Koori no Hime wa Chiisana Hidamari de Tokasaretai - Vol. 2 Ch. 9

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Hey guys! Just wanted to put in my 2 cents regarding the dad here. I want to clarify, and I don’t want to have people misunderstand what chap 8 was about with some context from chap 9. The dad only wants two things: let Miharu choose what he wants to do with his precious youth, and don’t let his children (the twins) interfere with his future. While he appreciates him because the twins are so close to him, he also sees them as a cause for his grades taking a hit because they’re taking up his time. If he can prove that that’s not the case, then the dad won’t be getting a babysitter. The dad doesn’t even necessarily care what his grades are per se as long as the twins don’t hold him back. He can do what he wants. He can live his high school years freely without any restrictions from his parents and without the twins. The main crux of this arc is Miharu deciding to stay with his twins and study without even considering the alternative as shown in chap 9. He decides to have his twins take up his youthful years out of love for them (which Mizudori sees).

So, is this good parenting from the dad’s POV? Well, I do agree that he could be better. But he means well and has no malice whatsoever. Why can’t he just stay home instead? It’s sometimes hard to see what’s really going on inside a culture if you’re someone from the outside looking in. These characters are a product of their culture and what we may see as abnormal may be less abnormal to other people. What I’m trying to say is that it’s so easy to judge without knowing the context or the whole story. I’m personally reserving judgement on the dad’s morals until I know more about him. Though, I do enjoy that the mangaka is self-aware that the parents have neglected these kids due to work and is trying to explore this idea.

What does the dad mean by “spoiled” at the end of chap 8? He meant that he has been going easy and laissez faire this past year regarding his parenting toward him since their families combined. Chap 8 was the first time (or maybe one of the few times) he has brought up an issue and really tried to lay it down. That’s what was being implied.

TLDR: dad wants Miharu to be free as a bird, but the twins are being heavy rocks on his back. He wants the best for him and wants these rocks removed but Miharu decides he wants these rocks and it’s okay for him. Dad is a good guy but is not perfect. His parenting has been laissez faire until chap 8.


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you emphasize that the dad seems to want his son to be free of restrictions and obligations, but to me the rank 50 requirement is a restriction and obligation so the argument doesn't really hold much water, he's thinking one thing and saying another. in a very inelegant and harsh way to put it, the dad is preventing his child from enjoying his youth in the way he yaps about by holding the time with his siblings hostage, given that's the thing in the world he seems to care the most about above all else. mc was quite clear about how important it is to him and yet the dad continued with the stipulation anyway

another way to phrase it is that he's replacing the obligation of taking care of rio and ruri with the obligation of maintaining high scores like he did in middle school, which based on this chapter he didn't enjoy back then and was pushing himself purely for the sake of the household (not having the teacher call and disrupt the parent's work). none of this makes sense to me if the motive behind it is "i want my child to be free and happy and allowed to do whatever he desires"

EDIT: in retrospect it's also a sign that the parents clearly weren't around and paying enough attention to their kids if they weren't able to notice that middle school mc (age 12-14, which is very young) was self-sacrificing with his scores back then but his school friends did. it makes them only noticing the grade slip and taking the scores for granted as a measure of his intelligence even worse