Osananajimi no Watashi wa Mob de Itai no ni, Nazeka Heroine no Renai Taishou ni Natte Iru. - Vol. 1 Ch. 2

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She's incredibly self-centered, but she also doesn't feel entitled to the affection and efforts of others. What's more is that she's a transactionalist, seeing what others give her as potential burdens to be repaid, so tries to opt out of such situations. She's nothing at all like Shindou even if they are both extremely self-centered.
Everyone is self-centred - everyone, bar none. We are each literally the centre of the universe in every way that we can see and hear and feel. It takes active, conscious observation of the world around us, and active, conscious modeling of that world as a separate thing which exists independently of ourselves, to counter that foundational solipsism.

Our MC seems self-centred for a number of reasons, but the biggest one is that she's in the middle of a literal existential crisis - she's struggling to make any kind of rational judgement as to the reality of the world she's in and the people around her, so all that she has left is her own sense of self. But that's taken massive damage as well, because she's got memories from two different lives sloshing around in her head - on top of that, one of those lives includes memories of a different perspective on some parts of the other life (from playing the game). Everything around her is coloured by that, and the only way she can handle it is to focus inward, on herself and on her own direct observations, while she rebuilds her understanding of the world around her.

The game's MC . . . . . is just childish. He hasn't fully developed that model of the world around him as a separate thing that has its own independent existence, and as a result he's got a strong tendency to see the way that things have happened in the past as being the way things should be - his childhood friend making him lunch every day is just how the world works, and the fact that it's a conscious choice by someone other than him doesn't seem to have registered. The way he's reacted to the world changing reinforces that assessment - the rational response would be to accept her decision and move on, or (depending on their relationship) to negotiate or plead with her to change or something like that, anything that recognises that she has her own separate existence which he should respect; instead, he's basically just whining about how he thinks the world should be.

One of them is in a position of massive disruption and uncertainty, the other is simply being exposed to the normal minor challenges of growing up . . . so yeah, just some slight differences between the two.

How they progress from here will be interesting. They both have the same choice: head further down the solipsistic self-centred path (for different reasons, and to different ends, but with the same underlying cause - not being able to see the world around them as truly real), or engage with the world more fully, and interact with the people around them with the respect they deserve . . .
 
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He has never learnt cooking his lunches because he hasn't really been offered that option ever: in the flashback (on the 12th page) we see how insistent “old Suzuna” has been about him eating the bento she cooked for him, and thus he must have thought “why would I antagonize her over minor stuff?” and rather let himself remain ignorant about cooking his own lunches.

Not unlike his own sister, he technically can start cooking now and gradually improve.
Yeah, naah . . . .

Unless the "Old Suzuna" was literally following him around at home constantly and bitching at him whenever he went near the kitchen, he has no excuse other than laziness for not learning the most basic cooking skills. He chose not to do so - the fact that "Old Suzuna" made him lunch all the time helped enable that choice, but it was still his choice, and his responsibility.
 
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Loving the dark comedy of a useless harem protagonist dude's entire life being wrecked almost as much as the cute gay romantic comedy.
 
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She seems to oscillate between bullheaded stubborness and surrendering to circumstances and a supposed game plot. Oh well, the vagaries of teenagehood.
 
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There's so much I want to say here so imma make it as short as possible
First of all, ye Self-centered protag in for some reason always being wrote as the person who people will be attract to
Also leave me thinking "Why this type of characters gets the romance" of course this troupe has been into the medium so much that I stop caring about it

Follow up by the previous chapter, the Extrovert adopting Introvert around lmao, it's the force of nature (or the game system in this case )
New Challenger Appear: A Wild Little Sister Joins the Battle (Is that route going to be Oreimo style? :worry:)

Slight Jealousy at Page 13? Or is it the Possessiveness Nature? :meguusmug: Either way I'm all for it
The introvert got kidnapped by the extrovert Wohooo (Don't translate this into real life, sometimes it could be annoying and overwhelming)

Big Gal got a Big Appetite, a welcomed character, yis

Page 22 is when I see a Yandere in making (maybe just me)

Suzuna (Mashiro) use the "Art of the Deal", it's Super Effective !

A Route that make a character's cooking better when you engage with them? Remind me a lots of Harvest Moon Back to Nature, Elli's Route (Yes that's what my mind wander to)

Aight, that's all what I have to say for the chapter, sorry for all the yapping you have to read here, maybe I should put the disclaimer hahahahaha
 
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Not sure how I feel about this chapter. I mean, Amatsuki keeps saying Shindou is pushy and whatnot, but it seems Hinase is just as pushy. Shindou is just operating as if they were childhood friends, which they are. Don't get me wrong I'm down for gyaru yuri all day, but aside from the gender differences it seems like Hinase and Shindou aren't too dissimilar at this point in the story.
 

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