Tsukkomi-machi no Machino-san - Ch. 7

[MangaDex]

 

[coyote_vdb]

Thanks for the translation.

 

[AlkaliSky]

Another chapter of peak ty 4 the tl

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

SFW version for those reading this in public:

 

[lemon-dono]

Dang the girls in this series are seriously cute.

 

[Chuito]

Was that some bit of jealousy I see?

Brutal takedown from Machino tho. Cant wait for next ep to see if she bring it up or acts slightly differently. I mean, he did charm her a bit with the birthday vid

 

[drakenation]

SFW version for those reading this in public:

Thank you. I was on the train and when I saw the original version I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, author-san, you could have prevented this if you had just added a mosaic to that lewd scene.

 

[SilentWInd]

What the heck is an online-meme mode?

 

[UdenEmpati]

eh - this knocks down my estimation of Machino a bit.

She's usually pretty hip and aware/cognizant of what's going on, and her quips with Nitanda tend to include some "assuaging" aspect that cuts through whatever harshness the punchline might have had so that the tone isn't left in a net-negative.

But here she's just meanspirited with the 'sneaky perv' comment even though she's been presented as having the capacity to know that what she saw had a more benign explanation, and then simply removed Yukide and ended the chapter without giving Nitanda a chance to actually rectify things.

And what's Nitanda going to do? Nothing, obviously - he's just the insular loner in the not-even-a-club-clubroom and she's the extroverted popular sporty girl. And I bet that this will be dropped the following chapter from her end, she'll show up again like nothing's happened, and whether or not Nitanda dwells on it, she'll just play it off as no big deal and devalue his feelings in the name of "quips and jokes".
Nitanda already has the view of her that she only hangs out with him out of pity and that she'd do the same for anyone; whatever his nascent feelings for her, all this does is make her seem meanspirited and goes against her usual shtick of sarcasm. It can be argued that "this is pretty par for the course in the rom com manga genre and to be expected", but that just means the author fell back on tired formulaic tropes in a series that had a chance to forego that sort of thing, which is honestly a tad disappointing.

Maybe the next chapter will follow up and Machino will apologize or have reflected on how she left things here, but it actually ended on a in-story sour mood for Nitanda, which hasn't happened before. If it's being played off as Machino being jealous over Yukide and Nitanda hanging out alone, then that's whatever, but we don't get that outside of very inferred subtext based on nothing but a couple of past panels of Machino blushing here and there at certain points, which isn't concrete enough to hold water as actual feelings on her part for Nitanda that mean it was worth acting this way, to begin with.

Runon sentences and mixed feelings aside, thank you for the continued TL work.

 

[bigtiddyoneesan]

Thank you. I was on the train and when I saw the original version I had to start furiously masturbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masturbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, author-san, you could have prevented this if you had just added a mosaic to that lewd scene.

no problem, it happens to the best of us

 

[sogsea]

eh - this knocks down my estimation of Machino a bit.

She's usually pretty hip and aware/cognizant of what's going on, and her quips with Nintanda tend to include some "assuaging" aspect that cuts through whatever harshness the punchline might have had so that the tone isn't left in a net-negative.

But here she's just meanspirited with the 'sneaky perv' comment even though she's been presented as having the capacity to know that what she saw had a more benign explanation, and then simply removed Yukide and ended the chapter without giving Nitanda a chance to actually rectify things.

And what's Nitanda going to do? Nothing, obviously - he's just the insular loner in the not-even-a-club-clubroom and she's the extroverted popular sporty girl. And I bet that this will be dropped the following chapter from her end, she'll show up again like nothing's happened, and whether or not Nitanda dwells on it, she'll just play it off as no big deal and devalue his feelings in the name of "quips and jokes".
Nitanda already has the view of her that she only hangs out with him out of pity and that she'd do the same for anyone; whatever his nascent feelings for her, all this does is make her seem meanspirited and goes against her usual shtick of sarcasm. It can be argued that "this is pretty par for the course in the rom com manga genre and to be expected", but that just means the author fell back on tired formulaic tropes in a series that had a chance to forego that sort of thing, which is honestly a tad disappointing.

Maybe the next chapter will follow up and Machino will apologize or have reflected on how she left things here, but it actually ended on a in-story sour mood for Nitanda, which hasn't happened before. If it's being played off as Machino being jealous over Yukide and Nitanda hanging out alone, then that's whatever, but we don't get that outside of very inferred subtext based on nothing but a couple of past panels of Machino blushing here and there at certain points, which isn't concrete enough to hold water as actual feelings on her part for Nitanda that mean it was worth acting this way, to begin with.

Runon sentences and mixed feelings aside, thank you for the continued TL work.

Yeah I think Machino went against bit too far with calling him a sneaky perv, especially since she knows he has trouble making friends.

It's not a relationship-ending type of remark, but i would definitely be hurt if someone i regularly talk to just insulted me out of the blue like that and just walked away.

 

[Vverg]

Have to say, some of you have a very interesting look about socializing.

 

[UdenEmpati]

Yeah I think Machino went against bit too far with calling him a sneaky perv, especially since she knows he has trouble making friends.

It's not a relationship-ending type of remark, but i would definitely be hurt if someone i regularly talk to just insulted me out of the blue like that and just walked away.

If she's doing it out of jealousy, that's fine. I'm assuming it'll be addressed, or at least hopeful because I choose to believe the author is capable of that, based on what I've seen thus far.

But it's a hell of an ending point to the chapter to just leave him alone like that given what we've seen to now, yeah.
And the part that I'm not a fan of is that I suspect Nitanda won't be allowed to speak his mind of how it bothered him, because Machino's whole deal is that she comes in to banter and make jokes/poke fun and be sarcastic.
That doesn't really allow for "serious discussions" about how she did the meanest thing she could have to him in that moment, to date for the series - precisely because of his introverted nature and his issues around making friends that you pointed out.

It's just out of character for her, and sorta reads like the author couldn't think of a sufficient way to address the situation they set up, without having Machino 'break character' and default to the "cute girl abuses boy caught in accidental lucky perv moment" trope.
And that's just such a saturated gimmick within this genre of manga that I'm a little put out by seeing it show up here, when we've managed to avoid most of those up to now and things have been rather refreshing, otherwise.

But I guess we'll see.

 

[outinthegardener]

Oh it's the "Jealousy is good, actually!" trope again. I dislike this trope.

 

[Nitrorare]

He really trying so hard to make Dominoes looks fun but it actually isn't

 

[BusWindow]

Sneaky repressed nerdy perv is a new one 😂

 

[razorshaleh]

haha MC got busted holding hands

thank you for translating

 

[zerio]

What the heck is an online-meme mode?

From the raw, it seems like she was accusing Nitanda as someone who uses online slang a lot. (I haven't seen the raw for previous chapters, so I don't know if he actually used it).

I think translating『エグいって』as "That's crazy" is too tame. According to AI, it does mean that. But it's a slang that kinda breaks the original word.
I'm kinda old, so I don't know what kids use these days. But I guess it's like saying "cray" for crazy?

Again though, I haven't checked whether he actually uses that often or not.

 

[Haydrion101]

She cut his legs right out from under him, oi...

 

[UdenEmpati]

From the raw, it seems like she was accusing Nitanda as someone who uses online slang a lot. (I haven't seen the raw for previous chapters, so I don't know if he actually used it).

I think translating『エグいって』as "That's crazy" is too tame. According to AI, it does mean that. But it's a slang that kinda breaks the original word.
I'm kinda old, so I don't know what kids use these days. But I guess it's like saying "cray" for crazy?

Again though, I haven't checked whether he actually uses that often or not.

I kinda suspect that everything she said about Nitanda in this chapter was meant to insult him and disparage him in front of Yukide. There's every chance he has used slang of that nature before (haven't looked at the raws myself), but....contextually, he just doesn't come across as the type, at least in terms of the every chapter we've seen up to now.

Maybe "online-meme mode" is something different than I'm interpreting, but stuff like simply responding to things like "that's crazy!" evokes a sort of ...I guess 'vapid' personality, who engages with things at the surface-level, at most, especially using the example given in this chapter.
Nitanda comes across as way too introspective and thoughtful about things. He made a video for her birthday out of dominoes at least weeks if not months before-the-fact, just so he'd have it ready when he needed it. And he was so awkward in this chapter with Yukide precisely because he was too deferential to her the whole time.

Everything else Machino did this chapter, leads me to suspect she said that simply to make him look bad. She had none of her usual playfulness about her this time, opting instead to make every word of Nitanda critical or insulting, and then promptly took Yukide from the room and ended the chapter with the only "goodbye" her sticking her tongue out at him after calling him a repressed nerdy pervert, and giving him no chance to explain himself.

None of that matches her tone anywhere else in the series to date. We can speculate on her reasons for doing so - such as her being jealous that he was spending time with a girl who wasn't her, alone no less - but Machino was outright antagonistic toward Nitanda this time. So everything she said to him, seems like a fabrication.
Charitably, she said it all simply to make him seem "not attractive(???)" in Yukide's eyes, to ward off a potential rival (again, ???) - but that's me hoping the author has just decided to fall back on old tropes and gimmicks that are prevalent to the genre, and not that Machino's turned a corner into being an actual bully to Nitanda for whatever reason.

Hopefully next chapter explains things or at least sheds some light.