The Dangers in My Heart - Vol. 7 Ch. 90 - I'm Complicated

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I kinda called this before especially in the early chapters where the mangaka drew the entire classroom with the main characters there. They're really pushing for the Adachi x Moe eh? I mean they both are otaku in a way...but it feels weird. though yeah Adachi's family circumstance is really complicated and the way hes so outright perverted makes it seem like hes just a really sad guy.
 
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I kinda called this before especially in the early chapters where the mangaka drew the entire classroom with the main characters there. They're really pushing for the Adachi x Moe eh? I mean they both are otaku in a way...but it feels weird. though yeah Adachi's family circumstance is really complicated and the way hes so outright perverted makes it seem like hes just a really sad guy.
Does Adachi need a stepdad? Asking for a friend...
Surely that's what Adachi's mom was looking for throughout years, to no avail, and clearly that brought consequences: Adachi grew into a middle schooler who only see women as walking pussies with tits, asses and cute faces. That's also why I don't see the Adachi x Moe as a serious attempt from the author: he himself said he only see her as a "backup" if he can't conquer Yamada and grew into resenting her because she remembered him her chocolates are obligatory. Obviously, Moeko knows (or suspect) this but, for his disgrace, he's not attractive enough to activate Moeko's "I can fix him" disposition she shows with Nanjou.

And yes, we have to see him with pity. He was a character created with the goal of remembering us how a middle school boy behaves normally for the readers not dropping this work just because we could consider Ichikawa as a "non-real" main character, and then his development was one of a kid with absolute no respect toward women (since he evidently doesn't respect his own mother, albeit with good reasons) who, to make things worse, only accepts romantic advices that revalidate his own POV (like Nanjou's). Fortunately for him, this situation comes before he finally gets he lost Yamada against Ichikawa due to his own failed POV regarding women and, apparently, he sees Kyotaro now as a role model to follow in romantic affairs.
 
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This whole sequence, so awkward... but so real.

Particularly Adachi's letter, and imagining Kyo saying any of that is just ridiculous.

Also wish to call out the awkwardness of Nico and Anna on the Pg13 art piece making different gestures. Anna really leaving Nico hanging by doing a thumbs up instead of the other half of the heart.

Demonaire already covering what I'd have done analysis on in a pretty solid way, to be honest. That's also kinda why I don't think Kyo would have ever triggered Moe's interest even without Anna around- Moe wouldn't have recognized he was a cutie if it wasn't for Anna paying special interest in him, anyway.

Also, is it really an 'I can fix him'? Isn't it just an appreciation of the 'gap'? Pretty sure the Q&A at the end of Vol6 outright pointed this out, even (you know, the concept of 'gap moe'- HoriMiya used the same thing for why Hori wanted to be treated badly by Miyamura like his middle school buddy, Shindou, is, when normally Miyamura is a nice guy- the 'gap' of a nice guy treating someone badly, especially when that someone is one of his closest buds, which further exacerbates it by causing jealousy in Hori as Miyamura's love interest). Fixing them would remove the 'gap', thus make them less interesting to her. Would be counter-intuitive. She literally just wants a bad boy pretty boy, at least when it came to Nanjou. But she may end up settling for just an average joe boy that needs some maturing.

I'll also note that I could see Moeko kind of reminding him of his own mother, a bit, oddly enough. I mean, among the current girl group, she seems the most likely to develop similar fashion sense, at least. And the hair's not that different, either.
 
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