Ouji-kei Kanojo no Akuheki - Ch. 16

[MangaDex]

 

[KyoShiro1277]

This is the last chapter released to date. The author's pixiv had its last chapter on March 4, 2024. The series was interesting but, as usual in recent years, this manga is unfortunately one of those that will not be continued or that are in hiatus because the author no longer gives any sign of life or the author is doing several stories at the same time.

I don't want to be pessimistic, but don't get your hopes up. We're over 500 days without a new chapter. Barring a miracle, I think the author has abandoned his story.

That said, the author has a twitter and regularly updates information on his new manga serialized Akogare no Sakka wa Ningen Ja Arimasen deshita.

 

[pink_rabbit]

The artist has done two doujinshis about boyfriend's friend. Guess this was their way they were done.

This is the last chapter released to date. The author's pixiv had its last chapter on March 4, 2024. The series was interesting but, as usual in recent years, this manga is unfortunately one of those that will not be continued or that are in hiatus because the author no longer gives any sign of life or the author is doing several stories at the same time.

Thank you regardless. Thank you and your team working hard on translating this.

 

[MoneyLoss]

I forgot about this manga. Thank you for the update

 

[wandere]

This is the last chapter released to date. The author's pixiv had its last chapter on March 4, 2024. The series was interesting but, as usual in recent years, this manga is unfortunately one of those that will not be continued or that are in hiatus because the author no longer gives any sign of life or the author is doing several stories at the same time.

I don't want to be pessimistic, but don't get your hopes up. We're over 500 days without a new chapter. Barring a miracle, I think the author has abandoned his story.

That said, the author has a twitter and regularly updates information on his new manga serialized Akogare no Sakka wa Ningen Ja Arimasen deshita.

Damn, this is it? Wild place to end although not as wild as a Soprano's type ending. Interesting experience. I did start to get yandere-type vibes from the female lead early on, which were confirmed as the story became much darker, but still a bit of a sudden twist of the kind that's hard to see outside of media that may not have been heavily planned from the outset. Seeing that I'm reading this at 12:30 AM I would have preferred something a bit sweeter as I initially expected, but in all honesty this was probably a more unique experience.


I'm not super familiar with yaoi; I get some yaoi vibes from both comments mentioning doujin and well...the way this story is drawn, although obviously this is a hetero romance. But, it isn't normative, and you kind of have that vibe of the guy being treated more like a girl, but unlike that one where the guy crossdresses, this is just like...maybe a little feminine but still looking like a guy being put into situations very similar to what would normally be depicted for a woman. Outside of just wanting to draw a femme-looking guy and masc-looking girl (more masc than a prince character usually is depicted in what I've read) this is thematically (in my mind) about things such as gender roles, obsession, and the capacity for people to change. We kind of have this main conflict of the female lead, who is essentially taking the role of toxic male lead in a more conventional hetero romance story, but depicted very explicitly as a negative thing and something she struggles with...and then you have the male lead. What does the male lead struggle with? Insecurity. It could be possible to miss, but we see moments where them having a girlish appearance seriously messes with their self esteem. I feel like most people who have grown up as a guy can probably somewhat relate to not fully fitting the mold of the "ideal man", and the forcefulness of the female lead only really exacerbates his insecurity; especially after the incident, not only does he feel like he can't protect himself as a man but he finds it hard to take the steps forward to break out of that insecurity; to note, it was his decision to not make the relationship public, which in part leads to this story in the first place. Beyond that, he seems to have a lot of trouble taking the initiative or being assertive, usually waiting for someone else to make a move first. Which isn't to say everything is his fault and victim blaming for almost getting raped (with no lube for that matter yikes; reminder that self lubricating anuses only exist in yaoi world); there's not a 50/50 split in unhealthy behaviors but he has some issues to work through.


And a lot of this is just 100% a gender role reversal. I'm not sure exactly what to say about it because the female lead acts like a male lead and the male lead acts like a female lead. However, one thing I'm kind of interested in is how they play with the "femboy" and "prince" archetypes in relation to the school in general. Oftentimes, our Prince character is mainly surrounded by faceless women besides perhaps one hanger-on; it's a very interesting concept I haven't gotten to explore much due to my reading habits, akin to how heterosexual men find things in guys attractive that heterosexual women don't and the reverse as well. This is the first time outside of hearing about it that I have seen this interest from the girls very explicitly be queer in nature, from the female lead threatening to steal the supporter guy's girlfriend to girls confronting the male lead after learning he is dating the female lead. It's all very out there, but perhaps by the subtext of Japanese society it is not seen as lesbian. Perhaps the concept of the Prince is itself a way to produce "acceptable" lesbian expression through someone who is at least somewhat more masculine than the average woman. If someone could further enlighten me on this I would appreciate it.


The reason why this is interesting is because in opposition, the way that male characters treat the male lead when it comes to his "feminine nature" is much more "covert". It comes in the form of jokes that don't quite seem like jokes, and actions that are covert and sneaky. Recall that the rapist guy specifically took him out drinking alone, then brought him drunk to his apartment alone in the middle of the night, all of this under the assumption that no one was going to catch him in the act. And that's kind of an interesting distinction between how we treat sexuality in men and women; it's shameful for a guy to even be remotely close to gay; for a woman, being lesbian is looked down upon, but oftentimes as long as they still fulfill their "role" in society people are fine just crossing out "lesbian" and writing in hetero*. Obviously there's the stuff with the femboys but to this day I'm not sure if outside of like, online spaces being heavily into femboys is really "accepted" as not making you some form of queer. Although I also am in the "liking femboys should be gay" camp; because the bisexuals need to conscript more forces in the Gay Wars.


Thinking about it more, the ending is kind of wacky, like it's a wild escalation from what we've seen; no one knows that this guy is secretly gay/bisexual or whatever, or we haven't been told that; like yes he is an attempted rapist but I'm not sure if that equates to changing into a stalker, although I suppose there could be a fear of their secret being revealed. Regardless the attempted isekai in broad daylight is kind of insane and between that and the dynamic between the leads that makes you feel like "damn why are they together at this point" sometimes I can see why they just dropped it. The chemistry between the leads once the psychological and drama aspects were put in just...feels kind of weak; it's mostly because it's like you're throwing romcom tropes into a romantic drama blender and they just don't hold up in terms of making a couple we can root for, leaving us with...I guess the male lead to root for? Maybe?

Anyway, thank you for updating this, otherwise I would never have found it.

Edit: Based on what's uploaded here, I might be off about the yaoi? No idea.

 

[NGASTQBASMS]

If you forgot like me, the scumbag was introduced in Ch 8 as a senpai in his club.

 

[Thrembs]

Considering the side content (his poor friend...), I have negative hope of the reboot being less cursed.

The author likes drawing assault and cheating.
FML.

Get these characters away from the artist. Give them better arcs. Soften their personality flaws.

Jesus, she half-unwittingly broke him down emotionally from childhood.
Soften all the blows!
Edit: seriously considering writing a novella about similar characters. Bring her teasing as a kid down. Strengthen his personality. Have his friend chastise her. Make the friend's girlfriend never become like in the side content (I don't want to say). Make her start out a but controlling, but gradually become less possessive. Have senpai be creepy, but not PSYCHO.
Have them have a healthy sex life (a softer version of their "m-bottom, f-top" is fuuuuucking hot. Yeah, I said it.
I have types. I like femboys. And hunky boys. And femme girls. And hunky girls. I do have more of a taste for more androgynous enbies, but it's not a requirement.
Trans people so tend to be cuter, because years worth of gender energy and growing confidence are attractive.

...and I'm a switch.)

I realised recently that the reason I was able to hand wave away so much is that I was still in an abusive relationship.

I couldn't see how bad it was. She's the worst. Isolation, emotional neglect as a means of control, gaslighting... and she left me because I decided since she wasn't working and I am far below the poverty line, I wasn't paying for pizza or robucks. Finds someone new, talks online for a month, meets in person once, gets engaged. Why? He's rich. But all the stuff he got her is in his name. Aside the absurdly hideous looney tunes rock. (It's an engineered diamond, credit where credit is due. It's a super generic design with this fucking d8-size stone. I saw it and thought "I married someone who would wear this?!")

And since the kid we raised together for the better part of a decade is technically "step", I don't get to see them.
She's moving our kid in with a stranger. To a worse school district (they went there before. They ended up a year behind everyone at the good one we lived in). In a house with only him on the mortgage.
Well, karma is a bitch, but don't bring a kid into this!

 

[dgajamebjejda]

i wanna see more femboys getting pegged

 

[Thrembs]

i wanna see more femboys getting pegged

Yes.
I'd like to see that up close.

I'd like to cause it.
Often.