Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui! - Ch. 235 - Since I'm Not Popular, We'll Talk About Someone's Romance

[MangaDex]

 

[flxsemi]

I guess the word "fan" does come from the word "fanatic," so by Tomoko's standards I'm not really a fan of anything. I'm more of an interested spectator then.

 

[ErikTheRed]

damn, he ripped

 

[superor707]

You Spoke my mind again! Tomoko!

 

[swimminginsand]

Ucchi gang wins again

 

[AmethystLord]

This confirm the fact that the Emoji tribe racial trait is that they all have great body. What if Ucchi find his muscle "creepy" and fall in love? 🤔 Good to know Nagi was the one who took that video, she's unexpectedly thirsty

Amazing how Tomoko can talking about dick one minute and then switch mode to provide insightful advice without skipping a beat.

Also, I love how Yuri was like "she totally gets me fr, fr."

 

[HawkGoggles]

I can't say that I've been keeping up with this series a lot. I'm not a true fan, but the subtle grossness of this conversation is off the charts. And the it just rubs your face in it by the end.

 

[michi_choux]

I'm confused.
I'm of the kind that always says whoever thinks Watamote is ever going gl is delusional. Yet, you go Ucchi! At any rate, she hasn't made any significant progress, other than having Tomoko account for her as a friend (still, she and Asuka are top contenders in my book).

We were teased big time here, my heart skipped a bit thinking we suddenly had a confession thus proving me wrong. But they even added the kind of panels and atmosphere that appear for poetic soliloquies in manga, huh? At the very least, all this "fan admiration" thing serves as a precedent and maybe a clarification for what to expect in terms of gl?

As for Ucchi, she seems to have expressed either something like "Do I have your approval for going out with this guy?" following her impressions that Tomoko is eyeing on her; or alternatively "This guy asked me out, aren't you jealous? I want a reaction, make your move alredy!" as if she has angrily waiting to be collected. Altough, her friends were certain the scenario was up for a confession apparently? Naturally, Tomoko caught none of that.

Yuri has no notion of what's going on, altough I'm sure if the chance came up she would see pairing with Tomoko as a practical setting. And Nemo has a certain aversion to the theme? explicit girl's love probably opposes the moe structure she schemes.

 

[michi_choux]

Ucchi gang wins again

She wasted her chance in the perfect setting, this move would have charted her performance way above others .But time and time again, we see she expects Tomoko to take on the initiative [on matters she's extensively unaware of]. She nonetheless feels sufficiently compromised as to inform Tomoko of things related to their situation?

 

[Serenata]

Well dayum we got a new emoji face and also A NEW MALE EMOJI lol
The fact that even with her emoji face, she couldn't contain her emotion resulting in this ;P was very adorable and made me laugh too.
In the previous chapter I thought it was very random for a guy to confess to her at the last day, it was all setting!
Everyone but Nemo and (of course) Kuroki seem to be aware of how Ucchi feels.

 

[tamarakko]

I know Ucchi is the focus of this chapter but the meta commentary feels more targeted at the fact Tomoko will feel distanced from girls that "made it" in normie terms, the most obvious example of her friend group being Yuu and Shizuku but we also saw a glimpse of she thinking the same would happen to Asuka in a what-if scenario that was explored in a bonus chapter.

Most interestingly is the degree of self awareness (?) that the same can apply to her, although in her case she got "her uterus triggered" only from girls from the recurring cast (and again, the ones involved mostly happen to be the "normies" in question I brought up here). I'm intrigued to what future chapters wil bring to complement this line of thought, specially when you remember that in that bonus chapter I mentioned, Asuka said that she would divorce whoever the guy is as long as she gets to spend more time with Tomoko.

 

[Ayazel]

Thanks for the chapter!!

 

[Excel2021]

JUST ASK HER OUT

 

[RainbowVomit]

A rather wise chapter, I'm impressed.

 

[jsut]

Kuroki X Emoji anthem

 

[LordTartaros]

He’s this emoji : 💪

 

[Graywing]

Confession next chapter?! Thanks for the chapter!!!

 

[CurlyBruce]

I feel like Tomoko's advice is fine for the time being seeing as they are still highschoolers and even getting into college, but the conceit that you shouldn't seek your own happiness because you might lose your friends is naive and narrow minded.

That's just part of growing up, as you get older you tend to spend less time with your friend groups and more time for yourself, either because you have a career now that you focus on or you are starting your own family with a partner. It's nice to still have time to meet up with your old friends regularly but those halcyon days of youth will never return and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. You can't be afraid of change at the expense of growth.

I'm glad Tomoko acknowledges that it's a rather selfish demand/desire and that ultimately the choice comes down to the person making the decision but she's viewing it as a third party and not considering herself (maybe because she doesn't think it would happen to her?). She seems pretty smitten with the idea that her new friend group will remain with her through college and possibly after but that isn't a foregone conclusion. It's also a bit tone deaf considering she basically went through that experience already with Yuu going off to her own school and getting a boyfriend but they reconnected and Tomoko managed to make new friends without being dependent on Yuu.

That said, it makes a convenient excuse for Ucchi to decline the guy's confession given her one true love is Tomoko. The fact that Ucchi didn't immediately say yes after seeing how ripped that guy is already shows her "uterus" is spoken for and it's playing for the other team.

 

[the_Bear_from_Bearcave]

I feel like Tomoko's advice is fine for the time being seeing as they are still highschoolers and even getting into college, but the conceit that you shouldn't seek your own happiness because you might lose your friends is naive and narrow minded.

That's just part of growing up, as you get older you tend to spend less time with your friend groups and more time for yourself, either because you have a career now that you focus on or you are starting your own family with a partner. It's nice to still have time to meet up with your old friends regularly but those halcyon days of youth will never return and that isn't necessarily a bad thing. You can't be afraid of change at the expense of growth.

I'm glad Tomoko acknowledges that it's a rather selfish demand/desire and that ultimately the choice comes down to the person making the decision but she's viewing it as a third party and not considering herself (maybe because she doesn't think it would happen to her?). She seems pretty smitten with the idea that her new friend group will remain with her through college and possibly after but that isn't a foregone conclusion. It's also a bit tone deaf considering she basically went through that experience already with Yuu going off to her own school and getting a boyfriend but they reconnected and Tomoko managed to make new friends without being dependent on Yuu.

That said, it makes a convenient excuse for Ucchi to decline the guy's confession given her one true love is Tomoko. The fact that Ucchi didn't immediately say yes after seeing how ripped that guy is already shows her "uterus" is spoken for and it's playing for the other team.

Yeah, her relationship with Yuu was actually bit harmful in long run, exactly because of this dependency that socially crippled Tomoko later. And while friend getting partner can decrease amount of your time together, so will other tons of stuff like them getting into sport club, studying to get into better school, getting a part-time job etc, learning how to deal with that and keep friendship together is how you become adult. And also learning to deal with both a partner and your old friends - and sometimes even partner's friends - is another skill that should be learned earlier rather than later, if possible. Without it, your friendship will just fall apart eventually anyway.

And her tirade about fans is also to me supporting delusional and harmful ideas. Your idols or whoever always had far more important people in their lives than their fans - their family, their best friends, probably often even their colleagues from the band. Thinking that idol getting a partner changes everything is just misunderstanding of virgin incels like Tomoko. More importantly, normalizing the idea of dropping out of fandom creates very harmful system of incentives for idols and celebrities to either become sexless, or to hide their relationships. I will definitely say that someone who is willing to openly support such harmful system hurting their idols is, in fact, not a real fan at all.

And the fact that this whole purity system was created and exists AFAIK only in Japan and Korea, and celebrities in West never had to deal with this, clearly shows that the whole universality of that message that Tomoko - or rather author through her mouth - tried to create here is simply false. I never heard of anyone around me stopping being a fan of some celebrity because they got married. And those girls agreeing with her is also annoyingly obvious author's way to make reader think "she's right".

 

[dowiet]

What the hell I did not expect that last panel