Nonderi Kubo wa Genjitsu no Koi ga Shiritai - Ch. 1

[BulbaCPG]

bro is not rentarou

 

[Skater901]

The template high school killed hard.

*The template high scool.

 

[Carn109]

Real

 

[draxdeveloper]

"do you have any girlfriend?" is a question that I ask about some romcom writers, like... Sometimes it sounds like they never were in a real relationship

 

[kmd3133]

Im sorry for her.

 

[Kaito57]

I mean... once again, I gotta be the Devil Advocate here : he literally said he had no idea about how dating and romance work outside of fiction. Unless Main Girl starts putting some XP into Patience, she's going t be part of the Losing Main Girl Club just as the FMC of https://mangadex.org/title/348966d0-c807-45cf-9260-8adf006a9da6?tab=art was before her...

 

[Valentine115002]

Bro thought he's the GOAT Rentaro

 

[Alsavarolltime]

This nga pissing me off

 

[ireadmangasforfun23]

He's tomoya, but instead of making a game, he's making a novel

 

[Flyingpantsu]

I like how easily he roasts people with the sharp and cold truth of solid facts.

 

[rphilly]

It's interesting to me that the editor heaps a bunch of praise onto Kubo's writing then follows it up with it's a romcom without realism and the characters don't feel alive. In other words, Kubo wrote an awful trashy romcom. Basically negating any of praise the editor provided before.

We then go on to be shown that Kubo was apparently raised by wolves or is otherwise somehow ignorant to any and all matters of basic human relationships. His parents must be serial cheaters for him to think having multiple partners at one time to be a reasonable goal.

 

[ranrastel]

Is this Kubo Tite origin story of how he became successful mangaka of bleach?

 

[Highorse]

Gut reaction to this is that it's making a mistake in trying to keep the heroine "(shoujo-)normal" and the guy kinda grounded. I get that it's going for a "teasing a cat you're playing with" vibe where the relationship she wants is constantly dangled juuust out of reach and jerked away when she dares to hope for it.

But pairing her honest affection with his spectrum-y "does he mean it or does he not" feels a little too real and too cruel for me to even smile at.

If she had a similarly cynical reason to be engaging with him, like morbid curiosity, or if she were an unsympathetic yandere dirtbag pretending to be normal and ruining his "lesson data," it would hit better. Similarly, if he were even crazier, the action bigger, or he only viewed the world through romcom tropes or something, I think you could get away with having her be normal-ish.

But trying to walk the tightrope of narrow plausibility like this is risky, because people might kinda check out, emotionally, at which point all you're left with is a very compromised comedy.
Hope I'm wrong and it hits its stride.

ay deadass. Every second interaction with this guy is him pushing a boundary but not in like a super exaggerated way. It lowkey makes ME uncomfortable, much less a girl. I agree that if they just made em both a bit crazy it would be miles more entertaining.