Tokidoki Bosotto Roshia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san - Vol. 1 Ch. 5 - I'm Not Really a Loner, You Know? (3)

[MangaDex]

 

[ForTheJerusalem]

On page 8 the "you know?" is not present in russian and it's more of an English thing but i feel like it would be better if it was about any of this. And on page 9 the russian is just "i know, yes i" which feels like someone cut a part of it.
Oh and on page 5 it says "Yen in the black hole and percentage of a key!? Circle in a circle triangle dollar song NO"

 

[fujikawakenji]

she spoke in widdings

 

[IronMan659]

Haha cute

 

[natsu1707]

Mystery iuman.
Oh my God, is a girlfriend!

 

[AnotherDuck]

Don't get her? She's just being a tsundere. What's hard to get about that? You even know her "secret" feelings.

 

[SuplexSensei]

Somebody told me it was very rude to grin in Russia.

Well, then. Time to make an entire country my enemy cause I JUST CAN'T WITH THIS AAAAGH 😭💖✨

 

[Deathhappens]

Unconscious hyper-romcom protagonist save is a go.

 

[dbzclamp]

I feel like Yuki is actually the sister he mentioned in Chapter 1. Either she's his twin but slightly younger, or their parents remarried each other and she's his age but slightly younger.

 

[danvolodar]

How the hell did they get "зампредседателя школьного совета" right - I'm not even sure it's a translation for "vice president" you'll find in a dictionary, - but failed at "даже мне видно", getting "yes me" instead of "even I can tell"?

 

[Trevoga]

certified "yes me" moment
this is so weird that I don't even have it in me to make a write-up
ForTheJerusalem and danvolodar pretty much said everything already

 

[Carn109]

Girl Friend

 

[dementati]

I gotta say, I really fucking hate this type of MC. Like, the type where he's ostensibly a lazy/dull/non-descript background character, but actually secretly super hot, fit and awesome at everything, but then still despite that he's super dense and finds it absolutely unthinkable that anyone would like him.

An MC who has flaws, like being shy, lazy, unpopular, lack social skills or have hobbies that fall outside of the norm has the advantage of making them relatable to readers who are, y'know, normal people with their own flaws. But if you make all of that just a facade, it loses all relatability. I guess it's supposed to be entertaining when other people underestimate him and are then shocked when they find out his true abilities, but there's usually no good justification for why the MC would hide their abilities, so it just feels like a dumb obvious plot device to me. He's also not just like, secretly good at something, he's secretly a perfect infallible Gary Stu who has no flaws whatsoever, so he becomes completely boring and one-dimensional.

And this makes it even more infuriating when he's also completely dense and cannot comprehend that the female lead is in love with him. He's super smart, good-looking, fit and talented at everything, so how come his brain stops functioning on this one point? The signs are super obvious to anybody, it's completely reasonable for anyone to fall in love with him given his ridiculously high specs, and he's shown to be totally socially competent and empathetic in every other situation, and in this novel in particular he's even privy to her private thoughts (expressed in Russian, which she thinks he doesn't understand) and he STILL doesn't get it (his childhood friend gets it right away though). It completely defies logic and reason and it's totally obvious that it's just because the author wants to drag the romance out, but can't come up with a plausible way to make it happen other than to make the MC selectively retarded.

 

[PhoenxD]

alya was being kinda unreasonable with her wishes this chapter, up till now she only reprimanded him or yelled at him, this could possibly be the very first proper conversation they had yet she was disappointed she didn't know a lot of him

 

[Valle_reading_manga]

Page 12 looks like a manga style template of

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Yuki is such a tease

 

[Kashranox]

CCCCUUUTTTTEEEEEEE

 

[G4ost]

I feel like Yuki is actually the sister he mentioned in Chapter 1. Either she's his twin but slightly younger, or their parents remarried each other and she's his age but slightly younger.

I like this theory but this also means she knows our MC knows Russian and could potentially tell Ayla at some point. I kinda like the idea that the sister won't be introduced until like Chapter 20 or something, after we've already established a couple different side characters that would make it hard to just say "oh hey by the way my brother knows russin"