Tachinomi Izakaya de Kuudere Downer-kei Joshidaisei ga Tonari ni Kuru Hanashi - Vol. 2 Ch. 13

[MangaDex]

 

[MocaDesu]

Aquarium date + saying She doesn't wanna move anymore because he lives nearby. How dense can you be tonami?

 

[phorx]

I don’t know what is stopping these consenting adults from starting a relationship. Tonami just doesn’t believe that she could be interested in him because of his age. I don’t think he’s quite as dense as he’s being portrayed. I think he’s maintaining boundaries so he doesn’t seem like a creep.

 

[razorshaleh]

MC might be dense when it comes to girls' feelings, but his observation skills and memory are actually super sharp

thank you for translation

 

[Kaarme]

I don’t know what is stopping these consenting adults from starting a relationship. Tonami just doesn’t believe that she could be interested in him because of his age. I don’t think he’s quite as dense as he’s being portrayed. I think he’s maintaining boundaries so he doesn’t seem like a creep.

Maybe he also doesn't want to get his hopes up, either in the short or long run, only to be disappointed later. Himi is a fine lady in many ways, so if it turned out to be either just his imagination or a short-lived romance, he would be afterwards much worse off. Many would go for it, nothing ventured, nothing gained, but everyone has different priorities. If he takes his time, yet their current relationship continues, he could perhaps count on a marriage more. He's older, so for him that would be a higher priority than for Himi.

 

[nyoron77]

Aquarium date + saying She doesn't wanna move anymore because he lives nearby. How dense can you be tonami?

Nope ..he not the dense one ...but she the one who keeps distract and keep deny on wanting become official ...

 

[damian_stefan1989]

Shoutout to the person recording with a freaking tablet. I thought that species went extinct. In their honor, next time I go to the aquarium, I'll bring my smart tv.

 

[turkeytwotoe]

https://imgur.com/a/AIZX5sn

 

[outinthegardener]

Sober Himi catches some blowback for her teasing. Is she a drunken master, when it comes to teasing? She seems off her game on this "not a date."

 

[Darkshade13]

Man, everyone's talking about the predictable relationship drama, but nobody is talking about dolphin Himi-san

 

[xanon]

Anytime a girl plays with her hair in front of you, but tells you it isn't a date, she's lying.

I don’t know what is stopping these consenting adults from starting a relationship. Tonami just doesn’t believe that she could be interested in him because of his age. I don’t think he’s quite as dense as he’s being portrayed. I think he’s maintaining boundaries so he doesn’t seem like a creep.

I don't get it either. They're not in high school. And, if he's not interested or maintaining boundaries, then he either needs to make it very clear he doesn't want a relationship with her or break contact. Going to obvious dates spots like an aquarium is not maintaining boundaries.

 

[DrNo]

Whenever one of them takes a step forward, the other takes a step back. I'm enjoying watching their dance.

 

[CYBERGAMER]

As much as I like their chemistry, I initially tought that Tonami just wanted to take things slow/not get hopes up but I'm beginning to see he's just plain retarded

 

[blablablub]

Woah, he caught on for once.

Obvious things he missed, just in this chapter alone:
Himi-san playing with her hair when they met up
Himi-san probing him on how he thinks of her with that dolphin question (though he answered that favourably)
The fact they're on a date right now

 

[ThatGuyScifi]

Himi, don't blame the dolphin, he sensed your MIGHTY THIRST and just wanted to help you by giving you some water.

 

[ThatGuyScifi]

Whenever one of them takes a step forward, the other takes a step back. I'm enjoying watching their dance.

Yep it's been a delightful game of chicken from the start of which one is going to break first. Will she come out and just say how she feels or will he finally realize that she's not just teasing him and honestly likes him.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Maybe he also doesn't want to get his hopes up, either in the short or long run, only to be disappointed later. Himi is a fine lady in many ways, so if it turned out to be either just his imagination or a short-lived romance, he would be afterwards much worse off. Many would go for it, nothing ventured, nothing gained, but everyone has different priorities. If he takes his time, yet their current relationship continues, he could perhaps count on a marriage more. He's older, so for him that would be a higher priority than for Himi.

I think the only thing that worries me about the series is that often, authors will just reach for the "rival" lever to force a character to realize & confront their feelings. I'm not saying the author would do that in this case, but it's a common-enough device that also would only serve to damage what's been built up with this particular title.
It's one thing if Tonami is holding himself back, and it's arguably appropriate. Himi also really is just leaning hard into the "teasing & hinting" tactic, and there's been enough iterations of this that if she's genuinely frustrated by him not "getting the hint", it's kinda on her for going back to that well over and over expecting a different result.

So their current dynamic is fine, as long as Himi is fine with this being how it is until she finally decides to just speak up and make her intentions clear. Usually I'm of the mind that endless waffling on the part of the two leads where one just doesn't understand their own feelings/the other lead's signals can get boring, but here I think it's pretty reasonably established that the "gimmick being the banter", and thus this back-and-forth is perfectly acceptable to build a longer-form story between them. Himi can get her kicks teasing and taunting Straight Man Tonami until it's time to actually pull the trigger; but I hope there's no third character "foil" introduced to suddenly make Tonami feel like he's under pressure to act. (and again, it's a 'meta concern', and I realize that, but.)

 

[Kaarme]

I think the only thing that worries me about the series is that often, authors will just reach for the "rival" lever to force a character to realize & confront their feelings. I'm not saying the author would do that in this case, but it's a common-enough device that also would only serve to damage what's been built up with this particular title.
It's one thing if Tonami is holding himself back, and it's arguably appropriate. Himi also really is just leaning hard into the "teasing & hinting" tactic, and there's been enough iterations of this that if she's genuinely frustrated by him not "getting the hint", it's kinda on her for going back to that well over and over expecting a different result.

So their current dynamic is fine, as long as Himi is fine with this being how it is until she finally decides to just speak up and make her intentions clear. Usually I'm of the mind that endless waffling on the part of the two leads where one just doesn't understand their own feelings/the other lead's signals can get boring, but here I think it's pretty reasonably established that the "gimmick being the banter", and thus this back-and-forth is perfectly acceptable to build a longer-form story between them. Himi can get her kicks teasing and taunting Straight Man Tonami until it's time to actually pull the trigger; but I hope there's no third character "foil" introduced to suddenly make Tonami feel like he's under pressure to act. (and again, it's a 'meta concern', and I realize that, but.)

I don't believe I've read too many romance manga of this type in the past. Basically a single setting where all the action is based. It's just this and the coin laundry one. So, I can't make many predictions about what kind of tricks the author would be pulling. This does seem to be more dynamic than the coin laundry one, and some traces of romance can be seen here. I have no idea if rivals really belong to the picture, though.

All in all, if the scope of the manga is purposefully concentrating on the single location, even if other places are sometimes shown, then the actual romance can't obviously launch too soon, as it's hard to see the series continuing too far beyond that. The single bar would hardly remain the primary place for these two to meet in if they were in a relationship. Well, I suppose it could, but would it look natural?

 

[rymar]

Cute Himi

 

[DoubleMatter]

I don't get it either. They're not in high school. And, if he's not interested or maintaining boundaries, then he either needs to make it very clear he doesn't want a relationship with her or break contact. Going to obvious dates spots like an aquarium is not maintaining boundaries.

Well, she keeps saying again and again they're not on a date...