Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku!? - Vol. 8 Ch. 56 - Otaku & Gyaru & After Nagoya

[ciera]

Thank you for the chapters

Edit: she went and said it!!!

 

[jeremymd]

But Amane could also develop in to a deeper relationship, but I do agree that we don't need an "open ending". Most of the time I hate the idea of Harem stories cos they are always wishy-washy BS where people want a poly ending and noone wins (Fucking looking at you Mayo Chiki!), but with this story I hope for a poly/throuple ending. Ijichi loves Seo, Amane loves Seo, but they also love each other enough not to want to monopolise the time they have. I'm okay with the three of them being happy together.

While it's a nice fantasy, given the setting, that's what it would be: a fantasy. He's no chad so I really can't see him being in a throuple. But in fairness, a bunch of early harem stories did have multiple endings for each girl (Bokuben I think is one), kinda like Amagami SS. I kinda liked that approach but you don't see that anymore.

 

[jeremymd]

If the alternative is making one of the girls left out of the trio after making her fall in love and get close to the guy, then yes, open ending is far more preferable than choosing. And harems are often not very serious love stories, so many of them are just fine with not ending on choosing any one girl. Rejecting one girl is good when it's a part of story designed from beginning as bittersweet love triangle romance.

Dress-up darling is completely different kind of story that can't be really compared to this one, one about couple growing closer to each other , so it should have couple ending, but stories about friendship couple can actually well told despite open ending. In this manga's case the best ending is throuple since they all like each other as best friends, choosing only one girl is just sad downer ending with one girl relegated to third wheel status, it would just suck. For same reason I don't want multiple endings, they are feel like cop out anyway.

The guy choosing one girl from a harem has been done several times with good effect though. Quintessential Quintuplets did that. There are two more I can remember but can't recall the names. But ultimately, it boils down to preference I guess.

And a fair point, Dress Up Darling isn't a three way friendship like this series. My point though is that if anything is a cop-out, it would be doing an open ending leaving the resolution completely up to the reader. One can even accuse the author as either lazy or a coward. I guess you can call multiple endings a cop-out too, but it at least allows all shippers to get their own canon resolution and catharsis at the very end.

 

[jeremymd]

This has long been my reading as well. Amane even admits she'd be fine remaining otaku buddies if he got a girlfriend in this very chapter. And even though Ijichi points out that this hypothetical girlfriend wouldn't like that, I can't imagine Ijichi herself minding much if her boyfriend kept nerding out with her best friend.

It'd be a perfect fit for everybody, right?

Still, I wouldn't mind multiple endings to satiate both shipper types. But I don't think it can be done properly in this type of story.

 

[Troxking]

I’m not a fan of multiple ending routes, or even worse the what if left to your imagination ending. I truly hope somehow he ends up with both of them.

 

[Sekraan]

That is one of the WORST kind of endings for a romance story IMO. They did that in Insomniacs and I absolutely hated it. What ever is the point of an open ending for a romantic story when the pairing is in fact the natural resolution of the story? It feels like a bait and switch. Imagine Dress Up Darling having an open ending. The actual ending was already disappointing, but I promise you people would riot if they left the ending of Dress Up Darling "open to interpretation."

Why would you put spoilers for a different series in your comment here? It's highly inconsiderate.

 

[the_Bear_from_Bearcave]

The guy choosing one girl from a harem has been done several times with good effect though. Quintessential Quintuplets did that. There are two more I can remember but can't recall the names. But ultimately, it boils down to preference I guess.

And a fair point, Dress Up Darling isn't a three way friendship like this series. My point though is that if anything is a cop-out, it would be doing an open ending leaving the resolution completely up to the reader. One can even accuse the author as either lazy or a coward. I guess you can call multiple endings a cop-out too, but it at least allows all shippers to get their own canon resolution and catharsis at the very end.

I disagree. For me multiple ending is more of a copout than open ending. I'm not saying harems can't have winner, but it's not a problem if they don't have one, since most of them have pretty shallow relationship in first place, whether someone wins or nobody does doesn't matter much.

It's the proper couple romance series that need "closed" ending, and while this manga has two girls in love in MC, they both share same bond with MC as well as with each other, so any ending with one girl chosen will either be sad or, if shown as happy, will feel forced. Multiple ending is just bad ending done twice, so it's even worse, also it ignores consistency of characters making them interchangeable - that's actual cowardice and cop-out. Amagami was adaptation of VN, which as typical had multiple endings, so it gets a pass.

 

[Spiryts]

Amane: I love otaku-kun too
Readers: Yes, the throuple ending is real, LET'S GOOO
Ijichi: "I kinda want to avoid having some sticky, messy love triangle"
It's over, all our hopes and dreams just got crush

 

[MaCl0wSt]

Ooh nice, she's in on it too now

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[draxdeveloper]

Where he did go to just wash hands?

 

[draxdeveloper]

Harem route. Is the only way. Even multiple routes end would feel kind of bad to me. I need them all three happy.

Well, some girls in the school even joked Amane and Ichiji as a couple

 

[Julwid55]

I wonder how this story will end, since they both like him
I don’t think the author will make them all dating each other so either he chooses one and the other person is sadly left behind or the story ends with none of them dating and leave us with our own interpretation of who he end sips choosing (which I hope isn’t the case)

Can also do like we never learn where each one gets and ending. Although I want more manga to go past the dating phase since so many end after that

 

[KappaDvorak]

Praying hard to Rimukoro and Nakamura Rikito to manifest 3P ending

 

[henman]

Is the new cover a hint that they'll evade sticky messy triangle by getting into sticky messy square?

 

[PrototypicalLurker]

Fucking called it. It's going to end in a friendship

 

[jeremymd]

Why would you put spoilers for a different series in your comment here? It's highly inconsiderate.

Oh. Sorry.

 

[jeremymd]

I disagree. For me multiple ending is more of a copout than open ending. I'm not saying harems can't have winner, but it's not a problem if they don't have one, since most of them have pretty shallow relationship in first place, whether someone wins or nobody does doesn't matter much.

It's the proper couple romance series that need "closed" ending, and while this manga has two girls in love in MC, they both share same bond with MC as well as with each other, so any ending with one girl chosen will either be sad or, if shown as happy, will feel forced. Multiple ending is just bad ending done twice, so it's even worse, also it ignores consistency of characters making them interchangeable - that's actual cowardice and cop-out. Amagami was adaptation of VN, which as typical had multiple endings, so it gets a pass.

I agree that most harems have shallow relationships, but not all. The really special ones that stand out have proper character and bond development. I'd assume we agree that this series is one of them, so as much as I don't care about the really trashy harems and how they end, if they would judiciously and mindfully make alternate endings that each girl deserves (because they both deserve to be with the MC), I would like THAT better than the mangaka spending 5 pages to tell us that he's blueballing us and leaving it "to our interpretation."

Also, since you mentioned the "proper couple romance series needs a closed ending," I mean, isn't this a proper couple romance? The two girls aren't really competing against each other. The readers want both to have a proper ending, either through alternate endings or a throuple (which is a TERRIBLE idea and crosses over to the high fantasy genre.)

 

[guygarelard]

FUCK I'M SO HAPPY

THANKS FOR THE PEAK CHAPTER Y'ALL

 

[trionee]

WOOOOOOOOO YEAHHHH BABY THAT'S WHAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR, THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

 

[krater]

I wonder how this story will end, since they both like him
I don’t think the author will make them all dating each other so either he chooses one and the other person is sadly left behind or the story ends with none of them dating and leave us with our own interpretation of who he end sips choosing (which I hope isn’t the case)

The only acceptable endings are throuple end or alternate ending for both heroine