Gal no Jitensha wo Naoshitara Natsukareta - Ch. 6 - Things Got Awkward with a Gal

[orangerain7734]

WOMEN

 

[legocam96]

Pacing is all over the place with this. We are only six chapters in, and they’ve already mucked it up. The kid is very awkward and introverted, talked to a girl twice, and now that girl is acting like he blew her off because he doesn’t remember her. Why are they trying to make him come across like they’ve been hanging out hard and heavy with that line of being around forever? Like dude, she talked to you like three times, that’s just embarrassing to have that mindset. Feels mediocre with the storytelling, which stinks because the art is pretty nice.

 

[chickenstalker]

Grape

 

[Agent_Seagull]

Hol'up...... I've seen this scene many times on another site 👀

 

[Caffiend1113]

Ofc shawty would take her friend's side. I know FMC's hurt cuz he doesn't remember her at all but can Douguchi look at the problem from an outsiders perspective? I mean she's a friend and technically an outsider and also knows the situation. Why do you expect the MC to remember her based on just one meeting? Sure it had a very big influence on the FMC but it wasn't anything impactful for our protag.

Wtf are you even talking about, she literally said that she understands from his perspective that it seems completely unreasonable. She clearly didn’t expect him to have held onto the memory like her friend had but is also understandably annoyed that he hasn’t been able to piece literally anything together at all given the context clues and yet still helped him set up a reconciliation meet.

 

[Caffiend1113]

Shiiiiiiit, it’s always a treat to see so many people whinge about teenagers acting emotionally and immaturely in a romance manga. What will piss you dorks off next, huh? The sun being bright? The sky being blue? ffs

 

[residentFATBOY]

 

[Carn109]

Locked straight into her house

 

[JashwanthGeass]

Such a silly reason to get mad. Hoping at least from now on FMC act like a mature girl.

 

[NutzYaboku77]

Wtf are you even talking about, she literally said that she understands from his perspective that it seems completely unreasonable. She clearly didn’t expect him to have held onto the memory like her friend had but is also understandably annoyed that he hasn’t been able to piece literally anything together at all given the context clues and yet still helped him set up a reconciliation meet.

It's not unreasonable from just his perspective but any any pov apart from the the FMCs. Romcom protagonists aren't known for their brains anyways and since she refuses to talk what else our guy is supposed to do? It's stupid to think someone would remember you when you only met them ONCE during childhood and that too after she has gotten so much of a makeover since then. Ofc, teenagers acting impulsively and immaturely isn't anything new but it's not like we don't get called out for it. You can't say "Oh, she's a teenager so it's based". When someone is in the wrong you point it out.

 

[JoeKerr]

I don't have much to say except.
Her reaction is perfectly understandable for someone who spent years idealizing someone and is suddenly confronted by the reality.
If anything I'd say she's handling it rather well.

 

[Foxhouse]

Ofc shawty would take her friend's side. I know FMC's hurt cuz he doesn't remember her at all but can Douguchi look at the problem from an outsiders perspective? I mean she's a friend and technically an outsider and also knows the situation. Why do you expect the MC to remember her based on just one meeting? Sure it had a very big influence on the FMC but it wasn't anything impactful for our protag.

She also change her dye hair a different color. So suspecting someone who is not normally around you to know who you are after changing a recognizable feature is a hard ask. Im sure he never got her name either.

The two basic thing A human need to recongized another in someway. She changed and possibly never gave.

 

[blalok.jpg]

I think Seika is upset not only because Kutsuzawa seemingly forgot her but he mentioned that he made a bunch of figures for kids and that he remembers giving one to a girl called Meguru whose reaction was so strong that he forgot the names of all the others he gifted, likely including Seika.


But cut my boy some slack, Seika had dark hair when she was younger and Kutsuzawa is under the impression that she is new to the area/ didn't grow up there.

 

[essensue]

It's not unreasonable from just his perspective but any any pov apart from the the FMCs. Romcom protagonists aren't known for their brains anyways and since she refuses to talk what else our guy is supposed to do? It's stupid to think someone would remember you when you only met them ONCE during childhood and that too after she has gotten so much of a makeover since then. Ofc, teenagers acting impulsively and immaturely isn't anything new but it's not like we don't get called out for it. You can't say "Oh, she's a teenager so it's based". When someone is in the wrong you point it out.

Douguchi being so inflammatory is so weird in this chapter, for a series that's been relatively self-aware and sensitive so far. If you're only looking at the way the manga pages themselves regard Douguchi (and not what she's saying) then she's presented as having a very cool vibe, being wise and clever, cute and friendly, and doing the right thing. She's initially concerned and sincere, gets blushy and earnest, and the only "mean" faces she makes are stylized as silly/cartoonish. And yet the crap that's coming out of her face seems completely detached from reality.

It's such a disconnect that I kind of want to see the raws just to see if there's been some nuance lost:

• On my first pass reading it, I hitched on "can't help but take her side" and thought to myself "I guess they mean 'I will always have my girl's back' or 'I understand her feelings' rather than actually taking sides, because there are no sides going on here. They aren't fighting. The FMC immediately apologized for running off. Fight over, but mutual avoidance ongoing."
• The "things about him that piss [Douguchi] off" I could only reconcile as "well, the fact that he's coded as neuro-atypical means he's more likely to hurt the FMC via awkwardness, but it doesn't seem like she's holding that against him, so I guess she means 'things that are frustrating about him.'" Is she mad that the MC hasn't once tried to approach the FMC at school, or approach her through her friends, or otherwise tried to fix things? It's all I can come up with.
• Does she seriously mean "mad" when she says "no wonder [FMC]'s mad," and not "hurt/upset" instead?
• Why does she pull that face? "Because he didn't infer the whole story just based on her reaction" seems too dumb to be real. Was it "You guys haven't even talked about that?" or "Dude literally everyone else in our grade knows this why don't you?" or something?

If all you read is chapter 5, you get 0% anger or other negative vibes from FMC toward MC personally. She's already scolded herself and the last thing she's texted him is "sorry." When they accidentally come face-to-face, she doesn't glare at him; she bolts like a startled bunny. Between that and her starting to text him back "Hey, do you remember back-" but the deleting it, the mindset I get is literal avoidance:
"I'm afraid that if we talk again and I reveal who I am/was, he'll actually say 'Who?' and that will completely break my heart."

So it's weird to the point of gaslighting that Douguchi makes it sound like this is an argument they're in the middle of. But it's certainly convinced most commenters that the FMC is angry with him for not remembering her. Douguchi is supposed to be very socially capable; she should know better. If there's no TL issue, this chapter's kinda insane.
(And I assume Douguchi would point out to Mizuguchi that she was fucking up unless Mizuguchi prefaced the whole story with "I fucked up so baaad~" which she probably did. But if a gyaru is gonna privately correct her friends and publicly have their backs, I don't hate it.)

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Edit to add: Went and looked at the first half, translation seems technically accurate and good (minus pg.4 where "I think I already know the situation, but... it's about Seika?" should definitely be more like "I bet you've already guessed, but... it's about Seika." with Douguchi speaking both lines) But I don't think it captures the tone and nuance for e.g. pg.5/6 where she's being really conciliatory and explaining that her position isn't about who's right, but loyalty and wanting to protect/stand by her friend. And that "things about you that piss me off" is more likely to be "how you're being right now is getting on my nerves" - more about points in how he's handling the situation than core parts of who he is. Also, while the JP doesn't technically specify either, I think it's a mistake given context to choose the present tense on pg.11 when it could also easily mean "well of course she got mad" without the implication that Seika's anger is ongoing.

The vibe I get is "Dude, I know my bestie started it, but for her sake and yours I need you to try and make up with her because I can't convince her to make the first move and ignoring each other is really hurting her. You're killing me, here."

Overall I think there's a just-as-technically-correct TL wherein she comes across WAY MORE LIKABLE. But this shit's hard, so no shade, and I appreciate KDT's hard work.

 

[XP9NMD]

I guess he has to apologize for not being omniscient and failing to connect this present day person to some random person he met in the past?

I made an error lmao. More like he just has almost no way of connecting that specific person he met in the past to her so it's still pretty odd.

 

[FiddlePop]

Wtf was this bullshit
These fuckers have hung out for 2 days, have barely had any deep interaction, and are now acting as if they are having the biggest heartbreak of the century.

Jesus fucking Christ, I want my time back that was wasted on this shit

 

[phorx]

I got annoyed enough by this one that I went and read some of the web novel to find out the truth of what happened.

Spoilers ahead, you’ve been warned:

Meguru is the MC’s younger male cousin. At the time, he really didn’t remember the FMC, but as soon as she shows him the figure he made her back then it comes back to him. He only met her 3-4 times back then and apparently she had a different surname (I didn’t read far enough to confirm her parent’s whole deal). The MC and FMC end up apologizing to each other (lame imo).

Also, apparently he has some kind of past trauma that makes it very difficult for him to trust people and make friends, to the extent that his family is protective of him. FMC also hasn’t explained why she moved away and only recently came back. So this could be a dragged out slower burn story. I dunno, I stopped reading after this.

 

[19801980]

Uma grande vitória para Douguchi, ela ajudou a resolver o problema do protagonista com a Seika. Mesmo que ela tenha ficado meio irritada com o quão incrivelmente denso e desatento o protagonista é, e eu estou realmente curioso para saber por que ele tem amnésia sobre o passado, mesmo sendo amigos de infância, será que aconteceu alguma coisa com ele naquela época? Parece que é por isso que ele só se lembra de fragmentos do passado agora.

Obrigado pela tradução.

YEs

 

[19801980]

Que merda é essa?

• Ele ficou melancólico e irritado quando não se lembrou dela ou não a reconheceu, o que o fez sentir-se culpado por isso.
• A melhor amiga decide ajudá-la (ela definitivamente o reconhece), mas opta por ser extremamente vaga sobre o assunto. Ela também diz a ele que a culpa é toda dele.
• Mande-o para a casa dela, desperdiçando o tempo dele depois da escola enquanto ele se sente mal o tempo todo.

Eu sei que elas ainda estão no ensino médio, mas poxa! Problema facilmente evitável se ela tivesse simplesmente verificado se a criança no hospital era ela.

Por outro lado, estou empregado há mais de um mês e a maioria das experiências ruins ou tóxicas que tive até agora envolveram mulheres... Muito fiel à história.

Essa merda é complicadam🤣🤣🤣