The Kouhai who Went from Introvert to Influencer - Ch. 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Painmon123]

Wake up babe, peak fiction just dropped

 

[ia_zero]

Zyugoya hit me with the feels again.

 

[Ochrolv]

I mean it was obvious she liked the guy but nice to see her say to herself that she's in love with him. Now the next challenge is to tell him that. Thanks for the chapter.

 

[Vincentius]

Recognizing you have a problem is the first step to jumping his bones, girl.

 

[Vmpslushie]

I hope they give a good reason why senpai wasn't there for her.

 

[Simkin]

Why don't you just crawl into a corner...


... And fall madly in love with him 💕

 

[rachjumper]

4 children

 

[Jackist]

Zyugoya... You don't always have to have them be so broken.

This is just my opinion, but the dark Backstories Zyugoya puts in their stories is always the low point for me. Like in "My Childhood friend is Broken", showing her being drugged and date raped left a bad taste I couldn't wash out.

But that's just one example out of a hundred, and I know it's Zyugoya's "Thing", everything always has this darkness and bleakness to it... but I still argue it's the weakest part at least for me, and I had to stop reading stuff like Demon Mother because it just feels unrelenting. I wasn't enjoying the happy moments because I always expected some horrible tragedy right around the corner.

Coming back to "My Childhood Friend is Broken", even at the very end of the series when they are married and have a baby, everyone in the comments is expecting either the dad or baby to die a horrible death and ruin everything. That expectation is not a good thing IMO.

 

[blablablub]

Don't go hiding in a corner and mumble to yourself. Say it to his face!

 

[marzial09]

Zyugoya and broken girls just go well together like peanut better and jelly

 

[AlterArsene]

Zyugoya can't keep doing this... always right in the kokoro 💘... I can't handle it

 

[InsidiousIntent]

Zyugoya always does such a wonderful portrayal of redemption. Reality is so often far more harsh than the overwhelming majority of fictional media, they manage to touch upon it and incorporate it without making it oppressive. It's fanciful, but it's a nice fanciful.

As ever, thank you for scanlating.

 

[gasnomercante]

Geez, Zyugoya's next female character will be a war veteran at this rate.

 

[InsidiousIntent]

Zyugoya... You don't always have to have them be so broken.

This is just my opinion, but the dark Backstories Zyugoya puts in their stories is always the low point for me. Like in "My Childhood friend is Broken", showing her being drugged and date raped left a bad taste I couldn't wash out.

But that's just one example out of a hundred, and I know it's Zyugoya's "Thing", everything always has this darkness and bleakness to it... but I still argue it's the weakest part at least for me, and I had to stop reading stuff like Demon Mother because it just feels unrelenting. I wasn't enjoying the happy moments because I always expected some horrible tragedy right around the corner.

Coming back to "My Childhood Friend is Broken", even at the very end of the series when they are married and have a baby, everyone in the comments is expecting either the dad or baby to die a horrible death and ruin everything. That expectation is not a good thing IMO.

On the one hand... "Dark" back stories are a bit of Zyugoyas trademark, but on the other I don't think it's necessarily reasonable to assign the fault of there being incessant doomsayers to them either. I think it's more likely the numerous other works that DO choose to "pile on the tragedy" that precondition many of us to wait for the shoe to drop. I can think of numerous examples of both back stories and events within, that lead to unease and realistically fear and apprehension of what's next in many works. You can find someone crying NTR, Rape or Death in practically any forum for any manga, hell even the saccharine ultra fluffy ones.

I think that the darkness, especially in Childhood friend, really does an incredible job of providing contrast to the story itself, though I also won't deny that it's unpleasant. Some works just pile it on, for various reasons, but thus far for Zyugoya, I've only ever seen it really be used for contrast, rather than "shock" value, or the intent to make a reader feel "bad" (I classify sympathetic or empathetic as outside of bad). For this one, and Childhood, and Crybaby for that matter, it seems more about a turning point and recovery; overcoming the negative past, finding faith in oneself again and becoming happy (with the help/support of a non-judgemental loving mostly faceless co-protagonist, but still).

I guess it lies in trying to detach from all of our previous media works, and perhaps also the fact that our perceptions are foremost (hopefully) rooted in reality, which is hardly ever as smooth.

I do agree that expecting bad things in a work isn't good (unless it's designed that way), but I think little of that comes from Zyugoyas works themselves. Maybe once one bad thing happens, we naturally expect more? Which is TRULY unfortunate.

It's good that the back stories make you feel negatively about them, they very much should imo, but its a shame it took so much of the rest of the journey from you.

 

[danvolodar]

Coming back to "My Childhood Friend is Broken", even at the very end of the series when they are married and have a baby, everyone in the comments is expecting either the dad or baby to die a horrible death and ruin everything. That expectation is not a good thing IMO.

It's on them, not Zyugoya, though, given that he never does stuff like this.
Besides, I'm reasonably sure at least half of them were just concern trolling.

 

[luigiymario2]

"The part of you I love" she definitely melted lmaooo

 

[Darkshade13]

You can't say the author doesn't have a lane.

 

[New_Scout]

Well, at least we don’t have to wait 2000 chapters to hear it

 

[vannn]

Zyugoya found a niche, what can I say.

In the author’s defense, the crybaby spin off with the Crow woman has been pretty chill, no awful circumstances (yet) just one long courtship.