Jiken Jaken! - Vol. 1 Ch. 3 - Characterization Trick!

[Umesan]

"Mold him into someone I like" wow

 

[boldmonkey]

What a riveting development, I'm sitting at the edge of my seat.

 

[LGBG]

That's some Tale of Genji stuff right there. Except their older and kinda knew the motives of each other.

 

[Emerfirek]

Honestly though, w/ such an embarrassing given name like that, I wouldn't want to say it out loud either, even if I knew it.

 

[Hagrido]

No new characters chapter *Has 8 comments*
Reverse trap *Has 23 comments*

:3

 

[LayZzz]

Dude even I was fooled

 

[AmethystLord]

I initially thought she is a woman at first then I duped myself into thinking "Oh, it's that kind of manga with cute trap-like guy". Glad to see that I was wrong ?

 

[Haremmony]

@nfzeta The joke is that the Male MC tried to shift the blame for not noticing her as a girl to the "Characterization Trick", a common narrative trick that relies on audience's assumption, even though we as the "true" audience of this manga weren't really fooled by said trick thanks to the hints. The Male MC is basically just pulling his ass to excuse his density.

 

[Variousletters]

Go for it Tomo!

 

[HakuErdrikII]

Holy shit, I thought it was Tomo for one hot second

 

[DatFcker]

If Tomo was flat...

 

[DjAlexDubCheck]

One of the best credit pages I ever saw

 

[Legion]

Damnit, I was tricked. I was mostly skimming through the conversation. On closer inspection, it should have been much less of a surprise but I'm glad it was.

 

[dotawolfbrother]

I fell for it. Looking back it was obvious.

?

 

[frubam]

Assumed it right away, based on her blushing, but became completely obvious once I saw the long eyelashes for her eyes as well as the author trying to hide her figure in the first few pages.

 

[Ranzo]

I knew it from the moment I saw her. I've been reading nothing but yuri manga for the past year so I won't be fooled by a tomboyish girl like that.

Also, it sucked that she suddenly morphed into one of the worst troupes, the dreaded promised girl.

 

[Boof]

I can't believe I didn't notice those full lips the first time I saw her. Male character never have full lips!

 

[strong120]

based mango

 

[kwendy]

Page 3: oh, it's a girl.
Page 4: it's a girl.
Page 6: definetely a girl.
Page 9: facepalm. It's a girl.

 

[Varler]

The only reason to introduce such an androgynous character like that in this sort of series is to make them turn out to be a girl.