The Story of a Losing Heroine Doing Her Best to Win!

[MangaDex]

 

[dureremu]

I'm rooting for her

 

[shanoc5902]

'Comedy' story proceeds to be a mixture of pity, loss, and failure with no jokes in first two chapters I don't think that word means what you think it means...

 

[Comrade-Sandvich]

A childhood friend loses a lot more then some transfer student falling in love with someone.

I mean on one side we have a person that has lived beside you since you were a kid and she would lose all of that time and feelings kept upto this point, and then we have some complete stranger come up and force their way thru after just hanging out for a few days.

Well it's all upto to the man to decide, childhood friend will indeed sacrifice her love for him for his happiness with someone else but let's see if the the stranger will do the same.

 

[DirkHardpeck]

Childhood friend?
[You are already dead(friendzoned)]

 

[TheGTF]

@Comrade-Sandvich @DirkHardpeck For what it's worth 2ch did the math many years ago (gotta be at least a decade by now...I am so old...) and discovered the childhood friend archetype is far successful than typically recognized- the data would be pretty outdated by now but this such a formulaic medium I doubt the ratios have materially changed, it was 45-50% iirc back then.

The original guaranteed loser perception was mainly because it's mostly compared to the "First Girl" but that's apples to oranges- one is based around their starting relationship, the other is a matter of timing for when said character is introduced. They're not mutually exclusive metrics and as it turns out there are tons of materials where the "Childhood Friend" character is also the "First Girl", including instances where later backstory would add the childhood friend dynamic to the character.

A couple caveats were in the case galge/otomege and similar, the de facto heroine of the cast was presumed the winner in absence of a hard canonical resolution such as a direct sequel, determined by who is the primary marketing character: ex Akari was assumed for To Heart because she's front and center on most of its materials, even though Multi was a wide margin the more popular character (the anime and manga adaptations similarly set Akari as the lead heroine). The conclusions back then was being first to appear was the biggest tell for how ambiguous romance would ultimately resolve because the normal pace of storytelling is you introduce the main heroine first, and the leads are normally going to win; thus resolutions that bucked that trend really stand out

Spoiler

ex Ichigo 100%, Aya was the first one introduced to the audience and to the protagonist, but Tsukasa, introduced second, ended up winning

The initial relationship between the two characters: childhood friends, previously uninvolved classmates, random strangers, mysterious transfer student, etc did not really point to much when you isolated it from the timing of their introductions- to the best that's reasonably possible since even these relations can double up and overlap.

 

[meinburn]

@DirkHardpeck
Plenty of childhood friends win, they just have to also be the main girl.

 

[Comrade-Sandvich]

@TheGTF

Spoiler

it seems the transfer student is the antagonist from the raws, and overall I personally think in a more realistic way then fictional so to me it seems a story is more about morals and lessons then about popular opinion.

That's why sometimes I really wish for something new even if fictional to take place and explore possibilities and feelings of different characters and circumstances taking place, but from this story I feel slight Yandere/School Days vibe but let's see what happens

 

[Orange_Orange]

"Mine!" the manga.

 

[justforthelulz]

Has the [Comedy] tag, but not [Drama]?

 

[onion_horse]

Omae wa mou shin(yuu) de aru.

 

[HoangDinh]

Reminds me of the story where the childhood friend won't lose 😂

 

[bastek66]

If childhood friend loses it's 99% chance her own fault for wasting time.

 

[MA333]

Are you guys sure this doesn't deserve the tragedy tag?? Still gonna read it tho.

 

[Flashbomb72]

MOAR

 

[Pokari]

...I honestly can't tell yet if this is heading towards trope-averting comedy, or towards a played-straight teen drama.

 

[Naraji]

This dropped harder than my grades

 

[KiTA]

Reading ahead, it's more like Ch1.1, Ch1.2

With

Ch1.3, Ch2.1 - Ch2.3 awaiting translation.

Spoiler

Apparently the black haired girl is a yandere.

 

[CBFlap]

@KITA where did you get more content ??
So the RAWS from chap 1 and 2 have more content, ok, I found it, but cant understand what is happening.
Things went dark really really fast, not wholesome at all. Dont go search for the raws, I regret it

 

[slypy]

i dont care if it gets darker

i'd like to see the rest get translated