Yancha Gal no Anjou-san - Ch. 197 - Tokio-kun's Biggest Clumsy Act

[Tarage]

...whole lotta incels in here.

 

[favine]

...

 

[Doctor_Malsyn]

...whole lotta incels in here.

True, her appetite is indeed insatiable.

 

[Darkshine38]

• constantly hungry
• eats significantly more than most
• still tiny and thin

only one explanation. chii has a friend called tapeworm-chan

 

[Doggiedog52]

I read it as she's aware he likes her and also deeply insecure about everyone around her changing while she stays the same. Thematically, Chii is a high schooler in her final year who insists that despite being 17-18 she is still growing, which...that's not happening. She wants to be a youtuber, and says she is going to travel overseas when she graduates. You could see these as realistically almost impossible and/or just in general very childish desires. She doesn't want to grow up yet, while meanwhile all her friends are leaving her behind. I'm not sure how clear this is to other readers, but throughout the manga, Chii clearly hates the idea of change, hidden under the veneer of being the somewhat annoying "gropes other girls boobs"-type character. In other words, Chii is not very mature, and dealing with a situation which requires more maturity than she has. It's very human, y'know? Am I the only person who has felt like everyone else was aging while I stayed the same in the past? No one? Any non-Chii haters around here?

Completely agree. Not only is it human but it's especially so when you're a teenager and you're unsure of what you want to do next. When you're having a good time with your friends, you never want that time to end. But then they start getting into relationships, going to different schools, advancing their careers...they have less time for the silly days. Sure you can make an effort to meet up and keep in contact but it's different and it's challenging. I feel like that's what Chii's character is; she's someone who realizes her life is changing and hasn't come to terms with it. But I believe that's where this is going, figuring that out and moving forward.

At least I hope so anyway! We'll see.

 

[Graywing]

Hopefully we get some good character growth for Chii. I knew people like her in highschool and college. Hard for them to grow up and fight it with every fiber of their being until they had no choice but to confront it, either in a positive or negative way. Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[burningknuckle]

Is she even popular in Japan?
Why all the push for Chii and Tokio?
Did the author run out of ideas for the other two couples?

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[So-chan]

Soooo... she's acting retarded to make him stop loving her?

It just might work.

 

[yamiyugi101]

Man the feeling of wanting everything to stay the same is strong

 

[Wizardrone]

tokio deserve better,

 

[daSweep]

Chii needs to settle this once and for all and reject Tokio. That is fine, not all relationships need to be happy and work out like most readers want to. In fact, I think it would be a great lesson for some people here, but knowing you all right you would just ignore the point and get even madder instead.

 

[Grug16]

What does Tokio even see in Chii? She's immature, crude, greedy, and now we see she's deliberately ignoring her friend's feelings.

 

[Rogojinen]

Man, it's fucking weird how everyone hates Chi like if she shat in your cereals and fucked your wife on the cold side of your pillow.

Trying to remember when it started, and it might just because she made a scene and was a little jealous when Anjou got with Seto. Yes, she was a little immature but she's a teenager, that's what they do.

It's a necessary step but not easy to swallow when you see everyone around you growing up and having less time for friends.

So yeah shr might go overboard by acting childish, but I honestly can't blame much a kid for wanting to hold on to this blissful and carefree time.

Growing up usually sucks! I much prefer to see a girl stubbornly wanting for her and everyone to pump the brakes instead teenagers rushing into adult matters that they're no way equipped to handle.

Hating her this much for it seems to imply that some here seriously think that she's going to be like this forever. Of course not, she's mistaken: it's not because things change that they have to end. It's not because Anjou and Toyoda got boyfriend that they can't ever spend time with her now. And obviously, I'm sure she'll come around on romantic relationships when her connection with Tokio will be too obvious to ignore.

 

[CosmicWitch]

You're completely correct, but you're forgetting a critical aspect to this whole thing: Teenagers are really, really fucking annoying.

Chii is the archetype of the eternal manchild (or whatever the female equivalent is), the person who can't let go of the past, who's all talk and big dreams but makes at best a token effort following up on any of it, and generally is just someone you eventually outgrow as a person. This is coupled with her crab in a bucket mentality, where instead of supporting her closest friends and the changes in their lives, she wants to drag them into the muck of her standstill attitude with her, keep them from developing. There's also the fact that Tokio is just kind of a decent guy who doesn't deserve being ignored/strung along like this. And finally... this chapter honestly makes things worse, because it seems to recontextualize everything as Chii being completely aware of this, and that's just inexcusable.

Right, yes. Like, just on its own removed from the context of the other couples if the manga was "about this," I'd probably like a growth story of someone being extremely immature and insecure about her place in the world.

but that's more or less Ana's character arc done worse. Ana started as a lazy, flippant, easy-going girl who struggled with the reality of reaching her dreams. We've been there, done that. So to read it again from a character who's seemingly self-aware about her own issues is just like -- bleg.

people hate this because we know what good romance writing looks like. the manga had that up to four or five chapters ago.

 

[MidnightTide]

So she knew he loved her but she never bothered letting him know if she felt the same.

Not that she had to but a decent person would have. He should just move on.

 

[HawkGoggles]

Man, it's fucking weird how everyone hates Chi like if she shat in your cereals and fucked your wife on the cold side of your pillow.

Trying to remember when it started, and it might just because she made a scene and was a little jealous when Anjou got with Seto. Yes, she was a little immature but she's a teenager, that's what they do.

It started because everyone thought she was going to be the annoying lesbian trope. Then she turned into the selfish, childish unaware teenager. But now she's a self aware girl failure so the damage has been done.

Someone compared her to Anna but Chi is actively avoiding romance to the point where she might reject Tokio. Even if the two end up going out, that alone makes it different, the childhood friend aspect makes it different. The chances of her saying no are so high it makes it compelling to me.

 

[story645]

Someone compared her to Anna but Chi is actively avoiding romance to the point where she might reject Tokio.

I think that's where the contrast is nice. Ana held back on the thing she's unsure about - giving her all to graduate - while Chi is holding back on the sure thing (she knows Tokio likes her). Different flavors of how change is scary. I really hope the next chapter gives more insight on what Chi actually feels for Tokio.

 

[Molch]

It knows?!

 

[gameforcer]

This makes me immensely sad for Tokio. Hopefully in the upcoming chapters we get to see Chi finally "grow up" and own up to her previous behavior. And after that maybe we can have Tokio move on, to find happiness with someone who actually does care about him.