Otonari-san Game - Vol. 2 Ch. 27

[MangaDex]

 

[supug]

kaede feelsbadman

 

[havelmom]

nobody is this innocent

 

[jonsmth]

@givemersspls
It's normal jealousy, but for the emotionally immature Keisuke, he wouldn't know any other way to act upon that feeling than to be possessive.
This isn't messed up; it's natural and instinctive and it doesn't matter if there is any "statement of romance".
If anything, declaring Maiko to be his alone is his first ever romantic statement in his entire life.
Since childhood, he never had to feel jealous intensely as he just did since Maiko has always been at his side. Their childhood relationship never really developed, and it doesn't help that the Maiko is too timid to get anything going despite now that she has finally become conscious of him.

Only being aware of the emotion of jealousy and the tendency to act on it that one could actually avoid being possessive. No one taught these children what those emotions are. Kaede knows, but he can't even give his little brother a hint (this is more devious really).

 

[BCS]

I guess what I hoped for was, since the second volume was cancelled and author self-published it, he would break the mold since there was no editor pushing him in a particular direction, nor did he have to keep to the theme of the magazine it's published in.

But instead it seems the opposite has happened... this is by-the-numbers shitty romcom and the whole thing with Kaede is just obligatory "rival out of nowhere" drama to pad the length.

 

[BZo1480]

Wait, so people are trying to argue that Kaede invited Maiko to that festival just because he wanted to spend time with her as friends? He literally said to Maiko that he wanted to take her from Keisuke during the last few chapters before the date while he was wooing her and even said to himself that he "didn't want to lose to Keisuke again." Hell, he even implied that Keisuke was doing the secret training because the girl he liked was in the club implying that Keisuke liked the manager just to force Maiko to consider him.

Don't know where this revisionist history came from about Kaede's motivations because it sure as hell didn't come from the story itself.

 

[Walter_vi_Britannia]

@givemersspls No he's not. He's just jealous because he's in love with her. He doesn't understand that so he's misunderstanding his feelings. I don't think he truly means exactly that, he just couldn't put into words how he wants her. It's obvious he is not trying to hoard her all to himself by how he casually tried to invite him too for the coupons. He just wants to hoard her as a lover, and he doesn't understand that.

 

[FredFriendly]

@BZo1480

Wait, so people are trying to argue that Kaede invited Maiko to that festival just because he wanted to spend time with her as friends? He literally said to Maiko that he wanted to take her from Keisuke during the last few chapters before the date while he was wooing her and even said to himself that he "didn't want to lose to Keisuke again." Hell, he even implied that Keisuke was doing the secret training because the girl he liked was in the club implying that Keisuke liked the manager just to force Maiko to consider him.

Don't know where this revisionist history came from about Kaede's motivations because it sure as hell didn't come from the story itself.

I couldn't have said it better myself!

 

[jonsmth]

@givemersspls

If Keisuke knew that Kaede had romantic intentions, then it would make more sense because then Kaede would arguably be trying to monopolize Maiko

If Keisuke is aware of Kaede's intentions, I think he would have let them have their date out of consideration for his big brother and Maiko. This kid gave up football because Maiko made a passing comment about baseball being cool. And with this particular hypothetical case, Keisuke would be more aware of Kaede's romantic feelings towards Maiko than Keisuke's own.

While Keisuke does act childish, he isn't that sort of 1-dimensional character. Not every character has to follow the same pattern. Does that make sense?

What Keisuke sees is two friends spending time together. Keisuke is like no, fuck that, you don't get to spend time with friends unless I'm okay with it.

He was just tailing them for a while until Kaede left Maiko alone to be bothered by some strangers.
The "she is mine!" statement came from the flashback with Kaede spitefully saying, "don't go thinking Maiko is something can keep for yourself", and after Kaede trying to coax out a reason from Keisuke for why he was following them. Before all that, Keisuke seemed content with just following them to the point of denying that he was even following them.
"Now, in both time and reality, Maiko, have you chosen to be my woman?" is just Keisuke playing along with Kaede who suggested a contest with Maiko as the prize - it wasn't some serious psychotic shit.

Now that I think about it, maybe Kaede the schemer is being considerate for his little brother too? Perhaps being told that you love someone is a little sleazy? It's obvious that Maiko is head over heels for Keisuke, and Keisuke cares for Maiko, but Keisuke is ignorant of romance. Maybe Kaede is taking advantage of the situation and his own romantic feelings to provoke Keisuke?

 

[BZo1480]

@givemersspls Keisuke does know because Kaede straight-up told him when they had their argument in chapter 23(even tells him to go find another girl, to boot). Hell, it's the damn reason Keisuke looks so hurt when Maiko tells him that she doesn't care about hearing about his club activities and that she hadn't picked out what to wear for when she and Kaede were going out that Sunday. Keisuke may be overtly ignorant about romance, but he definitely showed he had some sort of understanding of what Kaede was trying to do with Maiko.

 

[jonsmth]

@BZo1480
> but he definitely showed he had some sort of understanding of what Kaede was trying to do with Maiko
I don't think Keisuke was getting the hint. You could run riddles and mind games to a 5 year old, but the 5 year old is gonna 5 year old.
If Kaede instead says, "I like Maiko. Can you please not get in my way/please help me out?", then Keisuke would have acted differently.
I think Keisuke was just suspicious of them because for one, he was being left out when the status quo was that they would rather all played together.

What do you do when you're curious about something you don't know about? You investigate it.

 

[BZo1480]

@jonsmth "he was being left out when the status quo was that they would rather all played together."

This does not fly considering Keisuke's actions after arguing with Kaede when he was waking up and leaving early to go to school with Maiko before Kaede could. Keisuke had some understanding of what Kaede was doing or else Maiko's words to him that Saturday wouldn't have hurt him like they did.

 

[jonsmth]

@BZo1480
Hmm, rereading the last few chapters, it still doesn't come off as Keisuke being aware. Kaede was being antagonistic, so Keisuke could only react in kind to his big brother's provocations. Keisuke and Kaede were fighting/sulking.

Keisuke was deeply hurt because he was getting better at baseball and wanted to tell Maiko about it, but Maiko shrugged it off because she thought it Keisuke's good news was going to be about the baseball club manager.

 

[SpecialProjectY]

Finally some "progress"?