Misaki-kun wa Kouryaku Chara Janai - Vol. 2 Ch. 15 - The Best Friend Character Can't Be Touched

[a_other_alt]

If anyone else is interested in this very unique otome-characters-aware-about-their-own-existence genre, there is also a oneshot from the anthology This Irreplaceable Hell that also has their own interesting bits of the story and twist.

 

[vege_tables]

i know i want progress but i didn't expect the clothed frotting this early on

 

[Cammymoop]

what if we kissed inside the snuggle locker?

 

[metal4orce]

Weak, couldn't have pried me from Misaki you would be pulling against the strongest gravitational forces within our universe's laws of physics.

 

[davidna]

Seriously the implications for their world are pretty terrifying the more you think about it.

Someone was sadistic enough to make a dating sim world with actual sentient AI, and then imprisoned them to an eternal hell of an existence, bound by the laws of dating sim cliches, while still fully aware they are in a dating sim.

OR.

These are real people's mind's uploaded to a dating sim cyber hell.

Regardless of what the truth is;

Whoever the devs are, they are amoral monsters.

Oooor, they’re unaware of the fact that they made a mostly working microcosm filled with sentient character whom they thought weren’t sentient when judging only by lines of code. Like how we game characters. How are we actually, 100% sure that the game character we kill over and over isn’t actually secretly sentient. So yeah, I feel the manga’s in a world where that logic was actually true

 

[Westes]

With how fast AI tech is developing nowadays maybe in 100 years this could be standart practice for most videogames. People wouldn't have to spend a second writing the characters or a story.

Like imagine the sims, but you can set some rules to turn it into any type of game you want and the AI is so advanced that it can adapt to it easily

 

[Ucluk4]

Wait, so is the teacher legal or not??

Schrodinger loli ....

 

[Sherlocke_d]

I told it before, but this world is an existential nightmare the moment you scratch past the surface. And I still double guessing if it isn't intentionally a critique to strict societal roles and how the suffocate people's minds. Having to be boxed up and just take it isn't something unique to this world after all and specially common in places with low social mobility or strict gender roles

Yeah, this is something I've been leaning on, there are a lot of times in the story where it reflects on modern society with quotes like "Because of the world we're in, I have to do it" in context of Misaki having to forever support the protagonist and be un-romanceable because he's the best friend character.

We can also see how the relationships the characters have with each other have already astray from their original labels. The "rival" becoming more of an actual friend is one obvious example. Another one is the heroines becoming more friendly with each other and their personalities changing from their trope.

I'm interested in where the author will take this and think it'd be an interesting ending if we get to see the characters break down the norms/tropes that quite literally separate them.

 

[LupusVir]

Oooor, they’re unaware of the fact that they made a mostly working microcosm filled with sentient character whom they thought weren’t sentient when judging only by lines of code. Like how we game characters. How are we actually, 100% sure that the game character we kill over and over isn’t actually secretly sentient. So yeah, I feel the manga’s in a world where that logic was actually true

We can be 100% sure with lines of code. When you understand every single line of code, you know for a fact that each particular behavior that makes them seem sapient is actually an illusion created with a particular piece of code.

What's going to sneak up on us with sapience is neural net AIs.

 

[Virtt]

"I'll gladly accept accept this place as my coffin"
...
I WANT TO SQUEAL SO GODDAMN HARD BUT MY MOM AND LIL BRO IS SLEEPING NEAR ME I CAN'T WAKE EM UP GOD HELP ME THAT IS TOO MUCH RIZZ I CAN'T EVEM

I DIDN'T EVEN REALIZE I TYPED ACCEPT TWICE I'M HAVING A SEIZURE PLS CAL 9111

(not actually having seizure im hyperboling)

 

[okkokko]

I like the notion that they had a life before this, and thus a reference. Now heres a brain twist: both mcs knew each other. But one (the girlish one) was actually a girl in that past life and had feelings. This would explain why they can't really seem to get over the feelings, and why the boy constantly goes after them.

I think you've missed the point. When the Main Character guy vehemently rejects the "he was a girl all along" idea, I read that as the author making a pact that such thing will not happen, not in this manga

(this is because it sets up a situation where if there is a "happy" ending of that form, it's happiness will be severely sabotaged by the fact that it is explicitly not what one of the MCs want, and it becomes a "wtf" ending instead).

It's more than likely that the characters in the gay femboy manga just are gay.

 

[NemuriNai]

the devs might be taking long to create a misaki route because they want it to be the best one ever, they might be cooking! (cope)

 

[Lynk899]

Why no kess?

 

[Latte10]

FUCK YOU GAME DEV WHY YOU PATCHED THAT BUG AHHHHHH MISAKI NEEDS SOME LOVE BROOOOO

 

[Jhonathan45]

How does this world work? Was it always a dating sim? Are did they get transported into a dating sim world? Why do all of the characters know that they're in a dating sim? Do people not feel weird about being side characters? Do the heroines not feel weird about literally require by the world to love a boy who doesn't care about them romantically?

The heroines, in the very first chapters, talk about how frustrating it's to be a heroine in a dating sim.
The gyaru dislikes the fact that the game forces her to love Hareta, not because she doesn't love him, but because this makes their love less genuine.
The yandere hates the fact that Misaki can stand at Hareta side at all times, while she can only be with him when events start
The tsundere dislikes the fact that Hareta doesn't love her in the same way she loves him and that she has to compete for affection.
Many other characters have also shown frustrating and sadness over their situation, like the rival character who wants to be a best friend character.

I also want this manga to talk more about the rules of their world

 

[Jhonathan45]

If anyone else is interested in this very unique otome-characters-aware-about-their-own-existence genre, there is also a oneshot from the anthology This Irreplaceable Hell that also has their own interesting bits of the story and twist.

It's a take on the same idea, but way more bitter.
In Misaki-kun Hareta is never vilified or treated as someone bad, the rules of the world in which they live in is the source of their pain. The protagonist is actually one of the victims of the system and struggles with the oppression imposed by the system.
Now, in Irreplaceable Hell the protagonist is vilified and treated as someone bad, even though he's under the same pain that the girls