Haimiya-senpai wa Kowakute Kawaii - Ch. 47
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Oh dang luminare got beat
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Everyone is waiting for Haimiya to come back.Meanwhile me waiting for Kurose and his badmates to actually mesmerized everyone in the upcoming summer event
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I wonder if once this arc is resolved, are we going to just go to the next character to have trauma out of nowhere.
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Mio is afraid to ask for help, fearing that her problems might make her a burden.
But this will definitely help her start changing her mindset, little by little—because what they told her was truly genuine. 😭👏👏
A round of applause for the lovely Koyuki, who continues to prove what a great friend she is to Mio—not to mention Akane, Touya, and, of course, her beloved Kurose! 💙
But this will definitely help her start changing her mindset, little by little—because what they told her was truly genuine. 😭👏👏
A round of applause for the lovely Koyuki, who continues to prove what a great friend she is to Mio—not to mention Akane, Touya, and, of course, her beloved Kurose! 💙
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Truly unexpected, especially from how the series was going up until the Kurose Band Arc.
I commend the author for being tactful in its representation and not immediately resorting to the Kurose being a “knight in shining armor” role and just overcoming his own stuff in a quick manner. Instead resorting to the friend group doing their best to show that they genuinely care about Mio and are there to support her as a group.
I’m sure the time will come when Kurose will show up big time. But right now; this is what the story needs. To show that she has a support system at school to help her when she’s ready.
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Hopefully after he gets his own affairs in order. Should have a much clearer head by then.
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He needs to get his shit together 100p. You cannot attempt to be that support to someone with that level of depression having weak resolve. There is little to no room for uncertainty and fecklessness in this situation. I trust the author will do it the right way based off of what we’ve seen so far.
Listen, she could get better before we reach that point and that would be alright too. Just having that friend group alone is huge. It doesn’t have to go the route of Kurose getting it together and being the one to get Mio across the finish line of feeling better and being able to manage her depression healthily again.
If their romantic relationship materializes, it doesn’t have to be because he ‘saves’ her.
That was really sweet. Sending a video of them having fun showing Mio that they're close enough and within reach if she's ready to rely on them. But not too close where they're are encroaching or pressuring her to overcome her mental anguish. Or "saving" her as other people have mentioned.
I do find it interesting how both Kurose and Mio deal with their issues. They're similar in that they both start by distancing themselves from people. The difference is in what drives that distance.
Kurose's trauma made him unable to see the things going on around him. Not that he's self-absorbed, but he kind of blacks out and gets so overwhelmed by whether he's meeting people's expectations that he forces himself into situations that don't serve him. Eventually it boils over and he retreats into a hole, believing that isolating himself will avoid people being disappointed in him.
Whereas Mio can't help but see everyone around her. She's found her people and found happiness but is afraid of losing it all. So she creates distance to protect herself and avoid becoming a burden. That's why she insists on dealing with everything alone. She knows she's making people worry, but she prefers that than bringing people into problems with her own heart.
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I do find it interesting how both Kurose and Mio deal with their issues. They're similar in that they both start by distancing themselves from people. The difference is in what drives that distance.
Kurose's trauma made him unable to see the things going on around him. Not that he's self-absorbed, but he kind of blacks out and gets so overwhelmed by whether he's meeting people's expectations that he forces himself into situations that don't serve him. Eventually it boils over and he retreats into a hole, believing that isolating himself will avoid people being disappointed in him.
Whereas Mio can't help but see everyone around her. She's found her people and found happiness but is afraid of losing it all. So she creates distance to protect herself and avoid becoming a burden. That's why she insists on dealing with everything alone. She knows she's making people worry, but she prefers that than bringing people into problems with her own heart.
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Yeah... but I'm not a fan of the execution. The whole "low battery that doesn't recharge" analogy instead of just saying she has clinical depression feels so... coddling. Kurose is more than old enough not to be talked to like that. And with how easy it is to find information on the internet these days, it's not like saying "she has clinical depression" would scare people their age or make them treat Mio like a leper... unless this is one of those cases where clinical depression is such a big taboo in Japan that we Westerners don't know about it, so it has to be treated with kid gloves.
Also, bringing it up while Kurose was dealing with his own stuff feels like a bit of drama overkill. The author could have chosen another time in the story to address it. Unless... the author is doing it now because there isn't much story left. Which would be weird, considering this manga is selling like hot cakes.
But that's just my opinion, which I'm sharing with Moz. If anyone thinks it was masterfully done, they're free to think that.
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Probably the author trying to show it in a more simplified way that japanese manga readers will understand.
Japan isn't very good with mental health awareness, can't suddenly info dump some otaku with a bunch of medical jargon.
Even then, this simplified depiction is pretty rare in manga.
Story is not perfect though, far from it. Author needs to give the drama arcs more time to breath in between.
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Understatement, they're actively and sometimes seemingly willfully bad at it.
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Although not the country with the highest rates anymore, probably not even top 10 last time I checked, Japan doesn't garner that reputation as a country with high suicide rates for nothing.
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"A study published in the International Journal for Equity in Health conducted by researchers at UC Riverside and the University of Tsukuba found a stark contrast between Japan and the United States. When surveyed about individuals with major depression, 84% of Japanese participants expressed a desire to maintain social distance from them, compared to just 28% of participants in the U.S."
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or you know a school nurse sharing the specifics of another student's medical condition is both incredibly rude and possibly illegal. explaining it in a simplistic way without specifics is the way to go about.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's giving it exposure, not respect, if anything this depiction is borderline disrespectful in how simplistic it's making it look like
Putting aside how Japan has it's own issues with mental health (not nearly as many steps up the ladder from "woman complaining? Hysterics, put her in an asylum"), this battery analogy is literally the specific example I've been using in my own life for decades now to describe my own fight with depression almost 1-to-1, with the only difference being I explain that I have a lower max charge too, although unlike Haimiya I dropped out of highschool directly because of it. I could go into it more but nobody here is my therapist, but the point is I can personally say it's a pretty damn good example/explanation of depression and not some kinda watered down version of it. Because an analogy like that works a lot for people who don't really understand depression because it's real and, to be frank, a lot of people just straight up do not understand what depression is. Hell, I barely even understand what it is sometimes! We can look at it from the Watsonian perspective that it's a teacher trying to explain something to a student/friend not knowing how much they'd actually know about the topic, or a Doylist perspective in that it's a way to explain it to audiences who also might not fully clock it, but regardless; it's still an easily understood analogy.
If anything it makes me happy that we aren't getting the standard form of it, where a character who has depression or is going through a depressive episode will have their door knocked on, let a friend in, a party or something is thrown and then suddenly they're fixed from having the Big Sad™ and the topic never comes up again because They're Cured™. And to be honest even if something similar does happen in this series, fundamentally it wouldn't be the same as that "playing around with a thesaurus picking depression as the word of choice for sad" standard fare, because Haimiya both being on her meds and going off her meds because she thinks she's having a better time and doesn't want to be held back by them is also super fucking relatable are the type of thing that fundamentally means the author has done their own research and/or experienced this to some degree in their life.
The only complaint I could make would be that this is a tonal whiplash, but in my eyes I like it because it's not wishy-washy bullshit. That and be the nurse saying that it's not something medicine can help with, which is both technically true and untrue at the same time, because depression meds are a constant battle of trying to get something that works and the right dosage, making sure it actually works which can be weeks/a month of pain because that's how long for these things to actually take effect if they do at all, and even when you finally land on that after years you still have to be consistent with it, and there's a chance that the medication could one day just stop working for you with that dosage because your body "got used" to it (I AM NOT A DOCTOR I DO NOT KNOW HOW THIS SHIT MEDICALLY WORKS) so there really isn't a pill you can pop like a Tylenol to help with a headache or something.
And all of this is without going into the fact that it could be a slew of other types of mental issues too. Depressive episodes are something you can definitely feel "coming on" for any variety of reasons, but there's also a variety of other things it could be like severe anxiety or agoraphobia since the festival's coming up or anything else, but that's something to be revealed as the story goes on. Regardless, I firmly believe now after writing all of this that I think the author has some form of experience with this or has done some REALLY long research on this topic specifically, but it seems more likely to be the former what with how little this has been at the core of the manga up to this point as it's unlike manga where anything brain-problemy tends to be in the title in bright red letters.
