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

[Litreara]

I honestly can't believe either girl actually likes him. What's to like?

That’s the thing I don’t get either… The more we see of Yuu, the more it feels like there’s really nothing to like about him. Hikari keeps saying he’s kind, but to me, he just seems diffident.

 

[Mangamoz]

@Litreara @HellJester
Yeah chap 4 of the Yuu novel spin-off isn't changing my theory that Maruto actually hates his own main character and is purposely screwing him over Reiji to Kazuya style.

 

[HellJester]

I was honestly excited to be getting chapters dedicated to Yuu's POV. I kept saying we needed to see his side of things to make accurate judgment calls.

To be honest, I think we could have left these Yuu POV chapters out and still been on the same page. Everything revealed is just more dumb Yuu bullshit where he doesn't try to make an attempt to maybe do something or anything that would further his relationship with Hikari. I mean let's break it down:

Yuu Chapter 1: He meets Hikari for the first time in 1st grade and she sticks up for him in class when they made fun of his chicken pox spots. He starts to look up to her. What does he do in this chapter except exist? NOTHING.

Yuu Chapter 2: His admiration for Hikari has turned into love by 5th grade. His friend writes a fake love letter to Hikari and signs Yuu's name on it. Yuu grumbles about it but doesn't really do anything about the letter because this is right up his alley - if Hikari believes it then he's able to have her fall into his lap without having to actually do anything. Hikari instantly figures out Yuu didn't write it (BECAUSE YUU DOESN'T DO ANYTHING SO THERE'S NO WAY HE COULD HAVE WRITTEN IT). Yuu's heart is "broken" because Hikari didn't once think the letter could have been legit. Oh poor Yuu, his method of being a slug laying on the side of the road hoping for rain didn't pan out....oh the humanity. This little dumbass is thinking Hikari never could have imagined the possibility of him liking her and I'm sitting here screaming that she's not psychic....like wtf has Yuu done to make Hikari think he's anything more than a friend?!

Yuu Chapter 3: Yuu finds out Hikari's going to a hard to get into high school. He has maybe 4 months to start studying to get in so it's already next to impossible. He's also finding out that it's been her choice of school all along which begs the question: "How close are you two as friends if you don't even know this about her?" She's been planning this for years and you're just finding this out now? After it's already been established that Hikari hangs out as his house multiple times a week and is practically at Yuu's house more than her own. How the hell does Yuu not know about this? Again, it seems like he doesn't do anything (like ask questions) and just hopes information falls into his lap. I love how Yuu says "She hadn't noticed even a sliver of my feelings." Bitch you never reveal anything about yourself. He's like a blank wall.

Yuu Chapter 4: After speaking to a girl for 20 minutes she falls out of the sky and right onto his dick. IT'S MAGIC Y'ALL...MAGIC EXISTS IN THIS WORLD. It's the most perfect relationship that Yuu could have ever imagined! What Yuu brings to the table: breathing...awkwardness...dumbassery. What Yami brings to the table...teasing...sex...apparently she smells good? Author glosses over the entire relationship - we don't get any of Yuu's thoughts on topics such as "man I think Yami has a bad home life - what's that about?", "how come I don't know where Yami lives?", "why doesn't Yami go to school anymore". Instead, 20 minutes after they fuck (so like what 40 minutes into their entire "relationship") he's all "are we in a relationship now?" and ignores Yami talking about her being a convenient woman for him and pretty much all signs of this being a whim.

Fuck it, I don't want to do this anymore.

 

[Mangamoz]

That’s the thing I don’t get either… The more we see of Yuu, the more it feels like there’s really nothing to like about him. Hikari keeps saying he’s kind, but to me, he just seems diffident.

That's a big problem I see in a lot of these romance stories, sometimes I go "WHAT the fuck do they see in him? Does he sweat brainwashing aphrodisiac or something?"

 

[HellJester]

Oh wait - list of things mentioned in the main story that would have benefitted from Yuu's POV but WERE NEVER MENTIONED OR ADDRESSED BY THE AUTHOR:

1. Other girls somehow, inexplicably, like Yuu and ask Hikari to be the middleman. Yuu is "heartbroken" that Hikari keeps trying to hook him up with other girls. No insight on this.

2. Various scenes of Yami and Yuu's 6 month relationship - no insights into this. We get Yuu post-coitus their first time and then Yuu looking at his phone about the fucking fireworks and that's it. Wtf is the point.

3. Is there going to be a chapter 5 where we get Yuu's POV from the moment Hikari starts liking him? IS THERE A POINT?! PROBABLY NOT.

I just want to add that I cannot believe that Yuu's POV concerning his relationship with Yami (one of the main lynchpins of this manga) briefly covered some post-coitus talk from their first time (so before their relationship ever took off) and then jumped forward to when it ended. Like wtf guys. Seriously, someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old with a traumatic brain injury. Make this make sense.

 

[HellJester]

I hate to say this because I think the author of Aitsu no Kanojo aka His/Someone's Girlfriend is dog shit (at least concerning this manga - I haven't read their other more light-hearted offerings so they may just be dog shit at drama/ntr) but Maruto is starting to encroach upon this domain at least in terms of the Yuu side chapters.

 

[Mrson]

I was honestly excited to be getting chapters dedicated to Yuu's POV. I kept saying we needed to see his side of things to make accurate judgment calls.

am.. bro, I've been following this manga for a while and I think that the few times I've seen you commenting on the chapters you're throwing shit at yuu and aya, I mean I don't know at what point you defended or gave yuu the benefit of the doubt

 

[story645]

NoI honestly can't believe either girl actually likes him. What's to like?

Aya seems to like him for the good traits he picked up from Hikari (the bright innocence) & Hikari seems to like him for the bad traits he picked up from Aya (the emotional walls).

probably don't know what it feels like to be rewarded" which makes more sense since it would basically be him saying he doesn't know what it really feels like to have his feelings properly reciprocated which makes falling in love not worth it in his mind

I should not do diction analysis on chatGPT but it's the "rewarded" that's bothering me and also is what I'm not sure is a bad translation since Yuu's views on relationships have that kinda black white it's a success or failure, feelings are rewarded or not kinda feel. It ends up feeling like the girl on the other side is interchangeable, which is more or less what happens.

Wtf is the point..

Confirm that he made an attempt to find Aya but was so afraid of Hikari finding out about this that he hid (really showing devotion to Aya there 🤦‍♀️) & that he apparently loved Aya but didn't want to risk their convenient situationship enough to potentially scare her off by telling her or trying to clarify where they stood.

 

[Mrson]

That's a big problem I see in a lot of these romance stories, sometimes I go "WHAT the fuck do they see in him? Does he sweat brainwashing aphrodisiac or something?"

From what I see, it also happens in real life. You see some girls going out with guys who have nothing to do with them and you don't see the good side, but in their perspective, they see something that you don't.
So...screw it, lol.

 

[Mangamoz]

am.. bro, I've been following this manga for a while and I think that the few times I've seen you commenting on the chapters you're throwing shit at yuu and aya, I mean I don't know at what point you defended or gave yuu the benefit of the doubt

Hard NOT to throw shit on them when the author himself does it too. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Catbowl]

Jesus Christ I'm hating this Yuu dumbass more and more. I just can't with this reveal of his inner thoughts.

Speaks to Yami for all of 20 minutes before jumping in bed with her and instantly falls in love. This is after his wet fart effort of trying to get into Hikari's school after spending years of doing jack shit to get her to notice him. The one opportunity he did have he chickened out - should have said "yeah I didn't write that letter but I do have feelings for you." Decided to just pine for Hikari and hope that she magically fell into his lap without him doing anything.

I mean his relationship with Yami is exactly what he wanted with Hikari. He did absolutely jack shit and a girl magically fell into his lap. And then he pretty much did jack shit during their "relationship" and acted shocked when she ghosted him. Now he's all "I'll never love again". Bitch you never really seemed to be in love with either girl. You just coast through life and hope something happens to you.

Now we're going to potentially see Yuu end up with one of them? Hell no, he's done nothing to deserve this. I honestly can't believe either girl actually likes him. What's to like?

I don't think he did anything wrong while he was Yami's boyfriend, though. He was always caring and supportive, and asked her to be honest with him about her family troubles. She kept him in the dark about it, and then dumped him for complex guilt reasons he had no way of knowing. His one wrong answer came from never imagining moving out at age, uh, 15-16? Which I find understandable.

 

[HellJester]

am.. bro, I've been following this manga for a while and I think that the few times I've seen you commenting on the chapters you're throwing shit at yuu and aya, I mean I don't know at what point you defended or gave yuu the benefit of the doubt

I'm too lazy to go back and find specifics but there was a point in time where I came to Yuu's defense and said something like "we see everything that Hikari and Yami are thinking but nothing of Yuu, we should wait to judge him until we have more information." But we have information now and the dude is just a bunch of nothing. I can't defend him anymore.

 

[Litreara]

I'm too lazy to go back and find specifics but there was a point in time where I came to Yuu's defense and said something like "we see everything that Hikari and Yami are thinking but nothing of Yuu, we should wait to judge him until we have more information." But we have information now and the dude is just a bunch of nothing. I can't defend him anymore.

I can confirm that. While I’ve always been a 'Yuu hater,' I remember HellJester giving Yuu the benefit of the doubt.

 

[middle-the-nerd]

I should not do diction analysis on chatGPT but it's the "rewarded" that's bothering me and also is what I'm not sure is a bad translation since Yuu's views on relationships have that kinda black white it's a success or failure, feelings are rewarded or not kinda feel. It ends up feeling like the girl on the other side is interchangeable, which is more or less what happens.

I think "rewarded" seems to not be a good translation it seems "reciprocated" given the context is more accurate- if at the time he's feeling like love is only hurting him in the end and even after Yami who he thought was Reciprocating his feelings only to completely ghosts him and he can't even understand what he did wrong I can see why he feels the way he does it's the mentality of "if love only ends in getting hurt why should I bother?" Not "if I love someone I deserve to be rewarded for it"

 

[middle-the-nerd]

That’s the thing I don’t get either… The more we see of Yuu, the more it feels like there’s really nothing to like about him. Hikari keeps saying he’s kind, but to me, he just seems diffident.

Tbf only time we've ever seen his POV is litterally when he's at his lowest points lol either it's him upset because he's self concussion and has chicken pox or he just got rejected or feeling like he's not good enough because he couldn't get into the school he wanted ect

Idk the last time we've seen him at a time he's not upset, sad, stressed ect about SOMETHING

Honestly series has barely even tried showing his good aspects or why they like him really wish we would've gotten more from his POV of what he's just normally like

 

[story645]

Personally I still don't see him getting with Yami again at least not with what we're shown currently

Uch, as bad as Yuu is coming across in these chapters, I actually want to see his POV post Aya's crash out. Like there's a lot of stuff here that he could have responded to her w/, but he held back - would wanna know if it's cause he's over her or cause he doesn't want to risk her rejecting him. Given what we've seen so far, I find the latter super plausible, especially given he tells Hikari he's confessing in large part cause he has more confidence that Hikari will say yes.

I don't think he did anything wrong while he was Yami's boyfriend, though

Eh, I think it's more complicated than that. (Almost?) everything Yami yells at him during her crash out is something she passively aggressively said to him while dating. Is it his fault he's not a mind reader? Meh, but the narrative also makes it seem like he was kinda picking up on it but didn't want to rock the boat by having it out w/ Aya.

 

[Litreara]

Tbf only time we've ever seen his POV is litterally when he's at his lowest points lol either it's him upset because he's self concussion and has chicken pox or he just got rejected or feeling like he's not good enough because he couldn't get into the school he wanted ect

Idk the last time we've seen him at a time he's not upset, sad, stressed ect about SOMETHING

Honestly series has barely even tried showing his good aspects or why they like him really wish we would've gotten more from his POV of what he's just normally like

Yeah, but I mean… that’s the Yuu we got, and that’s the Yuu Maruto chose to show us. We can only work with what we’ve been given, and what we’ve got is a Yuu who kinda sucks.

 

[story645]

Seriously, someone explain this to me like I'm a 5 year old with a traumatic brain injury.

I think Maruto may be trying to emphasize that their relationship was stuck in the same pattern from the get: it's all the same beats we see in most of their chapters - Aya is passively aggressively communicating insecurity & masking by playing coquette, it kinda flies over Yuu's head b/c he wants to believe everything is wonderful and amazing and great, their communication is trash, & Yuu tries but not all that hard.

 

[BlackHoxton]

Man this series has grown on me the past year, I get why people hate Yuu but I do enjoy the messy parts of this series

Also I want to know who'll win the Yuu bowl in the end or if we're getting a loner ending.

Thanks for the ping Literara

 

[BlackHoxton]

Yuu tries but not all that hard.

Trust me bro, 30 chapters from now he'll grab Yami's hand to stop her from killing her mom and get her to repent and improve as a person. He'll know how she feels because he was also a loser and they'll both be redeemed. inshallah.