Jinsei Gyakuten - Uwaki sare, Enzai wo Kiserareta Ore ga, Gakuen Ichi no Bishoujo ni Natsukareru - Ch. 4

[shinobi_2025]

Yup looks like Miyuki is finally getting some redemption. But i'm glad Kondo dug his own grave even deeper... What an idiot

Dude,

Spoiler

Miyuki already confessed to the police while she was interrogated in the previous chapters, she already had redemption arc but her situation is still the same.

 

[RealerBanana]

Same, out of everyone who wronged Eiji, she was the only one who never had any malice for him from the point where he was falsely accused of bullying (yes she let Kondo take a picture of her bruise and naively believed he wouldn't misuse it to unjustly destroy Eiji's reputation, but she was just too stupid, but that doesn't mean she had any hate for Eiji.

Spoiler: Spoiler for Miyuki's struggles later on and her feelings towards Eiji

In fact, it's the opposite, she still loved him in her heart and held him more dearly than Kondo (even though she's a disloyal woman whose body's desires don't match what her heart wants. Her heart wants Eiji but due to the circumstances she herself created when she allowed herself to be seduced and opened her legs for Kondo, her current position is that of a woman who takes the easy way out of ostracization she experiences by allowing that same fucker who ruined her life to continue to take advantage of her body and use her as a cumrag, all because she wants to drown her pain in the pleasure and intimacy of sex instead of facing the consequences with more integrity and refusing to repeat her earlier mistakes and actually acting as a woman of character going forward).

But still, she's the only one out of the antagonists in this manga who continues to feel all the guilt without making excuses to herself for how badly she fucked up. She knows she had an absolute sweetheart of a man in Eiji by her side, and she knows how stupid, dumb, and easy/slutty of a girl she was for choosing that asshole Kondo over him, and allowing him to take all of her firsts, which she acknowledges should've been reserved for Eiji and no one else. She continually curses, verbally abuses, and insults herself for her mistakes, figuratively stabbing herself in the gut over and over again, alone in the darkness of her home. Hell, even when she could no longer stand her own tormented guilt, and wanted to jump from the school rooftop to kill herself, wanting to deserve the same circumstances that corner Eiji because of how she betrayed him by her own actions, literally everyone (Ai, the teachers, etc) guilt trip her even more by saying that she doesn't deserve to take the easy way out and hurt Eiji even more with her death. Even the talks about what she can do to make up for her mistakes aren't even given any focus really, the narrative treats her like the devil of all earth who simply can never be redeemed.

This series as a whole especially seems to say that redemption isn't possible at all, not only for the real bad guys with malice (Kondo, etc, which I'd agree with), but also for those who were tricked by them into falling in with them, even if it was due to their own navietè (Miyuki). Even after her attempted suicide, she's not really given any proper support or counseling. At some point, my wish to see her experience some pain at seeing the man she loved and betrayed, Eiji, achieve happiness in the arms of another girl who was as pretty/prettier than her was overshadowed by my wish for her to finally be given a break, and some much needed, proper consolation, and maybe even a little bit of affection (from someone like Eiji's mom or her own mom), seeing as she'd already suffered enough at that point. I wouldn't have been opposed to seeing Eiji's mom finally forgiving her to some extent, if nothing else then for the sake of Miyuki's own safety/mental heath, by virtue of Miyuki having been a sort of daughter figure to Eiji's mom for all these years and watching her grow up like her own daughter alongside Eiji, but instead of something even a fraction of merciful as that, she's basically hated and abandoned at every point with no path laid forward for redemption.

Do you think the cheating felt forced in this story and she was simply a victim of the authors ideas? Like I get there are women like this but knowing Myuki’ s feelings and the substance of their 10 years I can’t help but doubt the writing.

 

[McGayveR80]

Firstly im reading this 4:20 am here, eating pistachio, and thinking what f--king Western style restaurant sell Omurice and Curry cutlet combo,where the f is western? Assuming this takes place in Tokyo, so western is Kyoto???

And this is my train of thought through the last two chapters. I just wanted to share it with you guys:

 

[AnimuVsMango]

The order of events is a little unclear, but with presumption, his mother did a very good job maintaining normalcy after receiving that phone call.

 

[AnimuVsMango]

The story is developing unrealistically way too fast, I mean they literally just met and practically solved already each other's psychological problems with barely any interaction with each other...

Yeah, but that's how stories go nowadays to deal with the industry and the competition. Probably a carryover from web novels and the such. Honestly, I struggled with a similar decision for ages even after talking to someone about it, and honestly after reversing my decision, I regret it.

Firstly im reading this 4:20 am here, eating pistachio, and thinking what f--king Western style restaurant sell Omurice and Curry cutlet combo,where the f is western? Assuming this takes place in Tokyo, so western is Kyoto???

And this is my train of thought through the last two chapters. I just wanted to share it with you guys:

"Western" food in Japan includes anything western-inspired. Basically, if it wasn't eaten in Japan before Commodore Perry, it's "Western" food.

 

[McGayveR80]

"Western" food in Japan includes anything western-inspired. Basically, if it wasn't eaten in Japan before Commodore Perry, it's "Western" food.

Really? Interesting...

 

[uHikari]

WN 263 spoilers:

Spoiler

Going to be interesting to see if people still think Miyuki should just continue to suffer when she is trying to at least redeem herself by telling the truth in court. Kondo feels like a failed character with his worthless struggles and terrible attitude even in front of the judge.

 

[wallsg]

Spoiler

there is a teacher who supported Miyubitch without evidence so i think thats her

Because not talking about things ALWAYS ends up for the best.

 

[wallsg]

Which is a better read, the WN or the LN?

 

[AnimuVsMango]

Really? Interesting...

Yeah, tldr if it's not washoku, it's yoshoku (or chuukaryouri).

Washoku is traditional "japanese food" that you would normally think of, like sushi and onigiri and miso and the such.

Then there's chuukaryouri, which is japanized Chinese food, which they consider foreign but Chinese people would say it's different from their own food and a lot of foreigners would call Japanese. So that's stuff like ramen, chahan, gyoza, nikuman, etc. (Btw, Chinese food from China is chuugokuryouri.) Famously, everyone thinks ramen is Japanese but the Japanese.

Anything else is yoshoku, or western food, which includes interesting things like bread and milk and croquettes and Japanese curry and the ubiquitous Japanese "cheese" of unknown provenance.

 

[McGayveR80]

Yeah, tldr if it's not washoku, it's yoshoku (or chuukaryouri).

Washoku is traditional "japanese food" that you would normally think of, like sushi and onigiri and miso and the such.

Then there's chuukaryouri, which is japanized Chinese food, which they consider foreign but Chinese people would say it's different from their own food and a lot of foreigners would call Japanese. So that's stuff like ramen, chahan, gyoza, nikuman, etc. (Btw, Chinese food from China is chuugokuryouri.) Famously, everyone thinks ramen is Japanese but the Japanese.

Anything else is yoshoku, or western food, which includes interesting things like bread and milk and croquettes and Japanese curry and the ubiquitous Japanese "cheese" of unknown provenance.

Still weird Thank you for explanation...
When you think about Asian food, all big three have the same thing with different names, sushi-kimbap or onigiri, so thinking about their origin and conclude is hard. When you think about history what you said ramen, gyoza etc makes sense, since dough related food originated in mainland far Asia.
The Western thing is when you listed bread, milk, Japanese curry etc, it made sense.
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Since you added croquettes I have to ask karaage or tonkatsu etc those are also count as Western, right? Just curious

 

[broodstar]

This just shows you how brittle life of manipulators are. All you need to destroy them is to reveal all their lies. In this particular chapter, we see how the mastermind has no compassion for even his accomplices, which will probably lead to their world imploding from within.

 

[AnimuVsMango]

Still weird Thank you for explanation...
When you think about Asian food, all big three have the same thing with different names, sushi-kimbap or onigiri, so thinking about their origin and conclude is hard. When you think about history what you said ramen, gyoza etc makes sense, since dough related food originated in mainland far Asia.
The Western thing is when you listed bread, milk, Japanese curry etc, it made sense.
.
Since you added croquettes I have to ask karaage or tonkatsu etc those are also count as Western, right? Just curious

That's a really good question, and I'm not 100% sure. Doing a quick wikipedia search shows that tonkatsu/gyuukatsu is definitely yoshoku, as apparently katsu is a shortening of katsuretsu, which is a bastardization of cutlet somehow. Karaage I'm less sure of, the name can be written in kanji, and apparently the technique has been around for a few centuries, but chicken karaage only got popular in the last hundred years or so and was described as "Chinese food". I know Japan has other agemono (fried food), like aburaage (the fried tofu on kitsune udon) and satsuma-age (the fishcakes in udon), and the use of potato starch is something they would've had access to in the past, but I don't know if it's a shared tradition.

An interesting side note is, by some quirk of fate curry got imported back to the UK as katsu. So the British got curry spice from India, had it on their ships while in Japan, then the Japanese started serving it with rice and tonkatsu, which the British started eating and not knowing what it meant, thought "tonkatsu curry" was the type of curry, and so started calling anything with curry "katsu". So in Japan, katsu sauce is the brown sauce that goes on tonkatsu, and in the UK, katsu sauce is just japanese curry.

 

[unseenchaos]

I genuinely hope this is the type of story that serves justice where it is due in the end, but I doubt the resolution will be clean. Bracing myself for another painful chapter soon…