The Dangers in My Heart - Vol. 8 Ch. 102 - I'm A Stranger

[MangaDex]

 

[zungpc]

god my kokoro ittai

 

[zungpc]

I NEED TO READ THE CENSORED LINEEE~~~

 

[micz7ryu]

Yamada’s letter is so funny

 

[etriuswimbleton]

to be frank they're making this to be a bigger problem that it should be. if they know about them, who cares? at this point shouldn't the development be that their relationship should be more "open" and unashamed rather than keeping distance? the relationship may be moving backwards at this rate. all they need to do is just tell them to stop doing a celebration and thats it.

 

[shinshom]

to be frank they're making this to be a bigger problem that it should be. if they know about them, who cares? at this point shouldn't the development be that their relationship should be more "open" and unashamed rather than keeping distance? the relationship may be moving backwards at this rate. all they need to do is just tell them to stop doing a celebration and thats it.

this is japan.... this is the norm

 

[Kutabarie]

this is japan.... this is the norm

Exactly. Japanese people really love gossip, and can't seem to mind their own goddamn business.

 

[shinshom]

Exactly. Japanese people really love gossip, and can't seem to mind their own goddamn business.

collectivist societies kills ppl.... and I wish it was a joke

 

[LupusVir]

Every time Kyo does something chunni or cringe, Yamada acts like it's the hottest shit lmao.

 

[ImNotCreativeEnoughtForThese]

Allright well the new chick is smooth as hell, but shes also clueless about love?

 

[abdullah17]

Every time Kyo does something chunni or cringe, Yamada acts like it's the hottest shit lmao.

She's based. I would read a spin-off manga with yamada in "girls who get it by"

 

[GB2]

WHY THE CENSORINGGG

 

[Mintarou]

to be frank they're making this to be a bigger problem that it should be. if they know about them, who cares? at this point shouldn't the development be that their relationship should be more "open" and unashamed rather than keeping distance? the relationship may be moving backwards at this rate. all they need to do is just tell them to stop doing a celebration and thats it.

Anna is an idol. She hasnt been famous yet, but we already have a glimpse about what her fan would do if she got a bf. Manager-san also warned ichikawa about this.

 

[Raydnt]

collectivist societies kills ppl.... and I wish it was a joke

Ehh pros and cons, I could say the same about individualist societies

- by someone who lives in Canada

 

[shinshom]

Ehh pros and cons, I could say the same about individualist societies

- by someone who lives in Canada

u might be right, but the numbers on suicide are way too telling as well...

 

[andrybak]

Regarding Ichikawa writing "Sorry" on page 5: all the way back in chapter 44 Yamada and Ichikawa discussed how for both of them, their favorite part of "Your Color's Octave" is when the main characters of that manga were sharing messages in the corner of a notebook.

 

[LemonLies]

u might be right, but the numbers on suicide are way too telling as well...

I'm not going to lie to your face and claim that societal collectivism can't have dire consequences, but I would urge you to recognize that suicide rates are effected by a huge array of factors and the comparison between countries is far more complex than a simple question of whether the prevailing culture is individualistic or not.

Some national suicide rates, for context (data from 2019, units are suicides per 100k per year)
Russia: 21.6 (trending down from 48.9 in 2000)
South Korea: 21.2 (trending up from 13.9 in 2000)
United States: 14.5 (trending up from 10.0 in 2000)
India: 12.9 (trending down from 19.1 in 2000)
Sweden: 12.4 (trending up from 12.2 in 2000)
Japan: 12.2 (trending down from 18.1 in 2000)
Brazil: 8.8 (trending down from 13.9 in 2000)
Germany: 8.3 (trending down from 11.2 in 2000)
United Kingdom: 6.9 (trending down from 7.7 in 2000)
China: 6.7 (trending down from 14.9 in 2000)

 

[shinshom]

I'm not going to lie to your face and claim that societal collectivism can't have dire consequences, but I would urge you to recognize that suicide rates are effected by a huge array of factors and the comparison between countries is far more complex than a simple question of whether the prevailing culture is individualistic or not.

Some national suicide rates, for context (data from 2019, units are suicides per 100k per year)
Russia: 21.6 (trending down from 48.9 in 2000)
South Korea: 21.2 (trending up from 13.9 in 2000)
United States: 14.5 (trending up from 10.0 in 2000)
India: 12.9 (trending down from 19.1 in 2000)
Sweden: 12.4 (trending up from 12.2 in 2000)
Japan: 12.2 (trending down from 18.1 in 2000)
Brazil: 8.8 (trending down from 13.9 in 2000)
Germany: 8.3 (trending down from 11.2 in 2000)
United Kingdom: 6.9 (trending down from 7.7 in 2000)
China: 6.7 (trending down from 14.9 in 2000)

Yeah you gotta have in count that for example, in Russia, more than half of those "suicides" are atributed to alcohol abuse. In Modern society is not unncomon a certain avarage, but colectivist society has a special way of makigng the person devalue themselves for the sake of the colective, and when this is inherent, it becomes a big problem.

Like, on top of the same problems of all globalized contries, JApan and other similar coutnries has this bullshit going on... For the size and population of Japan, I don't think is not a big factor.

 

[Demonaire]

to be frank they're making this to be a bigger problem that it should be. if they know about them, who cares? at this point shouldn't the development be that their relationship should be more "open" and unashamed rather than keeping distance? the relationship may be moving backwards at this rate. all they need to do is just tell them to stop doing a celebration and thats it.

Spoiler

Unfortunately, future chapters has proven you wrong.

 

[apstorm]

Anna is an idol. She hasnt been famous yet, but we already have a glimpse about what her fan would do if she got a bf. Manager-san also warned ichikawa about this.

She isn't an idol, she's just a model. There's a difference. An idol performs on a stage in front of live audiences, singing and dancing. Anna has no aspirations to this effect, and has currently only wanted to be what she has been so far: a fashion model and actress.

She's still a form of celebrity, though, because of that, which does mean there's risks. It's just it'd be a lot worse if she really was an idol, where restrictions on dating really are more of a thing than otherwise. As an actress and model, she's not as expected to stay 'chaste' as the far more otaku-oriented idol profession. But it's still a concern as far as Anna's potential futures and possible acts of rabid fans.

At the same time, she's not all that big right now, and there might be value in making it clear she's in a committed relationship early so it's part of her celebrity identity going forward.

Still, we have to get to the stage where that's a comfortable thing to declare, if it is even to be declared.

Either way, having them consider each other as dating is still a major step, and they still both need to be ready to think of each other like that. But it is coming, we're in the home stretch on that.


... anyway, now that I've yammered about that topic...

Yurine is so damn cute.

I love the little things, like Anna swooning over the line that'd probably be fitting for Nigorikawa (male lead from Your Color's Octave, the shoujo manga Anna introduced Kyo to), the 'sorry' in the book, Yurine trying to be helpful, but arguably making more stress in the moment...


The whole note in Yurine's book thing was great, and Kyo acknowledging certain things as precious for both of them because of it, but also stopping himself before he went too far, because he really shouldn't be reading that note, but it still gives him some needed pushes, all the same.