Mietemasu yo! Aizawa-san - Vol. 4 Ch. 21 - Love Ya, Love Ya, Love You ♥

[MangaDex]

 

[Beltaro]

Secret lore chapter!?

• Masaki made it to the final auditions for De:Lphinus
• There was some other unintroduced girl there who didn't make it
• Back in chapter 18 Tear referenced some unexplained incident with a panel that looked like a pool of blood
• There's a random ghost haunting De:Lphinus that calls Aizawa "Hona-chan" but wants her dead
• Masaki dropped out of middle school potentially around the time she failed the De:Lphinus auditions
• Masaki and Aizawa surely knew each other, between Masaki calling her "Honami-chan" and the startled look Aizawa gives her on page 23

Masaki is a little toxic and manipulative in all the ways baby lamb Michi is blind to. She's clearly propping herself up in front of Michi by putting Honda down, though Honda's not that mad about it? Only time she lost it was when she thought Masaki was making light of Aizawa's death. But Honda clearly has some self-esteem issues Masaki's happily fostering.

What that tells me is they were likely once better friends and their relationship has been in a slow awkward decline, Masaki soothing herself by taking her frustrations out on someone who puts up with her. She really rubs it in that she's the dominant one, she's the prettier one, she's the one who got closer to being an idol. And those cold looks she gives out of Honda's sight on 14 and 16, when Honda's showing some vulnerability.

I don't think this is the type of manga to have irredeemable characters. Their relationship is messed up but also extremely natural. I'm sure we've all experienced a friendship that turned bitter but kept going out of obligation and a subconscious longing for those better days. I'm sure we've all been in Michi's position too of not being sure how seriously to take the bickering between two people you're just getting to know. And there's still flashes of warmth between them, surrounding the emotional abuse.

If I'm being charitable, part of Masaki getting off on using Honda like a punching bag is desperation to look good for someone new. We know she's hiding away from school, even if she looks like she's got it together. Her fixation on Michi is weird to Honda, though it doesn't seem like she knew pre-amnesia Michi? But her comment on Michi's newly long hair is suspect. And obviously her stalking Michi at the end is taking it to new levels.

Normally I'd attribute Masaki's eyes to some yandere creative licensing, but considering there's an eye pattern going on...
Michi, Sayaka, and Neo have permanently fuzzy irises signifying their ability to see ghosts. Masaki's eyes aren't permanently like this, but on page 22 her pupil is all scrambled. To speculate, she's looking at Michi's back here. The AAA mark is on the back of Michi's neck. So it could have to do with that. There's also a mildly suspicious panel on page 10: Michi wonders if she's the only one that sees the ghost on Ange in detached narration over a panel of Masaki. Might be implying something, might be page constraints.

This chapter also doesn't really account for all the suspense last chapter, like warning Masaki might get weird, but we're getting there.

• Honda remains an angel. But I didn't think she'd be flirting with Michi as much as Masaki was.
• Honda prefers to not be called Reona, which Masaki refuses to do, but that strikes me as a childhood friend thing and not maliciousness.
• Dorothy skipped the usual chapter release art for 20 but we get Masaki in color now.
• Today's Aizawa's birthday.

You might have noticed the image quality is pretty bad recently. Around chapter 18 the magazine scans became noticeably blurrier and the web chapters dropped in resolution from 1920 to 1600. To make things worse, my rips of this latest issue do this wacky thing where every image's resolution is randomized?? I don't know. I upscaled them back to 1920 for some consistency and applied sharpening filters but it's not great. Maybe it's less noticeable on phones. If the long breaks between volumes continue I can try copy pasting everything onto the higher quality volume raws.

 

[Ooshi_Somen]

Micchi is a secret harem protagonist

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[yurimakesmeuglycry]

I can't believe we're at only 21 Chapters.
I've been following this for a few months. I think I've read it twice.

It just feels dense.

 

[Kotori_fly]

I have a bad feeling

 

[3141592653589]

Masaki may have the looks of a gyaru, but she's got the heart of a landmine girl.

 

[Yuri_Enjoyer_Deluxe]

What the hell was this chapter dawg

Just complete playful chaos... Im all here for it but damn, I was so confused why they were fighting so much... But it does seem we've learned a few things, mostly that surprise surprise MC can potentially see bad spirits through video somehow and that we may have a curious freak on our hands...

I wonder when we'll reach the resolution of the ghost problem...

 

[Andigo]

Great chapter. Masaki's emotional manipulation and possessiveness is disconcerting, like she's being set up as someone who has cursed others. I really dislike her! Now, I'm not expecting her to be the great nemesis of the story but without alternatives it's easy to associate her with the culprit. Most likely she's undermining her relatable situation by being a secondary antagonist. It would be fitting if her bad vibes are due to deep suspicion of Micchy and Micchy's motives rather than general selfish or negative intentions.

To give a wild theory, I'll guess she's viewing Micchy as a kind of threat to Honda's safety and came to school because of it. So she'll keep trying to drive wedges and putting in effort that seems to contradict her reasons for hiding away from school in the past. Her actions viewed in that light would imply she knows a little about Micchy during the lost memories.

I'm glad to see the other two flirt though. We're finally getting some sense of Honda putting up walls between her and others that contrasts how sociable she is.

 

[Mangamoz]

To be honest, I am kind of lost as to what is going on.

I was expecting spooky ghost hijinks, and now we have memory and identity loss hijinks.

I think?

 

[Tcof]

All tease and tease, no answer

I can't believe we're at only 21 Chapters.

It just feels dense.

Frankly, nothing really happen much.
We get tease and tease but then thing just go back to square one.
-The senpai can also see ghost and she interact with it ? They never talk about it with each other.
-the ghost exorcist or something ? Lot of tease, leave thing be and left the story without told MC shit.
-idol teammate, reveal mc and idol ghost is friend ? She never dig deeper about it, ask more to confirm, met them or her family
There are more but it all go to nothing.

 

[yoisakis]

plz don't turn this into a michi vs masaki epic rap battle😣😣

 

[gold_0]

The plot is thickening 👀
New elements being added to the fray

Thanks for the chapter!!

 

[UnvalidUserName]

I'm not liking this new girl. She seems like toxic friend at best and a succubus looking for a victim at worst. Keep her away from our Micchi, she is too innocent to be able to deal with her!

 

[undeadclown]

Micchi is a secret harem protagonist

Secret?

 

[emmadrew]

Her fixation on Michi is weird to Honda, though it doesn't seem like she knew pre-amnesia Michi? But her comment on Michi's newly long hair is suspect. And obviously her stalking Michi at the end is taking it to new levels.

My speculation would be that Masaki doesn't know Michi personally, but did know of Michi through Aizawa, and her connection to Aizawa is why Masaki is interested in her.

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[galaxia9]

That was some glorious chaos of a meeting. Masaki is definitely concerning, some well hidden (in-universe) creepy going on there but beyond that she's just acting like a bully to poor Honda.

 

[MathMols]

Masaki is 100% some sick in the head psycho… Aizawa use some ghost powers or something to get rid of her and save your human wife

 

[Roodypatooti]

So Masaki is bad news, then