Imasara desu ga, Osananajimi wo Suki ni Natte Shimaimashita - Ch. 41 - Everything, Falling Apart

[GennArc]

@middle-the-nerd @GennArc Sorry, I forgot to ping you both. Chapter 2 of Yuu’s arc is out.

Thanks for the ping!

I suspected that the first Yuu's heartbreak wouldn't be anything dramatic, that's why this chapter isn't really disappointing. And we got a confirmation of him not being completely naive and pure-minded, that's also something. But I'm still happy with the decision to make it a spin-off.

 

[middle-the-nerd]

I mean this is not the only thing. Hikari also apparently played the middle man for the girls trying to confess to him which probably started to happen little later after this chapter. Hikari doing that just cemented his stance "she doesn't even see me as a man" (he was right) so his behavior being persistent later on is pretty normal. It would be weird if it didn't stay that way.

Ngl forgot about that- 100% can't blame him there at all but I meant he seemed to have self-esteem/confidence issues regardless of her and I'm not sure if they persisted because of her or it's just how he is

Hikari has never given him any other reason to think otherwise up until to the point of her own confession. She probably thinks she gave him some hints after falling in love with him but for Yuu, it was tuesday because she has always been close to him with no sense of boundaries (like a sister). Most readers love to play the gigachad honest man with their reader pov hindsight but NO ONE would confess after witnessing the way Hikari acted in their youth." Shooting your shot" doesn't work when your life long friendship is on the line. Specially with families being so close to one another. Empathy leaves the building when you try to self insert too much i guess.

Oh I'm not saying he should've confessed his feelings or anything- if anything I COMPLETELY think he's justified in how cautious he was only thing I can fault him on is blatantly lying to her about where he was after the festival

While I think Hikari's reaction to his confession was understandable and I don't blame her given the circumstances she is at the very least partially responsible for why he was so cautious and she should be understanding if Yuu just explains and apologizes for lying once things cool down

 

[middle-the-nerd]

Thanks for the ping!

I suspected that the first Yuu's heartbreak wouldn't be anything dramatic, that's why this chapter isn't really disappointing. And we got a confirmation of him not being completely naive and pure-minded, that's also something. But I'm still happy with the decision to make it a spin-off.

Yeah same kinda what I expected and I think the flashback is doing exactly what it should be and is reaffirming why he feels the way that he does rather well and makes it even more understandable

 

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although if I remember correctly, I think she said that she was just pretty sure she would have turned him down but that's splitting hairs honestly

See though, if what Hikari is seeing in Yuu post Aya is his new found confidence/independence, I wonder if Yuu building the confidence to confess to Hikari would have worked just as well. Like it's such a hypothetical b/c Hikari made that statement based on the Yuu she saw at the time, not a mythical Yuu who tried to confess.

head in the clouds FMC made for self inserts"

She's being the most real here by confronting the elephant in the room & knowingly potentially throwing away her happily ever after and her best friend. That doesn't feel very head in the clouds to me.

but for Yuu, it was tuesday

Yuu during the confession chapter says he wasn't sure about her hints but also was pretty sure that his confession would be successful , so either he somewhat picked up on it or took Aya's snark about him and Hikari dating as confirmation Hikari liked him.

Shooting your shot" doesn't work when your life long friendship is on the line.

Using this as an offshoot of a rant rather than directed at you. I'm really frustrated by the idea that Hikari was simultaneously such a dear friend that he was fully justified in not risking losing her & yet she was not important enough to be justified in being hurt that he didn't trust her w/ the most important thing going on with his life (his then relationship with Aya).

Just to be clear, I am fully sympathetic to him not shooting his shot b/c he valued their friendship, but that's why I also think he was in the wrong for lying. Either their friendship is very important or it isn't, but like it's only important when it justifies Yuu's behavior ain't it.

 

[middle-the-nerd]

See though, if what Hikari is seeing in Yuu post Aya is his new found confidence/independence, I wonder if Yuu building the confidence to confess to Hikari would have worked just as well. Like it's such a hypothetical b/c Hikari made that statement based on the Yuu she saw at the time, not a mythical Yuu who tried to confess.

Hmmmm you make a good point it's definitely possible- tbh I think how he changed was likely inevitable to a degree his relationship with Yami is just happened to be what ended up triggering it

She's being the most real here by confronting the elephant in the room & knowingly potentially throwing away her happily ever after and her best friend. That doesn't feel very head in the clouds to me.


Yuu during the confession chapter says he wasn't sure about her hints but also was pretty sure that his confession would be successful , so either he somewhat picked up on it or took Aya's snark about him and Hikari dating as confirmation Hikari liked him.

I think he definitely picked up on it for sure but still seems to doubt himself alot and assume he's overthinking shit like how he could tell something was wrong with Hikari but ignored which to me seemed like he didn't trust his own instincts

Using this as an offshoot of a rant rather than directed at you. I'm really frustrated by the idea that Hikari was simultaneously such a dear friend that he was fully justified in not risking losing her & yet she was not important enough to be justified in being hurt that he didn't trust her w/ the most important thing going on with his life (his then relationship with Aya).

Just to be clear, I am fully sympathetic to him not shooting his shot b/c he valued their friendship, but that's why I also think he was in the wrong for lying. Either their friendship is very important or it isn't, but like it's only important when it justifies Yuu's behavior ain't it.

It's a situation where both of their feelings are COMPLETELY understandable Yuu absolutely needs to apologize and be open about how he's felt for so long and also of course promise to continue being more open if he's serious about Hikari and if he does I think Hikari should at the very least be understanding of why he acted the way he did

And not in a "oh well that makes it okay then!" Way more of a "it was awful but I understand why" kinda way...if that makes sense lol

 

[story645]

tbh I think how he changed was likely inevitable to a degree

So I have a twin & one of the best things for both of us was going to different high schools & I kinda think the same thing is going on here. Yuu going to a different school means he finally gets to not be in Hikari's shadow and really has to stand on his own. Breaking up w/ Aya pushes that even further.

which to me seemed like he didn't trust his own instincts

Yeah as much as I assume the second heartbreak is failing the exam, I wonder if it'll shake out as a situation where he started thinking that Hikari might like him back-he says in the confession he'd misread her signals in the past - and then she crushed it by like setting him up w/ some girl.

it was awful what you did but I get why" kinda way...if that makes sense lol

Yeah definitely - and like she seems fully capable of that given how she's dealing w/ Aya in this chapter.

 

[fflogschampion]

After this ping I noticed how much I don't care about this story or its characters. The threads are way more interesting than these nothingburger Yuu chapters.

 

[dontprepublish]

This chapter is even further evidence for how lopsided Hikari and Yuu's "friendship" is. They're both interested in each other, yet only one of the two is even bothering to consider the feelings of the other with a cool head. He's not as much of a victim as people are trying to say he is, and this whole blowout could have been greatly diminished if he would have stopped thinking with his dick for just a few seconds and see how obviously now wasn't the time to confess due to something clearly being wrong with his "friend".

This is what gets me about the comments chastising yuu & yami and praising hikari, sanding down two of them to “bad characters bad” while hikari remains the golden child as if her willing cowardice and emotional immaturity do not contribute to this tangle of frustrating threads that form this mess of a plot

Originally I wanted to digress the topic of blame to focus on the reactions to yuu and yami themselves and illustrate how needlessly hostile people seem to be about stupid teenagers doing stupid and shitty things as if that’s suddenly not a core tenant of dramatic romance which this story is clearly leaning towards, or at least attempting to give the inevitable “love rival suddenly shows up, OH NO!” Arc some depth

But even that explanation of said explanation was too verbose and made my tiny brain hurt so instead ill say pretending like yuu is supposed to act with the foresight or integrity of a grown adult as a clearly anxiety prone, self worth issues riddled teenager is fuckin’ silly especially with the two girls in question, hikari is only now trying to step in and situate things between herself, yuu and yami because she now realizes the importance of proper communication, understanding and truthfulness after a lack of it just bit her in the ass