Tomo-chan wa Onna no ko! - Vol. 8 Ch. 934 - A Serious Challenger

[urtoast]

Can we just get to the part where Tomo beats her dad and tells him she doesn't need a man that can protect her?

 

[miyako19]

@Nayn Saying she is a prize is really wrong since one of them is her dad. This is more like Gorou is over-protective and wants to test if Jun is worthy of his daughter.

 

[Nayn]

@Kaarme thing is if he's going to meddle in his daughter's dating life at all, it should be to guarantee she's safe and happy. Making it a martial contest is nuts and does set her up as a prize.

@miyako19 But she is being set up as a prize. A prize for Jun, if he can prove his manly worth in battle. That the one he's facing is her dad just is irrelevant. They love each other and none of them has any circumstances or issues that would make their relationship dangerous or otherwise inadvisable.

 

[Kaarme]

@Nayn Maybe taken out of context it would seem like it's making Tomo a prize, but I don't see it in this context. It seems more like to make sure Jun is worthy. Old-fashioned thinking, but then again, that's how mankind in most cultures operated for thousands of years. It's just a modern thing that young people get together without their parents having anything to say about it, especially so with daughters. In fact they could have started to date just fine, I reckon, but moving together, let alone marrying, might have strained their relationship with Gorou if he hadn't been consulted. Jun wanted the bear killer's approval and respect.

 

[Nayn]

@Kaarme but that old-fashioned thinking was precisely one that made a woman a prize or even a thing to be sold (for valuables or more often political influence), depending on culture. By asking Jun to fight him for approval, Gorou is disrespecting Tomo's agency. By valuing his approval in this matter, Jun is validating this, and so also disregarding Tomo's agency.

 

[Kaarme]

@Nayn Yes, they are utterly disrespecting Tomo in this incident. In fact they skipped her input totally, as if she didn't even exist, they didn't just ignore her. Consequently she took it understandably hard, but being Tomo, she didn't really know what to do about it. Jun is supposedly pretty smart (academically), but in some ways he's as dense as tungsten. But of course they are still young, so when an adult tells them something, they don't necessarily stop to think it through and evaluate if it makes any sense.

 

[Konrad2]

Thanks for the translation.