Osoraku Kanojo wa Ore no Aniki wo Neratteru - Ch. 10

[Carn109]

Parents approve
Izumi has so got Youta in the bag

 

[SatchelBagman]

That self-effacing, almost insulting "thanks for hanging out with our screw-up, useless kid" thing is a standard Japanese trope that is at least partially based on real Japanese culture, which prizes being so excessively modest and deferential about yourself and your family that you have to act like you/your relative is a terrible, unlikeable sloth of a person who is below deserving of basic decent treatment so that nobody could ever accuse you of being boastful or arrogant (unless you or that person are legit "special" in which case that level of arrogance is considered acceptable because you've "earned" it).

This is entirely a cross-cultural bit of confusion where something that is a part of the fabric of Japanese social interactions is viewed differently by westerners because it's not how we do things and that re-frames the discussion dramatically differently.

Yeah, this. This is a culture that has multiple levels of humble formal speech, the correct verb for giving something to someone depends on in-group/out-group divisions and comes with the connotation that someone is doing someone else a favor (correct usage puts the speaker below their in-group and the in-group below the out-group and using the wrong verb can turn a sentence from grateful to patronizing) and there's a whole other manga premised on a specific dialect's tendency to pointedly but indirectly say things with superficially complimentary language; the non-hospitality-based equivalent of "Thanks so much for coming, sorry the place is such a mess" is a commonplace social nicety in Japanese.

 

[JokoAviv]

😁👍

 

[NishaAzalea]

His family is so fun!
They are all supportive of him and love him, sad that he turned out this way because of all of Rei's fanatics...

Rei seems to really care for him too, although right now he seems scared cause little bro might break his win streak lol

 

[jrocker]

So it seems that the brother is scared or jealous of the MC. He seems to be really afraid that he may lose and truly views his brother an equal. He probably knows that his brother winning will break the facade he created.

 

[toxicella]

So it seems that the brother is scared or jealous of the MC. He seems to be really afraid that he may lose and truly views his brother an equal. He probably knows that his brother winning will break the facade he created.

That's your takeaway? Honestly, it seemed like he was a brocon and was excited about Youta beating him, making him proud.

 

[Ash6702]

I'm going to be honest that's just an entirely ordinary parental moment.
Parents just casually needling minor insecurities is basically a fact of life as normal as gravity.

Um dude thats not what parents are meant to do. Im very sorry that you went through that and normalized it in your head.

 

[Lunkli]

(Cont. From the end of p20)
BROTHER "Also, you probably shouldn't smoke."
THE GIRL "This is a lollypop."
BROTHER "Oh."

And then his whole façade is broken, everyone hates him, and Youta gets all the girls. THE END, best manga ever. I am a master of script-writing and Hollywood should hire me immediately. If you agree, please sign my petition at https://www.change.org/p/make-me-the-holly-wood-folks-attempt-twenty-three, please. If it's successful I'll personally give everyone who signed it a nice, shiny penny. (If you're not from America, you have to get it converted yourself. Sorry...)

 

[Yuyu_yusha]

Page 6: wait is that really 'Fucker'? rubbed eyes oh, it's 'Flicker'. It seems i need get my eyes checked.