Himegasaki Sakurako Is a Hot Mess - Vol. 5 Ch. 35

[draxdeveloper]

Me every time someone picks up a series 6 years after the last scan

*two months

 

[RitoTheLittle]

What? What is this fever dream of a chapter

 

[OnePoundStrongberry]

Consistent Himegasaki scans? Splendid. Thanks for the scan!

 

[tantei_metal]

i love how this manga just questions all the tropes

 

[Esgar]

Idk about yall, but once I realized that this was basically supposed to show Sakurako being a side character in a super meta way, it was insanely funny to me lmao

 

[darkeden112]

She's literally (Hi)me(gasaki).

 

[Kushikime]

What in the world just happened

 

[Homuranagi]

Even us readers are reduced to mobs, taken our rights of an almost omnipresent view. The author didn't just break the 4th wall, he dropped it on us and we can't see shit.

 

[Jordygo]

Do tomboys not have a voice? You should be able to tell they're girls by their voice at the very least. Honestly the trope of mistaking a tomboy for a man is kinda annoying

 

[eelzbean]

"... as fast as a manatee"
And about as thicc as a manatee too

 

[testableneptune]

Bros...I am so lost.

 

[Trostishere]

Seriously, i think the author kinda skipped the whole introduction for this joke

 

[Donutlie]

So this is how it feels to be a side character that is not always involved in the main story lol

 

[KuroeNekumi]

The way the author has been playing with the humor of the tropes the genre usually has is so beautifully on point as of late I really have been enjoying myself a lot.

The erotic stuff and breaking of convention is nice, but seeing someone play so nicely with so many tiresome things about the genre itself is so good to see.

 

[Miku4L]

Idk about yall, but once I realized that this was basically supposed to show Sakurako being a side character in a super meta way, it was insanely funny to me lmao

I always appreciate the authors meta humor and how far they go to sideline Himegasaki like how the narrator bubble forgot her name, or how she was the last character introduced at the start of the volume.

 

[lead36]

I guess it's slightly more confusing if people try to imagine the events in manga chapters format.

So, the premise is a parody of the parody (which is the main manga), and this is never episode 1 of a single cour anime, somewhere around the middle like episode 6.

The events start with Aki meeting little Sakurako (Minute 16 in a 22 minute episode). The rest of the chapter plays out chronologically, but refers back to what happened in the episode prior.

In this sense, it's somewhat easier to picture the 3 manga chapter span the characters are referring to.

-Aki meeting little Hime (chapter 3)
-little Hime and Sakaki fight (chapter 2)
-little hime comes to visit (chapter 1)

Roughly like this. Fits splendidly into a single anime episode, covering 3 chapters of an 18page, not too wordy romcom manga.

 

[MasterPannya]

Much like that little girl, we, the audience, were also lost.


BRAVO NOLAN

 

[Raan27]

I see a child, I liked
This isn't because I like children but because I'm a also a kid and kids nowadays rarely get representation in manga, so I'm a little happy when they're featured.

 

[Sonaldo]

Sakurako's got that same feeling we get when we had to check back the last chapter of a monthly manga series just to remind us what's going on.

Bro no joke I actually checked if I missed a chapter or something lol 😂. Sakurako is treating the fourth wall same way Deadpool did

 

[Grye]

Literally who