The Dangers in My Heart - Vol. 10 Ch. 133 - I'm Stuck in the Middle

[MiguelH224]

Anna's been ridiculously conscious of Moe since she and Kyo became official: breaking up their convo about school choices, actively opposing Icchi's argument in favor of contacting her for help in the storeroom, even more or less telling him to maintain distance between them in the park. Add on all the times she messed with the relationship before they started actually dating (all the way back to getting his LINE first and even hiding their elementary school connection) and Anna has a lot of unresolved frustration with Sekine that needs to be, y'know, resolved.

Everyone here including myself got confused about the fighting, yet here you are, shedding some light on that whole mess


You're a real one

 

[MiguelH224]

Seems like Moeko has been guarding resentment over some of Anna's actions from quite some time. And now it all came up when she perceived Yamada's compliment as being condescending.
That was a unexpected development but not unwelcome. Hope they will talk it out in the next chapter.

Also Kana's misunderstanding made me laugh. She trully thinks her little brother is living in a shounen harem manga. 😂

Given how Kana used to treat him before she found out about Anna, it doesn't surprise me 💀

 

[StrangeDiviner]

Norio said that Yamada was on the wrong for this argument. What do you guys think about it?

I’m not a fan of only Yamada being to blame for this. Even if Moe had a point (which I disagree with) it’s still a shitty thing to say to a friend.

 

[Mr.Oblivion]

One can agree or disagree in a lot of things. Behaviours in an argument on the other hand....

yall started this shit all because I said was I'm right and you specifically because you were the first to insinuate that I was a child because I don't fucking like the way teenagers act.

 

[Gray_Raven]

Useless drama

 

[the_Bear_from_Bearcave]

I’m not a fan of only Yamada being to blame for this. Even if Moe had a point (which I disagree with) it’s still a shitty thing to say to a friend.

Moe definitely was wrong in accusing Yamada of being insincere and surely knew this, and saying that others are thinking like she does was a low blow, but she also has a lot of good points in her tirade. Elsewhere someone linked the page 5 of chapter 3, where Yamada is insensitive in similar way to Hana by saying things that sounds nice in her head without bothering to think how it can sound to the other party.

Yamada praises Moe for being feminine and good at housework, while watching her and interrupting her studying out of jealousy instead of being actually useful, while Moe just had been ignored by guys as soon as Yamada said she's taken, on the beach trip she wanted to avoided in first place since she wanted to study, while Yamada doesn't have to. And it was Kyo that motivated Moe to fight for her academic future, and stop being the fatalistic worse sibling in her family, so Yamada's interruption of their studying together are bothering Moe much more, even if it's true that Moe deserves this jealousy to some part for being shitty troll at times, to the point that even Nyaa got angry at it.

Also both girls have complexes about each other. Grass is always greener on the other side I guess.

 

[J_the_Man]

I figured there'd be some kind of beef between Anna and Moeko at some point. That whole brief bit where Ichikawa and Moeko were bonding over their future planning obviously left Anna very jealous and insecure. Ichi and Moeko became friends at some point before Ichi finally confessed and it's kept going without any changes to their distance.

Naturally, a middle school teenager would probably look at that close friendship and feel threatened by that. I guess Moeko is also straining at sort of being the third wheel guarding Ichi and Yamada's relationship in secret as well.

 

[Ikerot]

this boy really slept outside?? Holy crap

also, I have to reread this now because it's been a while and I've forgotten the interactions between Moeko and Yamada. I've been paying attention to Moeko and Ichikawa's budding friendship (which I like a lot) that I forgot to think about the Yamada equation

 

[Assaultsquirt]

Moe definitely was wrong in accusing Yamada of being insincere and surely knew this, and saying that others are thinking like she does was a low blow, but she also has a lot of good points in her tirade. Elsewhere someone linked the page 5 of chapter 3, where Yamada is insensitive in similar way to Hana by saying things that sounds nice in her head without bothering to think how it can sound to the other party.

Yamada praises Moe for being feminine and good at housework, while watching her and interrupting her studying out of jealousy instead of being actually useful, while Moe just had been ignored by guys as soon as Yamada said she's taken, on the beach trip she wanted to avoided in first place since she wanted to study, while Yamada doesn't have to. And it was Kyo that motivated Moe to fight for her academic future, and stop being the fatalistic worse sibling in her family, so Yamada's interruption of their studying together are bothering Moe much more, even if it's true that Moe deserves this jealousy to some part for being shitty troll at times, to the point that even Nyaa got angry at it.

Also both girls have complexes about each other. Grass is always greener on the other side I guess.

Counterpoint: Chapter 2. Moeko completely humiliates Anna in the middle of class. It's what caused Ichikawa to pull himself out of his shell that he made for himself. It's explained later in the series that the little dude was embarrassed to be in the "normal people school" while his friends went to the advanced school which is why he built that weird persona he had at the start of the series. In Chapter 2, he gets so furious on behalf of Yamada that he drops the charade and falls for her.

 

[Jackalspatun]

Thank you for a chapter

this chapter have every emotion in one chapter

I think it dont hard to understand what happen

ps. before typeset release some fandom civil war about this chapter that I dont understand why ?

 

[Asheron]

Girls who fight with each other for no reason? Hot sister gotta be looking even hotter.

 

[foist]

Lmao Sis.
Teenagers getting dramatic and fighting over nothing...I know its upsetting to see our gang squabbling but it is realistic

 

[tekkenshu7]

Thanks for the new chapter!

Things were really going well for the last chapters and now it became like this.
Yamada is probably just jealous of leaving Moeko and Ichikawa together alone so she is keeping an eye on their study session.
Well, Moeko has an affinity towards 'inkya' people like Ichikawa (because he is also otaku-like, like Moeko's brother), and Yamada always felt that way, especially that time when Moeko non-hesitantly asked for Ichikawa's contact info way earlier. Yamada is also shown to be affected when Kobayashi mentioned 'married couple thing' seeing Ichikawa cooking and making a lot of mess and then Moeko complaining and cleaning after him. I guess Yamada is kind of threatened and jealous because she cannot join Ichikawa on this endeavor and also sees Moeko as someone who can do things and be good at it, unlike Yamada who has a track record of quitting half-way.
Unless of course this is part of Yamada's plan as Detective Condom.

 

[WanTsuSuri]

Can somebody explain to me what the hell is going on? Mitch, help me out here

It's an accumulation of a few things. One rooted in Moe's perspective and Anna's obliviousness.

What this current one is primarily based on is Moe feeling under appreciated and ignored, which may double back into her home life. Moe at the end of the day, wants to get the required chores done then head into heavy studies. If someone wants to help they should ACT and do so instead of dolling out words. Seeing someone say they'd help and clearly displaying they aren't, frustrates her. Now this alone isn't enough to kick things off but Moe reveals she's been irritated by Anna's comments in the past and given what we've seen of Anna, she can be airheaded at times but not malicious. Moe has her own doubts and insecurities so she isn't finding what Anna is saying to be legit.

Add in a few things of her wanting to get some work done but have Anna talking about something totally irrelevant when she could have just gone to help with shopping, not having her cooking complimented but Ichi got some, her earlier shopping supplies being used without consent.

Then we have a recipe for some highschool drama. There's more to add ofc but that's all i'll say on the matter.

 

[XUDUwU]

What a realistic high schooler friends fight

*middle schooler, so it’s even more realistic

 

[falvarez14]

What the hell just happened…

 

[the_Bear_from_Bearcave]

Counterpoint: Chapter 2. Moeko completely humiliates Anna in the middle of class. It's what caused Ichikawa to pull himself out of his shell that he made for himself. It's explained later in the series that the little dude was embarrassed to be in the "normal people school" while his friends went to the advanced school which is why he built that weird persona he had at the start of the series. In Chapter 2, he gets so furious on behalf of Yamada that he drops the charade and falls for her.

I think the difference is that Moeko is brutally honest, sometimes to the point of being asshole, and so does Bayashiko, while Nyaa is just in yankee mode a lot of the time ("I'll kill you", "give money"), but Yamada can be honestly thinking she's nice and funny and then does her weird pauses when she realizes the other person react in different way than she expected. Like Moe said, that's a cute side of her, but can also get more under your skin than friend just being an ass at the moment. It can feel like hypocrisy, and coupled with presumed compliment can be more annoying than criticism.

Besides it was also this whole situation where Moe is the keeper of their secret, while Yamada does stuff like suddenly sperging out over her secret boyfriend's soup during breakfast just as Moe tries to get over annoyance of Kyo's meddling in the kitchen, that keeps adding to the long term increase in tension. Of course, the same meddling also triggered Yamada when Bayashiko compared Kyo and Moe to married couple.

 

[jabs0098]

Norio said this argument was Anna's fault. The only fault I find on Anna's part is that she's a teenager that hasn't matured yet and acts kinda spoiled, on top of being generally energetic and nice to basically everybody, singing their praises without giving it a second thought and to the point of being annoying sometimes.
For someone whose life is about repressing their wishes in favor of their loved ones, family or otherwise, having a spoiled girl compliment you at every turn might sound condescending, but this is where I'm going to place the blame on Moeko. She clearly said to Anna that she should've spoken right away if she was upset about something, but what about her? She said Anna complimenting her feels annoying, which implies this is been going for a while, why she hasn't said anything before? Why build up resentment only to unleash it all at once and hurting Anna in the process instead of helping her understand where the problem lies in? Supposedly Anna is her friend, right? She should know better that Anna is not the kind of people that looks down on others, but still she has the nerve to accuse her of being fake? Of course Anna is going to hesitate to repeat the compliment right after her "friend" accuses her of not being sincere.
I don't know if Moeko is envious of Anna and thinks that she has been had everything in a silver plate but just talking about getting a boyfriend, Moeko has no right to be jealous of Anna. Anna has been proactive in her pursuit of a boyfriend, even if the process to get there seems like it just happened, and actually tried to make some moves, and what's Moeko done? That's right, interfering with Anna's moves but more importantly she has used Anna, that's right, she has used Anna to bait for guys and tried using Anna to get someone's Line ID. Honestly Moeko had shown how she really feels about Anna, all good when it's convenient for her, annoying when it doesn't suit her, that honestly isn't a friendship worth keeping.
I hope Anna grows from here on and stops being clingy to everybody and just be clingy to Kyotaro, also to keep some distance from Moeko, a person that tries to help you grow and fix yourself is a good friend. A person that sees some faults in you yet instead of helping you overcome those faults uses those faults to trip you and call you a pest isn't a good friend.

 

[NorwegianJap]

Teenage women moment

 

[Hacete]

Imagine all this time, it was actually Chihiro who bought that condom, thinking it was a party balloon