Tsukkomi-machi no Machino-san - Ch. 14

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Machino seems too clever to get mad simply because he talked to another girl that walked into the room and struck up a conversation with him. Interested to get that explanation.
Machino is a clever girl, but she likes Nitanda. Another girl doing her gimmick with the boy she likes will make her feel insecure and jealous. It's irrational emotional response that is completely normal.
 
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Machino is a clever girl, but she likes Nitanda. Another girl doing her gimmick with the boy she likes will make her feel insecure and jealous. It's irrational emotional response that is completely normal.

I have to remind myself that, because Nitanda is the lens through which we experience the story and he has a super slanted view of Machino, her behavior relying on the subtext of inference on the part of the reader means that she's not being petulant as it might first appear when she belittles him in situations like this.

I think it would read very differently if we had perspectives from more than just the one kid who sits alone in a room all day and relies on the rest of the cast to come to him. So it's a good move on the part of the author in presenting everything through only Nitanda's perception of events, because it forces more thoughtful engagement to get past the surface level of appearances.
 
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Machino seems too clever to get mad simply because he talked to another girl that walked into the room and struck up a conversation with him. Interested to get that explanation.
She's probably self aware enough to not get mat at him but will still be upset. Cant really control when you feel jealous now can you.

Then again she is hopelessly oblivious with romantic stuff so she's probably just going to be confused why she hates it so much.

Either way, AWWW SO CUTE SHE JELLY
 
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She's probably self aware enough to not get mat at him but will still be upset. Cant really control when you feel jealous now can you.

Then again she is hopelessly oblivious with romantic stuff so she's probably just going to be confused why she hates it so much.

Either way, AWWW SO CUTE SHE JELLY

Only sticking point is I would imagine she could control the barbed comments she points directly at him, especially as this isn't the first time she's said something that could easily be construed as mean-spirited or even a put-down, when he's objectively done nothing wrong.

But I see it more as an example of the ongoing trend of female leads belittling the male lead in a way that's meant to be endearing or even outright attractive for the reader, so "whatever gets your engine going", I guess is the intent.
 
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Machino seems too clever to get mad simply because he talked to another girl that walked into the room and struck up a conversation with him. Interested to get that explanation.
I think she got a bit jealous because she saw Arakune was about to join the club, and then it might end up with both her (Machino) and Nitanda not having enough time to talk before her club anymore, and deep down, she doesn't like it.
 
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Hoo boy. I had this happen to me before with my ex when I was just talking to another girl. It's not even the flirty kind but just a normal conversation. It sucks. A woman's jealousy is really scary.
 
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(Two nights later) Wow this is just like those Reddit stories where the girl gets in the guy's bed and he doesn't realize why for two years!
 

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