Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu - Vol. 5 Ch. 65.3 - Extra Chapter

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Can somebody explain what that last sentence is supposed to mean?
"If you can't become a wife, someone could come over and be your husband"? He said it so matter-of-factly, is that a saying in Japanese or something?
@MrGoose I think normally it is the case that the woman be married into the man's family in Asian countries (China, Japan, etc.), so in this case he's implying she can get the man to be married into her family instead.
Probably in Japanese, what MC said is deliberately vague ( that is how nihongo works, most of the time, only the verbs without the doer exist in a sentence).

Nihongo sentence works on context. So, the girl deliberately understood MC words referring to himself offering to be a husband for her.
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The joke is that instead of her being a wife (yome), he could be the husband (muko), which is a reference to the Japanese practice of families with daughters but no sons legally adopting a man and having him marry one of the daughters. The man would change his last name to that of his wife's family. The term for this is "mukoiri".

Basically he's saying that if she can't be a bride (with the standard implication of her becoming a part of her husband's family), a guy could just "be a groom" and marry in to her family, with the joke being the complementary meanings of "yome" and "muko".
 
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Fuck you. There's no way he didn't hear that. She pratically yelled at him
At this point, I'm pretty sure they both know that they like each other, but I don't think they know that the other one knows that they like each other. That sounds confusing so: Ichikawa knows that Yamada likes him, but he doesn't know that Yamada knows that he likes her, and vise versa. So even if they accidentally make it obvious that they like each other, they pretend not to notice to maintain the status quo until it's the right time to confess to each other. That's why Ichikawa pretends that he's denser than a neutron star whenever airheaded Yamada accidentally proposes marriage to him. Love confessions are a big part of Japanese culture; I bet a Japanese middle schooler couldn't comprehend a relationship starting without one person confessing to the other.
 

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