Ogami Tsumiki to Kinichijou - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - Tsumiki and Senga

[T10_]

so he likes to be insulted

 

[MaleNagisa]

That was actually well explored. While he is dislikable in the past chapters, that cus his nature is by definition, non human/ very alien like to us the readers, cus he's meant to not act just like a "normal decent" person would.

I kinda like that, and it gives a chance for the vampire boy to be more likeable in the future. so even if I still don't like him now, this makes him more acceptable

 

[bruzilu]

Vampire boy has redeemed himself in my book. In another news, he’s probably got a fetish for masochism and being looked down upon.

 

[Dooble]

I thought his reaction was normal for a boy who was still in school but arent vampires live for a super-duper long time and be much more mature?

To be 1300 years old, first you gotta be 13 years old. He's in high school because he's high school age, rather than being ancient but looking like a high schooler. (Also vampires in fiction are often portrayed as especially immature, if anything, eternal youth and becoming 'above' humanity having stunted their personal development; but as stated we don't know how long vampires live in this world, specifically, and it seems likely it's human range.)

Anyways people reading this as a love triangle are I think missing the point. Tsumiki has no romantic feelings for Senga. (You can see this in chapter three, even, she's visibly uncomfortable with him until he makes it clear he's after a snack instead of hitting on her.) Senga keeps bringing up "Are you sure you don't love me?" because the guy can't fathom people not being head over heels for him because he has a super unnuanced view, and is trying to probe this in the pinching yourself to see if you're dreaming way. He wants her to prove him wrong so he can believe in it more, and then she does, and then he responds happily. I don't think that even really qualifies as subtext, this really is just text, here.

(This... also explains why he only bites girls without it being a romantic thing for him; if his experience with boys is so often negative in a "How dare you be popular way", at least the girls tend to fawn over him and so usually go along with it. Dude's a bit screwed up but it's hard to blame a kid for that. Certainly hard to blame a kid who has fucking always active I'm-Super-Attractive fumes coming off him. That would have fucked with my head as a teen.)

Also, notice how this chapter pretty bluntly touched on the issues of Genjin fitting into human society and the disconnects? And so did the last one? And chapter two? And chapter one? It's almost like the people saying the manga was doing that in chapter three were, in fact, correct, not hallucinating themes into the NTR bait that I still can't really see how it. Was.

Anyways, to anyone where having multiple boys involved in a love story is a problem, have you considered yuri?

 

[Amirifiz]

So I guess vampire guy is always going to tag along ? I don't really like that

and it will only get worse if he starts falling for her because I know the MC is just gonna stand there and watch

Did you not read chapter 3 where the MC grabbed the girl from him, even if he didn't understand why at the time?

 

[motheblackcat]

Author: "You hate this character? HERE'S MORE OF HIM!"

 

[plokm21]

I can clearly see this manga isn't actually going to be about cute romance but random genjin bullshit with the dog girl doing something so le wacky in the last page to wake people from the comatose the rest of the chapter put them under.

 

[unfilteredjw]

Dropped, lol.
Just typical shoujo manga in disguise. Expecting some shitty love triangle soon.

Man, literacy competence is lacking all over the place.

I'd figure a bunch of shut in nerds would be more sympathetic to someone just wanting friends but the self insertion makes it too hard to have another guy around. Fucking clowns.

 

[MerlinD]

I thought vampires don't appear in photos

 

[ARoyalidiot]

Man people just get mad over everything nowadays.

Woof girl bluntly insulting the leech was hilarious

 

[Boneless_Pizza_69]

Dropped, lol.
Just typical shoujo manga in disguise. Expecting some shitty love triangle soon.

I think it's going to be love triangle only in name. Senga is obviously going to fall for the FMC but the FMC is going to make it very clear she only has feeling for the MC.

 

[bruzilu]

To be 1300 years old, first you gotta be 13 years old. He's in high school because he's high school age, rather than being ancient but looking like a high schooler. (Also vampires in fiction are often portrayed as especially immature, if anything, eternal youth and becoming 'above' humanity having stunted their personal development; but as stated we don't know how long vampires live in this world, specifically, and it seems likely it's human range.)

Anyways people reading this as a love triangle are I think missing the point. Tsumiki has no romantic feelings for Senga. (You can see this in chapter three, even, she's visibly uncomfortable with him until he makes it clear he's after a snack instead of hitting on her.) Senga keeps bringing up "Are you sure you don't love me?" because the guy can't fathom people not being head over heels for him because he has a super unnuanced view, and is trying to probe this in the pinching yourself to see if you're dreaming way. He wants her to prove him wrong so he can believe in it more, and then she does, and then he responds happily. I don't think that even really qualifies as subtext, this really is just text, here.

(This... also explains why he only bites girls without it being a romantic thing for him; if his experience with boys is so often negative in a "How dare you be popular way", at least the girls tend to fawn over him and so usually go along with it. Dude's a bit screwed up but it's hard to blame a kid for that. Certainly hard to blame a kid who has fucking always active I'm-Super-Attractive fumes coming off him. That would have fucked with my head as a teen.)

Also, notice how this chapter pretty bluntly touched on the issues of Genjin fitting into human society and the disconnects? And so did the last one? And chapter two? And chapter one? It's almost like the people saying the manga was doing that in chapter three were, in fact, correct, not hallucinating themes into the NTR bait that I still can't really see how it. Was.

Anyways, to anyone where having multiple boys involved in a love story is a problem, have you considered yuri?

If someone can’t deal with multiple possible love interests, they shouldn’t read manga in general. A lot of manga, regardless of what type it is, is going to have romance put into the story one way or another and love rivals are usually a guarantee

 

[ARoyalidiot]

I thought vampires don't appear in photos

Depends on the setting. Originally in the myths they didn't show up on mirrors made with silver, coincidentally this part of the myth started when mirror sellers started selling silver mirrors, before that, vampire myths had nothing about reflections. And by time vampires became movie monsters, people forgot the silver bit, since it became more popular as a werewolf weakness, when in myth there really wasn't a distinction between the two

 

[bruzilu]

I think it's going to be love triangle only in name. Senga is obviously going to fall for the FMC but the FMC is going to make it very clear she only has feeling for the MC.

Not even a love triangle fr, it’s like a double edged arrow between Tsumiki and the MC and then a random arrow from Senga to Tsumiki. Even then, I can’t tell if Senga is truly in love or is happy that someone is being different to him.

 

[Boneless_Pizza_69]

Author: "You hate this character? HERE'S MORE OF HIM!"

You hate this character. I make you like or at least understand him.

 

[Boneless_Pizza_69]

That was actually well explored. While he is dislikable in the past chapters, that cus his nature is by definition, non human/ very alien like to us the readers, cus he's meant to not act just like a "normal decent" person would.

I kinda like that, and it gives a chance for the vampire boy to be more likeable in the future. so even if I still don't like him now, this makes him more acceptable

I think the drinking blood should be more show as a necessity like food, water or air nothing else.

 

[Al_Azif]

Hopefully this will be the last we see of him being a main focus.

 

[Luna-pyon]

Tsumiki's one smooth operator

 

[Whitehalo127]

Man, literacy competence is lacking all over the place.

I'd figure a bunch of shut in nerds would be more sympathetic to someone just wanting friends but the self insertion makes it too hard to have another guy around. Fucking clowns.

Hard agree. This isn't anything complicated and it so far going the route I assume it would go as it explores the differences between human sensibilities and genjin's. It also doesn't do away with the vampire boy's cringe behavior but rather explain it and leaves for character growth as the story progresses which is the whole point.

 

[jkl2953]

Senga character is slightly more likable. Tsumiki good job done well helping senga. However if senga happens to develop feelings for her just because she helped him, me and Yutaka jumping him on sight, I just need one love interest and one only in this manga

I thought about that, I find that (hopefully) unlikely. I think Senga values friendship much more than love given his past experiences, and I (on hopium) think he won't develop feelings for Tsumiki.