Kare to Kanojo no Sentaku - Vol. 5 Ch. 28 - The End

[dOmOlz]

Honestly, it wasn't a bad end, but it wasn't a good one either. Though i don't think this manga would've benefited from "It ended so bad is good" or "it ended so bad i raged and it lives in my mind rent free" it's kind of sad that with the mid end it will probably just fade from people's memories.

 

[controversial-me]

are you fucking kidding me🧍‍♂️

 

[popo53414]

 

[NhifanHafizh]

so do you have any recommandation of romance TS x Male/female ? i will like to read some now that so many years has passed >.> maybe some new or old ones are translated or something

I don't know much, but for completed manga "Boku girl", "Sekainohate de Aimashou", and "Tensei Shitara Ore ga Heroine de Aitsu ga Yuusha Datta" are nice. For an ongoing one, it's probably just Fabiniku (Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to).

 

[monkey123]

That's it? Where's the seggs?! Good thing I skipped the chapters.

 

[guygarelard]

Thanks a lot for the TL until the end.
A bit underwhelming, but it was a nice ending for what it wanted to achieve, and I can respect the author for it. That being said, if I knew how it was going to end up, I may not have read it in the first place.

 

[kyrex]

Thank you for seeing this one through to the end for us!

It had potential and it started strong, but it just feels like the author got scared and ran away from the cliched storyline, but didn't have anything to replace it with. This ending with the TS Charity company is something that I feel would fit better in a story that more deeply and thoroughly explored the TS syndrome with more characters, showing how their lives changed and the struggles they faced. What we saw was that it caused Haruka some expected problems, but that society is not really reacting that badly.

Maybe if the plot was set at a time when the syndrome was newer and less understood, this story could have been built up with Haruka feeling abandoned or unhelped by society at large, leading to Haruka starting a company after meeting other people she worked hard to help with Tachibana's support and so on. Otherwise this doesn't really work as a payoff. How does Haruka not knowing what she wants to do with her life and her relationships turn into starting a company that hires TS people at a cafe? She worked at a cafe for a little bit, but it's not like we saw her go through some huge drama to get hired because of her condition. If anything, the difficulty of affording a home or apartment was a bigger theme in this manga than that.

 

[erkay]

Not that bad for its genre. Maybe I've just seen too much gender swaps, but I feel like that trope of the mc falling for his best friends has been done to death already.

The biggest problem I had is that they are adults and still act like high schoolers with annoying misunderstandings that really dragged the story down to me. I feel like the most interesting part of the story came from Haruku's backstory which depicts some more heavier gender related topics that you don't see from japanese genderswaps. Really wish this story was about that instead.

Still an overall mixed bag, but I'll be keeping an eye on this authors next work!

 

[mangolover]

binged this in one go and i'm shocked other people were saying this was terrible or an axe or something! it's not the strongest ending, but it feels believable for the characters and the flow of the story.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Julian117]

Hello, first of all: Thank you to the translators for working on this series and reaching the desired destination. We appreciate all your hard work.

Secondly, I want to discuss about this manga and how it went from two childhood friends who haven't seen each other in years slice of life manga to a social justice slice of life manga about society.

This is probably the most realistic present day slice of life manga I have read in a while: the characters are boring, their lives and careers are boring. This is the kind of manga one reads if they want to learn about a Isekai manga's MC before a truck-kun transports them to the Isekai world.

However the lack of detail just shows the ignorance of the manga writer about the actual problems of people with gender dysphoria. What do I mean by that? It's because the author does not even expand on what Haruka's non-profit organization does! People with Gender dysphoria have anxiety just leaving the house. What does Haruka do for them? Cheers them up? Speaks for them to get a job interview?
Replace victims of gender change with "Hikkijomori, NEETs, even migrants" and Haruka's job is a little more relatable to modern problems especially with AI now.

All in all, it's not really a story more like a biography for Haruka.

The person I feel the most pity to is her best friend:

• Dude married a girl he didn't really love;
• He felt attracted to his friend's female body and had to give up because she still liked women;
• Bro's wife is basically a charity worker who leaves him alone to spend his nights drinking at the bar with his other mooching friend whon may or may not end in a same sex relationship with his roommates.

You tell me: which is more likely: "Would Tachibana and a female best friend have stumbled into a hetero relationship or does Tachibana's incel friends have a more likely chance to end up in a same-sed relationship?"

As I said before Tachinana and Haruka are one truck away from an Iskai manga and HONESTLY, I wish the author had the guts to do it.

If he doesn't then I have found the spiritual adaptation if my idea in the manga: "Life if an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout". Read that manga after this and it will feel like at least 2 roommates from this manga are the main characters in that one.

 

[ShiitakeCat]

Thanks for the TL work!

 

[Julian117]

Not that bad for its genre. Maybe I've just seen too much gender swaps, but I feel like that trope of the mc falling for his best friends has been done to death already.

The biggest problem I had is that they are adults and still act like high schoolers with annoying misunderstandings that really dragged the story down to me. I feel like the most interesting part of the story came from Haruku's backstory which depicts some more heavier gender related topics that you don't see from japanese genderswaps. Really wish this story was about that instead.

Still an overall mixed bag, but I'll be keeping an eye on this authors next work!

I feel like the author might have started with the intention of writing a story about how spontaneous gender change would be a very negstive life-challenging event but they got cold feet because they though (correctly, at the time, in my opinion): "If I write negative things about this, I might end up cancelled or too radioactive for companies to hire me again." So they immediately dropped the bulk of the story.

Like imagine that we got a story where Haruka is a top athlete in school and his dream is to one day join the Olympics. Then he contracted this affliction that switched his gender around. Suddenly he can't do as good as the other boys and even though he can go better then all the girls, it is decided that Transgirls can't play in biological girl sports because their bodies are stronger.
Haruka's life would be flipped around.

Let's show best friends and relationships: Say Haruka got another best friend and he had a girlfriend in a serious relationship. They were friends together. Suddenly this gender change happened to Haruka and she wants to just ignore the problem and go back to doing things she did before but society doesn't welcome a boy and a girl acting as familiar as two boys; rumors start to spread that they are both gay and the girlfriend is pressured by her friends to give the guy caught in the middle an ultimatum: Choose between me and Haruka.

Right? OKAY let's change it: imagine Haruka trying to find a job. At first he had more options as a delivery worker or a mail man but he finds that these are male dominated work places and he start getting hit on by people he doesn't know. Eventually it gets out of hand and he ha to quit and basically find a more female related job as a maid or in a caffee. Haruka has to learn how to walk in heels and dresses, put on makeup and talk to people on a unrealistic customer service tone.

All these challenging episodes would have been a much more interesting buildup story than what we got.

 

[Julian117]

Not that bad for its genre. Maybe I've just seen too much gender swaps, but I feel like that trope of the mc falling for his best friends has been done to death already.

The biggest problem I had is that they are adults and still act like high schoolers with annoying misunderstandings that really dragged the story down to me. I feel like the most interesting part of the story came from Haruku's backstory which depicts some more heavier gender related topics that you don't see from japanese genderswaps. Really wish this story was about that instead.

Still an overall mixed bag, but I'll be keeping an eye on this authors next work!

I feel like the author might have started with the intention of writing a story about how spontaneous gender change would be a very negstive life-challenging event but they got cold feet because they though (correctly, at the time, in my opinion): "If I write negative things about this, I might end up cancelled or too radioactive for companies to hire me again." So they immediately dropped the bulk of the story.

Like imagine that we got a story where Haruka is a top athlete in school and his dream is to one day join the Olympics. Then he contracted this affliction that switched his gender around. Suddenly he can't do as good as the other boys and even though he can go better then all the girls, it is decided that Transgirls can't play in biological girl sports because their bodies are stronger.
Haruka's life would be flipped around.

Let's show best friends and relationships: Say Haruka got another best friend and he had a girlfriend in a serious relationship. They were friends together. Suddenly this gender change happened to Haruka and she wants to just ignore the problem and go back to doing things she did before but society doesn't welcome a boy and a girl acting as familiar as two boys; rumors start to spread that they are both gay and the girlfriend is pressured by her friends to give the guy caught in the middle an ultimatum: Choose between me and Haruka.

Right? OKAY let's change it: imagine Haruka trying to find a job. At first he had more options as a delivery worker or a mail man but he finds that these are male dominated work places and he start getting hit on by people he doesn't know. Eventually it gets out of hand and he ha to quit and basically find a more female related job as a maid 8or in a caffee. Haruka has to learn how to walk in heels and dresses, even put in makeup and talk to people on a unrealistic customer service tone.

All these challenging episodes would have been a much more interesting buildup

 

[Eliminateur]

huh that was it?

man that was something

something lower than mid

yeah this ending is horseshit, it's been like that for several chapters, good thing i stopped reading at ch20 because i already sniffed the stupidity of the author, now i've batched to the end and oh boy this was a steaming turd.

I came here expecting some male x ts female romance, but ended up with regular male x female. welp

yep, author lacked the BALLS to do a proper story

the entire Aika rando npc coming out of nowehre to marry him?, absolute trash, this is barely a 3/10 for all the years wasted

 

[Epic_GamerXD]

... That's it? I don't get it... what's EVEN the meaning of this ending.

What SYMBOLISM is there to SYMBOLIZES? If the author really wants to write about genderbent character that doesn't feel fit in society and overcoming that THIS shouldn't be the ending. MAKE THEM MARRY EACHOTHER, PROVE THE WORLD that IT'S OKAY, IT'S FINE AND WONDERFUL.

omg I am crashing out RAHHHH

 

[Richman]

So disappointing imo. I started reading because I wanted to see romance between the two protagonists, but ever since I realized that was never happening, I was extremely disinterested in continuing. Well, it's finished now so... I can say goodbye to the story.

 

[rotationplus]

I'm not crying you are.


wait a sec. everyone here hated this wtf.

turns out most commenters who read gender benders aren't doing it for the gender, but for romance about it.

i find it incredibly realistic that the best friends were platonic only. the trope where a guy bent to a girl suddenly becomes attracted to a Best guy friend is very unrealistic, even if its accepted as the norm everywhere else in the genre.

 

[spiffinn]

Thanks for all the hard work scanlating this series!

 

[Pumpki]

Thank you for wrapping this up & all the work! Stumbled upon this manga today and binged thru it.

It made sense why the author did what they did, and it's rarer still to read one of these genres to have it not end up in a romance. Definitely gives a more realistic feeling.

Thanks again for the translations!