Wakaba-chan wa Wakarasetai! - Vol. 1 Ch. 10.6 - Extra Chapter 2

[MangaDex]

 

[Ludd_]

That only applies when the childhood friend isn't a tomboy, everyone knows that the tomboy SHOULD always win

 

[mastername]

I know this probably isn't going to happen, but does blud not realize he falls into the childhood friend category too?

 

[deathmailrock]

1st, is there an extra chapter 1???

2nd, that idea of a childhood friend losing as a trope is wrong.

Childhood friends actually win way too much for it to be considered a factor in winning or losing.

Childhood friendship is actually a complete non-factor.

If you are a main heroine, you win. If you aren't, you lose. It's that simple.

It doesn't matter if you are a childhood friend or not....

 

[blablablub]

If your childhood friend can't lose, just ask her out.

 

[flxsemi]

It'd be hilarious and cathartic if the story introduces the obligatory second "main" heroine, then purposefully removes her screentime in obvious ways, and becomes detached to the love triangle drama as she finds a new purpose in life, like maybe she picks up competitive karuta or something.

 

[AnotherDuck]

Nah, childhood friends only lose if they're not the main feature on the first cover. And most of the time it's because they don't do shit about their situation. But the girl pictured there doesn't give me childhood friend vibes.

And statistically, any archetype is most likely to not win. That's just how it is, since there are on average way more characters than characters who win. Most are going to lose, even if some stories end up with actual harems.

Of course Wakaba isn't going to lose. She's the title character and the cover girl.

 

[Gobilu]

Nah she'd win 🗿

 

[havelmom]

Wakaba has both angles covered
the CF tomboy + the gal that makes the MC tremble

 

[Nobi]

I know this probably isn't going to happen, but does blud not realize he falls into the childhood friend category too?

He should start panicking.

 

[gartender]

Cute

 

[Alcion]

H...he stole the audience's line!

 

[Geardofwario]

I lost to her smile

 

[MostlyHumanTLs]

Doesn't this chapter imply that he likes her and is going to choose her? I haven't read it in a while, but I thought that he only saw her as a friend.

 

[OsisNie]

Doesn't this chapter imply that he likes her and is going to choose her? I haven't read it in a while, but I thought that he only saw her as a friend.

Daiki is shown to be incredibly dense in general, and his immediate thoughts about winning and losing go back to them playing soccer. Maybe it's a little lost in translation, but I think despite the very obvious direction of the conversation with his friends, Daiki is still thinking about it literally, as in he'll never beat her at soccer.

 

[MostlyHumanTLs]

Daiki is shown to be incredibly dense in general, and his immediate thoughts about winning and losing go back to them playing soccer. Maybe it's a little lost in translation, but I think despite the very obvious direction of the conversation with his friends, Daiki is still thinking about it literally, as in he'll never beat her at soccer.

Thought so. Japanese is such a pain to translate without losing all the possible double meanings... I bet I'd get it if I read the raw, but I'm too drunk for that right now.

 

[GoldenSpin]

aw that's cool

 

[motheblackcat]

Not the best example to illustrate the losing childhood friend on the 1st page heh!

• "I didn't made a move on him for more than a decade".
• He found someone else who shows her affection for him.
• pikachu face

 

[Jayswing103]

I know this probably isn't going to happen, but does blud not realize he falls into the childhood friend category too?

That only applies in NTR doujins.

 

[HawkGoggles]

If you are reading anything that isn't romance, yeah the childhood friend will most likely win if there's even a rival to be seen at all.

If it is a romance then good, luck. The trope that wins out most of the time is "first girl". A trope so powerful authors will bend over backwards to make it mean "first girl MC has ever met" which is even more ridiculous than the childhood friend trope. But "winning and losing" only matters in triangles and harems and in those groups, Childhood Friends loses more often than not.