Tonari no Seki no Yatsu ga Souiu Me de Mitekuru - Ch. 84 - Definition of Love

[MangaDex]

 

[Astah]

It's both lust and personality, my dude. Why not both.

 

[TheDarkStar]

She’s going to absolutely ruin him for any other girl Unless he fumbles it at the last minute

 

[Umbrum]

It's a good thing for him to take things this seriously and think properly about what he wants, if he didn't I think he'd just end up hurting her and himself.

 

[TattiXD]

Dam. I thought this guy had only three functioning brains cells. But there might be more! I might say he has six or even seven brain cells! Im so happy for him😭

 

[DrNo]

Dam. I thought this guy had only three functioning brains cells. But there might be more! I might say he has six or even seven brain cells! Im so happy for him😭

Perhaps someday he will get all of them to work at the same time.

 

[unyin]

It's both lust and personality, my dude. Why not both.

 

[eddkim]

now is the time to be open and honest...
who am I kidding first thing out of his mouth will be total batshit

 

[mirai99]

This seems like we are nearing the end...

 

[Darkshade13]

I hate that "I don't understand what love is?" is a trope in manga. Especially when this is the same culture that thinks people are so emotionally literate that you should say "the moon is beautiful" instead of "I love you" because being direct with your emotions is gauche.

 

[razorshaleh]

Lust, physical attraction, and feelings. those are all part of love too, MC-kun

thank you for translation

 

[SatchelBagman]

I hate that "I don't understand what love is?" is a trope in manga. Especially when this is the same culture that thinks people are so emotionally literate that you should say "the moon is beautiful" instead of "I love you" because being direct with your emotions is gauche.

While I love a good roast of the decontextualized Natsume Soseki meme as much as the next guy, there's being direct with your emotions and there's inhabiting a linguistic framework where the reason direct statements of emotion tend to be the province of children is because it comes with an assumed intensity and lack of nuance that doesn't play well without a degree of conversational groundwork that is almost as much effort as the situational vibe necessary for "The moon is beautiful [Implication: I am glad to be sharing this beautiful moment with you]" to read as a confession.

We can talk contradiction of assumed emotional literacy by seeing how many manga characters don't seem to have enough theory of mind to not blame their crush's crush for being the object of another person's affections, but an apocryphal story about a late nineteenth-century author telling a student their extremely blunt translation of "I love you" lacked poetry is more on the level of how your English teacher will usually advise against using the same word over and over in the same paragraph. Writing and translation is about more than just matching the meaning of individual words to individual concepts.

Ikezawa Outarou is a teenage boy who's not nearly as slick as he wants to present himself, and our view of his interiority doesn't contradict the implication that this is his first personal experience with romantic love. "Do I love her or do I just think she's hot?" is a valid line of contemplation here and it's often used in similar how-do-I-differentiate-this-from-other-feelings-and-relationships contexts in manga.

 

[enter51]

Didn't drink anything but Eguchi's juice, eh?

 

[Trobilobada]

While I love a good roast of the decontextualized Natsume Soseki meme as much as the next guy, there's being direct with your emotions and there's inhabiting a linguistic framework where the reason direct statements of emotion tend to be the province of children is because it comes with an assumed intensity and lack of nuance that doesn't play well without a degree of conversational groundwork that is almost as much effort as the situational vibe necessary for "The moon is beautiful [Implication: I am glad to be sharing this beautiful moment with you]" to read as a confession.

We can talk contradiction of assumed emotional literacy by seeing how many manga characters don't seem to have enough theory of mind to not blame their crush's crush for being the object of another person's affections, but an apocryphal story about a late nineteenth-century author telling a student their extremely blunt translation of "I love you" lacked poetry is more on the level of how your English teacher will usually advise against using the same word over and over in the same paragraph. Writing and translation is about more than just matching the meaning of individual words to individual concepts.

Ikezawa Outarou is a teenage boy who's not nearly as slick as he wants to present himself, and our view of his interiority doesn't contradict the implication that this is his first personal experience with romantic love. "Do I love her or do I just think she's hot?" is a valid line of contemplation here and it's often used in similar how-do-I-differentiate-this-from-other-feelings-and-relationships contexts in manga.

Holy cringe. 👨‍🦼

 

[NutzYaboku77]

Holy cringe. 👨‍🦼

That sums up how teenage is honestly.

 

[Angelonius]

PROPOSE TO HIM! NOW IS YOUR CHANCE!

 

[Juicebun]

Man's about to grow up

 

[Takuma_Aki]

This seems like we are nearing the end...

Rest assured, my friend; it’s up to at least chapter 100 and there’s no end in sight

 

[Grimmycoffee]

I think I might have had similar thought once, I wonder how they will solve this

Also, I don't know if someone has linked this already, but here (subs in caption)

 

[kingalthur]

don't tell me next chapter, he will barf