Boku no Tsuma wa Kanjou ga Nai - Vol. 7 Ch. 45

[w1987g]

I actually like this arc and questions the author tries to pull.

Thank you so much for translating it!

I like the questions it's posing, but damn if it went from slice of life to terrorism and aliens

 

[Nyaaa]

I just wanna see robot wife... I don't wanna see some strawmanning hypocrite of a terrorist.

 

[Dvv]

That went from zero to terrorism really fast.

 

[Ninoren]

Author got too high on his/her own farts.

The entire appeal of this shit was the robot wife, not all this surface-level rambling about robots and society. It's not even an interesting or new look into that topic, it just regurgitates shit a million other stories have already touched on in a way more competent way.

If this was the kind of story the author wanted to tell then he/she should have made this an anthology series from the get-go.

Yeah, at this point there barely anything left of the initial manga for the last chapters now, feels like author has gotten bored mid way or something, sure robots being rejected to some degree in the story was fine, but now going to straight up terrorism and kidnapping and human experiments and what not? Kinda weird ngl

 

[orangerain7734]

You know, I probably wouldn't mind the questions and perspectives portrayed in this chapter, acid-tripping and sociopathic as they may sound, if executed differently. The story so far has shown that there are more Shitorari robots that are out there somewhere after they've been replaced, aside from the two we know so far (the one with the boyfriend and the one in the club with a yuri crush on our local robophobe). Those seeds have been sown and have been waiting to be sprouted at the right time.

They just did it in the wrong location with poor fertilizer just thrown about haphazardly with this sudden kidnapping and terrorist plot.

 

[brainman]

I actually like this arc and questions the author tries to pull.

The sad part is, I really wouldn't mind reading this type of story as its own thing. There's good stuff here that would be interesting to explore.

Just not as part of a quirky romance series featuring an awkward dude marrying his smug household robot who slowly learns what love is, and their retarded air freshener son. Cramming these plots together does a disservice to both, and alienates your original audience, while not reaching the audience your more serious story might've attracted. Yeah, there were hints of the slightly darker side of his world before, but nothing even close to this. He should've just published this as a spin-off or something, not just slap it into his light-hearted robomance like it's a part of that story.

 

[dashen]

"You make Candy Crush apps for robots to distract them and that makes you LITERALLY the same as me, a terrorist about to bomb several orphanages. We are one and the same"

I understand what the author is trying to do but there was literally zero build up or anything at all to any of this as well as none of this making sense even within the bad guy's own monologue. Just dropped a bad guy out of nowhere with half baked ideals that are just "kill people to make robots look bad" and nothing else.

ALSO HE DROPPED THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ALIEN OCTOPUS THING, I KINDA WANT TO KNOW WHATS THE DEAL WITH THE OCTOPUS ALIEN MORE?

 

[BadmanBlues]

The violence has escalated.

 

[BadmanBlues]

"You make Candy Crush apps for robots to distract them and that makes you LITERALLY the same as me, a terrorist about to bomb several orphanages. We are one and the same"

You know, my initial response was "man, that is some retarded writing."

But then I thought about it a bit more. And I remembered that the sort of people who actually do commit terrorism are usually retarded and totalizing hypocrites. So him saying something that stupid really isn't off brand.

 

[Kynnath]

I really disliked the whole "octopus aliens" subplot more than the robot rights shenanigans. At least the robot rights and the different perspectives follow the original themes. The aliens just came from nowhere and offer nothing to the plot.
But what bothers me about this terrorist plot is, how is this guy able to get away with all this? These robots are the "daughters" of some rich guy. The guy decided to stop overwriting them due to some sense of responsibility, and instead create a daily robot (which is crazy in itself) but then they release these robots with no oversight? He's not watching what his 30-odd daughters are doing, or that this guy (can't recall who he is at all) somehow hacks them every day after they copy their memories?

 

[J-ROC]

WTF IS HAPPENING??????

I, Robot

 

[SasazukaIchimashi]

He's not watching what his 30-odd daughters are doing, or that this guy (can't recall who he is at all) somehow hacks them every day after they copy their memories?

He's Shitorarii's uncle so, presumably, he's the brother or brother-in-law of Mr. Ichijou, the company president. The uncle probably has a high-ranking position within the company and the President probably trusts his brother with helping him to raise his daughter's robot clones even though he obviously shouldn't be so trusting.

I'm just assuming the President has no idea what his brother is planning.

 

[chabermaca]

Where is the author's editor and what the fuck is he doing

 

[Curly577]

The sad part is, I really wouldn't mind reading this type of story as its own thing. There's good stuff here that would be interesting to explore.

I don't think it would be so bad even in this story if he just did it differently. Firstly just slower because the pace of the events in the last 2 chapters is breaking my neck but also have one of the actual MC's in trouble instead of this fairly irrelevant side character. Put Takuma in the cell and have Mina save him somehow that lines up with the themes of the story, like getting worried when he doesn't come home on time and where other robots would follow his last orders she goes out to look for him, finds the alien and then goes to the police or something like that. Of course that last bit hasn't yet happened but somehow I doubt the resolution of the terrorist plot arc doesn't follow the previously established themes.

 

[Kyuseishun]

what the fuck

 

[GreenOwlRanger]

Themes were already established in the early Mina only chapters, now its just the flip-side.

I want to say he knowingly baited people with cute robot doing cute things (yall took it hook line and sinker) to get into what he actually wants to explore. His previous works aren't fully translated but they certainly go places, with art taking a back seat to narrative. Its a bit incomprehensible, really, as if they've got way to many ideas without the ability to express them coherently.

It could be an interesting plot, but the problem is you shouldn't trojan horse a different genre in your manga. This is spinoff territory.

 

[heavyisdead]

feels like the first part was just a burning memory it just keeps getting tinier and tinier in the plot

 

[Floriano]

I will post my comment from reddit discussion, as I'm sad to see the reaction these chapters get.

"Okay, this is fucking exciting. This is another "discussion" type of chapter. If there even was a against-robot club of course it couldn't just be a sentiment not found in the rest of society and of course adults can take it too far. Just a surface level thought but... maybe it a gun comparition is apt? Once a robot has that many abilities and restrictions can be bypassed, what stops bad people from just... ordering them to do insane shit? Or once they are acting against restrictions, just take their own decisions for the worst like this robot did with just kidnapping a teenager.
We recently had how "proper" robots think about humans and how centric to their growth and protection they are, but what about this group of "human" based robots? Also, are they really just obeying this dude, are they playing along with the also insane father? These chapters are just cool.

And I'm sorry for the people that got "baited" by the still present and generally more dominant romance sol(It's still there and it's still happening, we always had chapters like this introduced once in a while, like the parents one or the robo doctor one), but these chapters can still be pretty fire. I do hope this doesn't take too long, we come back to MC couple for a bit and the aliens, as those seem to be interacting in their arc."

Basically, the manga has always been like this, but back then those "discussion" chapters were focused around Mina, while this chapter is happening tangentially with Mina as there is still a direct connection with her and MC. And as I mentioned in my comment, we did have chapters that were there to expand the universe starting with Mamoru been "born" and with the chapter focused on how the parents see this relationship. The manga was never purely "sol romance".

 

[Floriano]

It could be an interesting plot, but the problem is you shouldn't trojan horse a different genre in your manga. This is spinoff territory.

But they didn't, they always had moral, ethical and philosophical discussions mixed in. I don't think the genre changed, this is just more lore for the setting. What the author did, and has been doing since the very beginning is expanding the setting into been more like a standard scifi.

 

[Rafalga]

Damn it, great premise wasted on a hack once again. We can only hope that editor-san pulls back the leash properly.