Hikagemono demo Yarinaoshite Ii desu ka? - Vol. 4 Ch. 39 - Kawaoka Hozue's turning point

[Bonzalez]

Ha ha ha, my mind was on that manga about the insane girl who this baseball player starts dating. If I recall, redemption arcs in that manga include "That time she sicked criminal punks to rape a girl who bullied her" and then ends up with one of her male friends she guilted into doing the raping going to jail for her.

Overall, different levels of interpersonal conflict and different stories. The level of bullying and conflict in this manga would fit perfectly fine in a Folkist play about people in a community having conflict and then resolving their issues, coming back together. The other is basically your standard extremely negative soap opera.

"Guilted into doing the raping" wtf is this bullshit

 

[OmnipotentCheese]

To answer the big question of why Koharu stopped going to school and socially withdrew, probably nothing specific. Oh sure there were events and things that happened, but as we saw there was stuff independent from Hozue that are unseen so it couldn't have been her and bullying lackies feels like a stretched cope since it would've been mentioned. It was likely a snowball of things, but ultimately(and what trips people up and why they can't fathom or lacth on to things) is that Koharu just stopped even trying to interact which the narrative has made EXPLICITLY CLEAR was the ultimate factor and problem.

The WHY is clearly insignificant and irrelevant and the main point I'm seeing here and what trips people up is that at the end of the day it's up to YOU to make these changes and most importantly THE EFFORT TO INTERACT AND CONNECT with people and stop making excuses for why you're not even bothering to do the bare minimum. If you've Magus of the Library it's the same things Sedona and Master Ganan tell Theo, it's scary and hard and probably hurts sometimes but if you don't power through and do something you're going to STAY alone and blaming "insert any number of excuses" is just you passing the buck for your lack of effort.

Absolute bullshit.

 

[MechaDaze]

Yeah that would leave someone with some heavy scars. But with the new information added in these new chapters it’s shown that Koharu, while being awkward, was still close to others. Or could at least talk to others.

I also feel like we were told that the lackies don’t do anything aside from just standing next to Hozue while she intimidated people.

I don’t know. It just seems like we were told/heavily hinted this was the big thing that destroyed Koharus life with how she reacted to Hozue. But then it’s hinted as not with Hozue comments kind of hinting something else was affecting Koharu. It just seems weird that there could be anything else when this seems like the big moment but also feels so small.

I think the line "I need to make sure that whenever she's here, she knows that she's beneath everyone" really tells you what happened to Koharu during middle school. Systematic attack on her confidence every time she went to school.