Hakanai Kimi wa Moukou o Hajimeru - Ch. 19

[MangaDex]

 

[Coldlight]

She's so devoted it's starting to hurt me a little that he's being this obtuse.

 

[ryu4life]

She's so devoted it's starting to hurt me a little that he's being this obtuse.

He treats her as if she were his younger sister.

 

[DynJarren]

My guy just needs to get over himself, and succumb to her sweet embrace

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

She's so devoted it's starting to hurt me a little that he's being this obtuse.

It might not be that he's obtuse, though. We know he knows her feelings for him and has known them forever. In an early chapter, we find out that he's also been aware of his own feelings for her for several years now. At their current apparent ages, the gap between them isn't such a big deal, sure, but back when he realized he loved her, it could've been, like, twelve and eighteen -- and that would've really messed with his head. Enough that he could still be refusing to act based on the guilt he felt back then? Could be.

 

[Deathhappens]

It might not be that he's obtuse, though. We know he knows her feelings for him and has known them forever. In an early chapter, we find out that he's also been aware of his own feelings for her for several years now. At their current apparent ages, the gap between them isn't such a big deal, sure, but back when he realized he loved her, it could've been, like, twelve and eighteen -- and that would've really messed with his head. Enough that he could still be refusing to act based on the guilt he felt back then? Could be.

And if currently it's, say, 14 and 20, or 15 and 21, or even 16 and 22, it's still quite a big deal (we know she's not a 3rd year in highschool so she can't be 17 or 18). It's not gonna matter that much when she's 20 and he's 26, but he's not wrong to want her to wait until she'a mature enough to know what she really wants. "she wants him, duh" Yeah, and when I was a high-schooler all the girls wanted the Backstreet Boys. Celeb crushes are real. Now, this probably isn't the case here, dude has done so much for her it's almost guaranteed that she would fall in love with him eventually, but if he wants her to love him for who he is rather than who he is to her, I can't say he's wrong.

 

[Qwormuli]

And if currently it's, say, 14 and 20, or 15 and 21, or even 16 and 22, it's still quite a big deal (we know she's not a 3rd year in highschool so she can't be 17 or 18). It's not gonna matter that much when she's 20 and he's 26, but he's not wrong to want her to wait until she'a mature enough to know what she really wants. "she wants him, duh" Yeah, and when I was a high-schooler all the girls wanted the Backstreet Boys. Celeb crushes are real. Now, this probably isn't the case here, dude has done so much for her it's almost guaranteed that she would fall in love with him eventually, but if he wants her to love him for who he is rather than who he is to her, I can't say he's wrong.

Generally you're on point 100%. But if she is in high school and apparently on her second year (her being jk wasn't a new development when she moved "closer to her school"), but not third yet for sure. That'd put her at around 17 or maybe even 18 depending on her birth date and time of year, considering you graduate as an adult in Japan in the vast majority of cases. The grade structure is almost eerily similar to Finland, actually, before stuff like conscription comes in play.

He has been alluded to not have gone to tertiary/post-sec and has worked for a bit already. They also had a panel of being in the same school, which kind of looked like middle school. So they probably pretty much swapped schools with her graduating in and him then graduating out, meaning they prolly have three-ish years between them.