Himaten! - Ch. 95 - Just My Girl

[wozbond]

Bro she's the realest one out of all of them, certainly is the most character. You seem to prefer the wet nothingburger over the actual character. Also Himari and Tenichi have chemistry, Honoka and Tenichi are just highschool crushes that will be broken up with in 2 months. Blue Box literally did this plotline with the manager girl and best friend guy, and correctly portrayed it as the tragedy it is.

Also yea, she does some stuff. So? Tenichi was clearly very broken up by them actually parting, in equal measure to Himari. For him to immediately go to Honoka without reservation or second thought is just bad writing. It's boring, it feels hollow, people are left feeling empty rather than having bittersweet understanding, and it sucks.

Himari is certainly a real piece of work. If you think that the least fair character winning by any means necessary is what should happen, that sounds like a you problem.
Yes, Himari gives me Ayame and Hina vibes. All three characters are selfish prats who don't genuinely care what their crushes want, and act without ethics. Not into stories that reward characters like this.

 

[Argon2409]

Himari is certainly a real piece of work. If you think that the least fair character winning by any means necessary is what should happen, that sounds like a you problem.
Yes, Himari gives me Ayame and Hina vibes. All three characters are selfish prats who don't genuinely care what their crushes want, and act without ethics. Not into stories that reward characters like this.

I don't think we read the same story man.

 

[wozbond]

Also yea, she does some stuff. So?

Yes, she did some stuff. And the karma for that 'stuff' has just been served. Enjoy.

 

[Argon2409]

Yes, she did some stuff. And the karma for that 'stuff' has just been served. Enjoy.

She did stuff like hire a housekeeper and fall in love with him and then not want their professional relationship to influence her asking him out, which she proceeded to not do because...?

The most "karma" she gets is not asking him out for... presumably a reason, I'm sure the author has something... and then not getting with him. You're acting like this teenager is the reincarnation of Stalin for no reason.

 

[wozbond]

She did stuff like hire a housekeeper and fall in love with him and then not want their professional relationship to influence her asking him out, which she proceeded to not do because...?

The most "karma" she gets is not asking him out for... presumably a reason, I'm sure the author has something... and then not getting with him. You're acting like this teenager is the reincarnation of Stalin for no reason.

Treated him like sh*t at school because she's selfish. Hired him because she's selfish. Forced him to keep their relationship secret because she's selfish. Fired him because she's selfish. Asked him to participate in a book shoot AFTER he'd been fired because she's selfish. And finally, guilt trips him when she simply could have kept her mouth shut if she genuinely wanted him to be happy with Honoka.
If I have to choose between the character that's repeatedly selfish or the saint, I'm choosing the saint.
Imaging thinking the wet nothingburger of "I work hard to clean her house, so I must love her?" counts as a believable reason for Himari to win. 🤦‍♂️ If the author wants Himari to win, they need to come up with something believable instead of this trash. There's no chemistry between Iemori the doormat and ANY of the characters.

 

[Ragnolock]

She did stuff like hire a housekeeper and fall in love with him and then not want their professional relationship to influence her asking him out, which she proceeded to not do because...?

The most "karma" she gets is not asking him out for... presumably a reason, I'm sure the author has something... and then not getting with him. You're acting like this teenager is the reincarnation of Stalin for no reason.

Don't argue with that guy. He is genuinely retarded.

 

[GEEGEEE171]

Don't argue with that guy. He is genuinely retarded.

It's funny how he just keeps making up shit that wasn't there. Hoenotards man. 💀

 

[wozbond]

It's funny how he just keeps making up shit that wasn't there. Hoenotards man. 💀

Keep pretending Himari didn't guilt trip Iemori, numpty. 🤦‍♂️

 

[vinostrife]

Got spoilered on twitter how the story gonna end since im hiatus to read the story around 30 chpt. Know who he is gonna end with..

God fucking dammit

 

[Argon2409]

Treated him like sh*t at school because she's selfish. Hired him because she's selfish. Forced him to keep their relationship secret because she's selfish. Fired him because she's selfish. Asked him to participate in a book shoot AFTER he'd been fired because she's selfish. And finally, guilt trips him when she simply could have kept her mouth shut if she genuinely wanted him to be happy with Honoka.
If I have to choose between the character that's repeatedly selfish or the saint, I'm choosing the saint.
Imaging thinking the wet nothingburger of "I work hard to clean her house, so I must love her?" counts as a believable reason for Himari to win. 🤦‍♂️ If the author wants Himari to win, they need to come up with something believable instead of this trash. There's no chemistry between Iemori the doormat and ANY of the characters.

Let's pretend this is true. That'd still make her by far the most interesting and compelling character in the cast. Much moreso than the in text described boring Honoka, and Kanna who is kinda just there. Himari has the most character, most screentime, most interaction, and the most intrigue. Any option but her would be disappointing.

 

[wozbond]

Let's pretend this is true. That'd still make her by far the most interesting and compelling character in the cast. Much moreso than the in text described boring Honoka, and Kanna who is kinda just there. Himari has the most character, most screentime, most interaction, and the most intrigue. Any option but her would be disappointing.

Not denying the author has put the most wordage into the title character. My point is that the Himari character is not likeable, not ethical, and doesn't deserve to win. Just because the title character winning is a trope, doesn't make it a good one. It's cliched, and I find it extremely unsatisfying whenever the least ethical character wins.
I'm finding the storyline the author has concocted particularly unbelievable and more juvenile than most school based rom-coms. Almost zero chemistry to be found between any of these characters.
The characters are all delightfully drawn, which is this series' only redeeming feature. If this was a light novel instead of a manga, I wouldn't touch it. The plot and character interactions are asinine.

 

[DeepBluu]

No fucking way lmfao

 

[Skyblue454]

I read this at Fox before and stop at 30 to marinate it. And when I heard he finally chose I decided to see the comment section to confirm it, and yeah he did.

Question! Is it still worth to read it even though you don't have any specific girl to root for?

 

[Skyblue454]

I agree with you, I felt like the story had a good pace with their relationships building organically, but at some point like 20 chapters or so he kinda rushed, Himarin (my personal favorite) like suddenly realize she was completely in love it looked very forced, I think she had all the reasons to like him, but she couldve realized kinda in their scenes or "dates" together but it didnt look like that at all to me. Like you said he completely forgot the other girl like he didnt cared, and him choosing Kanai at the end is fine but again it looked insanely rushed like the manga was Axed, he didnt reflect on who and why he kinda just chose her. I don't know if I made much sense but thats what I feel, crazy forced like it was axed when the manga had a great pace imo it. At the end it didnt look like a clash between anyone it looked like the first girl got shot down for no reason, and then he went with the one who actually confessed like he didnt have no choice

I guess author decided to rush it.

'Cause if he were given a chance to contemplate about it, I guess he might end up choosing Himari.

Like in Nisekoi, Raku didn't fall in love instantly with Chitoge; they constantly did their fake dates and learned more about each other, even those small things that the other wouldn't notice about themselves. (They even notice the other change their usual drinks, or maybe that's a different series?)

And when Chitoge left, that's when he finally realized that he loves her.

And to not repeat that ending where many have hated it, the author decided to do this.

 

[ireadmangasforfun23]

I genuinely hope this is like one possible route (and not even the canon one), because it all just feels too dumb to be true. The story so far wasn't so rushed and so... shit, for lack of better words. I don't even mind Honoka winning, just don't let her win with a fucking letter she could have given him ages ago, like, in chapter 1.
Even Kanna had a better lead-up for a potential ending, and yet we're getting this!? Honoka barely did ANYTHING, her entire development as a character is "being able to talk".

I'm all for childhood friends winning, as long as they actually put in the effort, man. Honoka didn't do shit.

All it took was one letter.

She understood who he really was from the very beginning, something the other girls still haven't understood even now.

It's not surprising that he fell in love with her.

Their story is genuinely beautiful, built on something pure and sincere.

Their scenes were never loud or fanservice-driven.

They were quiet, subtle, and sometimes even rare.

Yet that's exactly what made them special.

They embodied the beauty of first love.

The other girls simply came too late.

And honestly, I never understood the argument that she needed more development with him.

Most of their development happened before the other girls were even in the picture.

 

[wozbond]

All it took was one letter.

She understood who he really was from the very beginning, something the other girls still haven't understood even now.

It's not surprising that he fell in love with her.

Their story is genuinely beautiful, built on something pure and sincere.

Their scenes were never loud or fanservice-driven.

They were quiet, subtle, and sometimes even rare.

Yet that's exactly what made them special.

They embodied the beauty of first love.

The other girls simply came too late.

And honestly, I never understood the argument that she needed more development with him.

Most of their development happened before the other girls were even in the picture.

I think that's what I would like to believe, if I was confident the author won't find a way to screw it up in the next chapter or two.

 

[xerather]

What makes all this kinda suck in my opinion is because the Author doesn't really justify the reason of why He loves Honoka that much. Sure in the previous chapter it was shown that Tenichi loves her warmth and kindness as she helped the kid. but come on... are you telling me, in that scenario, either Himari or Kanna will just let kid suffer? and in this chapter, Tenichi highlighted the moment where she help him carried half of the notebook as one of his reasoning. like.... really....? Man.. I do love Honoka as a character.. but if she's going to win, we should be given stronger reason to make us feel like she earned the love... at least that's my opinion on it. (Just like the quintuplets)

 

[GEEGEEE171]

What makes all this kinda suck in my opinion is because the Author doesn't really justify the reason of why He loves Honoka that much. Sure in the previous chapter it was shown that Tenichi loves her warmth and kindness as she helped the kid. but come on... are you telling me, in that scenario, either Himari or Kanna will just let kid suffer? and in this chapter, Tenichi highlighted the moment where she help him carried half of the notebook as one of his reasoning. like.... really....? Man.. I do love Honoka as a character.. but if she's going to win, we should be given stronger reason to make us feel like she earned the love... at least that's my opinion on it. (Just like the quintuplets)

Yeah, and she was even classrep/class duty or whatever so she was there to help either way. Not like she did it out of her own will. So if it was some other girl than her he would have fallen for her instead because they helped him with the notebooks? Shits so dumb lmao.

 

[wozbond]

What makes all this kinda suck in my opinion is because the Author doesn't really justify the reason of why He loves Honoka that much. Sure in the previous chapter it was shown that Tenichi loves her warmth and kindness as she helped the kid. but come on... are you telling me, in that scenario, either Himari or Kanna will just let kid suffer? and in this chapter, Tenichi highlighted the moment where she help him carried half of the notebook as one of his reasoning. like.... really....? Man.. I do love Honoka as a character.. but if she's going to win, we should be given stronger reason to make us feel like she earned the love... at least that's my opinion on it. (Just like the quintuplets)

Seeing the author give even less reason for Iemori falling for Himari. I mean come on, "I work hard to clean her house, so I must love her?" What kind of trash is that?
Let's agree that the author's ability to write a believable romance for ANY of their characters is not currently evident.

 

[xerather]

Seeing the author give even less reason for Iemori falling for Himari. I mean come on, "I work hard to clean her house, so I must love her?" What kind of trash is that?
Let's agree that the author's ability to write a believable romance for ANY of their characters is not currently evident.

I get that the Author want to make Iemori's feeling towards Himari is more like a familial love rather than romantic. Which I think kinda fitting for Iemori's Image. But also I feel like Iemori treasure's his moment with Himari more compared with Honoka. I don't know man.. kinda sad