Kawaii Koi wa Kikazaranai - Ch. 36 - I Was Confessed to by the Person I Like, but Now I Can’t Contact Them
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Why are Mangakas still using the broken phone plot device? Are you really trying to make me believe that in 2026 this Japanese teenager is both not using Line and doesn’t have his contacts cloud synced?
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Not to mention no social media account to contact her and let her know his phone's busted
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I had a friend who, back before everything was in the cloud, met a guy a party hit it off really well, then he ghosted her. She was bummed about it, and then moved on.
Then about a month later he calls her from a new number.
Had her number save in phone. Fumbled phone on a bridge in to a river. He was a certified scuba diver. Took time off work to dive the river with a friend to hunt for phone. Found it after 3 days. Took to repair shop. Completely hosed. Proceeds to interrogate everyone in his friend group about the party. Eventually tracks her down. End up getting married a couple years later.
Then about a month later he calls her from a new number.
Had her number save in phone. Fumbled phone on a bridge in to a river. He was a certified scuba diver. Took time off work to dive the river with a friend to hunt for phone. Found it after 3 days. Took to repair shop. Completely hosed. Proceeds to interrogate everyone in his friend group about the party. Eventually tracks her down. End up getting married a couple years later.
What a stupid plot. Even SIM card can be swapped to the new phone and eSIM is more prevalent than ever.
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Is it worth repairing an old phone if it's so bad it takes a week to do it? This probably isn't about paying a specialist a hundred thousand yen to extract data directly from the mainboard, but rather waiting a week for the repair shop to receive a spare part from the manufacturer. This does suggest it's an old model indeed and the repair fee is probably a significant portion of the phone's remaining imaginable value, even if it was once a flagship model when new. If it's not a past flagship model, then it's meaningless.
But then again, this sort of plot development fits this particular series. It's not a good plot device, but it's more or less consistent. We read this series for other reasons.
But then again, this sort of plot development fits this particular series. It's not a good plot device, but it's more or less consistent. We read this series for other reasons.
And wouldn't just buy a new phone instead of waiting an entire week for some fucking reason
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Go get 'im, sweetheart.
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better love story than twilight
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Even without all this newfangled tech (yes, I'm old too), how is it that he can't get in touch with anyone else in a week?
It's not like he's a stranger and doesn't he know her address? Just go there, hit that doorbell.
But maybe I'm not japanese enough to understand the social implications (I'm 0% japanese).
It's not like he's a stranger and doesn't he know her address? Just go there, hit that doorbell.
But maybe I'm not japanese enough to understand the social implications (I'm 0% japanese).
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Doesn't mean anything : I had all those things and yet still managed to lost all contact with one of my best friends when he changed his phone and left social media...
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Why is it that lately everyone keeps complaining about everything in almost every manga?
Wait for the next chapter, and we probably will get the explanation. If the explanation is bad, then you can complain…
Can everyone just wait, enjoy it, and let the story develop itself?
Wait for the next chapter, and we probably will get the explanation. If the explanation is bad, then you can complain…
Can everyone just wait, enjoy it, and let the story develop itself?
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Can only speak for myself - but tropes like this, and the amount of times they've been done, feel very much like lazy story telling. People are entitled to complain with the chapter as its presented. If its resolved (and resolved cleanly) next chapter, we can sit back like "Ah! You got me author, well played".
But most of the reactions are from familiarity where "this is stupid, and it is very likely to be resolved/explained messily because the author needs to add some drama". I've seen it many times before (and it'll happen again with other mangas) where we finally get to the anticipated confession scene, only to have an incredibly dumb monkey-wrench thrown in to draw the event out further, in this case its a broken phone.
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Took her 5 days to work up the courage?! That shit woulda taken me a month lmao, guess a depressed person really pales in comparison to Emi XDDD
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Yes, this happened a lot of times, but that drama, that misunderstanding, is part of the story. No one wants to read a story where everything resolves in one chapter, because everyone always wants more.
The serialization exists so the author can present a story with all of the good and bad drama inside it.
Then again, my frustration is coming from all of the comments in almost every manga recently, is only complaints and complaints and complaints.
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