Koutsugou Semi-Friend - Ch. 41

[AdvancedBreadFruit]

The neglect by her mom wouldn't, but I think the implication here is that it's part of a pattern of being dehumanized by others. She feels like she's treated less and less like a person and more like an ideal, so what she wants is to shatter the ideal so even if people hate her they at least approach her as a person.

Also, not everyone hates her, some people, like the third girl in the comparison images, find her hotter knowing how messed up she is.

I think there’s also the matter that she’s felt shackled by all the expectations and responsibilities people have pushed onto her, and it’s hurting others (and absolutely demolishing those expectations) that gives her that sweet sense of release or agency.

 

[BrotherCoa]

Lots of people in the same situation don't grow up into psychopaths though.

Lots of people in the same situation are not the same person as she is so they would develop differently.

And while there is a lot of people whose parents did not taken proper care of them, there is not a lot who were also neglected by society as well. From what I have seen over the years of a people in those situations a lot of them would actually end up worse than her. She might have lied and toyed with other people's emotions but she didn't kill anyone, and that actually puts her amongst the nicer ones.

She is still a bad guy here, no doubt about that. But she is a bad guy who is not inherently evil and who can became a good person only if here is someone to take good emotional care of her. Presenting her as a coldhearted psychopath is a bit too much, considering how worse she can actually be compared to what she has been doing so far.

 

[EdgeGod]

He thought he could fix her, unfortunately she had no intention of being "fixed" 😈

 

[EdgeGod]

Brother had no idea what he had done.

Lots of people in the same situation don't grow up into psychopaths though.

That doesn't change the fact that it did in her case. Some people are predisposed to such behaviors and events like this become triggers.

 

[cranscape]

Pretty sus she targets someone's little sister when her first issue was from her little sister arriving.

 

[T-sama]

Not gonna lie I find pretty funny some are assuming we're meant to hate her and that this chapter isn't meant for us to sympathize with her

Really, I've read enough manga to know for a fact she'll be redeemed and this chapter was the start of that for the readers

Also, I find pretty funny some take her actions as child abuse, rape or whatever because I highly doubt Japanese readers see it as that much less the mangaka intending to be read as such :v

 

[TheBigMonk]

I sure hope this isn't toxic yuri.
Let it be more along of the lines of "Detoxified Yuri".
Or more specifically: "'Realising that she's got some serious issues and needs to change' Yuri".

 

[Kanelel]

So to be clear, the realization she had was that she likes dating people and then having abusive rough sex with them in order to traumatize them and enjoy a feeling of specialness and acknowledgement from having that much impact on their lives, right? God DAMN. I didn't think this story would be getting anywhere near that dark!

 

[Kanelel]

Can someone explain how someone being neglected by her Mom would develop into this?

Lack of coping mechanisms plus latent perversion getting awakened while under stress. She probably had lacking morals to begin with, possibly because she saw morality as just being another expectation placed on her that she had to lie her way through.

 

[JudyBunny]

holy peak villain introduction

 

[metal4orce]

this is going to be some good trauma

 

[Prismatic-chan]

disgusting.
treat her like the monster that she is, she deserves it.

 

[KitsuKyouno]

The only thing of the brother is Suuna be related to it.
But all the bois that touch Rin shouldn´t be pressed Deleted

 

[Yuri_Enjoyer_Deluxe]

Can someone explain how someone being neglected by her Mom would develop into this?

In effect, mostly an inferiority complex, which is typical with neglect. One could be doing everything right, but if they dont get praised for their efforts, or, minimum, they dont have a baseline for acceptable, it leads to a constant feeling of inferiority, which then may develop into a superiority complex if not managed properly.

To keep a long story short: In her case, because she got neglected, that became an inferiority complex, which then, due to how she is perceived at school as a perfect student due to how well she does, and likely suspecting insincerity in their compliments, leads to a superiority complex to keep the facade.

Its why she manipulates Ruka back in Chapter 19: It was solely to feed her complex.

 

[Lonbomb]

I think I can blame this on Freud somehow

 

[PolizPolice]

Not gonna lie I find pretty funny some are assuming we're meant to hate her and that this chapter isn't meant for us to sympathize with her

Really, I've read enough manga to know for a fact she'll be redeemed and this chapter was the start of that for the readers

Also, I find pretty funny some take her actions as child abuse, rape or whatever because I highly doubt Japanese readers see it as that much less the mangaka intending to be read as such :v

Guess you've read a lot of bad manga.

 

[RantingDuck]

How to ruin your story by wasting several chapters on some pointless boring drama before ending it in one chapter after every thing is resolved I bet! Yawn.

 

[AssassinCat4]

yesssss. YESSSSS I love this type of character. I love it so much. I just came off of an andy and leyley high and have been craving more messed up, toxic, sociopathic and psychopathic characters. Give me more of her. Make a spin off. Idgaf I want more.

 

[A_Wheel]

SHES GOT GROOMED, OH HELL NAWH

 

[T-sama]

Guess you've read a lot of bad manga.

nope, I read tons of good mangas, it's just that like japanese readers I don't get butthurt nor morally outraged over non issues like some western readers

can't wait for my prediction to be right and you come back to say this manga was never good to begin with or something :v