Itoko no Ko - Vol. 2 Ch. 12 - My Cousin's First Time With a Smartphone?

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Don't take it at face value. The old man either didn't mention it because he didn't want to deal with Nozomu's protests (whining) or he didn't know how to approach the subject in a timely manner, so he kept postponing talking about it. Not much of a difference, really, aside from the attitude difference. Irresponsible, yes, but I could see it happening in real life these days.
Doesn't excuse the fact that's its really shitty and disgusting. If he kept postponing, that's actually even worse. To send your kid away on an expected vacation far away from home, then, near the end of it, reveal to him that he's not going back, without ever discussing it with him is just despicable. "Oh hey, your entire life and all the friends you had? Yeah, you dont get to go back to that. Hope you havent spent all this time excited to do so." That's the kind of shit that could lead to your kid cutting you out of their life.
 
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Doesn't excuse the fact that's its really shitty and disgusting. If he kept postponing, that's actually even worse. To send your kid away on an expected vacation far away from home, then, near the end of it, reveal to him that he's not going back, without ever discussing it with him is just despicable. "Oh hey, your entire life and all the friends you had? Yeah, you dont get to go back to that. Hope you havent spent all this time excited to do so." That's the kind of shit that could lead to your kid cutting you out of their life.
I don't know about no-contacting them, but "Yeah, your friends who you expected to see when you got back? If you didn't somehow have the foresight to get their contact info, you'll probably never see them again. And as far as they'll ever know, you chose to vanish without telling them." is super-shitty.
 
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NO DON'T LET HER GET INTO INTERNET!! SHE WILL LEARN TRUE MEANING OF INCEST AND THEN SHE START LIKING INCEST MANGA LIKE "MY COUSIN" AND THEN ANIME INCECT TO HENTA INCESTI!!
You would have to pry it over my dead hand before I'll think of lending mine's to anyone...
 
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Both the premise and the art of this manga are rather simple, and yet, It's one of the best romcoms I've seen as of late, the interactions between the two main characters are far more engaging than most of all the other romance mangas I've read, but I can't even point my finger as to why that is.
Feet. The answer is feet.
 
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Thank goodness Japan allows first cousins. They really act like a couple already. XD
 
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Right after announcing the official twitter for the series? Doubtful. Maybe he just didn't feel like dealing with social media anymore. Maybe he got hacked. Who knows~

I'm inclined to suspect more pragmatic reasons. Author might have been told to get rid of it if he wanted to continue the serialization, or as a condition of getting a different serialization. Might not even be related to this series exactly. The industry is a lot more accepting of h-doujin artists going mainstream with sfw manga than it used to be, but maybe some of the stuff this guy posted crossed a line somewhere.
 
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I wonder what is the dad endgame though?
It's sort of implied that for reasons unknown Nozomu spend his days alone at home, so far we know that his sister stay in the dorm so maybe his dad works abroad or rarely stay at home because of his works. It's kinda implied as well that Nozomu might be lonely and depressed that his dad thought Sou-chan would be a good influence. Still probably need to ask Nozomu opinion first though.
 
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I can vouch for him that pop-up ads are terrible. I may be bad, but I'm not THAT bad.
Indeed.

Pop-up ads sometimes seem to be an offshoot of corporate media's religion of tickling our ego to get us to be good little serfs who blame each other for the problems their bosses cause.

Except in this case, they make us feel better about ourselves by showing us something that (if it doesn't titillate us) makes us think "Ewww! At least I'm better than that!" 🥴
 
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His dad only has a flimsy excuse to show for not telling him. But it could've also been deliberate. Maybe he wanted to avoid his son attempting to convince/plead with him not to send him to school in the countryside, so he sneakily set it all up behind the scenes to get his way with minimal protests from Nozomu and then conveniently told him once there's zero chance he's staying in Tokyo. I don't think Nozomu even got a chance to tell any of his friends so it's understandable he was pissed about it.

I wanna see him turn the tables on Sou's teasing once in a while. Like instead of denying it hard he proudly owns up to lewd stuff on his phone and tease her if she's brave enough to continue fiddling with his phone. Although that would probably get him reported to the dads, lol.
 
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Don't take it at face value. The old man either didn't mention it because he didn't want to deal with Nozomu's protests (whining) or he didn't know how to approach the subject in a timely manner, so he kept postponing talking about it. Not much of a difference, really, aside from the attitude difference. Irresponsible, yes, but I could see it happening in real life these days.
His dad only has a flimsy excuse to show for not telling him. But it could've also been deliberate. Maybe he wanted to avoid his son attempting to convince/plead with him not to send him to school in the countryside, so he sneakily set it all up behind the scenes to get his way with minimal protests from Nozomu and then conveniently told him once there's zero chance he's staying in Tokyo. I don't think Nozomu even got a chance to tell any of his friends so it's understandable he was pissed about it.
Oh, his dad is definitely not telling Nozomu intentionally.
Ch 10.5 says that he never asked his son what he wanted. Heck, the dad himself also think that Nozomu would have preferred living alone in Tokyo.
He was too busy to tell his son, but apparently not busy enough to tell his daughter who lives in a dorm?
Yeah, he didn't tell him because he just didn't want to hear his son's opinion.

Bro, his dad should be doing a lot more than bowing his head. "Too busy with work," bullshit. A half hour phone call to discuss is all it should take. Dude should figuratively drag his father across the dirt for uprooting his life without warning.
Doesn't excuse the fact that's its really shitty and disgusting. If he kept postponing, that's actually even worse. To send your kid away on an expected vacation far away from home, then, near the end of it, reveal to him that he's not going back, without ever discussing it with hhad is just despicable. "Oh hey, your entire life and all the friends you had? Yeah, you dont get to go back to that. Hope you havent spent all this time excited to do so." That's the kind of shit that could lead to your kid cutting you out of their life.
Fucking exactly.
I don't care what his goal is, but the way he did it was so trashy. Trashy parent who is selfish and can't respect his kid.
And yet he had the gall to speak about negligence.
Truly shitty dad.
 
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to be honest the whole thing about algorithms and how people just accuse you of "you look them up before so they show you more" like it's not that simple, they could also set it so this kind of stuff would target your personal data like gender and ages like when the fuck did i search for tenga
 

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