Bokura no Ai wa Kimochi Warui - Ch. 7

[Hyacyon]

wah literally i have no idea how this is gonna end up without trauma lmao

 

[GoldenSpin]

ohhh this is so thrilling, where'd it gooo

 

[beThereShortly]

I can't wait to see this house of cards come tumbling down. Rather than the usual useless lesbians what we have here is a flock of homo-sickos!

 

[Roodypatooti]

The fuse on this dysfunctional relationships bomb is only getting shorter

 

[Chikaon]

Lmaooo that commentor hella clocked Niji 🤣🤣🤣

 

[TheLostLight]

Niji already knows it's a woman Remu's getting involved with as per chapter 3, so having a man as her "rival" in her story seems to be a deliberate change. Now I just want to know why she's doing that.

I checked the Raws to be sure, and the way that Niji addresses Azuki in ch 3 is as 「例の人」which would translate into something like, "The person you mentioned before" (lit. person of example).

In ch 2 Remu calls her 「気になる人」(person I'm interested in) and Niji calls her 「その人」(that person). No gendered terms are ever used.

Depending on who you ask, I think one could argue that all of the gendered terms being used in the English translation here is a straight up mistranslation. There seems to be no evidence that any of Remu's friends have any indication of Azuki's gender, and if you assume that the society portrayed in the story's heteronormativity somewhat reflects our own society's, then the more likely conclusion is that Remu's friends think that Azuki is a man with the way the conversation flowed. But at the very least, all of their conversations surrounding Auzki seem to have been gender neutral, with no explicit expectations either way.

 

[kkakasih]

oh no shes delusional. Thats like, the perfect ingredient for a trainwreck

 

[agonice]

What a chapter of absolute nothing

 

[m0ssyy]

I don't even think Remu was smiling back at Niji on page 17, the wavy panel lines used were the same as the ones on page 14 where she was imagining Remu in her made-up scenarios... She might be so delulu she's looking straight at Remu and imagines her smiling back when she's actually just asleep

 

[Mistilteinn]

There seems to be no evidence that any of Remu's friends have any indication of Azuki's gender

I checked the chapter 7 RAWs. Niji's fanfic refers to Azuki as "バイト先の男". Otoko means "man". So, it seems that Niji at least assumes that Azuki is a guy.

Edit: Also Remu's other classmate referrred to Azuki as バイト先の彼". And Kare is also masculine.

So it seems like while Remu explained things gender neutrally, everyone assumes Azuki is male.