku, is also hot for a shonen manga. A male manga artist would definitely make him more frumpy to be a self-insert.
Self-insertion definitely ain't a bad thing, but it is a bad thing when that makes the most dislikable character be the FMC

Personally, it is kinda cringe when they make all these other characters with good personality just to nominate the one with bad personality as the winner because of self-insert reasons, like are they trying to make some kind of wish-fullfillment thing where they win even though they have a horrible personality?

On another note, I wish more mangas made the MC hot, like who doesn't like a hot dude?
 

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