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Man even kids I am gonna die alone🥲
The elementary school kids are more mature and their relationships are going faster than the main couple.That was the best chapter in a while for me – which is saying a lot, by the way, since this manga is so consistently amazing. This chapter had so many great twists and turnarounds; every time I thought it reached peak, the manga went peaker. How does Masuda-sensei do this?!
Mase-chan and Okute-chan are just... I don't even know anymore. They are like characters straight out of a soap opera, except they're in elementary school...?? Anyways, they're ridiculously entertaining. Mase-chan acts mature, but is mostly very wholesome; Okute-chan is the polar opposite. Little Hikoichi has a tough love life ahead of him for sure...
Maybe that's why this chapter was so fun: it's just ridiculous. "He was a good kid back in kindergarten, but then he fell in with a bad crowd of upperclassmen in elementary school" is ridiculous. We also almost witnesses an infidelity plot with elementary schoolers; that's ridiculous as well. Then, we see Little Hikoichi speaking and acting like a true man. That's absolutely ridiculous. This juxtaposition is just so stupidly funny to me.
Praise for the chapter aside: I honestly don't think Mase-chan deserves Little Hikoichi. She's consistently emotionally manipulative; even when she's not, she tries to maintain an unequal power dynamic. Not to mention how Little Hikoichi is the one putting in all the work for this relationship. Everything I just typed was about elementary schoolers... Why is it so spicy lol
You'd think after that big scare and all that brooding, she would have learned something about the fragility of love and had some kind of drive to make her feelings clear, especially when he did the exact same. "Thanks to you, those guys hitting on us left." Likewise, thanks to you leading him on and giving him hope, he may miss chances with other girls that are interested in him. Just give a straight answer, are you interested or not? Right now, she's just using his feelings to treat him like a gopher, after making it clear she would hate for him to stop looking at her.Assuming Mase-chan doesn't adjust her behavior, Little Hikoichi should consider moving on from her, as she appears to be quite manipulative and is the kind of tsundere who isn't going to be pleasant to be around. If he were to mature and cast her aside, it would be interesting to see if she changes for the better or emotionally unravels, especially if another girl enters the picture to heighten the drama.
Hikoichi and Nayu may want to take note of things NOT to do, so they can steer clear of these kinds of toxic behavior patterns.
That's oddly specific 🤨I know it's just for comedy but those elementary school girls are as bitter as women in their 30s that played around for their 20s and now the men they used to date but never tried to settle down with don't want them anymore and that juxtaposition just takes me out of it a bit.