Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai Shite Iru - Ch. 47 - I don't want to be just a friend. I want her to see me as a man

[Sonaldo]

Someone get the snake repellant please

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

if he barfs right there, it’ll be hilarious.

Playing "Baby Bird". Date AND dinner.

why is kusunoki avoiding him again? is it because otobe likes him?

Yes. And she's traumatized from having a friendship get completely ruined because the guy her friend liked got a crush on her.

 

[REMasher]

Snake doing snake things.

 

[javajulien]

She sucks and that makes her a 1000x better than the boring ol' main girl. Do your thing Hebikawa!

 

[pachingching]

I stan tanned tomboy short stack gyaru! go away snake!

 

[JasonBourne117]

I feel like from the very beginning Snake Girl has zero social skills. Like, she appears to be a very very sheltered girl, thinking she is successfully flirting with the MC, like in a cheap shoujo moving in for the kill after years to snatch her victory, when in reality she traumatized and alienated him in the past.

 

[ladiance]

Welp, she is still overwhelming i guess

 

[DaBlackMamba]

I hate this character and I double hate anyone that likes or roots for her

 

[RealerBanana]

Hebikawa "winning", to me, means she figures out that her initial goal of "proving 'darkness' exists inside perfect characters like Kusunoki" isn't worth doing.

My guess is, she has a not-good home life (divorced parents, relationship with dad isn't good), and after finding out as a child about that "perfect idol" on TV having a secret dark side, she projects the trauma-adjacent childhood she had onto those she sees as having a better life, thinking "surely they don't actually have it good, because what would that make me and my situation?"
I might be incorrect, but that's how I've always read her character, and her stated goal of trying to make Kusunoki "fall" -- basically, adolescent jealousy.
So if I am correct, then I hope she finds that she has the power to choose a better life for herself, that doesn't involve tearing down/exposing false secrets of those around her. And I think Keisuke is the key to that, because he's shown her in this very chapter that he could change in a way that seemed like an improvement on his past self--namely, he can now look her in the face without feeling violently ill after what he was put through because of her back in middle school.
By hanging out with him, I'm thinking Hebikawa learns to mellow out, that she can build real relationships and friendships of actual substance that aren't the more superficial side that you often get in adolescent "popularity-based" groupings, like her current clique seems to be. And in doing so, she'll find that she can choose her friends, her supports, and learn to let go of those feelings of jealousy and self-inadequacy and that it's not that other "perfect people" are fake, but that everyone struggles, and it's neither a contest nor cause for either pity, doubt, malice, or whathaveyou.
So...learning empathy, I guess, which is important for everyone to do and does take time and lived experience and stepping out of your comfort zone.

Hebikawa's my favorite character of this series, but I don't necessarily want her to get with Keisuke in a romantic fashion. But I think they would be important friends to the other, because of their disparate perspectives, but also because they could help one another grow (Keisuke already has, in terms of resilience, thanks to Hebikawa--and he's helped her already on more than one occasion in some fashion or another).
If she does manage that shift in her character (assuming I'm correct on what drives her in general), I think that'd be an objective win for her arc.

I’m curious why you wouldn’t want Hebikawa as the main heroine, because I feel like her being involved in a romantic relationship with Keisuke in the end would be more rewarding, and the process toward that would be more organic than the endgame involving Kusunoki. Due to the nature of these types of stories I feel as if it would be more refreshing if a character of her caliber won in this aspect.

 

[DaBlackMamba]

imagine being this hostile toward another person over a difference in taste of literary elements.

Imagine having such garbage tastes that it makes others hostile

 

[talisay999]

yea

 

[RJPay]

Kusunoki is blowing her main girl lead with these antics. If Hebikawa is able to cast some doubt on who Shizuki is going to pursue we've got a decent development. High School debut girl vs reformed mean girl. Hell give Otobe a fighting chance as well. It will add a little more spice to the story than the end couple being so obviously telegraphed from the start, just going through the motions.

 

[HYBRID_BEING]

Also, what are the chances that she actually kissed him? Like, 50~55%, maybe?

She did got on her toes, so i'd say higher
Still got leeway for nothing to actually happen though.

 

[HipoSin]

Honestly, this is funny. Shes obviously a bitch, and he knows shes kinda a bitch. But Kusunoki is fumbling so badly that he's at the point where he is willing to hang out with her after realizing he's being avoided constantly.

Like, imagine if your friend asked a girl out and she says no 4x with a different excuse, and the 5th time he uses something you know she'd say yes to, but she adds another person. You would 100% tell your boy shes not interested and to give up.

 

[Wizardrone]

I would have been defeated already

thanks for chapter

 

[Phantasmoon]

Hebikawa is definitely not carrying the entire manga, I still wonder why you people love manipulative women like this character. Shes literally irredeemable

Indeed she is, and that's why she is the one advancing the plot by being a manipulative asshole, the MC knows it but can you blame any of them? And let's be honest, the author is fumbling the bag with this unnecesary drama since you know... Moe isn't her old friend.

 

[happy_sqft]

you know what. im team hebi now

i hate this stall trope of wanting status quo

 

[UdenEmpati]

Imagine having such garbage tastes that it makes others hostile

You sound like someone who got rejected by an IRL Hebikawa and are now making it everyone else's problem.

 

[Trobilobada]

I bet that gave him a monstruous erection. 👨‍🦼

 

[ninjacookie]

Bro got bit by the snake