The Dangers in My Heart - Vol. 8 Ch. 103 - I Reminisced

[MangaDex]

 

[etriuswimbleton]

I dont think we need this...Adachi could just simply change his love for Yamada off screen and nothing much would change. I know this is like some kind of closure for him to give up on yamada but its not that...significant in the first place...

 

[Cesarean-Pizza]

I hate this kid. Why's he acting like he ever had a shot.

 

[YW_Rokakaka]

Adachi is the GOAT and no one can change my mind

 

[ItsThatBriGuy]

"How did I not see it? He even told me how close they were and I didn't see it."

 

[thanghe]

I just realize
Kyo turns back into his old edgy self (almost) because he's in a new classroom full of strangers.
He is really just like a cat scared of strangers, isn't he?
I believe that will pass, eventually, when he knows his new classmates better

 

[TammoJammo]

While at first Adachi has thought and talked about Yamada as if all he wants is her looks, I don’t think that’s exactly the case, at least not anymore.

He only ever really acts and talks about that when he’s with his friends and all, but recently at least, when it’s just him or Ichikawa, he looks and acts a lot more…caring about her, especially with what this chapter told us.

Sure he definitely has sexual attraction, it seems he genuinely started feeling attracted to Yamada as a person around the time of that festival, and is probably only going on about her sexually to ‘look cool’, or it’s both.
But he is genuinely trying to at least open up truthfully to Ichikawa.

In the end, he’s just a teenager.

 

[Demonaire]

While at first Adachi has thought and talked about Yamada as if all he wants is her looks, I don’t think that’s exactly the case, at least not anymore.

He only ever really acts and talks about that when he’s with his friends and all, but recently at least, when it’s just him or Ichikawa, he looks and acts a lot more…caring about her, especially with what this chapter told us.

Sure he definitely has sexual attraction, it seems he genuinely started feeling attracted to Yamada as a person around the time of that festival, and is probably only going on about her sexually to ‘look cool’, or it’s both.
But he is genuinely trying to at least open up truthfully to Ichikawa.

In the end, he’s just a teenager.

Sorry, but no.

You even saw recently how Adachi's behavior didn't change a bit just 3 chapters ago, asking Ichikawa if he had got to see the panties of any of the girls in his class, considering that class gathered all the "flowers" of that year (Yamada, Hanzawa, Andou, Sekine and Yoshida). And to boost, he was even resentful with Moeko by her remembering him her chocolate was only amicable.

Adachi was ever convinced he was gonna be able to win Yamada (and any girl "inferior" than her) while keeping his pervert self, as if Yamada, sooner or later, was gonna find that behavior attractive just because... sincerity? Honesty? with that self.

Hence, it's a no wonder it came with a shock for him when he realized Ichikawa had won Yamada by being exactly the opposite: careful, attentive, very respectful with her personal distance, considered and keeping in line his own pervert thoughts.

That's the whole point of this chapter: Adachi realizing that looking Yamada (and women) with morbosity wasn't leading him nowhere and, for his tragedy and regarding Yamada, it was too late for him to correct it.

 

[apstorm]

Hell, even this chapter has Adachi going on about doing the cavalry battle with mixed gender teams in swimsuits and the capture target being a girl's bikini. Don't even need to look back 3 chapters ago for his sexist BS. He's literally just objectifying women moments before this challenge, regardless of whether he's with just Ichikawa or the other boys or whatever, and ironically trying to qualify it by claiming 'progressive era'.

Yeah, he seems to be realizing how dead-end his shitty perspective has left him, I suppose. This is definitely important for his character, and clears the air even more, so to speak.


The anime manages to do this chapter's contents pretty decently, albeit shuffling things around so the flashbacks happen near the end when Adachi brings it up and Anna checks on Kyo's scar on his arm from the injury. It flows very well narratively. I even like how they added interactions between Kanzaki and Oota in this moment to help spell out Adachi piecing things together, starting to realize he never stood a chance at getting Anna's attention, because Kyo was already there.

This challenge isn't really a contest for Anna's heart, as Adachi seems to already be starting to come to grips with the fact that was a lost cause from the start. It really is just closure for him. Not that boys fighting over a girl would be any valid contest for love, anyway- the girl chooses who the girl chooses, and Anna had long since chosen Kyo by this point, regardless of when she realized those feelings.


The flashback itself is a great piece of evidence on the road to our current state of affairs. At the very least, that's potentially the start of her appreciating Kyo as a good person, in addition to acknowledging his existence beyond just 'random classmate', and it was months before I think their fateful meeting in the library, I believe, at the very start of this story.

Seeing Adachi realize he also needed to apologize for at least one of his shitty takes with respect to Kyo is refreshing, as well.