Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle - Vol. 1 Ch. 1

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...Is the original Japanese dialogue really this fucking "omg lol random"?
Are we absolutely 100% sure this isn't just a TL swipe at a certain scanlation group?

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It's one of those moments in life when you see yourself in a manga about normies, man the similarity is unbelievable, my group of friends was also the center of the class in highschool, too bad cause of this pandemic we can't go out
 
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...Is the original Japanese dialogue really this fucking "omg lol random"?
Are we absolutely 100% sure this isn't just a TL swipe at a certain scanlation group?
@justforthelulz : Chapter 1 of the novel got fan translation. The classroom scene is from part 5. Their version don't get overboard with the slangs.

The original has a peculiar style of narrating. It can be romantic and flowery in describing the mood, but also often uses words like sound effect to describe thing which I felt gives a dash of childishness in his character. There's also a homely feel. They describe their hometown as a rural city, and sometimes, Saku's style feels old-styled.
 
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@Kevadu No comment about the characters here since it’s just first chapter but a lot of LN author describe normies as people from the top of the high school social life and I don’t know why but they love to brand them as some shallow people, while in reality normies are just a bunch of kids who want to have fun with no ulterior motives..... I cannot relate to most of LN romcom protagonist, why? Because they can’t communicate with people but choose to have bias toward people who can, they are interesting sure, because we can see loner point of view that way, but it’s already a fixed trope now and getting pretty repetitive and boring
 
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@Logic : Moreover, all of Team Chitose members excluding Yua, are all in sports club. Excluding Yuuko who is in tennis club, all are in competitive team sports club, adding the image of being muscle-brained rather than the book reading intellectuals.
The characters in most light novels are usually go home club, or the smarter kinds are in literature club.

With prejudice, it’s probably because the big target market are those uncomfortable with loud way of interaction with many people.
Oregairu for example, is said to target the 捻くれ segment, cynical.
People likes confirmation, a show that their way of life is not wrong, someone to confide their doubt if their current way of life is right while they look and compare themselves to those people playing outside under the sun; or even just telling them their political view is correct along with arming them with armaments of arguments to quote (how there are news outlets for each political views).

The author seems to put a lot of the common stereotypes in volume 1 to break in, presenting a familiar image of those normies in their strong, confident, shallow, loud, and enjoy oppressing those weaker than them, but also lay down the foundation about how they have their own struggle in that way of life they choose.
After that, there’s no more need to keep repeating the ugly side. They leave that hideous outfit in the trash and the characters starts saying it loudly, “this is me”
 
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@rluka so they are going to stop being this goddamn annoying? Thank god, I guess I can give them a chance. You talked about about bias against normies, but dunno man, I have a few normie friends, and at most I am annoyed they are too busy with their big ass social circle to spend aome time chatting with me. I don't find any of them as annoying as THESE guys presented in first chapter.
The only decent one was the first girl introduced. She wasn't loud or self-centered at least, or desperately trying to put out a good image.
 
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I mean, i guess being handsome lets you look funny instead of cringe when doing stupid shit?
 
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Decided to finally check this out cause anime's been announced. Wow this is pretty friggin bad and cringe
 

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