Tonari no Wakao-san wa Miesou de Mienai - Ch. 18 - Youth is supplementary lessons?

[MangaDex]

 

[ThatNaiGuy]

Man sidestepped showing he doesn't know what her face looks like a pro and still got off a proper dense complementing. Well done.

 

[TheTopAdventure]

mid-terms so harsh boi is becoming a nopperabo on page 1

 

[AlexD1891]

So at the end it does seem like he is the only one who is not able to see her face... weird...

 

[Tinker_OwO]

I really like this series. It's chill 👍

Also this Asahikawa face is really cute

 

[Doctor_Malsyn]

So at the end it does seem like he is the only one who is not able to see her face... weird...

I wonder if we'll ever get insight on that whole thing. I thought at first that she knew he knew, but that dosnt seem to be the case.

 

[Saybah]

The recommendation section on the left side is really useful, since that’s how I found this manga. I saw the cover with the girl’s face partly covered by a stray piece of paper, and I knew right away I was in for a good time.

 

[someonevibing]

Side couple spotted

 

[UdenEmpati]

I wonder if we'll ever get insight on that whole thing. I thought at first that she knew he knew, but that dosnt seem to be the case.

Looking at chapter 1, it does sorta seem that she's aware that he can't see her expression. She talks about his expressions being great references, but she's not drawing, or anything. And at the end of that chapter, she's reaching toward his desk when he's slouched down falling asleep, saying "I can find something that'll wake you up" - then he startles upward, and when he starts looking in her direction, we the readers get her first face reveal - and she looks super embarrassed, upon which she turns away, Mizuno exclaims "your face was visible just now! Can you do it again?" and she freaks him out with her blank face once more.

That's not proof that she's a Nopperabou, or that she's aware that Mizuno's the only one who can't see her face (or, sees her as a Yokai, depending on how you wanna look at it I guess), but I also think there's something in the fact that she's always facing away from Mizuno whenever her face does appear.
Maybe it could be argued that she's not wanting him to see her blushing, and the "gimmick" of whether she's a Yokai or not is incidental in those being the moments she "loses composure/focus" and that's why we the reader see her face in that moment - but assuming she's a Yokai, then her turning her face away when it shows up, or it showing up whenever she blushes (since sometimes she's not hiding it; he's just not looking at her, like in this chapter), seems to me to mean that she's aware that he can't see her face, and knows that embarrassment/being flustered breaks her powers in some way, so she makes sure he can't see her in those moments.

To what end she's hiding her face from him, I cannot say ("she likes him" would make sense if the blushing = breaking power thing is true and she doesn't want him to see her blush or her face, but that's using assumptions to make assumptions), which is why I think it's still up in the air as to whether the apparent gimmick of the manga is actually the truth, or a giant fakeout that hides the truth of what's going on (Mizuno has some kind form of individual face blindness, or something) - but I guess that's part of the point of the mystery.

 

[Elfteiroh]

Ok, ok. I have a thing. One big pet peeve. In these festival arc, the boys are always super into seeing the girls in yukata… but most of the times, they are NOT willing to reciprocate, and I think this is a CRIME! Lots of girls also want to see boys in them! And for the girls, it’s so much efforts to wear one! The LEAST the boys can do is to wear one too.

So this became my big romance test. If a boy also wear a yukata, I instantly approve of them.
If they don’t, but also don’t ask the girl to, or don’t negatively comment on a girl that didn’t, they get a pass and I won’t frown upon them… Same if they openly and profusely compliment those that did wear one.
BUT, if they don’t, and THEN ALSO get critical or whine to a girl that didn’t, or don’t openly compliment her yukata, they instantly go in the trash.

… Good luck boy. I’ll be judging you.

 

[rares2233]

I love this manga and your work translating this, it is very much apreciated!