"Suki" ga Nai Shoujo no Christmas... - Oneshot

[MangaDex]

 

[Mang-Oh]

I mean it got a bit too nerd wordy for my suspension at the end but yeah. I kinda vibe with this
Merry Day After Christmas!

 

[malfoym]

what is this depressing manga

 

[Kaiser92]

I dun get it~

 

[PoopySmeller]

Is it me or is this manga the author just trying to be doomer

 

[malagigi_encantatore]

“It’s a wonderful life” with low expectations

 

[velatic]

Oh that kid is her younger self that went through time with santa magic

 

[Hicleric]

Telegraphed the little girl's identity all the way up front, but that's fine. The sketchy art works for the stream-of-consciousness nature of the work, too.

Not sure the sentiment is really that agreeable, though. The core message, that it's OK to feel differently from what society expects, is fine, especially for a child growing up. Saying it's perfectly fine to hate others seems borderline sociopathic to me, though . Maybe there's some cultural nuance lost in translation.

 

[Yasutsuna]

Hmmm, this feels a bit like a fake it till you make it scenario. Sure, in life you come across things that you need to do just because it's part of life - studying, working, adulting. All those are mainly things you do just because you need to to survive.

I think the child her problem's are just generally a child's worry though, like feeling indifferent to people when you're supposed to have likes and loves, instead of a adult's version as above.

Being indifferent to things in your life is OK, in my opinion. Some people just want to coast through their lives being extremely average. No millions in their bank account and a family. Just enough to get with your own company. Just because it's not the way you perceive life, doesn't mean it's wrong.

 

[HawkGoggles]

The messages is fine enough, "be yourself," but the way its said leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Ultimately, this girl was able to live life as her self and be able to function in society without any problems. Even writing it that way leaves a bad taste.

 

[BCS]

The message isn't "be yourself", it's "you don't know shit and when you get older you still won't know shit but you won't have time to think about it"

Which is still mostly some fake-deep BS but still

 

[ErikTheRed]

Rough around the edges but it was a good premise

 

[AcidVlad]

I see myself in this and I enjoyed it

 

[That-Guy]

It's like someone read the first page of a book about pessimism and went, "yeah this is how reality, love, beliefs, and emotions work."
It's so... surface-level thinking, going hard on generalizing, that it ends up trying too hard to sound "wise" but ends up sounding bleak and depressing. And I can see the MC's attitude towards love and liking is based on her fear of being an outcast of society. Like what you like, love what you love. Fuck what everyone else thinks of you. Why tf did this manga got me riled up...

 

[MOULINIER]

For me it's the other way around what people are saying : she met herself as a child to remember that back then, she had dreams and hope, and to not let down her younger self by having a tasteless life

 

[Trostishere]

Why can i relate to this so much?

 

[IrregularPerson]

The variety of comments for this manga are interesting to say the least-
I resonate with this piece, even if the dialogue is convoluted or too abstract for me to really comprehend.

Maybe the author wanted to write about how people can live a fulfilling life, without thinking consciously about every single action. The Adult has a good moral compass and is witty as a Child.
Despite how insipid her apartment is, the Adult seems to have found her own answer, even if, as someone else describes it as, "fear of being an outcast," at least it's not debilitating. Maybe in her later years, she'll have saved enough to pursue whatever interests her. The monotonous truth is that she's living, and there's strength in that.

 

[Goodbyefrankenstein]

This isnt the main focal point of the manga at all i know but i cant get over how she thought the kid (herself) could possibly be giving a SOS im kidnapped signal but still chose to be blasé and all "i dont have time for this" about that thought lmfao

 

[Eternalcakes]

The story goes:

• Primary school aged girl anxious about how she's so different to how she perceives everyone else. She seems to have no feelings, and feels like a fake.
• She gets to meet her older self, who is callous, more selfish, more jaded. But also more confident, and who tells her things are going to be okay, that she's normal.
• At the very end, her primary school aged self has written, "Thank you Santa, for the best present."

That is, she knows that when she grows up, she will change, at least in her anxiety and insecurity, and that she will be okay. THAT's the moral of the story. It's not trying to preach some pessimistic theory about how society functions, but just saying, "Hey man, you might be insecure, but things are gonna be alright. You're gonna grow, you're gonna get busy, and things are gonna be alright. You'll like the person that you become."

@HawkGoggles @BCS @That-Guy

 

[HawkGoggles]

It's not trying to preach some pessimistic theory about how society functions, but just saying, "Hey man, you might be insecure, but things are gonna be alright. You're gonna grow, you're gonna get busy, and things are gonna be alright. You'll like the person that you become."

Its not trying to teach a pessimistic lesson but it sure is marred by the pessimistic Tone it takes. "You don't like things, just watch a funny video" "love is just a belief people have to not feel selfish" "You're feeling bad, don't worry, you won't have time to worry about yourself as an adult" That whole section feels so dismissive even when its not supposed to. The sketchy nature of the drawings also doesn't help. I get why people focus more on the Tone of this story than the messages because the Tone is so overbearing you forget the little girl is the through line.