Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 24 - I'm Not Crying

[bluekosa]

I don't think this is bad...it's not like I'm against a dark story either. I just lost interest on this lore dump arc.
This went on for too long, there's no way we can back to the fluff rom-com route. This is hopeless

 

[BotchoRanallo]

Yeah, it's just a villain backstory who had just done a villianous stuff

Yeah... I'm sorry, but I can't muster any sympathy for her. Just to clarify, I don’t think she deserves what happened to her—no one should have to go through that. However, it’s difficult for me to connect with her emotionally. Furthermore, this chapter felt like a real slap in the face to those who labeled Hikari as an unreliable narrator or delusional.

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[wakawa00]

Lol that guy, "there's this girl I absolutely have loved since childhood. Anyways let's fuck in this love hotel."

Probably the author's way of showing his crush on Hikari wasn't that serious to begin with

 

[habla]

Lol that guy, "there's this girl I absolutely have loved since childhood. Anyways let's fuck in this love hotel."

It's as if the writer has no idea of how decent human beings function

We call sexually conservative boys who get hung up on someone who doesn't like them back incels y'all, not decent

 

[mgRdr]

Lol that guy, "there's this girl I absolutely have loved since childhood. Anyways let's fuck in this love hotel."

A hole is a hole

 

[awtystic]

I like their relationship way more than the childhood friend's

Yami for the win

 

[Lemonke0119]

this is some abby last of us type shit

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

We dont care little bro you stole him away from fl

At this point, that girl was still trying to set him up with other girls. It was more than a year after this that she finally caught the feels for him. (And there's now no denying that he had it bad for her the whole time.)

 

[MasterPannya]

Since everyone here is still toxic (read: butthurt), let me remind you dear viewer that I like the direction this is going.

I mean, it's a refreshing thing to see the MC finally talk his thoughts now, like a true character and not someone who feels like an entity to be there for the cf to be adored.

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

Hands down one of the most extreme tonal shifts in a manga I have ever seen. It's like the author just decided he was bored of fluff and wanted to write something else.

It's no Gal Cleaning but it is quite something.

 

[mallet]

Whelp, this took a far more dark tone than I anticipated a few chapters ago.

It all makes sense now why she is obsessed with brining someone down to hell...because she was dragged to hell herself by whatever her stepfather did. The only way she THINKS she will feel better is if she drags another to hell with her (which I think was mentioned in a prior chapter), but it all comes together with that "hypothetical" story (although it could still be a false story however doubtful that actually is). I guess we will see that this guy will take her away from hell and bring her to a better place. Is her getting redeemed really needed?

I also think this solidifies to me the fact that when we get back to the present he will be pushing Ayami away and say (hopefully loud enough for Hikari to hear if she is still there) that he has told her before that he loves Hikari and that will not change no matter what Ayami does.

What that actually means for the story...who knows.

She gave more or less the same story as narration in chapter 22, when she was about to prostitute herself.

Yom is not the author, just the artist, they have no say in the story.

Yom might have been given a general outline of how the characters are suppose to act. Yami has a resemblance to Senpai from Ganbare Douki-Chan, and they're both heroines with a "history" with the male lead. I don't really think it's a coincidence.

Up until chapter 21, she was not seen as an unreliable narrator. Readers generally trusted her perspective and believed the events as she described them. However, after the events of that chapter, everything changed. It only took a single chapter for people to start doubting her version of the story, questioning whether her account was trustworthy. In my opinion, this reaction was extremely premature. People quickly jumped to conclusions without considering the full context, and many of the accusations that arose from this sudden doubt have been proven false with the release of this latest chapter, further validating her point of view.

The events as she described them isn't the issue. She just doesn't know everything about Yuu. It was brought up a couple of times, but in a way that it didn't cause most readers to start doubting, until the kiss. This arc is the stuff she didn't see between Yuu and Yami. Yuu told Hikari almost the same thing he told Yami, and this is about a year and a half before the summer festival. It's still possible that Yuu likes Hikari but we haven't heard it from him directly, most likely intentionally.

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

Yeah, author is going full scorched earth with the trauma dump.

What's next? She got a rape baby and had to abort it at a dark alleyway with a rusty clothes hanger?

How far are we taking this "dark arc" author?

That's how far it'd have to go just to reach Mami's backstory in Kanojo, Okarishimasu. (Which was itself quite a wild tonal shift.)

 

[wakawa00]

At this point, that girl was still trying to set him up with other girls. It was more than a year after this that she finally caught the feels for him. (And there's now no denying that he had it bad for her the whole time.)

It's very likely that dating Yami and helping her was what changed Yuu in a way that made Hikaru fall for him

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

If you are going to go for the twist don't give yourself an off-ramp two chapters later. This is just poor writing. I was all for the twist but to then say, wait, he was really in love with Hikari via off-screen discussion was just bad. Show don't tell and all. And if he was in love with Hikari, and too pure to have sex with a woman he barely knew, why was he agreeing to go to the love hotel in the first place? I'm fine with flawed characters - in fact I love them - but there has to be a reasonable in-world justification for the behavior and Ta-kun's doesn't make sense given what we know about him so far. He doesn't strike me as a Paul Greyrat. They developed no rapport to justify the kiss in chapter 21. They needed to at least develop the relationship to the point where sex was a reasonable outcome.

At this point, Yuu is a wreck. Years of trying to get Hikari to look at him have (he thinks) crashed and burned forever. Enter a girl he knows a little who offers to help him forget about all that, even if only for a short time. Not every guy would agree, but it's not surprising to find one who would.

 

[Daktyl]

Oh wow he actually went with her to a hotel but couldn't "perform" due to seeing that her heart wasn't committed to it.

I think the implication is that he did end up doing it with her afterward, since she stopped looking so vacant. So he still fucked her despite being "in love" with his childhood friend that he literally did nothing to try and date and yet said "doesn't see him as a man". What a douche.

 

[awtystic]

You know, it may be cuz I only knew this manga superficially, like, I'd only seen a few chapters pop up in my feed, and then I started following it from that chapter of the kiss scene...

But I kinda rooting for Yami-senpai, like she really deserves to be happy

Usually childhood friends are the losing heroines in manga so maybe this might be the perspective of the losing childhood friend idk it's quite unique if the story goes like that with hikari losing

 

[mgRdr]

and yet said "doesn't see him as a man".

We've seen Hikari testify as much to her friends, so apparently she's made it clear enough to him at the time, maybe even saying it verbatim in a casual conversation

 

[steebus]

crazy how this series used to have like an 8 avg score and you can 100% tell which chapter dropped it to a 6

 

[wakawa00]

Usually childhood friends are the losing heroines in manga so maybe this might be the perspective of the losing childhood friend idk it's quite unique if the story goes like that with hikari losing

Seen form Yuu's PoV this is a pretty standard romcom setting, MC and his childhood friend have feelings for each other but never made a move for dumb reasons, then suddenly the new girl arrives and MC gets dragged into her plot and ends up falling in love with her, I'm sure we've all read at least some manga that follows that structure

 

[Castane]

We call sexually conservative boys who get hung up on someone who doesn't like them back incels y'all, not decent

Firstly, we who?
Second, "Who doesn't like them back" are we not talking about this manga anymore or did I miss a chapter where that's established?