Ore no Kasu Mitaina Jinsei wa Zenbu Tanuki no sei - Vol. 1 Ch. 3.2

[MangaDex]

 

[chrno_12]

The MC being good at baseball really surprised me. I thought Nana-chan was gonna use some special power and humiliate the MC.

 

[UdenEmpati]

The MC being good at baseball really surprised me. I thought Nana-chan was gonna use some special power and humiliate the MC.

that would have been a terrible move on the part of the author, honestly.

Arata's already a proverbial (and literal) punching bag for the rest of the cast. we need to see him have actual qualities that endear him to the world he exists within that make people want to get close to him and know about him, so that he himself can break out of his solitude and aversion to others and grow as a character.
If Nana pulled some tanuki bullshit and made a mockery of him in this moment, it would have only served to ridicule him in front of the gathered kids, which would have given him further cause to hate the jinri and pull further into himself, and it would have only made the jinri that much more disagreeable in their concerted efforts to abuse and demean him at every turn.

 

[Excel2021]

Man the tanuki are assholes

 

[dudelookatree]

Skinny nerd bats with perfect form, shocks Nana and kids

 

[themangaweeaboo]

Arata's already a proverbial (and literal) punching bag for the rest of the cast. we need to see him have actual qualities that endear him to the world he exists within that make people want to get close to him and know about him, so that he himself can break out of his solitude and aversion to others and grow as a character.
If Nana pulled some tanuki bullshit and made a mockery of him in this moment, it would have only served to ridicule him in front of the gathered kids, which would have given him further cause to hate the jinri and pull further into himself, and it would have only made the jinri that much more disagreeable in their concerted efforts to abuse and demean him at every turn.

I mean atp almost every single jinri have been nothing but assholes, even Nana to an extent. The cafe manager is the only likable guy so far.

Unless the author redeems them, like really redeems them this is gonna be a pass ngl. This just reads like a humiliation kink with no payoff.

 

[Mohsad]

At this point for me Nana is the biggest asshole, fuck even the black haired girl seemed better this chapter

 

[UdenEmpati]

I mean atp almost every single jinri have been nothing but assholes, even Nana to an extent. The cafe manager is the only likable guy so far.

Unless the author redeems them, like really redeems them this is gonna be a pass ngl. This just reads like a humiliation kink with no payoff.

It's a completed series at 18 chapters, with most of them split into either 2 or 3 parts.

So for me it depends on what the aim of the series is: I assume it's to have Arata grow through this feeling of being adrift after having his "life plan" utterly derailed, and to find out there's more to the world than the four walls of his room and the books he spent his life immersed in and the tests he devoted every waking moment to.
It's a bit novel, because Japan in general does push a sense of "societal conformity" and a need to fit into your mold and not make waves—and conventional employment and being a good worker fits that, which feels like the plan Arata had for himself. So running off in a lateral direction that is not going on to college and needing to enter the workforce in a "good adult job making a salary".
And the supernatural world of shapeshifting entities masquerading as humans would be a perfect path toward learning that the world is much bigger than he might otherwise ever experience. It's honestly a super cool setup, even without getting into the "why" of how he can perceive them when they should be otherwise completely hidden from him and the rest of "normal" society. The Jinri are a perfect example of something "off the beaten path" and outside the rigid, narrow norms that Arata has subscribed up to this point in his life.



...and then we have the Jinri acting the way they have toward him from the word "go", and I feel like it's kinda just ruined a lot of what could have been an incredible setup to explore what it's like to be on the cusp of adulthood only to find yourself suddenly thrown off-course with nothing to fall back on and no one in your corner.
I don't know what the author's plan is for them, or if Arata's meant to just take it all in stride and they'll just go "oh oopsie sorry about that" and none of this treatment will be addressed, or what. But I do agree that it feels like it absolutely needs to be reckoned with, because the sheer degree of abuse pointed Arata's way from all of them feels outsized to the point that I have to believe it's an actual plot point and not some "funny quirk for the sake of comedy" or something.

 

[Lubryn]

Yeah I'm not good with kids either

 

[KoffeeStarZ0e]

They're abusing him at this point, i just keeps wondering why mc's put up with this shit

 

[Cinemote]

Hope they stop abusing him soon, it was fine a for a bit at the start from just the black hair girl, but now everyone is jumping him? Thankfully he's actually good at other stuff too.

 

[RDennis]

If everyone in this manga's world are assholes then it's no wonder the MC wouldn't have friends. Who likes being stepped on?

 

[SleepyDemon]

"Why do you transform into humans?"

Have you tried holding stuff or doing complex tasks as a quadruped animal with paws?