Osoraku Kanojo wa Ore no Aniki wo Neratteru - Ch. 28

[Lewd_Beast]

The thing about the Reiya and Yukimura ship is that we are all already predisposed to look for romance, just by being here and reading this manga. I think our collective mindset is for love to spread far and wide, and for lots of side couples to reach peak romance, and for us all to die of diabetes.
As far as platonic relationships go, men can turn it off, but I think it needs a trigger, like the girl is a relative, gay or in a relationship already, at which point we can flip that switch, so the theory that men and women can never be friends is rot. Being the CF can mean that the switch stays off, especially with Reiya being so dense, he bends light. He has spent long enough just batting everything away, he has just never looked hard enough to notice that Yukimura could be different. As for her, we just don't know... Is she holding back? Does she really not fancy him, since she sees past the physical?
I always roll my eyes when author-san introduces fresh road blocks, but I'm not getting that energy from Yukimura... She could be a catalyst for main couple progress.

 

[Jay71]

She's SO obviously in love with the brother I love her x)

Also, I'm kinda happy that bro got at least someone that TRULY love him too, not just his looks. Even if it's a bit of a "mean love"

 

[SatchelBagman]

Here's another thing that bugs me about Japan... The cultural 'thing' of saying "Thank you for your hard work"...
To me, it seems like an automated, pre-programmed response, and no one really means it. It is just expected. Like "Thank You for the food" etc... Like how in the West, we often get it drummed into us to say "Please/Thank You", but as kids, we don't really mean it, we just know we will get told off if we forget ;-). However, in Japan it seems to go further. She is thanking him for his effort, again, in the West, we would probably reply with "You're welcome, thank you for showing me the ropes", so why are the Japanese programmed to just respond with this exact phrase, and not acknowledge the compliment?

Without looking at the raws and just going off of pattern recognition and knowledge of the language?

Because it's a rote phrase to use for someone who just got off work — the phrase's core component is literally the word for being tired/exhausted/weary, and if they weren't starting the conversation with it they could also be using it simply to say goodbye. She says it more casually and he says it more formally because he's younger than her and she's also his senpai at work, and they would be having this same exchange even if it wasn't his first day. This is social grease and conversational nicety, not a discrete compliment that requires detailed acknowledgement.

 

[ezzhead]

Yeah yeah yeah their relationship is great as it is and it could teach something important to Youta and not every man and woman in existence have to be in a relationship just because they're close I get all that BUT WHO TF CARES THE SHIP IS BEGGING TO SET SAIL