Tonari no Kurokawa-san - Ch. 53.5 - Side Story - Gennai-san and Yayoi-chan at The Festival

[ThrystaVindr]

Awww that was cute af

 

[MiguelH224]

Oh but OF COURSE THEY ALREADY MET WHEN THEY WERE LITTLE KIDS


Very original author 👏🏾👍🏾

 

[Hicleric]

Such a nonstop parade of excellent chibis. The body heat joke was a pretty good one too.

Good thing I read these before I go into the office

 

[MiguelH224]

They didn't really meet though he ran over gave her candy then ran away

No I get what they're saying, it's a dumbass trope where they met at a younger age but NEVER remember each other (it's usually the MCs that somehow doesn't connect the dots)

I've seen this way more often than I can count

 

[MiguelH224]

It is not that bad for this one, because Takahashi immediately pointed out he was the kid. A small subversion.
Usually the dumbfuck that is the MC would be like HUH? WHU? and then we go over 200 chapters before the MC realises he was the kid if we are fortunate.

There's a manga which name I can't remember off the top of my head, where there's 3 heroines that the MC had met individually when they were kids.....the 3 girls literally had the same exact face and hairstyle from back then, yet the MC had no clue when he encountered them again in high school, literally the only thing that changed about those girls was from the neck down

 

[Regnells]

Seeing her beings so isolated throughout her childhood is so depressing

 

[Softandwet9390]

yeah, dont take money from weirdos, what a smart kid

 

[Ideon]

I'll give this one a pass. It wasn't the Cotton Candy of Fate that made them search for each other for decades or make any weird promises or anything, just an actual coincidence that ended up being a funny memory later on.

 

[AzureLightning]

The "Met at childhood but don't remember." Is a trope I'm sort of 50/50, it really depends on the use.
This one is fine, same with the way it was used in that one detective one.
But I've grown used to seeing it not matter at all, where neither parties remember and it's just for the reader to gawk at. Or they have one forget/deny and the other never has the gall to just say it straight.
This one subverts both the usual problems i have with it.

All in all what i mean to say is that I like this chapter.

 

[Niskara]

The chibii-ness is killing me it's too cute

Gonna need insulin for the diabeetus this sweetness is giving me

 

[emMeBi86]

At least this isn't the usual trope where one pursued the other based on a single encounter ten years earlier. Whew.

True but at the same time the "you have already met each other when you were little" trope is stale right now...so overused...

 

[Chronigan]

There's a manga which name I can't remember off the top of my head, where there's 3 heroines that the MC had met individually when they were kids.....the 3 girls literally had the same exact face and hairstyle from back then, yet the MC had no clue when he encountered them again in high school, literally the only thing that changed about those girls was from the neck down

Yeah, but Airi and Yuria turned plains into mountains. You wouldn't recognize geography if it changed that much.

 

[Chronigan]

No I get what they're saying, it's a dumbass trope where they met at a younger age but NEVER remember each other (it's usually the MCs that somehow doesn't connect the dots)

I've seen this way more often than I can count

I don't want to pile on, and you're right, it can be done badly. UQ Holder has time travel involved and multiple lives. then there is the reincarnation Manhua with a fox spirit.... so much, much worse.

This is more a nice dose of sweetness in an extra chapter that probably will never be mentioned again.

 

[havelmom]

no face this chapter...

 

[Chronigan]

@NamekazeMinato I just got caught up and I noticed you were telling people about the digital releases. Might be nice to let people know that bookwalker has an auto buy feature, were it will automatically buy each volume. Makes it easy to setup once and then not have to worry about it.

 

[appsoluszero]

Remind me of that tiny cat meme that weighs zero grams.

She is zero grams.
She doesn't even exist.

 

[PyramidCat]

so tiny

 

[Glider_Boom23]

I love the way the author just draws these two as undeveloped blobs

 

[2662]

Ah, I really hate when mangaka do this. Why couldn't they have just met in high school? I'm probably being overdramatic but this just feels unnecessary.

I didnt expect it to show them talkin about it cuz otherwise you could just ignore it. Its a .5 anyway so you can still ignore it. Not like its gonna have plot implications. That would be lame.

 

[AsteroidCreator99]

Why does he look exactly the same? Was he always old?