Shunkan Gradation - Vol. 3 Ch. 13

[MangaDex]

 

[jak]

I don't like the second male lead.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

I don't like how anyone acted this chapter. It was obvious he wanted everyone to just quit fucking badgering him, and not a single person twigged that maybe they should just bloody let it go. So then when he let loose, he let loose inexcusably hard, but if they'd taken the many hints driven home with increasingly large calibres of hammer it wouldn't have happened.
Since this is a shoujo, she'll have a heart-to-heart with him and he'll have some kind of epiphany and realize that trying hard is magic and stuff, but in real life it likely wouldn't go that way and everyone would have been better off shutting the hell up about baseball when he clearly didn't want to hear about it.

 

[Nightlilygirl-]

Yeah, I wasn't a fan of the blond guy from the beginning since he's the typical cool but troubled love rival trope, but they obviously cornered in this chapter, and I'll still give him a chance as a character if the author can give him a coherent backstory. Seriously though, can secondary characters in shoujo series ever be something aside from love rivals?

 

[FredFriendly]

@Purplelibraryguy I wholeheartedly agree with you. None of their business and keep your noses out of his affairs. But, of course, this gives the FMC the opportunity to hone her skills of becoming another "Miss Meddlesome," as well as giving them the opportunity to be alone together.

@Nightlilygirl- I'm with you on not liking him from the beginning since his only role is to be a thorn in the side of romance.

 

[shutup]

Everyone seriously needed to back off of Hakamada in this chapter, but in general he's a super dislikable character, so whatever.