Kusunoki-san wa Koukou Debut ni Shippai Shite Iru - Ch. 52.1 - It's not... "just a favor" anymore (First Part)

[HYBRID_BEING]

Unpopular opinion: Irie > Snek, Brat, Moeblob. Too bad she's not heroine

 

[UncannyLuck]

Uh no otobe will win the short tomboy girls always win right guys!?
Right....?

We Never Learn!

 

[orangesolos]

otobe deserves the world 😭

 

[nihaoma11]

Thanks for the chapter

 

[pataponaccount]

Waiting for this series to come out every month is a drag
It's so good but so slow

It's actually bimonthly, the translators just stick the two chapters together after a month.

 

[EulBassist]

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[ciera]

thanks for the chapter

 

[kuma]

Snake is clearly main girl best girl. She’s the first love. She will win.

nice joke

 

[rymar]

SNEK SIGHTED 🐍

 

[Raphael_gt]

They finally meet 🐹🐍

 

[Skater901]

I don't care anymore...

Just give Hebikawa the win. She's the only one trying. Regardless of all the stuff prior, I think she should make the move first and it'll probably work itself out in the end.

Because otherwise, we're regressing too much at such a pace we might as well be in a time machine.

Hebikawa doesn't actually like Shizuki, though. She doesn't dislike him, but her ultimate objective is to make Kusunoki jealous and expose her darkness.

 

[Rafalga]

It’s quite astonishing how many people gaslit themselves into believing that Hebikawa is after Keisuke because she genuinely likes him. She doesn’t. She’s only after him because she wants to get to Kusunoki; her worldview simply can’t acknowledge the existence of someone like Kusunoki.

I'm pretty sure nobody actually believes that. I mean it's pretty obviously evolving into "how it started, how it's going" kind of thing with her. It's a very basic setup as well. She has immediately got exposed by the guy himself in her very first try and now as she continues to try her "make him fall for me" bit, she will shed (get it? because snake lol) her cynical and scheming approach overtime and genuinely fall in love. It just looks like it's some of you guy's very first "scheming bitch falls for her own trap" female character in a romcom.

 

[Litreara]

I'm pretty sure nobody actually believes that. I mean it's pretty obviously evolving into "how it started, how it's going" kind of thing with her. It's a very basic setup as well. She has immediately got exposed by the guy himself in her very first try and now as she continues to try her "make him fall for me" bit, she will shed (get it? because snake lol) her cynical and scheming approach overtime and genuinely fall in love. It just looks like it's some of you guy's very first "scheming bitch falls for her own trap" female character in a romcom.

I'm pretty sure some people actually believe that. I've seen it time and time again in the comments. I get that it's a common trope, but that doesn't really defend her actions. Even if she ends up catching real feelings later, it doesn't change the fact that she started with bad intentions. 'How it's going' doesn't erase 'how it started.' Those are two different things, and the latter still matters. The trope might explain where the story could be heading, but it doesn't justify ignoring what Hebikawa originally tried to do. So I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to argue at this point. Are you saying the malice doesn't matter because the outcome might be cute? Or are you just describing the plot without defending it?

 

[PowerExtreme]

That came out of nowhere

 

[Rafalga]

I'm pretty sure some people actually believe that. I've seen it time and time again in the comments. I get that it's a common trope, but that doesn't really defend her actions. Even if she ends up catching real feelings later, it doesn't change the fact that she started with bad intentions. 'How it's going' doesn't erase 'how it started.' Those are two different things, and the latter still matters. The trope might explain where the story could be heading, but it doesn't justify ignoring what Hebikawa originally tried to do. So I'm honestly not sure what you're trying to argue at this point. Are you saying the malice doesn't matter because the outcome might be cute? Or are you just describing the plot without defending it?

I'm describing the plot device that is currently bein utilized. I don't have any strong feeling about its utilization one way or the other. I'm way passed the point wasting braincells on wholesome chungus shounen romcom slops. The fact that snake making the story infinitely more interesting remains though, hence why i'm reading it. I wouldn't read it if it was yet another wallflower FMC with arrested development and her designated loser tomboy friend and couple of other useless harem members which would just makes it the seasonal shounen romcom slop no.6424313. Without snake, story has literally nothing else going for it.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Hebikawa doesn't actually like Shizuki, though. She doesn't dislike him, but her ultimate objective is to make Kusunoki jealous and expose her darkness.

She doesn't like him yet.

I would actually be very happy to see Hebikawa not end up falling for Keisuke by the end of this, and instead grow through her current "everyone's secretly a bad person" persona and become genuine friends with him (and Kusunoki).
Not a losing heroine defined by Keisuke, but a character standing on her own who completes a narrative that exists for herself.

Not that I'll be holding my breath, but.

 

[GreyDorian]

Yea Moe should take the W at this point, thing is she's not even on MC's radar something drastic has to happen for him to change how he views her.

 

[JustaReader0031]

Dat Snek

 

[b-no]

She doesn't like him yet.

I would actually be very happy to see Hebikawa not end up falling for Keisuke by the end of this, and instead grow through her current "everyone's secretly a bad person" persona and become genuine friends with him (and Kusunoki).
Not a losing heroine defined by Keisuke, but a character standing on her own who completes a narrative that exists for herself.

Not that I'll be holding my breath, but.

You're asking too much, chief. That is beyond the basic story telling capability of an average mangaka.

 

[biologist]

would actually be very happy to see Hebikawa not end up falling for Keisuke by the end of this,

But then I will be sad.