Kawaii Koi wa Kikazaranai - Ch. 36 - I Was Confessed to by the Person I Like, but Now I Can’t Contact Them

[MangaDex]

 

[krater]

I'm kinda curious how he broke his phone.

 

[charlie987]

Why are Mangakas still using the broken phone plot device? Are you really trying to make me believe that in 2026 this Japanese teenager is both not using Line and doesn’t have his contacts cloud synced?

 

[Doutorfunga]

Why are Mangakas still using the broken phone plot device? Are you really trying to make me believe that in 2026 this Japanese teenager is both not using Line and doesn’t have his contacts cloud synced?

Not to mention no social media account to contact her and let her know his phone's busted

 

[Friendly-Sentence710]

I had a friend who, back before everything was in the cloud, met a guy a party hit it off really well, then he ghosted her. She was bummed about it, and then moved on.
Then about a month later he calls her from a new number.

Had her number save in phone. Fumbled phone on a bridge in to a river. He was a certified scuba diver. Took time off work to dive the river with a friend to hunt for phone. Found it after 3 days. Took to repair shop. Completely hosed. Proceeds to interrogate everyone in his friend group about the party. Eventually tracks her down. End up getting married a couple years later.

 

[bakanisan]

Why are Mangakas still using the broken phone plot device? Are you really trying to make me believe that in 2026 this Japanese teenager is both not using Line and doesn’t have his contacts cloud synced?

What a stupid plot. Even SIM card can be swapped to the new phone and eSIM is more prevalent than ever.

 

[Kaarme]

Is it worth repairing an old phone if it's so bad it takes a week to do it? This probably isn't about paying a specialist a hundred thousand yen to extract data directly from the mainboard, but rather waiting a week for the repair shop to receive a spare part from the manufacturer. This does suggest it's an old model indeed and the repair fee is probably a significant portion of the phone's remaining imaginable value, even if it was once a flagship model when new. If it's not a past flagship model, then it's meaningless.

But then again, this sort of plot development fits this particular series. It's not a good plot device, but it's more or less consistent. We read this series for other reasons.

 

[Bonzalez]

Why are Mangakas still using the broken phone plot device? Are you really trying to make me believe that in 2026 this Japanese teenager is both not using Line and doesn’t have his contacts cloud synced?

And wouldn't just buy a new phone instead of waiting an entire week for some fucking reason