The Dangers in My Heart - Vol. 11 Ch. 142 - I'm Full of Stray Thoughts

[draxdeveloper]

Who is the glasses guy?

 

[lndnfsu2]

I might be a minority here, but I'm not a huge fan of the "condom" chapters and this new arc. I just find it a bit weird and tasteless to put two 14-year olds in such sexualised situations / storylines. I started reading it because it seemed like a cute, innocent, awkward first love type of story, but it seems like the mangaka has other ideas. I guess I expected the story to be a bit more like "The fragrant flower blooms with dignity"

14-year old is the age of curiosity and horny..... Most of Grown-up adults had that phase too, dont be weird, its not cp hentai or adult x kid relationship

 

[foxdie]

I might be a minority here, but I'm not a huge fan of the "condom" chapters and this new arc. I just find it a bit weird and tasteless to put two 14-year olds in such sexualised situations / storylines. I started reading it because it seemed like a cute, innocent, awkward first love type of story, but it seems like the mangaka has other ideas. I guess I expected the story to be a bit more like "The fragrant flower blooms with dignity"

Human biology and sex education is very normal thing for teenagers at their age, they're not adult yet but can't be considered little children anymore. Girls have their periods and can be pregnant, and both boy and girl are very curious with their opposite sex and have sexual urges which are affected by their hormones, I think it's normal and realistic. The condom is part of proper sex education to protect the teenager's own health so I don't see it's weird or taboo to show in a romcom manga. And the natural way of showing character expression, behavior and development of Norio is what win the heart of readers so far, so if the story made their relationships stay platonic would be just anti natural. That doesn't mean the manga encourages them to have sex, so far the characters are well restrained with respect to each other, and that should be the message author wants to send, it's fine to have curiosity and urges, but too soon to get it on actually.

 

[foxdie]

Who is the glasses guy?

He first appeared on chapter 117.

 

[Assaultsquirt]

It's actually good advice to stop you from letting your horny leak. Getting it out of your system is imperative to making good decisions. If you try to write while backed up it's like trying to do grocery shopping on an empty stomach. You're going to end up making bad decisions you'll regret later.

 

[Bainhardt]

They were probably texting normally but it's very funny reading the last page as though it were the group chat mentioned earlier in the chapter

 

[nueee]

Masturbate to solve all the problem in the world.

 

[BlackwingYu]

Wait, elaborate for me on the last lage. Did she see it?

she's ~imagining~ it just by being in close proximity

 

[PrecureHunter]

the solution to all of our male problems, bust a nut

PS: first and last page are sus af, i love it

 

[auralight]

Human biology and sex education is very normal thing for teenagers at their age, they're not adult yet but can't be considered little children anymore. Girls have their periods and can be pregnant, and both boy and girl are very curious with their opposite sex and have sexual urges which are affected by their hormones, I think it's normal and realistic. The condom is part of proper sex education to protect the teenager's own health so I don't see it's weird or taboo to show in a romcom manga. And the natural way of showing character expression, behavior and development of Norio is what win the heart of readers so far, so if the story made their relationships stay platonic would be just anti natural. That doesn't mean the manga encourages them to have sex, so far the characters are well restrained with respect to each other, and that should be the message author wants to send, it's fine to have curiosity and urges, but too soon to get it on actually.

Glad you changed your mind in your last sentence.
There are stories where sex makes sense and even pushes the relationship further, but BNK is not one of them. You can talk about biology and hormones and "realism" all you want, but as far as romcoms go, Kyo and Anna haven't really developed as a couple to be at that stage yet. If it were to somehow happen, it would be detrimental to both the manga and the story.
The only thing that Norio is doing with this is teasing the high-schooler part of her readers demographic.

 

[FlorianGran]

I know...but masturbation is one thing, and even then Kyotaro felt a bit ashamed of those thoughts. It's obvious that the whole sex plot is going nowhere and if it happens, then it would cheapen the whole story...because they are obviously nowhere near ready.
As for the moral crysis, I was just voicing my concerns...I'm not like the RaG hating crowd who are in the comments every week to shit on it as soon a new chapter is translated. I just move on, no hard feelings.

I don't think they're actually going to have sex anytime soon for a variety of reasons (mainly their age and editorial/social standards) but the condom arc served a purpose, which was an open conversation about feeling guilty for having sexual thoughts but realizing those feelings are natural and the important part is being open with your partner and deciding when you're both ready.

 

[StrangeDiviner]

Wait, elaborate for me on the last lage. Did she see it?

I'm pretty sure she did considering she was that close

 

[draxdeveloper]

He first appeared on chapter 117.

ty

 

[StrangeDiviner]

That moment between Ichikawa and Yamada was so sweet before it turned horny lmao (which I also love). I was wondering for a sec whether Ichikawa getting distracted during the mock exam because of Yamada was going to become an issue but luckily that wasn't the case.

Also I have a feeling something might almost happen between them on Yamada's birthday (I wouldn't be surprised if she's planning something), but I don't think they're gonna do anything yet. Norio's probably gonna build it up towards the end of the series.

 

[Jackalspatun]

Thank you for a chapter

Yamada eyes in last page that she have stray thoughts too haha

 

[chipusu]

It's been years and I'm still wondering how this one escaped the suggestive tag, maybe it's because you can feel Sakurai Norio-sensei is kinda holding back for once?

 

[mangasquirrel]

I might be a minority here, but I'm not a huge fan of the "condom" chapters and this new arc. I just find it a bit weird and tasteless to put two 14-year olds in such sexualised situations / storylines. I started reading it because it seemed like a cute, innocent, awkward first love type of story, but it seems like the mangaka has other ideas. I guess I expected the story to be a bit more like "The fragrant flower blooms with dignity"

TBF Dangers has always been more grounded in realistic character interactions compared to something like Fragrant which has more of a fairytail like "pure" style of character writing. While I don't think we see them do the deed before they graduate middle school, I wouldn't be shocked if it happened.. its not exactly rare in real life.

 

[Hikineet]

Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Sky_Ravager]

Kinoshita at the end got me laughing hard. Good to see two old friends going all chuuni. And also good that Ichikawa got his number, they can now chat at any time.

Thanks for the chapter

 

[Sodomephius]

Did she see it?

What exactly?