Kimi ni Aisarete Itakatta - Vol. 7 Ch. 49 - Sense of Distance

[Kushikime]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Late_Komei]

2 more chapters of this flashback, the main plot resume in chapter 52

Thank you for the heads up.

 

[Lustrist]

kirakira prince can get it

 

[chameowmile]

This arc is so nostalgic, feels just like middle school! So bittersweet

 

[aly-san]

Thanks for the translation! Also thanks for the heads up for when the arc will end. I'm pretty invested and I'm enjoying this arc, but it's good to know when the main characters will return lmao

 

[CatLife]

man, i know someone making different faces when in different groups of people and it just kinda piss me off too. for people like that i stay away as much as i can

 

[pink_rabbit]

were kids in school actually like this

I was not the most popular gal, so perhaps that is why, or maybe it is my autism speaking, but I have no memories of people being two-faced and going behind each other's backs and all that, it was mostly just kids being dumb kids

Hi, fellow autistic person here.

It happened a LOT. I've gone through this quite a few times in my life where my classmates and I were into anime/manga and once they had a "glow up" made them become a closet weeb. They would only talk to me about anime when we were alone or dump me once they had the popular kids walk to them. It broke my heart so deep that I don't trust any anime fan that isn't afraid of being "weird and freaky."

School doesn't only have two-faced fakes but life as well..... You show your true self and show a genuine personality to only have them leave you in the dust when more popular people show up.... It sucks. It hurts. It makes one want to not want to get close to others.

 

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For anybody who's lost, this is the origin story of the group of girls Kanae's a member of in the first chapter. Riko, the girl talking to Tomiko at the end of this chapter, is the blonde girl from that group of friends. She's also the girl that Tomiko photobombed while running to school back in chapter 47, and who, in the present day, is going to restaurants to order trendy food that she takes pictures of for social media before having Tomiko eat it.

Two thumbs up for this flashback arc; Kanae's clique of unhinged, backbiting, jerkass high school girls has been sidelined for way too long. Hopefully this is the start of them taking their rightful place at center stage again.

 

[PzArrow]

Can't wait for Tomiko to eat Akari.

 

[kanjutbautai]

Tomita has extremely based taste in manga

 

[sirflimflam]

Not gonna lie I'm more interested in this than Kanae right now.

 

[Naemi]

Hi, fellow autistic person here.

It happened a LOT. I've gone through this quite a few times in my life where my classmates and I were into anime/manga and once they had a "glow up" made them become a closet weeb. They would only talk to me about anime when we were alone or dump me once they had the popular kids walk to them. It broke my heart so deep that I don't trust any anime fan that isn't afraid of being "weird and freaky."

School doesn't only have two-faced fakes but life as well..... You show your true self and show a genuine personality to only have them leave you in the dust when more popular people show up.... It sucks. It hurts. It makes one want to not want to get close to others.

thanks for sharing, though I am sorry to hear that

hopefully you found some good friends eventually

 

[Goodbyefrankenstein]

Remember when this was about some wild yandere shit with a dash of romcom.... Da fuq happened

Somehow it's actually become quite normal highschool drama lmao thank god but it also makes me nervous. Like waiting for something super fucked up to drop

 

[Naemi]

Abso-fucking-lutely. At least girls were doing this shit, and mostly in middle school to early high school I'd say. The whole two-faced friend level up situation is extraordinarily common between the so-called "cute girls" and so-called "nerdy loser girls". Usually it goes like this. Nerdy-uggo girl is childhood friends with Nerdy-cute girl. Nerdy-uggo girl continues be a Nerdy-uggo girl while Nerdy-cute girl evolves into Popular-cute girl once they enter high-school or middle-school. Nerdy-uggo girl thinks that even after all the time that passes, they're still friends like they were before the new school-year. Bzzzrrt. Wrong, when Nerdy-uggo girl tries to talk to the now evolved Popular-cute girl (who now has an entirely new set of non-nerdy friends) Popular-cute girl, now in survival mode at being confronted with an undesirable remnant of her past that will bring down her newfound sense of ego and popularity, will either
1. act dumb and pretend that she doesn't even know Nerdy-uggo girl.
2. start acting uncharacteristically mean so that Nerdy-uggo girl never talks to her again.
Thus, causing an intense, almost irreparable sense of trauma, insecurity, and distrust-of-others (especially others who happen to be cuter, slimmer, or outwardly nicer) in the Nerdy-uggo girl that will seldom go healed. A tale as old as time among super unsocial, weird and very nerdy girls~!

I don't get the hate for this arc, to me it's an extremely well written and a far more interesting one than seeing BPD-chan moment #2454. I mean, I get it. There's a high percentage of people here who've come to see hot girls acting mental because it gets them hard so the lack of hot mentally unwell girls is sure to spark rage. I get it, totally get it. BUT. Tomiko's flash-back arc is horrifyingly realistic and absolutely enrapturing. I unironically love this arc because it paints a realistic picture of interpersonal conflict and relationships among teenage girls in different ""castes"", a caustic, terrifyingly unstable thing. It's almost nostalgic.

see I have a really hard time seeing this as anything other than fiction, because to me the whole "talking to this person will be social suicide" does not make sense at all and I have a really hard time imagining other people thinking that was because it is simply S O dumb

but, again, I was never the most popular or social girl, and maybe the experience is slightly different in my country, and maybe I was only too autistic to notice these things

regardless, thank you very much for your explanation

edit: an addendum to talk about the latter part of your comment:
I hope that my previous comments have not made it seem as if I dislike this arc - I very much enjoy it, in fact - I personally simply find it less "real", for lack of a better word, than "BPD-chan moment #2454" because of my complete lack of this kind of experience growing up and difficulty picturing it, where as the original story elements that hooked me in were those about a lost, insecure, unstable girl seeking validation in the only thing she thinks she is good for - sex - with strange old men and having major breakdowns over the smallest things because of her traumatic past and poor mental health

there most certainly are people reading this who simply want to "see hot girls acting mental because it gets them hard", and considering Bakaudon's other work it is difficult to discourage that, but I do think that there is a lot more to this story than mere "trauma porn" and hope that the people reading this can see that

 

[EchoGirl]

were kids in school actually like this

I was not the most popular gal, so perhaps that is why, or maybe it is my autism speaking, but I have no memories of people being two-faced and going behind each other's backs and all that, it was mostly just kids being dumb kids

might depend on the person, esp if they try to act 'more mature' getting older or being embarrassed about being overly enthusiastic unless it's a 'normie' thing like sports of Akari being halfway like gushing over an 'idol' b/c at least then it's an attractive 3D boy/real person

although, i noticed more so with parents like how they'd act totally diff if their parents were watching versus
tho that had more to do with cursing/stuff that'd get their butt whooped than a huge personality change but depends on how strict the parents are

Some guys would be more upfront about insulting you or blunt if they notice behaviors like 'you're being weird', and some girls are more nuanced or 'care about reputation' and just subtly spread rumors or say something passive aggressive to where you can get away with "i'm just being honest" without starting a fight/if one gets punched for 'insulting' someone then they wouldn't get in trouble for 'provoking' them or so (but yeah over all kids are fickle, what made you "impressive" one day is gross the next)

(tho it doesn't help that teachers look the other way i don't think we've seen much of it but i don't think there was any backlash about the fat chara just bringing a handful of cockroaches to stick under the main girls desk way earlier on 'cause you'd think that'd be a health hazard)