Let’s Start The Closing Meeting. ~ So Begins The Bullying Trial ~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 2 - Reflecting Person

[MangaDex]

 

[Kanami-chan]

the japanese need to do some parenting

 

[slopnromance]

God kanzaki is the worst like I felt bad for her in the first chapter but God damn.

 

[77BLc9JwJGpLVARkamJx]

Looks like this gonna boil for a long time before anything good happens to mc and the girl.

 

[essensue]

Cool. Kanzaki's wrong but her frustration makes sense. She's fixable, she's a kid. Teacher, though, needs to be hung from a streetlight as a warning to others.

 

[chipusu]

I hate everyone

 

[Bakuvoid]

This can only go one way
The Kokonoe Yukito way

 

[CerealBowlHead]

Could the teach just die alr?

Also, I just saw that this series has the same author as Ijimeru Aitsu. I've great expectations from this one too.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Yeah - this is one of those "might need to let it marinate so that it can be read in chunks". Having to stew in what I assume will be escalating torture of Kitami and Tojo before any chance of 'consequences' befall the rest of the class feels like a lesson in masochism, as there's no cathartic relief in the spiral of negative plot progression.

But like...they're elementary school kids. Yes, everyone but Kitami and Tojo who've had speaking parts are being shown to be absolutely abhorrent, but I wonder if they'll be treated as having agency, and thus culpable for their actions and will face "consequences"...or if they'll be treated as children who are misguided with chances at salvation and redemption.

That said - the teacher is clearly more interested in classroom harmony than in doing his job & due diligence of maintaining order. Whether he's actively malicious or simply lazy and would prefer "the most kids causing the least trouble possible", can't currently be said -- but he's the literal adult in the room, and he's failing at his job.
(Though maybe there's also a difference in expectation between Japanese readers and Western readers--this seeming desire to maintain harmony and not worry about "the outsider" that is Tojo feels prevalent to other manga titles I've read with similar motifs and scenes. So being okay with pushing the non-conformer out and upholding that social hierarchy might be more understandable to someone who lives in that sort of society, even if it seems so objectionable to others. Doesn't excuse it, and it's clearly being played as a negative here, but I wonder if it's "normalized" enough that it's actually expected that this would be the sequence of events even where the sensei is concerned.)

Anyway I guess I just hope Kitami and Tojo get some sort of relief and karmic cathasis and this isn't just an exercise in self-flagellating by reading it as it releases where it just gets worse and worse for like 50 chapters.

 

[n1.the.noob]

It does look like the series will end in 25 chapters though, based on how the raw goes

 

[essensue]

It does look like the series will end in 25 chapters though, based on how the raw goes

The already-completed series by this duo seem to wrap around 20-30 chapters, and their other running series seems to be winding down at about the same leng-... Oh. You're also doing the translation for that one. So you'd know that already. Thanks for your work, it's great.

 

[danbellucci]

Tojo Got what she deserved in my opinion.
Not only did she probably steal the card , she also antagonised the class by being gloomy and unfriendly. She should learn to read the room.
This will be a valuable lesson to her not to behave in a creepy, selfish way that disturbs the group's harmony. I mean if 30 different people think that you're an asshole then let's be honest , the problem is probably your behaviour, not them.

 

[Darroth]

These characters are written so well. They're acting exactly like you would expect kids to.

 

[aa11bb]

Knowing the author, this would not get a good ending

 

[isacx123]

It is rough but

Spoiler

they will get their vengeance.

 

[EnFiveFour]

Don't be naive. Not all kids are "fixable", specially bullies. It's a very complicated issue and not all the people want to spend the time and energy needed to educate a young person. It's easier to say "My kid did nothing wrong" and live with that lie.
Another thing is the teacher. Not only in Japan, but in most countries, such an open bullying of a classmate would be stopped if the teacher steps in. After all, this kind of attitude in class undermines the teacher's authority.
Thank you for the translation!

 

[youkame]

so what's the word for wanting to read bullying revenge slop and getting catharsis from it

 

[ShadowHusky]

Ono-sensei deserves to get it the worst. The others are kids who don't know better, Ono is an adult and the one responsible for the students conduct.

Whatever revenge there is, let him have it the worst 🤞.

 

[Fuhgeddaboudit]

"the kids don't know better"
there're 12 not 5, if they know how to stalk and harass their classmates they know how to behave too.
this exact mentality is the reason the world has shitty grown ass adult ruining it.
if you wont stop it when there're younger, its too late when there're older.

 

[DumFck]

these kids are criminal