Misaki-kun wa Kouryaku Chara Janai - Vol. 4 Ch. 35 - The Sheltered Girl Won't Come Home

[Sushininja05]

The CAUSE OF THE CALAMITY, the ORIGIN OF DOOM, the REASON WHY THIS WORLD MUST SUFFER: one man's insatiable lust for a twink.

 

[Dust_pile]

Thanks for the chapter!

I am not sure. One one hand Hareta seems to know what the costs are for forgoing all the game routes, and is still willing to sacrifice everyone else for Misaki's route, on the other hand Hareta does seem to be a bit surprised by the revelation that Mei is going to be forced into an arranged marriage. So I am not sure if Hareta knows the contents of the various routes.

Misaki now knows, that Hareta is willing to sacrifice everyone else in order to be with him, I wonder how he will take it. Will he try to save everyone?

If one of the main Heroines is in such a tough situation, it's likely that the others are too. I wonder what sort of situation they are in.

Also, Mei brought up a good point in this chapter: does that overseas world even exist? How much of Japan exists in the first place? What would happen if Hareta suddenly decided to call his parents, would he get the message that that number doesn't exist?

 

[Dirgecry]

He's gay, and he only wants Misaki.

Yes, but who's to say that the harem route isn't how he can unlock Misaki, hmm?

 

[Justking14]

That's why in Harvest Moon/Rune Factory games I always marry the ones who seem to not have anyone besides the player in their life.

Same lol. Though I also just had a thing for the weird girls. That’s why I married melody who ran the bath house and Raven. Pretty sure I married the witch in the harvest moon game where you had to collect spirits

 

[Satz]

Yamabuki is the only one of the heroines that has shown this kind of side the most throughout the manga, I wonder if there's any reason for that...
She is also the first to call out Misaki on possibly liking Hareta on the very second episode and while the other two heroines act surprised at the idea of Misaki being their biggest rival she just acts like it was obvious from the very beggining, I'm suspicious, but it could also just be nothing

 

[Yukisuna]

I think this perspective also adds additional depth to Hareta's choice. The fact the three heroines are held hostage by the game mechanics means that there cannot really be love. Kihara is the only option for them, and only having one choice means having no choice at all. So they cannot love him for who he is, and he is not free to choose based on love either. And that is where Misaki comes in. The person closest to Kihara, who he gets to know intimately without a twisted hostage plot forcing them together. Misaki has the most freedom to act out of the entire cast, making him a wild card in an otherwise stacked deck.



The existence of bugs that allow them to bypass system restrictions means the system is not omniscient. It's a cruel puppet master, not "the law of the universe".


Genuinely curious how they'll break the cycle. Because if they can, the heroines will also attain the freedom to save themselves, rather than be forced to vie for the affection of a "hero" that is their only hope.

 

[Yukisuna]

Question. Do you think it is bad game design to have the character you don’t marry in a dating Sim go onto live a miserable and sad life? is that just the developer guilt tripping you into picking that person?

Yeah. It means the romance is not actually romance at all. The girls aren't there because they genuinely like Hareta, they're there because he's the only source of light allowed to exist in the darkness.

 

[Sheza]

The Devs are fucking assholes is what I got out of that

For real, only asshole devs give the other heroines a bad end after you finish one route.

 

[GoldenOx]

I think this perspective also adds additional depth to Hareta's choice. The fact the three heroines are held hostage by the game mechanics means that there cannot really be love. Kihara is the only option for them, and only having one choice means having no choice at all. So they cannot love him for who he is, and he is not free to choose based on love either. And that is where Misaki comes in. The person closest to Kihara, who he gets to know intimately without a twisted hostage plot forcing them together. Misaki has the most freedom to act out of the entire cast, making him a wild card in an otherwise stacked deck.



The existence of bugs that allow them to bypass system restrictions means the system is not omniscient. It's a cruel puppet master, not "the law of the universe".


Genuinely curious how they'll break the cycle. Because if they can, the heroines will also attain the freedom to save themselves, rather than be forced to vie for the affection of a "hero" that is their only hope.

Yeah. It means the romance is not actually romance at all. The girls aren't there because they genuinely like Hareta, they're there because he's the only source of light allowed to exist in the darkness.

That is not exactly the case for them because before there life's became the dating sim they already had fallen for him at least two of them.

 

[LeftoverMayonnaise]

EHHHHH!????
WHEN WAS THIS RELEASED???
10 DAYS AGO!???????
I MISSED THE CHAPTER'S RELEASE!!!!!!!?????
NOOOOOOO

Also, damn, what a cruel world this is.
Nobody can have shit here.

 

[maxipads]

heroine polycule endgame theory, trust 🙏🙏🙏

 

[SpoonMoth]

it's always interesting when the apparent game-like nature of their universe bleeds through or gets explicitly talked about, hope that gets some grand payoff somehow.

This

 

[Yukisuna]

Misaki is bi, apparently. Either that, or he finds Mei, specifically, attractive. Somehow, I wasn't expecting that.

To Hareta, there's only Misaki. Single-target sexuality(?).

 

[raccoonchild]

This happening right after what I just freaking said about the previous chapter is crazy... and Mei has always been my favorite girl due to her self-awareness and subtly depressing character, so this hit me like a truck. What an amazingly honest and heartbreaking confrontation. The whole chapter is so well structured and written it just feels like the entire manga was leading up to just this moment.
When I picked up this manga I wasn't expecting it to be exactly the kind of story that touches upon my deepest pains and fears, but after finding myself in this same situation over and over again I guess I just have to accept I'm being haunted by this type of fiction for the past three years ever since I decided to read Kaneshiro Muneyuki's body of work from the beginning only to end up becoming obsessed with the existential nightmare that is his debut series. It all feels so absurd, silly even. Do I even dare even call this the life I chose? It just doesn't feel right. I'm the kind of person that aims for precision after all. Oh well!

 

[KSA.gal]

thats explains why yamabuki got "safe delivery" and "good health for mother & child" as her fortune slip, if hareta doesn't choose yamabuki, then she will most likely end up getting married to someone she doesn’t even know and have a child at such a young age😢… this game world is so cruel…

 

[S-Reader]

Is it that kind of route that's killing himself and his bestfriend to end the world and stays together even until death?

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

Dang I was about to comment how excited I was for pantsless Misaki and then Yamabuki dropped the existential crisis bomb...

Question. Do you think it is bad game design to have the character you don’t marry in a dating Sim go onto live a miserable and sad life? is that just the developer guilt tripping you into picking that person?

Like how in Katawa Shoujo you need to live with the knowledge that outside your chosen girl everyone is left to deal with their own struggles alone

 

[Justking14]

Dang I was about to comment how excited I was for pantsless Misaki and then Yamabuki dropped the existential crisis bomb...


Like how in Katawa Shoujo you need to live with the knowledge that outside your chosen girl everyone is left to deal with their own struggles alone

Havent played that one but yeah.

I actually really like how they do it in. Hush Hush - Only Your Love Can Save Them. Where you actually need to finish each girl’s story and help them overcome their trauma to beat the game. And then at the end, you can pick which girl to bring home while the rest basically forgot you