Class no Bocchi Gal wo Omochikaeri Shite Seisokei Bijin ni Shite Yatta Hanashi - Vol. 4 Ch. 17

[MangaDex]

 

[pumicx]

Such a fire manga, also this chapter got uploaded 5 minutes after I finished binging the whole seiries lmao. Goat timing.

 

[Kaiofficialone]

Truly one of the greatest most spectacular absolutely appealing trashiest chapters in all time.

 

[alkaline46]

I am grinding my teeth. these two must be united and mc is being a dense titanium brick house. girl would be so woo'd by his confession jfc

 

[blablablub]

What a nice double date.

 

[Pandacyborg]

I was waiting for the usual fuckboys to aggressively hit on the two girls in their swimsuits. Pleasantly surprised

 

[casual_reader1234]

I am grinding my teeth. these two must be united and mc is being a dense titanium brick house. girl would be so woo'd by his confession jfc

I'd have to reread the previous chapters again (it has been a minute), but I wouldn't say he's dense, just that he has different priorities atm. I think he's still planning to leave and all after wrapping up school and finding Aoi's grandmother so it's more like he has a "mission plan" and hasn't considered romance very carefully yet.

 

[Kaarme]

I'd have to reread the previous chapters again (it has been a minute), but I wouldn't say he's dense, just that he has different priorities atm. I think he's still planning to leave and all after wrapping up school and finding Aoi's grandmother so it's more like he has a "mission plan" and hasn't considered romance very carefully yet.

His priority is Shinzo Abe's nightmare. He obviously likes her, yet he never truly considers any other options than leaving her behind for good. Little kids automatically follow their parens, but he's not a little kid anymore. He's a high school student. Lots of high school age students move out for various reasons. It's an extremely common thing in manga, so it's definitely a thing in RL Japan as well, to some degree.

 

[Vincentius]

His priority is Shinzo Abe's nightmare. He obviously likes her, yet he never truly considers any other options than leaving her behind for good. Little kids automatically follow their parens, but he's not a little kid anymore. He's a high school student. Lots of high school age students move out for various reasons. It's an extremely common thing in manga, so it's definitely a thing in RL Japan as well, to some degree.

For what it's worth, this has a lot to do with Japanese culture's view on teenagers, to my understanding; and what little knowledge I do have is quite outdated, so take this with a large grain of salt...

In the West, we typically (but not always) delineate growing up as "child > teenager > adult" and we also tend to divide teenagers into "adolescent" and "young adult" to further delineate things, as a way to describe those who are closer to kids (usually 13-15) and those who are closer to adults (usually 16-18, since the age of majority is 18).

As I understand it, though, in Japan, that delineation isn't really a thing. You're either a child or an adult, with little in between; teenagers, even high school students, aren't "young adults", they're "older children". But still "children" at the end of the day and, well, you don't entrust kids with the same kind of responsibilities you'd entrust to an adult, would you?

Further exacerbating things is that Japan's age of majority is also 20, so if you're a teenager, you're legally not an adult. It's why you rarely see manga talking about high school students getting driver's licenses (the age to get a license to drive a car is 18 and most high school manga MCs are 16-17) and part of why high school students having part time jobs or living alone becomes short hand for "complicated home life".

So, yeah, TL;DR, look at high school manga MCs as if they were all 12-13 rather than their canon age and the attitudes of them and the adults around them for why they act the way they do start to make a lot more sense (to say nothing of how Japan, like most of Asia, is really big on the concept of filial piety).

 

[Kaarme]

Further exacerbating things is that Japan's age of majority is also 20, so if you're a teenager, you're legally not an adult. It's why you rarely see manga talking about high school students getting driver's licenses (the age to get a license to drive a car is 18 and most high school manga MCs are 16-17) and part of why high school students having part time jobs or living alone becomes short hand for "complicated home life".

Actually since a couple of years ago, it was lowered from 20 to 18, so it would be the same as in the West. A thing like this wouldn't be just ink on paper since it would automatically reflect changing attitudes or the desire to change attitudes. Otherwise it wouldn't have happened. Young people themselves would obviously embrace the change the most; they are the ones it affects the most, after all. Naturally the whole society won't change overnight or even in two years, but neither would the legal change itself happen totally out of nowhere: there would have been years of debate and the date when it happens would have been set in the future back then, to allow all levels of bureaucracy to prepare for it in advance.

 

[ciera]

Thank you for the scanlation

 

[spiffinn]

Thanks for the update!

 

[AdmiralSilver]

come on man just admit you want to stay

 

[alkaline46]

less revealing bikini makes girls more attractive. something something, seductiveness of the imagination. you'll get it when you're older.