Chanto Suki tte Ieru Ko Musou - Ch. 8 - Words Close, Yet Far Away (Part 1)

[beThereShortly]

If it turns out that Nanao is a fantastic wing-woman and gives MC his harem, either intentionaly or by accident I will die of laughter. This manga continues to be so good.

 

[NemuriNai]

This is like when you're winning at a moba game and instead of going for throne, you back and let the enemy farm to make things more challenging (or see them struggle more)

 

[AstuteBiscuit]

If we were to purely boil this down to "getting the guy" being the only objective like it's a video game then Nanao's actions would feel like counterintuitive self-sabotage, but she doesn't live in a vacuum of romance so she could also just be a compassionate person and not an asshole. Ignoring someone suffering in front of her just to further her own goals when there's something she can do to help would be +1 romance grindset behavior but would also make her a pretty shitty person imo. For Amane right now this isn't just lighthearted romcom rivalry without any stakes and is actually affecting other parts of her life like her job, and Nanao seems observant enough to clock that and not be single-mindedly ruthless enough to let her crash and burn just to keep her romantic lead. She also knows that Izumi is worried about Amane and it could be a self-serving decision to score points with someone that her love interest is close to and/or mitigate Izumi getting too worried about her and getting drawn away from Nanao because of it. But that's still better than metaphorically saying "L bozo skill diff" and watching Amane speed off a cliff, from a moral stance at least.

 

[MaCl0wSt]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[Umbrum]

This. Idk why a lot of people are making this deeper than what it is, it is a romcom after all.

I mean, I myself was making a point some chapters ago about how the winning and the loosing heroines in this manga are divided by the winning one feeling a "love that gives" while the other loosing ones felt a "love to take". In a way people could say I'm making this deeper than it's ought to be.

 

[Carn109]

Amane so down even Nanao is cheering her up

 

[Ibri]

I'm gonna assume you didn't mean to use a racial slur here and ask what you meant instead

Mog apparently comes from "AMOG, an abbreviation of Alpha Male of Group," so they replaced the m with a w for woman.

And for others I also looked up what jatopian was referring to

1. (UK, ethnic slur, dated) A non-white person, originally specifically an Indian. (In later use, more loosely used of various non-white peoples. Now dated and sometimes conflated with gollywog.)

 

[Absum]

Mog apparently comes from "AMOG, an abbreviation of Alpha Male of Group," so they replaced the m with a w for woman

Ye it was a joke with the stupid origins of mogging, though I thought the m stood for man. Had to use google to figure out which of the two words was apparently also a slur. But hey at least you saved me from having to explain incel nonsense immediately after having to google a slur.

 

[Leng18]

daijoubu desho datte kimi yowai mo

 

[BG9]

Evening the playing field, girl is competitive

 

[Spazz6768]

Thank you for translating this series.

 

[Chickens]

So did Nanao lie about Izumi being there, or did Izumi lie about work?

a queen among cuckqueans

I'm gonna assume you didn't mean to use a racial slur here and ask what you meant instead

This is what I'm wondering... Izumi lying would be a smh

 

[Este074]

Its going to be like this with every girl from now on btw. Kinda dropped the wn because of it

 

[YosepRA]

The more I know about Nanao, the more I realize how charming she is.

To me, Nanao is the personification of a person with a healthy self-esteem. I see people get turned off by her assertiveness. By her assertiveness, people think of her being too pushy, possessive, and whatnot.

But to me, it couldn't be further to the truth. Nanao's assertiveness is not rooted from her possible arrogance that people are below her, nor is it from her thinking that she is the center of the world. No, it's because she understands that she has the right to express her feelings of love and affection to her beloved. And as she says, "Is it really such a bad thing to try your best to get the person you like to notice you?"

There is simply no sense of insecurity or fear of rejection which people often relate themselves to when they are anxious about expressing their love. She simply exercises her rights to say "I love you" to Izumi in what I would argue the healthier way there is.

The fact that she helps Amane is not necessarily because she wants to help her competition because she is too strong, but it's simply because she knows Izumi cares about Amane.

Again and again I say this, Nanao is the kind of girl whom you would want to spend your lifelong partnership with. Well played author for creating such a character.

 

[aureal_cookies]

Can't say I feel any sympathy for Amane. She's only known him for 6 months so it's a superficial crush. She also won't tell him her feelings but would rather play hard to get and get him to confess.

If you don't play the game, you won't win.

 

[Tic_tac_potato]

What if she actually WAS a ploy in other to get the 3 girls to confess their feelings... But that's just a theory....

 

[StandFab]

Peak is back on the menu boys!

 

[Arkuses]

She's too strong that she's even willing to help her competitors.

At the same time it feels like if she pushes them they are going to get rejected