Mietemasu yo! Aizawa-san - Vol. 4 Ch. 22 - Jealousy, Jealousy~

[MangaDex]

 

[Beltaro]

Anime Japan page. Series name and author name below.
見えてますよ！　愛沢さん
棘尾どろしー

[Good news] Seta has finally put on his winter uniform.

Aizawa's jealous of Masaki who's jealous of Kasumi who's jealousing Michi while Reona jealouses everybody and somewhere out there there's Sayaka. Come home soon.

Michi has finally been called out on her denseness. She obviously gets she's in love with Aizawa and is trying to bury it by denying Aizawa's feelings too, but at least she cracked the case of what happened in uh... chapter 5. At this rate she'll figure out the cultural festival by volume 8.

"女の子が好きでしょ？/You like girls, don't you?"
Japanese is one of those languages that can be difficult to parse the degree of expression as platonic or romantic, but y'know I'm pretty sure. A lot of Masaki's dialogue is like that.

There's a few noteworthy panels that feel like anchors for future plot points but have little context yet.
Michi recaps her assumption that Honda was only afraid of introducing her to Masaki because she'd tell Michi how Honda wanted to be an idol, which means it's almost certainly wrong. Sorry Michi you don't have a great record. And Honda later hints there's more she doesn't want Michi to know, going back to her strange warnings in chapter 19.

Meanwhile Aizawa has an uncharacteristically sympathetic reaction when Masaki defends herself getting close to Michi and coming to school. She then wants Honda and Masaki to stop fighting. Since it's practically guaranteed they met and Aizawa remembers her, she might have some empathy for whatever happened to Masaki to stop her from going to school.

And we have our setup for just Michi, Aizawa, and Masaki together for a few chapters. Next chapter should be on the long side and close off volume 4; Dorothy tends to end volumes with a bang. So while 4 has been a departure (like she promised back in the volume 3 extras) we're probably getting back to ghost shenanigans shortly. Ange's mystery has been building and Dorothy likes to write in broad strokes, sprinkling this photo across the last 3 chapters. So the question now is: is it the ghost in the mirror, or is that Ange while her body is possessed?

• Tear still has a group photo with Aizawa included on the back of her phone. Sentimental.
• More foreshadowing of Michi's strange athleticism.
• I appreciate how Aizawa is portrayed just as clueless as Michi. Viva idiot couples.
• Rikurou is probably Non's account.
• Return of Kittyzawa. The Ghost Trick theory holds.
• Pokerface Kasumi is my spirit animal.

 

[emmadrew]

Holy shit has Seta always been that tall?

 

[ackistan]

I have a strong feeling that something’s bad is going to happen and I don’t like it. Do I have to grab a tissue ?

 

[gelert10]

I have a strong feeling that something’s bad is going to happen and I don’t like it. Do I have to grab a tissue ?

If next chapter is gonna be a big climactic one to finish off the volume, then we are in for something awful. Hopefully Ange makes it out okay.

Also, the reactions in this manga continue to be amazing.

 

[Koneko_Nyaa]

This series is rather difficult to follow with chapters dripping out at monthly intervals.

 

[Ooshi_Somen]

She is a harem protagonist

 

[Colonel-Picquart]

I'd love to see inside Aizawa's head. Like is she consciously courting and trying to kiss Michi? Or is she also so dense that her thought process goes something like 'I'm not sure I'm in love with her. I just want to kiss her and spend the rest of my death with her!' like Michi?

 

[crate90]

I want to support Michi and Aizawa! I really do! BUT WE ALL KNOW THE TRUTH!! The pain in my hurt to accept the TRUTH!

 

[meeerrpe]

chape ape kara kira chape ape kara kira myohontusuke waipa clap

 

[crimsondenmite]

I feel that there is some supernatural element that’s preventing Michi from realizing her feelings and Aizawa’s feelings for each other.
She comes close to understanding but then suddenly forcefully denies it.. like some thing is preventing her… otherwise her lack of social awareness is to ridiculous, like it’s convenient for the plot or maintaining status quo.. it prevents further character development.

 

[Kaiju27277]

These reactions are so funny.
Thanks for the chapter!

 

[UnvalidUserName]

I'm still sus about this new gal. I don't trust her

 

[Angoldd]

This series is so full of memes that it's not possible to dislike it, lol.
Thanks as always for the TL!

 

[shemper]

Thank you for your work!

 

[3141592653589]

While I was looking at the first page, bemused by the author calling a whopping two characters a "faction," I suddenly realized something: Michi's dad's a bit of a bishie smokeshow, ain't he?

No wonder his daughter turned out to be such a ladykiller.

 

[Beltaro]

I feel that there is some supernatural element that’s preventing Michi from realizing her feelings and Aizawa’s feelings for each other.
She comes close to understanding but then suddenly forcefully denies it.. like some thing is preventing her… otherwise her lack of social awareness is to ridiculous, like it’s convenient for the plot or maintaining status quo.. it prevents further character development.

Michi is a mess of supernatural padlocks and good old fashioned trauma coping for an event she's not allowed to remember.

We know every time she learns about her past with Aizawa her memory is forcibly wiped. Even just thinking about it (chapter 19) started making her sick to the point of passing out again. She's blocked from remembering what Non told her. However, whatever's doing this seems to allow for incremental progress. It's just whenever she jumps ahead it activates. And when she does start to remember, she gets the sinking feeling she seriously does not want to.

Which is awfully convenient for writing a slow burn mystery investigating the death of a mute girl who rides her back like a gremlin. But it makes it challenging opening avenues forward. This arc seems primed to do that - Masaki and Aizawa were likely acquaintances, Masaki's trauma might have some connection to Aizawa's death or at least what happened with the mysterious 5th DeLphi member, Michi is bound to come into contact with Non again at the concert. But it doesn't get into who Michi is.

Judging from her couple shot with Aizawa, old Michi wasn't that much more confident. Her posture slumped inward (though leaning toward Aizawa), peace-sign half raised. We know she's highly athletic despite doing no exercise now. And she's very much a lady-liker. In her subconscious she irresistibly imagines touching Aizawa, kissing Aizawa.

Spoiler: citation needed

If I wanted to speculate further, past Aizawa was likely her entire gay awakening and maybe that whole side of Michi got locked under the brainwashing which is why Kasumi and Sayaka's relationship blindsided her so hard. You'd think she'd be more open to the idea but it was like she suddenly remembered two girls can do that. She gets an dark involuntary grin this chapter entertaining the thought Aizawa wants her just as badly, which was a SFX that caught me off guard but it probably refers to the sick pleasure taken in knowing Aizawa would flip out and lose control because she's so into her.

Yet she buries those thoughts under a mountain of excuses.

That it's wrong to fall in love with a dead girl, both because it's doomed to heartbreak and because she physically can't interact with Aizawa. That feels non-consensual to Michi, even if Aizawa keeps showing she likes her. That the only moral thing to do now is help Aizawa pass on (even if ironically that's ignoring Aizawa's wishes). She tells herself Aizawa's too dumb to know what she's doing, which to be fair Aizawa doesn't help her case sometimes. But again it's these subtle gestures that break through Michi's brainwashing: Aizawa commiserating with Kasumi's jealousy accomplishes more than trying to kiss Michi. That thought got internalized. Michi's deep confidence issues also play a part in guiding her denial, though it's funny how little the "I'm an otaku I'm not good enough for an idol" angle is explored.

These flimsy excuses are likely all born from that deeper trauma of not wanting to confront what happened. Her inner voice derides her for it in chapter 19. She calls the truth horrifying in chapter 12. It's extremely likely Michi blames herself for Aizawa's death. If we assume she was some kind of supernatural investigator like Karasuma (of which there's been hints of and Seta's whole appraisal of her might be foreshadowing) then she and Aizawa likely met to solve her haunting and it ended up going terribly wrong. The memory wipes could be a self-defense mechanism if it's Little Michi's doing, though I'm not getting into that tangled web again now.

However Michi's not too good at denial. She slips up in constant contradictions, often casually letting it slip she loves Aizawa pages after declaring it can't be love. She straight-up calls it wishful thinking to assume Aizawa is in love with her. She's dense, but not that dense. She knows full well what's happening. She's just scared to admit it because it would be all the more painful. Because then she'd be utterly lost what to do with Aizawa when the only option she's allowed right now is to maintain the status quo until her girlfriend's gone.

TL;DR shit's complicated. This is a complex manga about loss and trauma masked under its own blaring silliness and Dorothy loves to write in the long term, hiding foreshadowing so deep among gags it's easy to forget. The repetition of points like Michi's denial might get grating but it's there to reinforce concepts in such a deceptively busy plot while giving ample opportunity to show cracks hinting at Michi's deeper issues. I think chapters like these are a necessary breather so the depressing and disturbing ones hit like a pitcher of ice water. And we're in for those inevitably.

 

[MathMols]

Author, dont you dare hurt Ange. If you want to hurt Anyone, then hurt this new annoying bitch, you Can even kill her for all I care