The Woman Who Messes With My Emotions (2022) - Ch. 21

[AdmiralSilver]

What exactly has Azusa actually done yet, though? She spends the night with someone she's seen on and off, and all of a sudden, this crazy bitch just pops up telling her to stay away? Like, what?

 

[AdmiralSilver]

Holy Hell, Yuuta REALLY needs to man up and stop being an absolute twat bag

 

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I mean if he lives in one of those block of flats or whatever its called, that anime/manga often portray - doors opening outwards is normal - heck they even often have the self-closing stuff on them, which in my country is basically used only on main doors to the whole block or companies entrances and not individual flats/stand alone houses.

Now why manga/anime show them doors opening outwards, or why Japanese (or Asian countries in general) make the main flat doors open like that is something I don't know. Probably a mater of limited space inside, and enough space on the outside, but that makes breaking in easier/protecting from such harder.

As I understand it they open outwards because that leaves space in the entryway where you take off your shoes before stepping up onto the interior floor.

In addition to what is below, I think that doors open inward in the US because of the storm door (screen door) that houses often have.

From Japanese traditional door "Fusuma" and "Shoji"

In western countries, the doors open inwardly. On the contrary, they open outwardly in Japan.

The reason could be that since Japanese has a custom of taking the shoes off when stepped inside the entrance door, a certain space to take off the shoes and keep them must be secured there. Besides, the movement of the door should not swipe them.

Such opening is reasonable in dealing with rainy or stormy weather as well.
When the door opens outwardly it’s less likely to invite dust and rain inside the house.

 

[wallsg]

Not changing the fact that he's a coward, alone the fact he kept lying about the other girl having been there at all and such, already shows he himself has a guilty conscience, yeah she is sketchy, but she hasn't done anything yet, yet Amatella just straight up tells her to stay away like some possessive girlfriend 😐

Honestly MC isn't all that likeable, with him chronically lying

Trying to juggle two girls usually doesn't work out very well.

 

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You can see her put the pieces together in this chapter. That Ametella is real, and what Yuuta said wasn't a lie. She even notices that Ametella's super into him, so he wasn't actually lying about that when Yuuta brought it up to make her jealous. She takes it all in stride. She even just eats the accusation that she doesn't actually love him by saying that she didn't realize she came across as such a bad person. Saying that she didn't know Yuuta had such a cute girlfriend. Because, well, she knows he doesn't. This is a setup to make Ametella admit that she's not his girlfriend, and she uses that to deliver the line that you shouldn't try to tie up someone you care about. Something she knows applies just as much to herself.

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If you want to be charitable Azusa is forcing Amatella to move, either toward Yuta or away from him. That's actually good for Yuta because having an obsessed possessive stalker fan is rarely a good thing. You just need to look at idols to see the same thing with genders reversed.

 

[Weoooo]

If I'm right about what Azusa intended to convey, it's notable in that it's not actually telling her to back off or saying anything at all about what Azusa's intentions or thoughts are about the whole thing. Instead, it's almost like she's guiding Amatella towards properly considering her own feelings about Yuuta - if she cares about him, she should back off and let him live his life, if she has romantic feelings for him she should consider how she wants to act on them. I can't help seeing that as a kind of careful parental-style guidance of a child's thoughts down a path that will (hopefully) help them grow as a person - which is definitely something Amatella could use some help with . . .

At the very least, her words and actions are entirely aimed at Ametella. Asking her to consider who she is to Yuuta, and who she wants to be. It's an almost agonizingly thoughtful and mature way of handling that, because Ametella intended to drag her into a fight, revealing Azusa's intentions, but instead we get nothing about how she feels. Which is, well, the central issue.

Azusa very rarely SAYS how she feels. She demonstrates it. She touches, she leans in, she grabs, she rests against, she wipes away tears, she kisses, she tickles... but all these things aren't read as genuine or clear. They could be fake, you know. Even though people can lie with words, as well.

If you want to be charitable Azusa is forcing Amatella to move, either toward Yuta or away from him. That's actually good for Yuta because having an obsessed possessive stalker fan is rarely a good thing. You just need to look at idols to see the same thing with genders reversed.

I don't really think there's a reasonable reading of her words and actions that doesn't come to the conclusion that she's challenging Ametella to decide what she wants. She makes her answer that she's not Yuuta's girlfriend, and then says that she shouldn't try to tie someone down, especially if they care about them. When you consider that she said that she's Yuuta's friend, but isn't sure if he sees it the same way, you can't really take it as anything else. She's not claiming ownership of him, and tells Ametella that she shouldn't, either. What else could that mean?

 

[DerpyVenom]

loser mc literally. only reading it for Azusa atp

 

[APETTR2]

This chapter made me nearly die of cringe. Fun chapter, would recommend.