Norainu to Tenshi-chan - Ch. 1

[Celespirit]

tf is up with japan bruh, why are they always obsessed with making a romance between a school girl and a guy 20 or above??

 

[bornonamonday]

i was waiting to see what "the incident" was but man…maybe cuz i live in the states, that just seems like such a silly premise. also why does she have to be as young as possible 😭 i wouldn’t feel weird about it if she was like 17 but no, gotta be a fresh high school girl

Depends on where you live. Small towns where everyone knows or tries to get in everyone's business definitely act like this, especially older assholes carrying grudges they take out on the children till they die.

 

[Laman30]

Spoiler

"us treating him like a criminal just because his father was a criminal isn't prejudice, right?"

"Is grass green?" ahh question

 

[DudeWhoReadsManga]

i was waiting to see what "the incident" was but man…maybe cuz i live in the states, that just seems like such a silly premise. also why does she have to be as young as possible 😭 i wouldn’t feel weird about it if she was like 17 but no, gotta be a fresh high school girl

There's a clear obsession of a lot of Japanese people in general when it comes to dating high schoolers. It's borderline pedophilic and IDK why they even do this. I've only counted a few mangas where they actually call it out, where a grown ass adult flirting / dating with a high schooler being fucked up.

I get it with them projecting themselves as high schoolers and dating one because it's more on nostalgia factor. But dating high schoolers? And for those who don't know, there's a niche trafficking / prostituting/ fake dating industry for grown adults to partake with teenagers, which is a common knowledge and is still somehow active until this day. There's a ton of newsletters specifically for this ongoing issue and it has been baked into the current cultural climate of Japan. Hell, the entire Idol industry hinges on satisfying Japanese adult's teenage fantasies.

 

[AsuKejang]

That slut glasses bitch, there's a special place in hell for people like that bitch

 

[GrumpyGizmo]

It legit made me cry a bit because the injustice. Poor guy...

 

[TheBlackGamer]

idk gang what do we think of 20 and 15

I don't care. Bring on the age gap.

i was waiting to see what "the incident" was but man…maybe cuz i live in the states, that just seems like such a silly premise. also why does she have to be as young as possible 😭 i wouldn’t feel weird about it if she was like 17 but no, gotta be a fresh high school girl

Because Japan has thing where their society cares about image. Shocking revelation I know. Makes total sense a father or mother being a killer would damn their family life. Doesn't help that there is scientific evidence that you inherit personality traits from your parents. So there is basis to it even when said person doesn't inherit negative traits from their parent at all.

Again society thing on the high schooler part. This is just a difference in culture where youth is highly valued. Granted youth in woman is highly valued in all cultures but it's way more prevalent there. Btw this is true for S.Korea and China as well.

 

[AsianThonk]

Tourists, thats what you all who complained are tbh. Sure they could make her over 18 and shit, but whats with the compulsory dismiss of a story once a number is said out there? Maybe the author wants to focus on the drama of the disparity between a guy without a proper childhood due to his background and a girl is 'privilaged' at that age for comparision. Its like there's a pandemic of 'groomer' and 'pdfile' cryers at the first mention of anything underage, 'fictional' one at that. Meanwhile the troupe of lolibaba just needs to mention that a loli is 3000 years old and everything is suddenly fine and dandy (not that it isnt). Im fucking tired chief, the virtue signaling fatigue is real

 

[TheBlackGamer]

Tourists, thats what you all who complained are tbh. Sure they could make her over 18 and shit, but whats with the compulsory dismiss of a story once a number is said out there? Maybe the author wants to focus on the drama of the disparity between a guy without a proper childhood due to his background and a girl is 'privilaged' at that age for comparision. Its like there's a pandemic of 'groomer' and 'pdfile' cryers at the first mention of anything underage, 'fictional' one at that. Meanwhile the troupe of lolibaba just needs to mention that a loli is 3000 years old and everything is suddenly fine and dandy (not that it isnt). Im fucking tired chief, the virtue signaling fatigue is real

Nah the lolibaba doesn't even get that leeway anymore these days. If she's a loli and she's in an ecchi story it's immediately decried as pedo bait. It's obnoxious.

 

[BCS]

I was wondering just how stupid the "incident" will be when it's finally revealed. I did not expect it to be revealed in the very first chapter and be THIS stupid. I mean there actually wasn't even any "incident" lmao, he literally didn't do a thing.

Also the girl is a cunt.

 

[sedition]

This is such a weird trope that doesn't make any sense, maybe it's an Asia specific thing. In America having a murderer for a parent wouldn't ever effect your employment and your neighbors would never find out unless you lived in a very small town.

 

[Memoflora]

The murderer's son thing is definitely a cultural thing, though obviously being abused to add unrealistic levels of drama and conflict. The pedophile thing is not though, definitely illegal no matter how you cut it. There are a lot of shoujo manga that do teacher student relationships, and those are still incredibly creepy but this is way worse. I would still find it disturbing and be against it if it was a 17 year old with a 20 year old, but 15? There's absolutely no amount of mental gymnastics that can justify a relationship like that. I read it holding out hope based on the description that it would be an 18 year old third year, but after learning who the author is the poor moral and logistical decisions make much more sense.

 

[Kaarme]

It wasn't so long ago that someone wrote at length about this difference between West and East. Too bad I don't remember the manga and definitely not the chapter to locate the comment. West emphasizes individuality and thus also criminal past only applies to the criminal themselves. East emphasizes communality and thus a criminal in the family is a concrete disaster for the whole family. This same mentality then is reflected in the whole one must not be different from other students and so forth. Hmm... I feel like it was still deeper than that, connected to the East Asian maintaining face culture and so forth.

MC dude's treatment seems utterly unreasonable, but I suppose there's some truth to it in the Japanese society. It's no coincidence the MC used the words "tenant caste system". He's himself, in his whole life, a victim of a caste system where his father's ill deeds doomed him into the shunned caste. Unfortunately this sort of system just creates more criminals when a person is denied the chance to do honest work and be happy, no matter how much they tried.

 

[bloodnoon]

Japanese people shunning the kid of a murderer is mad stupid. Imagine pushing him closer to that side instead of making sure he doesn't follow his father's footsteps. You don't really see this shit in america unless it's a serial killer or very infamous.

A culture where people depend on "saving face" will collapse itself. I believe the best example of this right now is the massively declining birth rates in some Asian country's like China, South Korea, and Japan. You could blame economic reasons but western country's are doing relatively fine. It's the societal mindset of saving face, cheating culture, 996 work culture, and me against the world mentality that will end the east Asian country's.

 

[phorx]

Can anyone explain why the government or orphanage didn’t help that poor 11 year old kid to change their name. If stigmas like that are real in Japan then they have a duty to protect an innocent child. Changing his name would be the bare minimum they could do.