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

[Grye]

What the fuck?

 

[BadmanBlues]

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.

I don't disagree with most of your conclusions, and I articulated such in previous chapters. It always felt like the romance played second fiddle to the philosophy, IMO.

But I do think that the author could have eased into this better and built a more coherent narrative.

I've been willing to roll with it because I don't care where stories take me, as long as they do it well. But a lot of people just want their cuddly fuzzy romance stories. I can't fault them for that. People need to engage with the fiction that speaks to them. That being said, I don't think they should be so quick to dismiss and dislike things that aren't to their tastes - for example, I can concede that Edgerunners was a great anime, but it just wasn't for me. Me not liking it doesn't mean it was made by untalented hacks.

It's good to try and broaden people's horizons, and help them see some story elements they missed. But they simply may have missed or dismissed those elements because they don't care for them. The vitriol they express may bother you, because it feels undeserved. But you're probably not going to change their mind. They know what they want and why they're here. There's nothing wrong with that. Just don't expect a person to immediately value something they hitherto haven't cared about.

 

[jesuscristo]

I don't get why people are angry about the android manga having a standard android subplot.

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."

These subplots sadly never take too long and I'm guessing it's because when Mina and Takuma don't appear for a while people get mad. I'd like it if the author took his time to develop the arcs more.

 

[dashen]

The main problem is pacing. During the previous chapter we had a small thing going on with an alien character, i kinda like these random paranormal elements randomly thrown in since we already had the ghost, and this character wasnt really part of the main story so far but from the funny side stories from the omakes/extras so this was kindof their introduction to the main cast. We had a funny chase sequence, had interactions with this wacky character and we were looking forward to where that would go. And out of nowhere whiplash into terrorism with this new character just doing a long rant the whole chapter and nothing else. Like read the room mate, let the alien find his home and then introduce the terrorist or unrest or something, we were JUST introduced to the robot daughter copy girlfriend character and now her or another one is beheaded and there are evil copies.

 

[Snerkus]

i miss the cute robot wife manga. Where'd that go

 

[Shareazu]

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.

The genre definitely has changed, it was just a slice of life romcom at first, but those lore and world-building elements slowly started to take more and more space, to the point that it's rare to see a chapter focused on Mina/MC's relationship nowadays.

 

[Tantedmind]

I just wanted a weird but cute story about an overworked man and his robot wife. How the hell is the author going to tie this all together now? I'll be seriously impressed if this all ends up making sense by the end, because at the moment I feel a little lost.

 

[eviljackspicer]

 

[KuroeNekumi]

...so I guess Takuma ends up in the middle of one of the places that's being targeted then, since last we saw him he was getting out of the house to go with Mamoru somewhere...

I do have to wonder what's the bigger point tho. The neighbor robot-daughter is certainly a deuteragonist at this point, and the entire reason for explaining the Ojou-sama robot felt like a way to explain what was actually going on with her...but pivoting to using her as a crux for the deuteragonist that goes to school to confront directly the (extremely exaggerated, blown out of proportion, and I could swear already talked-by-Mina) danger of her actions that she already has stopped actively doing.

What is getting moved forward or moved around? The relationship between Mina and Takuma by having such an event call for actually fixing robots who are deviating too strongly from their base functions or which don't have strong restrictions against harming other humans, by calling for stronger regulations? The state of the world being more hostile towards their relationship to put additional stress on it, and on Mina'a worries?

Everything else has kinda worked out since it mostly has a point of connection to Takuma, Mina or Mamoru directly, but these actions are 2 grades distant from any of them as for a clear expectation of what's the point to be made (neither Takuma, Mina or Mamoru have had direct contact with any of the antagonists, even if they have a relation with one of the people being immediately affected by it at present).

 

[HYBRID_BEING]

"To prove that guns are dangerous, i'm going to shoot people with them."

Genre shift complaints aside, i'm again confused by this memory transfer and multiple Shitorarii robots set-up. So, dad was transferring memory between real Shitorarii and her robot copy every day, but this guy (Shitorarii's uncle?) created a bunch of fake copies, and now each morning memory goes into a new copy? What for? I also don't get the rant about Shitorarii's father not tolerating a robot that acts like his daughter.

 

[SasazukaIchimashi]

Genre shift complaints aside, i'm again confused by this memory transfer and multiple Shitorarii robots set-up. So, dad was transferring memory between real Shitorarii and her robot copy every day, but this guy (Shitorarii's uncle?) created a bunch of fake copies, and now each morning memory goes into a new copy? What for? I also don't get the rant about Shitorarii's father not tolerating a robot that acts like his daughter.

I really like the concept of Shitorarii as a character, since it's like a little bit of Ghost in the Shell (a sick child uploading a copy of her consciousness to a robot) with a little bit of Number Girl (a manga from WataMote creators Nico Tanigawa about a group of identical robot girls distinguished only by numbers who are encouraged to try to each develop more of an individual identity), but, yeah, I definitely hope the manga gives us a more clear explanation about the whole Shitorarii system since what we've learned so far is just confusing.

As for the part about Shitorarii's father not fully accepting the robot daughter (does he know there's more than one? It's unclear), I suspect it's largely a lie uploaded by the uncle (I think?) when he hacked the Shitorariis minds and uploaded the malicious personalties.

 

[pip25]

I'd be actually interested in seeing where this leads, but I simply cannot comprehend what is happening despite my best efforts.

 

[Oured]

I won't deny that the plot is quite literally flying off the rails, but I can't quite tell if it's catching lift or falling off the edge of the cliff just yet. One thing I do appreciate in this arc is that the author once again did not fail to emphasize that robots only do dangerous things due to flawed human programming or tampering. The Shitorarii robots wouldn't go from wanting to discuss love and friends to domestic terrorism, so of course it's all orchestrated by a human who takes control of them.

I don't know if it was the author's intention, but some nutjob in a human-robot society hijacking robots in order to carry out a literal bombing is something that could happen out of nowhere without warning, if you think about it. The randomness of the events that led to this, however, I can't excuse. The idea that the author is just going off the rails with no planning is just as valid, really.

 

[Tarage]

I'm out. Dropped.

 

[SasazukaIchimashi]

Another lie from the uncle(?) would seem to be that he was able to get the Shitorariis to carry out his plans with just headpats.

Perhaps that's how he got their confidence in the first place but you can clearly see the holes on their foreheads from where he put in the plugs to reprogram them. Note that none of the Shitorariis prior to the tea party Shitorarii at the end of chapter 44 had this forehead hole visible.

 

[CinderSquall]

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

Thank you so much for translating it!

Is it really a "question" if the author is laying their own "answer" so heavyhandedly?

 

[CinderSquall]

Also... I find it amusing that the current situation is literally what I mentioned in a previous chapter as a counter argument to how author is postulating about the rights of robots... I wonder now if author will actually give the Shitorarii robots the burden of responsibility after this situation or if it'll just be laid full on the uncle(apparently he's the uncle based on the comments)... since responsibilities are also something that should be discussed if you want to discuss robot rights.

 

[SasazukaIchimashi]

I wonder now if author will actually give the Shitorarii robots the burden of responsibility after this situation or if it'll just be laid full on the uncle(apparently he's the uncle based on the comments)... since responsibilities are also something that should be discussed if you want to discuss robot rights.

I don't want to give away any big spoilers for the next chapter but let's just say it becomes immediately apparent to the authorities that the Shitorariis driving the trucks are doing so against their will.

I read that the guy is the uncle from an auto-manga translator plugin; it's possible that the auto translation was inaccurate but it would make a lot of sense that her uncle would have a top-level security clearance if he works for the company and his brother is the president, assuming that he is Shitorarii's uncle.

 

[CinderSquall]

I don't want to give away any big spoilers for the next chapter but let's just say it becomes immediately apparent to the authorities that the Shitorariis driving the trucks are doing so against their will.

I read that the guy is the uncle from an auto-manga translator plugin; it's possible that the auto translation was inaccurate but it would make a lot of sense that her uncle would have a top-level security clearance if he works for the company and his brother is the president, assuming that he is Shitorarii's uncle.

Even given the circumstances from the spoilers you mentioned, they still have to carry some of the burden of the crime, since they are still under technicality accomplices(like a lot of juvenile delinquents are)... I'm honestly just waiting if author will always keep the series be just "there are no bad robots, only bad humans who hacks/programs/etc robots to do bad things".

 

[theShear]

Even given the circumstances from the spoilers you mentioned, they still have to carry some of the burden of the crime, since they are still under technicality accomplices(like a lot of juvenile delinquents are)... I'm honestly just waiting if author will always keep the series be just "there are no bad robots, only bad humans who hacks/programs/etc robots to do bad things".

Well in this case the juvenile delinquent would have been brainwashed against his will, maybe with drugs. What happens afterwards depends on country I guess. Of note someone pointed out that these Girls have Holes in their forehead so he probably did a lot more than "headpats".