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

[windfang]

Parent approval already? yes yes girl keep up your pace

 

[finalm]

Comments are oddly taking aim at his parents. From all of their appearances so far they've been equally supportive of BOTH of their children. His issue is self esteem due to girls using him and Youta comparing himself to his brother. Not school grades, lack of friends, or being bullied. From what we know his family love and support him. What can they really can they do about it? Tell the brother to make himself less attractive, less athletic especially when it appears he hasn't confided in his family.

What do you mean "what can they really do about it?"? Haven't you ever had your parents talk to you about unhealthy mentalities? Just about every child gets them, whether it's from becoming overly competitive about banal shit, or too self conscious when comparing themselves to others. Didn't they tell you that whatever shortcomings you're worried about don't really matter at your age and you'll make your own way with time? That's the least they should have done for him, it's still just passive parenting. An active parent takes it upon himself to actually help the child power through whatever problems they have - assist with academics, arrange extracurricular activities (to either help them improve or even just let them figure out it's not what they want to do), or even professional psychological help (it's not a big deal).

 

[Xykui]

I agree with people defending the parents, they probably see one child is more popular than the other so they make a slight tease because he doesn't tell them "Hey, the reason I don't hang out with girls is because they use me to get close to my brother," so all they see is a slightly antisocial son, not one with an inferiority complex towards his brother, because he doesn't say it. Parents tease antisocialism all the time, should they, maybe not, but it's gonna happen. There are worse ways they could tease being antisocial, but saying that "Hey, not having a big group around you makes it easy to talk to you" is not the same as saying "we're glad you're such a loner so we can see you at least, but we'd rather see your brother." Stop projecting, these parents are fine.

 

[catsdontsmile]

how the fuck did this manga get so peak?

 

[MaCl0wSt]

Peak

Thanks for the chapter!

 

[ForgottenSubs]

I'm just worrying for the future children of the kind of parents in the comments lol. Either they will be rotten spoiled brats or being naive sheltered kids who grow up having zero real life skill.

 

[GIN_8_6_]

This is getting omoshiroi

 

[Crisisninjax]

What do you mean "what can they really do about it?"? Haven't you ever had your parents talk to you about unhealthy mentalities? Just about every child gets them, whether it's from becoming overly competitive about banal shit, or too self conscious when comparing themselves to others. Didn't they tell you that whatever shortcomings you're worried about don't really matter at your age and you'll make your own way with time? That's the least they should have done for him, it's still just passive parenting. An active parent takes it upon himself to actually help the child power through whatever problems they have - assist with academics, arrange extracurricular activities (to either help them improve or even just let them figure out it's not what they want to do), or even professional psychological help (it's not a big deal).

So im gonna say you're doing a lot of inferring here. Nowhere in the 10 chapters currently is it implicitly or explicitly ever stated his parents know about his feelings or make him feel less than. In the flashback Ch.9 his parents console him after a loss to his brother. They don't tell him to be more like him just if he tries harder he might beat him. From the one scene we got at his home he seems fine with his brother. Youta has an inferiority complex brought on by his peers not his parents. His family from all appearances love and support him, his brother is happy to compete against him.

 

[Rafalga]

Name of the manga is severely out of place (it was already by ch.3 but still). Never seen such a shameless bait and switch

 

[Tinker_OwO]

The amount of comments in such a short amount of time made me think some shit went down lmaoo

 

[finalm]

So im gonna say you're doing a lot of inferring here. Nowhere in the 10 chapters currently is it implicitly or explicitly ever stated his parents know about his feelings or make him feel less than. In the flashback Ch.9 his parents console him after a loss to his brother. They don't tell him to be more like him just if he tries harder he might beat him. From the one scene we got at his home he seems fine with his brother. Youta has an inferiority complex brought on by his peers not his parents. His family from all appearances love and support him, his brother is happy to compete against him.

So are you, since there's nothing that points to them doing anything other than telling him "you can beat him if you try". This message is not the right thing to say in such a situation anyway. Also, no he isn't fine. If he was he wouldn't have this instinctual need to avoid any situation that might have others compare him to his brother, like that whole relay race. It's almost at trauma level, in fact and a sign of very poor parenting. It does not matter who's fault it is, it's the parent's responsibility to take serious steps to remedy it, which they are not doing.

 

[havelmom]

how did this manga get so popular? and is this why we have a literal flamewar in the comments while absolutely nothing dramatic is happening on the chapter itself? did this get featured in a famous tiktok or content creator?

 

[Lewd_Beast]

This chapter made me bump my score from 8⭐ to 9⭐. I need to hold a star back for future peakness.

 

[Erkle-_-]

There's a chance you would actually lose??? Sounds cap

I mean he rlly only won when they were younger cuz the age gap was "larger" between them. Like when ur younger a year or two is a much longer difference in development than around the end of high school right after most of puberty growth ends

 

[Wizardrone]

come on defeat anxiety

 

[alfirizkyr]

Reiya having a mini-panic over his brother competing seriously is cute.

Re: parents, yeah, it's not a nice thing to do, what they did. I had the good luck of being the "good kid" growing up, but my parents constantly compared my little brother to me (even jokingly like here) and they weren't even doing it consciously. The number they did on my brother's confidence until he finally found somewhere he could stand, I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

That said, genre savviness is a superpower, and I'm aware that the interaction in this genre convention was just meant to show that the Tohno parents are pretty chill about their kids and are mainly letting them figure things out as teenagers do, so I'll let it rest at that until anything shows otherwise.

 

[Darkshade13]

I can't tell if this is meant to be sarcastic or not, so forgive me if the following wasn't mean in earnest.

IKR !? I mean, they basically told him :

"Hey, Second Child ! We actually wanted to go cheer Rei, our Pride and Joy, first but his fans were so numerous, we couldn't even approach him, so, instead, we came see you because we know nobody care or even expect anything from you ! Seriously, your lack of bitches is kinda making it embarassing for Rei, our Pride and Joy, to be related to you !"

Like, WTF !? Was twisting the knife in the wound really necessary !?

The mom has a sign for him too. And they outright say that htey want to cheer for both boys, but they're there now (when he's not doing anything) because they can't get near the brother.

And they even double down with Izumi, basically telling her :

"Sorry you have to force yourself to hang out with our socially challenged Second Child that is not Rei, our Pride and Joy ! For some reasons that are definitely not related to living in the shadow of his super-popular brother Rei, our Pride and Joy, who has dozens of women drooling over him, he never seem to get along with his female classmates. Honestly, we kinda gave up on him giving us any grandchildren and usually just tell people he's adopted or/and gay : it's easier to justify the complete gap of success between him and Rei, our Pride and Joy !"

So, yes, I'm calling BS on them being even aware on how Youta is suffering from being constantly compared to Rei.

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.

 

[Tinker_OwO]

Is there anything cuter than a girl in men's clothing?

 

[JagdPanther]

how the fuck did this manga get so peak?

I wasn't entirely sure about this at first, but it is absolutely proving itself through 10 chapters.

 

[scragglyisback]

Thanks for the TL!! HQ af