Kanojo to Kare no Kankei ~Heibon na Hayakawa-san to Heibon na Miura-kun no Hibon na Kankei~ - Vol. 4 Ch. 18 - The Last Day

[Wandayy]

Good story. Peak, if I must. Dumbass girl overthinking things. But it all gonna resolve in a couple chapters ahead, I'm sure..

 

[CommanderYammarkX6]

Obligatory misunderstanding arc. I do hope that the girl is the one going to fix this.

 

[TeH_Venom]

Why is she suddenly retarded 😭

Poor dude is almost begging for her to just say what's the damn problem, but noo, let's just throw away the whole manga's worth of them proper talking through things.

After reading the raws, I'll let this one marinate until:

Spoiler

Chapter 21 ~ 22. On Ch. 20 it still isn't resolved, but she seems to have snapped awake from this stupidity spell and decides to talk to MC again. Awful interlude.

 

[Echion]

oh for fuck's sake. THIS WAS THE MOMENT TO SAY SOMETHING. not using this perfect setup for the resolution and instead making it even worse actually pisses me off, good lord.

absolutely ridiculous fumble of what started out as such a cute story. I hope the author steps on a lego piece.

 

[Ank]

psycho bitch hahahahha
all this is happening in her head

 

[Crystalball]

lmao, this is hilarious. Just one of those generic "Japanese language is contextual" dramatic arcs.

 

[Visulth]

psycho bitch hahahahha
all this is happening in her head

Kaho rn:

The other thing that's so stupid about this is that this miscommunication only works in text format with no tone. She would've heard him being warm and smiling vs say, being annoyed or irritated like she's imagining.

 

[havelmom]

thy're both on fent

 

[shadowsito]

"I heard you say that you don't know what to do with me, what do you mean by that?"

Is it too hard to ask that!?

 

[zbek]

Unbelievably stupid.

I know the internet is full of hyperbole but this might actually be a strong contender for the worst nosedive in quality in a romance manga.

How do you set up such a communication disaster willingly? What they have to convey isn't even complicated, but it's like the author tourned both of them into aliens who don't understand human interactions. Or that some sort of witch put out a curse on them that causes their conversation to go worst possible way imaginable.

It gets worse each page, it's kind of fascinating really.

I certainly can't blame the translation team for taking this long. I would have a very hard time finding the motivation to work on this if that were me?

It seems that there are two more chapters sor far, can anyone just spoil if this shitshow is still going?

by the looks of it they continue the stupid not talking and dealing with it properly and then she gets caught up with that guy we saw earlier with black hair and glasses who goes ahead and asks her out, with which she spends a solid 2 chapters pondering over just to finally turn him down and hopefully make a move for our MC

edit: i actually went a read it instead of skimming and its as i said but during the confession she realizes she always noticing him that she was a coward running away so its likely we will get back to the floof in chapter 21

 

[Bonzalez]

The way I see it -

She thought everything was great and they could communicate just fine, right up until she overheard half a conversation that, to her, made it sound like everything between them up to then had been a farce and simply him "putting up with her".

Suddenly, she's in her own head about every conversation, every interaction, whether any of it actually was real or honest on his part, and she overthought it so much that the normally easy communication between them faltered because she could no longer trust his words to her.

And when she pulls back, and he doesn't chase, and then he (in her eyes) blows off their last big date on Christmas, she becomes convinced that what she heard was indeed the whole of the truth of his thoughts on their relationship.

And when she asks if there's anything he wants to say, and he says there isn't...she concludes that she was correct; that all their communication was easy before, but now that real thoughts and feelings are on the table, suddenly he's closed off--because he doesn't actually love her.

And so to protect herself, she breaks it off at the end here, rather than "being the one to be rejected". Better to attack than to receive, type thing, for the semblance of control and agency.

It's not perfect, and it's not wholesome--but given how their relationship started, it makes sense. Their interactions were all somewhat surface-level, in a sense, up until now--all derived off the guise of a (fake) relationship, and never off a solid foundation of honest feelings.

They needed to have this conversation eventually, but they both ended up in their own head. and even that sort of makes sense: first relationship for them, suddenly being suspicious it was all actually fake with no authentic emotional buy-in.

I don't see it ending here for them, but they'll likely need outside help now, because I don't see him as the type to actually run after her and try to fix things. And she is clearly convinced she's got the right of it as things pertain to what their relationship was really all about.

I am excited to see what the author does to put them in the same room to talk.

Thats what happened, but the fact that throughout such an emotionally wrought interaction, she makes literally no mention of the overheard conversation is ridiculously contrived. It's so contrived it makes her feel less human

 

[EnFiveFour]

They are highschoolers in their first relationship during the last day of their "trial period", a date marked as a romantic event in their society, so their anxiety is up to eleven and going up by the minute. Of course they can't think rationally and will overthink, negate reality and act irrationally!
What they need is cool down and, after a day or two, have a talk.
Thank you for the translation!

 

[MarMar37]

Sure, you can rationalize the way they're acting in the story, but that doesn't still mean it's not horrible execution of a terrible trope.

 

[BigDoggo]

 

[Sunji27]

Itai on the kokoro

 

[So-chan]

This is some of the dumbest shit I've read this year.

Jap authors really can't write a good romcom to save their life without including at least one of these:

• Pointless "fake dating"/"fake engagement" to milk not-real-feelings drama.
• Pointless third wheel girl to milk love triangle drama.
• Pointless miscommunication to milk breakup drama.
• Pointless interrupted confession to mlik endless fountain of drama.

Fuck off japs. I'm mostly done with jap romcoms. I've gradually clicked "dropped" on most titles I ever followed and I'm not adding new ones.

 

[Boneless_Pizza_69]

gghghhhhhrrr.. whyyy brooo ?? This chapter seriously got me so frustrated, azzzz. The fuck is wrong with these two?

thank you for translation

They're highschoolers. IT IS INCREDIBLY FRUSTRATING But realistic.

 

[Boneless_Pizza_69]

Him: I don't want to break up
Her: He wants to break up

WTF is going on here?

Emotions are louder than words. Unfortunatly.

 

[Boneless_Pizza_69]

I guess i'm the only one who thinks this is a very wel made chapter. I hate it but that doesn't make it bad. This made me so frustrated at the charecters and I think that was the authors intent which makes believe this is the best chapter yet.