Tokidoki Bosotto Roshia-go de Dereru Tonari no Alya-san - Vol. 1 Ch. 9 - Yuri Sisters, I don't Dislike That (2)

[MangaDex]

 

[Grye]

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[Haezer]

Dang. Still in elementary school and there exist assholes that don't do their part in a group project? Crazy.

 

[ShayGuy]

More fuel for my thesis that in manga, being a Hard Worker is the one virtue that really matters.

 

[MangaKyler]

Bro, what the heck type of school is that? In that age you will be going around to ask people seems weird. If ever there was like that I would have gone with my parents but the me now I don't think I will even do it, I'll just do the presentation as my help for the group. First of all is that graded? If it is then what the heck were they thinking? If it's not I understand it but I would still do it anyways and I wouldn't believe kids would think like that

 

[Dwarfy2k]

Bro, what the heck type of school is that? In that age you will be going around to ask people seems weird. If ever there was like that I would have gone with my parents but the me now I don't think I will even do it, I'll just do the presentation as my help for the group. First of all is that graded? If it is then what the heck were they thinking? If it's not I understand it but I would still do it anyways and I wouldn't believe kids would think like that

Yeah I don't understand, they are all getting graded and stuff. Wouldn't the teacher know they all skimped? Why go to local shops to ask about stuff? Also this chapter feels like half a chapter.

 

[killme8th]

To be continued. Huh... I thought this just short flashback. And yes it is. But somehow it's already end of chapter, and the flashback not finished yet.

 

[ciera]

thanks

 

[volodyuka]

Ookie-dokie, I might be an old fart what is not in the know how kids this days study at школа (btw romanisation of this word is like 15 kinds of wrong on different levels, as this will sound weird af and not at all like russian sounds, but I digress). Long ago kids never ever do anything economy wise in elementary (grades 1 to 4, ages 7 to 10, after that is middle school grades 5 to 9, or up to 11 depending on what type of education student wants, also elementary school and middle school will usually be the same school facility), as it's a bit too heavy for kids of a young age, smthng like this usually was along the themes "where your parents work", and it was essentially the essay to teach the kids to write essays, as it is much easier to write about smthng the kid knows or won't be too awkward to ask. There is no group assignments in elementary at all, kids of young age are lil rascals and it's a recipe for disaster. Earliest group assignments became a thing is in grade 5 and it's less of a group activity and more of a we have a limited equipment for this physics or chemistry class, so kids go in groups of four. Also this assignments done in class.
Now what Alisa done in class was стенгазета (stengeta, literally "journal that goes on the wall") this was a thing in schools for grades 2 to 4, and it was usually a big class project on doing something big as a big collective. Usually on themes of nature, history or holidays, and in a playful way with a lot of drawings and some written text. This days (in 2000's and later when Alisa was a kid) that is a rarity as kids are all kinds of different today. But that was a common thing in soviet times and up till 90's.
Pretty much the only thing in this chapter done right is the looks of an inside of a school (but not architecture, it is clearly a bit more modern than at the proposed time Alisa was in a school and Vladivostok did not had it's revival yet), author got some nice refs.
edit: Oh, yeah, I forgot, anything Alisa wrote in her stengazeta is a lot weird, author clearly used a google translate. (and the theme as a whole is like 7 levels of weirdness)

 

[twilightspirits]

Pretty much the only thing in this chapter done right is the looks of an inside of a school (but not architecture, it is clearly a bit more modern than at the proposed time Alisa was in a school and Vladivostok did not had it's revival yet), author got some nice refs.

wasnt this only set like 8/9 yrs ago since current timeline is high school and this was in elementary schul?

also i think the agony of being the only hard worker is v exaggerated in this chap lol

 

[AnacondaHL]

Kids are barely out of their egocentric phase at that point, imagine attempting a high school-style group project lmao

 

[Jonson26]

Kids are barely out of their egocentric phase at that point, imagine attempting a high school-style group project lmao

I had a teacher in middle school, that was always forgetting we weren't high school students and was scaring us with the Polish maturity exam. Airhead teachers that don't notice a 4-5 year age difference in their students exist.

 

[yun1que]

It's unrealistic to be doing group project that involves directly talking to people and that kind of topic at elementary school, but i get what the manga is going for.

Anw, i've been there where you want to give it all and complete the project it asap but your 'group' isn't thinking the same as you. But hey life is life, it'll not always go with what you're planning, so as long as you do your part, just pray & hope the procrastinator will do their part, if don't, well.. Do it yourself if that's the only way

 

[volodyuka]

It's unrealistic to be doing group project that involves directly talking to people and that kind of topic at elementary school, but i get what the manga is going for.

Yeah, but the plot got into the most stupid way of showing why she is hardworking and stubborn, Honestly it could've been done in several different ways than an obvious cliché.

wasnt this only set like 8/9 yrs ago since current timeline is high school and this was in elementary schul?

Yeah, timeline is strange, in flashback she is like 10 at most (trying to judge by looks and stuff she does, and how other kids behave) but in current days she is like 16(?) (dunno the age at which kids go to the 1st grade of high school in Japan) and the events of flashback should've happened in her last 5 years when she was at Vladivostok? Looks like a lil bit poorly written plot point.

 

[Nehona]

The entire "project done in elementary school" feels retarded. Who the hell sends out 9 years old kids to interview store owners? And do a group project? Insane.

On the other hand, I have to say her reaction is retarded as well. Maybe understandable, but isolating yourself from everyone else and considering them inferior is quite stupid.

Yes I get it, she was a child. But the issue here is... did her parents not notice? How? How did they not notice that she had not a single friend, and just studied all the time? That she never met anyone? Were they not concerned? How did this happen without anyone intervening?

This feels stuffed in the chapter just to feed the "isolated princess" trope. There was no reason to go to these extremes, really.

 

[infantrysmarties]

Bro, what the heck type of school is that? In that age you will be going around to ask people seems weird. If ever there was like that I would have gone with my parents but the me now I don't think I will even do it, I'll just do the presentation as my help for the group. First of all is that graded? If it is then what the heck were they thinking? If it's not I understand it but I would still do it anyways and I wouldn't believe kids would think like that

Westerners be like

 

[DerpyVenom]

ok chapter i guess

 

[Buffdoge]

Omg you all typing long ass comments that I can't read

 

[Bumpf]

ok nitpick: no need for a fancy-pants romanization that lots of the readers wont be able to pronounce right anyway. Just say "shkola" yk?

 

[DeaObliDex]

I don't mind a character has a motivation.
And you're telling me the reason why Alya is so hardworking and stubborn because of her group didn't take seriously??
In college, no in work you can but in school is 50-50. Most of the time they don't make a effort into it