Miyu-chan wa Zutto Tomodachi - Ch. 36 - Her Little Prince

[MangaDex]

 

[BagusAndhika]

I think we know the outcome of this conversation

 

[UdenEmpati]

FakeMiyu will use every tool at her disposal, including the one-sided crush of a gay classmate to drag said classmate into contacting a terrifying stalker-ish different classmate.

Haruto shooting his shot, though. Yuushin ....well, I think I would probably at least humor with a date, were I in his position, but that's not my call to make. If he fears/wants to help Miyu as much as he claims, it'd be in his best interest to agree to at least something with Haruto, but...yeah.

I wasn't expecting the moment of honesty from Hikawa, though. He really did lose someone super important to him. Reaching out to Miyu, and her letting him in that moment, was touching. (Even if she did punch him immediately prior.)
Can't help but wonder at the multi-layered meaning to her bit of narration, there. She herself must have been attached to the Real Miyu, and is now ...looking to fill the hole in her own heart, with Yuushin?

I think I need to reread this whole thing after this volume concludes to make sure I have it all straight. I'm still convinced Yuushin's drastically changed from before--like some sort of mental block, and that he used to be quite different (like...possibly less kind, type thing). FakeMiyu is teaming up with him for very significant reasons, and it's undoubtedly because out of everyone in that class, he was perhaps closest to RealMiyu. But I can't help but feel like there's another layer to it, and it includes some bit of memory that he's currently missing.
Lots of moving parts, as well - and I don't get the impression that any of it's nonsensical--it all seems rather thought-out, so a full review might shed new light, now that we're this far in.

This one feels like a proper mystery haha



Thanks for the TL.

 

[Skater901]

Definitely be interesting to see how Yuushin responds. Has he ever considered the possibility of being with a man?

I like the dialogue about having a hole in your heart. It helps fake Miyu feel more human. She's been so strange for a lot of this series, it feels like she's a straight up psychopath with no emotions. So I like the moments that show she is actually human, despite all her weirdness.

 

[razorshaleh]

Yandere freak from early age

thank you for translating

 

[biologist]

Yuushin being used again.

 

[Edrikhtg]

Ayo, go chase your dream Hongo boy aint no one stopping ya

 

[jackjack9]

Yuushin is going to contact Arisugawa, isn't he?

 

[Osha]

Oh so that's why he's gay (or at least heavily leans that way), Arisugawa freaked him out so much that he just kinda rejects women as a result. Fairly understandable honestly.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Oh so that's why he's gay (or at least heavily leans that way), Arisugawa freaked him out so much that he just kinda rejects women as a result. Fairly understandable honestly.

I mean - Hongo says during that flashback that despite her clear attraction to him, he just "felt nothing".

He's always been gay, it wasn't a reaction to her intensity.

 

[KensouADV]

Well how much Yuushin wants to help fake-Miyu? And I doubt many readers are still in doubt about Hongo now. At least he's taking his chance. Dunno if fake-Miyu might like it.

 

[Doutorfunga]

All this convo about "is he or isn't he?" and I'm just wondering what fake Miyu and the other kid did after he grabbed her skirt.
The panels after that sure made it look like they slept with each other after fake Miyu sent Yuushin away

 

[Vverg]

 

[Dantrig]

They went to cram school at 3yrs old to study for the elementary school entrance exam!?!? What the fuck is wrong with their parents?

 

[AraraDeTerno]

I really don't think Yuushin is the culprit. I've been rereading the manga to see if I missed any clues that would indicate he lost his memories or something, and these clues that it seems Miyu gives about him still being a suspect based on "showing his real self" are actually tied to the easily forgotten concept of "Yuushin has been putting on a fake nice and kind act because OG Miyu ingrained it in him from his childhood" they introduced back in the beginning and barely bring up. But it's not like this is a secret - he's conscious of this, as shown in chapter 7, pages 19 and 20. So is Miyu: in chapter 8 she says "You are just being influenced by her, your excessive kindness is like a thin layer of ice."

I also don't think Miyu thinks he's the culprit either. In chapter 7 again, we saw her disconsidering him as a suspect and this was in her own room by herself. Considering we also often get to see his thoughts, I don't think the author is gonna pull a "he's the real culprit" twist, unless they introduce some sort of memory loss. And even then that'd feel forced as hell.

IMO in the author's previous work, they tended to make shady characters seem more, well, clearly shady. We're also meant to get invested in Yuushin and new Miyu's relationship, so ending the series with him being a murder that gets caught only for them to never connect again would likely disappoint his reader base.

I'd place a bet on Yuushin being innocent.

 

[emos_sukc]

Got a loyal girl but wanna chase after a guy who was willingly going to fuck his female friend, Bruh come on man

 

[TamamoRoute]

I will take her not voicing that Miyu died and only letting him arrive to that conclusion by being silent as a hint crumb that this Miyu is the real one and that the dead one is the fake one, thank you very much (absurd levels of coping, I know).

 

[Osha]

I mean - Hongo says during that flashback that despite her clear attraction to him, he just "felt nothing".

He's always been gay, it wasn't a reaction to her intensity.

I mean that doesn't contradict in any way what I said.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I mean that doesn't contradict in any way what I said.

Your phrasing made it sound like you were saying he became gay because she came onto him so strong and it turned him off women.

I'm saying he was always gay, and he had that confirmed when she threw herself at him and he felt nothing from it.

If I misinterpreted you, that's on me. But the two things I laid out above are markedly distinct.

 

[BobBob]

Who the hell sends toddlers to cram school? What can they even cram then? Picture books? Lol at Hina being a gigayandere though. Hongo making a move on Yushin is juicy. How far is that gonna go?