Tonari no Wakao-san wa Miesou de Mienai - Ch. 14 - Youth is sports day? (Part 2)

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Yknow I've never really understood the academic purpose of a 'sports day' in Japanaese media. I definitly wouldn't have enjoyed it myself as a kid.

This was a nice chapter though, so maybe the purpose of sports day is to give us interesting momments in manga.
 
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Love the reversal of the usual situation in these events and who cheers who.
 
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Yknow I've never really understood the academic purpose of a 'sports day' in Japanaese media. I definitly wouldn't have enjoyed it myself as a kid.
The sports day equivalents some of my schools had were always a great time. Basically get a day off to just be out in the sun doing things or watching the other kids doing things.
 
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This whole manga is pretty damn cute, and these last couple chapters have been really nice. I kind of appreciate that there are no insane stakes or ultra-dramatic developments.
 
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Yknow I've never really understood the academic purpose of a 'sports day' in Japanaese media. I definitly wouldn't have enjoyed it myself as a kid.

This was a nice chapter though, so maybe the purpose of sports day is to give us interesting momments in manga.
My middle school had a similar thing, and it was always really fun. Of course, ours also had water balloon fights, so that makes most things better.
 
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The interesting thing about the way this chapter is written is that it kinda hints towards what happened to Mizuno in his past Sports day that caused his practically trauma response to it.

Like the dialogues and facial expressions are excellent per usual, but with the framing and structure of this chapter, you can almost tell that the events here are closely mirrored to the past.


Now I cannot wait to see what’s going to happen next chapter. For one, the person succeeding is Wakao instead so you cant exactly play the ol’ “overcoming trauma” for the next chapter. But the unusualness will definitely make it interesting.
 
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4 more chapters of sports day..? That ain’t so bad, a little much but this manga hasn’t been dragging its feet yet so I’m sure it’ll be pulled off well
 

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