Gal no Jitensha wo Naoshitara Natsukareta - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - I ate lunch with a gal.

[weleasewodger]

How I met your mother

Chains ⛓️


🍄 Head , please fk off

 

[xanon]

Remember, if women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy.

That had to be the loudest shutter noise in the world for him to notice her taking a picture.

 

[blablablub]

Mushroom head, you've already been yamcha'd. So fuck off.

 

[otakudude303]

Bro got bodied like Yamcha and still can't take a hint.

 

[Tropingenie]

That had to be the loudest shutter noise in the world for him to notice her taking a picture.

Probably is, I remember being jumpscared by my own shutter sound when I visited and it set itself to max volume automatically once I connected a Japanese SIM.

 

[Arx724]

 

[Superpeanut]

same vibe, aura the killer full of jealousy and we also get a villain too in this chapter.

thank you for translating

Baka to Test is peak.

 

[Elrufi]

Nice forearms bro

 

[Knighto]

Getting Sono Bisque Doll vibes in this manga for some reason. This isn't a dig on either series because I'll gobble these up regardless.

yep yep, it still give sono bisque temu vibe, but it feels more like unlike there, the FMC isn't used to her "work" side, so her development could be interesting too

 

[outinthegardener]

Most bike chains are the same, they're just cut to length.

Not so. They are specific to the number of gears on the cassette. All cassettes need to fit in the same space, so the space between gears gets smaller as you increase the number of gears. An 11-speed chain needs to be narrower than a 10-speed, which is narrower than a 9-speed. An 8-speed chain does work for everything 8 or less.

 

[slyss]

I think it's taken/inspired from the idol culture there, but add a big question mark to my statement.

Assuming that manga stories like this are even partway inspired by real life....what the fuck is going on in Japan that boys in a classroom act like that whenever another boy is getting attention from one of the popular girls?

The term is スクールカースト (school castle). It refers to an informal hierarchy inside schools where students are ranked based on different factors. This usually determines who interacts with whom, since students at the top are sometimes treated like celebrities. That is where the trope of guys getting angry at the gloomy MC for daring to talk to a popular girl you see all over manga comes from. (The mushroom dude seems to rank pretty high.)

As for how common it is, very common.

Around 2016 to 2017, a study asked university students to look back on their school years. In middle school, about 77 percent of boys and 87 percent of girls said these hierarchies clearly existed. Even in elementary school, over half of boys and around 70 percent of girls noticed it. High school was a bit lower, but still very present, around 60 percent.

So yeah, this is where the trope comes from.

 

[dankenglish]

Glad to see some trade guys get the rom-com treatment. And now the FMC is a stalker.

 

[MaCl0wSt]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[JoeKerr]

I just want to mention how gorgeously drawn the bicycle is in every panel it appears. Every single one of the wheel spokes is perfectly aligned, with consistent thickness and the gearbox is perfectly scaled and minutely detailed with perfect perspective.

It's probably a rendered 3D model.

 

[UdenEmpati]

The term is スクールカースト (school castle). It refers to an informal hierarchy inside schools where students are ranked based on different factors. This usually determines who interacts with whom, since students at the top are sometimes treated like celebrities. That is where the trope of guys getting angry at the gloomy MC for daring to talk to a popular girl you see all over manga comes from. (The mushroom dude seems to rank pretty high.)

As for how common it is, very common.

Around 2016 to 2017, a study asked university students to look back on their school years. In middle school, about 77 percent of boys and 87 percent of girls said these hierarchies clearly existed. Even in elementary school, over half of boys and around 70 percent of girls noticed it. High school was a bit lower, but still very present, around 60 percent.

So yeah, this is where the trope comes from.

It being an actual real-life thing was all I could think to be the case, so thank you for breaking that down with the associated terminology.
I know it exists everywhere (popular cliques and hierarchies developing in school is effectively just a contemporary microcosm example of normal human anthropological behavior); maybe it's the somewhat distilled version that exists in manga, plus the fact that the MC is, by necessity as you pointed out, always on the receiving end of the animosity of others, that it starts getting exhausting to read over and over when it's almost always used as a simple gag and only ever to the detriment of the MC.

Like how the FL here just...ignores the effect her words had on the him with respect to the class; she is near the top, and can just act like nothing's weird about her behavior, while he suffers as a result with no apparent acknowledgement from her about the trouble she's causing him.
That sort of thing is generally how it always goes, and it's treated as either humorous or just not something noteworthy, and makes the popular one always seem either oblivious, or weirdly simply uncaring about whether the MC ends up troubled from the interaction.
But, because she's popular and the romantic interest, any problems he faces, he's supposed to just deal with it; and since he's not great in social situations, that ends up unfair to him for as long as that continues. (And now Mushroom Dude is likely going to be a narrative problem, and I don't see MC standing up to him if this chapter is any metric, so.)

But that's all my own gripes with the fact that the same tropes and concepts get used over and over with little variation or subversion from work to work. I know that's not a universal thing, but I always hope that things would evolve/be lampshaded more over time.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I just want to mention how gorgeously drawn the bicycle is in every panel it appears. Every single one of the wheel spokes is perfectly aligned, with consistent thickness and the gearbox is perfectly scaled and minutely detailed with perfect perspective.

It's probably a rendered 3D model.

looking at p24 - there's no form/shading to the fork or the hub of the front wheel we can see by the FL's leg, while her leg, and the ground itself, has shadow/texture/value added to it to imply a sense of form and dimensionality.
So I am thinking it is a 3D model that's maybe been traced over to make it stand out a bit less against the rest of the illustration work in each panel, because the bike doesn't seem to getting the same shading/value treatment as everything else.

Which, nothing wrong with that - mangaka work on a deadline, and any tool (other than outright generative AI in my opinion) that helps them accomplish that (like open source 3D assets) is valid.

 

[chickenstalker]

"I like him because...he's good with his hands" (wink, wink)

 

[Chuito]

No yeah. That is just stalking, girl. You'll get away with it because you're a cute girl stalking an introverted boy, but like...don't.

I did appreciate how she shut that guy down though. I always found the "jealous male classmates" trope annoying when they get forced through without resistance.

It's not really stalking to come across his place while absentmindedly thinking about him, crazy coincidence tho.

The picture, now that is crossing some lines. If she does it again then it's definitely getting into stalker territory.
... then again, she a cutie so it's ok

Hard agree on the creep tho. Super satisfying to see one finally get shut down instead of some cringe jealousy arc

 

[Junomano]

it's late to complain as it is too frequent nowadays anyway, but the skirt lenght in manga/anime school life is short

 

[koga88]

Annoying guy got yamcha'd. This has been a good first couple of chapters, and the MC is actually someone with a talent and passion rather than a doormat otaku. Something refreshing for a gal series like this.