Ookii Kouhai wa Suki Desu ka? - Vol. 2 Ch. 16 - A Change of Heart, and the Girl (Kouhai) Dances
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@Bandithadron, yeah your aunt, family members, or people much older than you doing that isn't sexual in the least. But if you're telling me, a girl one year younger than you, in highschool, shoving your face into her tits isn't a sign she kinda likes you or is flirting with you; Well you're just a complete idiot.
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So from what I know this is actually something that can get lost in translation. Japanese can be a very context dependent language and it isn't uncommon for the subject of a sentence/topic to be dropped. It is one reason why a lot of misunderstanding in anime/manga happen when someone only hears part of a conversation. In English the sentence overheard may have a pronoun/subject stated because it wouldn't make sense without it while the original Japanese doesn't, so if you didn't hear the first part where the subject is stated it can be easy to make an erroneous assumption. In a case like this chapter I think it may be the same because they could be talking without stating the subject, both assuming the subject is one thing when the other thought it was different.
The above along with Japanese being heavily gender neutral with personal pronouns is also why there are so many instances of people assuming someone was a certain gender/sex based on a conversation, when in English we really only have they/them as gender neutral personal pronouns and it doesn't flow as smoothly so it makes it seem odd that the character mistook someone's gender.
So from what I know this is actually something that can get lost in translation. Japanese can be a very context dependent language and it isn't uncommon for the subject of a sentence/topic to be dropped. It is one reason why a lot of misunderstanding in anime/manga happen when someone only hears part of a conversation. In English the sentence overheard may have a pronoun/subject stated because it wouldn't make sense without it while the original Japanese doesn't, so if you didn't hear the first part where the subject is stated it can be easy to make an erroneous assumption. In a case like this chapter I think it may be the same because they could be talking without stating the subject, both assuming the subject is one thing when the other thought it was different.
The above along with Japanese being heavily gender neutral with personal pronouns is also why there are so many instances of people assuming someone was a certain gender/sex based on a conversation, when in English we really only have they/them as gender neutral personal pronouns and it doesn't flow as smoothly so it makes it seem odd that the character mistook someone's gender.
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as a kid, you mock them for it. as a teenager, it’s your fetish.
that’s all you learn from these kinda ecchi manga.
that’s all you learn from these kinda ecchi manga.
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