Gyakkou Shita Akuyaku Reijou wa, Naze ka Maryoku wo Ushinattanode Shinsou no Reijou ni Narimasu - Vol. 6 Ch. 30

[Darkshade13]

The problem is that she's still stuck on the idea that she's supposed to play a role.

Which is actually a very Japanese thing to do.

Conformity.

You do not stray outside the lines delineated by society. You do only what you're supposed to do, nothing more and nothing less.

Please note that this is not to say that it's a healthy mindset. In fact, we've seen more than a few MCs in these mangas where their FUCK ALL THE THINGS attitude makes it obvious that the mangaka/author is absolutely railing against the traditional Japanese societal norms. And the character, Anna, in this manga seems to be a deconstruction of what the typical Japanese mindset will do to a person when they're caught between a rock and a hard place.

She's not gifted with the psychological flexibility to adapt. Adapting is a Western thing. Oriental mindsets can be summed up as "Play the role you've been given or die." And with hardly any room at all for anything else in between.

(Ever wonder why suicide is such a big deal in Asian cultures? Theeeerrrre it is. If you cannot perform your role in society, then you're just in everyone else's way. Time to stop taking up that air that others can be using! Let's go have a date with Train-kun or go hang out with our cool bro, Gravity!)

I'm pretty sure that this is why Anna is practically shitting platinum bricks here. She is absolutely terrified because her role is being rendered moot and invalid, which completely short-circuits her Japanese sensibilities.

In fact, you can even say she is literally having a segfault because she's trying to figure out what to do, but her psyche is blocking out what we would consider sensible options - just like a program trying to access data that does not exist.

She can't think of any way around this because that would mean stepping outside of her role as the main character she's supposed to portray, and she doesn't know what else to do except to either force the scenario, or die trying.

Yes, but also no. Based on spoilers from the LN or WN or whatever this was adapted from:

Spoiler

There's a reason she's so hellbent on trying to get the story to progress as it should/would in the game, even if she has to massively take things off the rails in order to get some of the important parts to come to pass. I won't say more unless asked because even heavily tagged and noted spoilers tend to get people super riled up as if they're getting a gun held to their heads to read them. But it's not simply "Japanese cultural mindset demands conformity to expectations no matter what or how." Maybe that's the reason she believes that the world events need to adhere to the game expectations, or why she might convince herself that it's OK to screw over other people/characters who have found something outside of their assigned roels, but there is an actual and specific thing in play that is driving her choice to try and force herself with the prince instead of Rachel.

 

[mitsuki48]

I've yet to see an actual spoiler spoiler on what's going on with Anna so I'll just put it here (at least the WN version)

Rachel confronts Anna and asks why she was so intent on marrying the Prince when she doesn't seem that into him. Anna realizes she's become the villain and tells Rachel everything about her memories.

Spoiler: Spoiler

As you know, Anna regained her memories of her past life in this cycle. She was An, a daughter of a couple who owned a Japanese sweets shop. Next door to her shop was a tofu shop belonging to her best friend, Meg and her older brother of five years, Makoto. An developed a huge crush on Makoto over the years but he always treated her like a little sister. She was still a teenager when she died getting hit by a truck.



Recently, her memories were beginning to vanish. She no longer remembers the faces of her parents and people around her. Even her memories of Makoto were beginning to fade. She was terrified and decided to go to the King with this ultimatum. Her plan was to get the "secret ending" of the game where the Fairy King appears at the wedding between the MC and the Prince to grant her any wish. Her plan was to wish to be returned to her previous world.



While speaking her plan, Anna realized this wasn't a game world and was too real. She wasn't going to be able to go back. Makoto would hate her for what she'd done. She apologizes to Rachel and said she'll go to the King to take back her threat and will refuse to marry the prince but will stay in the country. But Rachel and the Prince but know that the King wasn't going to take back his decree so easily, since his MO was to marry the saint into the royal bloodline.



Yada yada yada more stuff happens but ultra big spoiler on top of this spoiler: Makoto died trying to save An from the truck and reincarnated into this world too. He was reborn as Samuel (the chef from chapter 15.5). Anna and Samuel never met until after a bunch of drama occurs and they find each other. Surprise, Makoto loved An too. Anna recovers her memories after meeting Samuel.

 

[Seraphus]

This chapter is so infuriating that it gave me a fucking migraine.

 

[Elzariel]

The issue with the writing is that this isn't SATISFYINGLY drama knives. This is ANNOYINGLY drama knives. There's a very slight difference in the flavor, but it makes or breaks a chapter like this. ML needs to show more emotion. The king needs to be more evil. Right now with everything making logical sense even in the king's thinking, its not like we can outright hate him. He's a politician. He is ruthless, yes, but he's working for the best of the country, not his family. ML however, should be emotional, raging have some OOMPH into his reactions. Yet he's almost eerily calm. We get a BEAUTIFUL show of Rachel's emotions and that scene is chef's kiss in knives. But then the rest is just WHERE'S THE PIZZAZ?! The king plays his role well. Rachel plays her role well. The hell is just weak ass showing from the prince? I don't know if its the writer or the artist dropping the ball, but something went wrong in this chapter's setup.
And readers can't feel satisfaction in a situation that is hopeless. It feels like there is no way out of this. That's despair. Not "Ugh my heart hurts-!" And I ain't here for despair. I get that enough in real life.

 

[Nitrouse]

If I weren't more aware of how sloppily manga tend to use English I would think that the fact that Rachel's signature appears to read as "Rathel" would be relevant to the plot and a potential way for her to get out of this mess (since it wouldn't be her real signature)

But I know in my head that its probably just a mistake by a mangaka that's not comfortable writing English, especially in a more cursive/scripty fashion.

Youre bothered about that "t"? Hell, we had a time in Germany when we wrote our S as a T. (I guess weed was the daily drug of Choice to make THAT happen)