Wakaba-san Chi no Aoi Koi - Ch. 32 - Idol's Child

[MangaDex]

 

[razorshaleh]

i hope that in next chapter, MC and wakaba can be honest about their feelings love

thank you for translating

 

[Vivafif]

Sybau Kanzaki

 

[Canfit]

oh c'mon with the cliffhanger

also thank you for the chapter

 

[Sakidornis]

Errrgh, I hate this idol culture thing... It makes people seem like some sort of object on a pedestal.

 

[nxneil13]

Thx for the TL

Yessssss comfort her, comfort her with UNSOLICITED HAND HOLDING

 

[Dallll]

That Goople maps is so accurate, it can tell the exact room

 

[UdenEmpati]

Pretty telling that she didn't confirm that, just because she was in the idol research club, she'd always wanted to be an idol.

I'm expecting she'll turn down the recruiter and affirm she'd rather be with her not-yet-boyfriend -- especially since as an idol she couldn't be in a relationship, assuming this is following real-world precedent -- but it's a shame she felt like she couldn't speak up under all that peer pressure from the outset.

Hopefully our boy here doesn't play the self-sacrifice card and reject her saying "your dream is more important", or something. But if he does, she better speak up. Or what's the point?

 

[drepurp]

I really hate the " she a idol she can't have a male friend or boyfriend else it will ruin her growth. I better stay away from her" troupe

 

[Loliconi]

Pretty telling that she didn't confirm that, just because she was in the idol research club, that she'd always wanted to be an idol.

I'm expecting she'll turn down the recruiter and affirm she'd rather be with her not-yet-boyfriend -- especially since as an idol she couldn't be in a relationship, assuming this is following real-world precedent -- but it's a shame she felt like she couldn't speak up under all that peep pressure from the outset.

Hopefully our boy here doesn't play the self-sacrifice card and reject her saying "your dream is more important", or something. But if he does, she better speak up. Or what's the point?

This chapter did heavily play into the idea of him playing the self sacrifice card being the only possible way for this to go tho. It isn't like he has a choice either.
He himself realized that he is not okay with his crush being shared with the whole country and that her dream seemed more important to her since she immediately shifted gear and left him to dry on his own (we clearly know it was peer pressure and circumstances but from his struggling adolescent pov).
Her initiating a meeting and hug clearly will show him otherwise but she didn't tell him until then (full week later)

I won't call what is happening bad or bash the series for doing the most usual and formulaic tried and tested stuff. But the author is pushing waaay too hard on the fact that this is the girls' story and that they have pretty much 99% of all agency and make the choices, even if it makes sense with them being the protagonists.
Like, you have this guy trying his hardest to progress and solve their relationship but it still feels unbalanced and anything but alive and organic imo. I kinda feel that way about all of the guys. As if they are cardboard cutouts waiting to be allowed to act.

 

[Haydrion101]

I really hate the " she a idol she can't have a male friend or boyfriend else it will ruin her growth. I better stay away from her" troupe

Hopefully our boy here doesn't play the self-sacrifice card and reject her saying "your dream is more important", or something. But if he does, she better speak up. Or what's the point?

I loathe idol culture ngl. It ruins lives and it ruins manga. I'm still agitated by The Dangers in my Heart going that route.
I'll be happy if, just once, a manga acknowledges this. I can dream. >_>

 

[UdenEmpati]

This chapter did heavily play into the idea of him playing the self sacrifice card being the only possible way for this to go tho. It isn't like he has a choice either.
He himself realized that he is not okay with his crush being shared with the whole country and that her dream seemed more important to her since she immediately shifted gear and left him to dry on his own (we clearly know it was peer pressure and circumstances but from his struggling adolescent pov).
Her initiating a meeting and hug clearly will show him otherwise but she didn't tell him until then (full week later)

I won't call what is happening bad or bash the series for doing the most usual and formulaic tried and tested stuff. But the author is pushing waaay too hard on the fact that this is the girls' story and that they have pretty much 99% of all agency and make the choices, even if it makes sense with them being the protagonists.
Like, you have this guy trying his hardest to progress and solve their relationship but it still feels unbalanced and anything but alive and organic imo. I kinda feel that way about all of the guys. As if they are cardboard cutouts waiting to be allowed to act.

It's interesting you bring up the seeming lack of agency for the boys in this series - because I think there's an argument that it's simply a mirror of how so many series tend to go, when it's the guy who's the protagonist, chasing the girl. But flipping the genders like this, and having four different stories playing out, really drives home that perception of lopsidedness.
(That might be why Chifuyu getting into that yuri-baiting situation annoys me. The one who will ostensibly lose there is the girl who's actually being proactive, even if by comparison - but the boy will likely win, as passive as he was for so long, comparatively.)

But I guess we'll see. Looking back on it more, I think you're correct, that he will try to push her away and tell her to chase her dream, because as you said - from his perspective, she just fully bounced and got entirely immersed in this Idol Child business.
So at that point I think I, too, would just go "yeah, you've made your choice, best of luck" if I were in his shoes and with his mindset. He's already struggling so much even as he's trying, and now she's the darling of the whole school, with other guys "checking out her photos" (which we all know what that insinuates). From his POV, she's made her choice in that week's time.

If it's gonna work out between them, she can't stutter or falter, or I suspect he will fall on his sword to see her dream realized.

 

[buffalosauce]

i hope this leads to her turning down the recruitment and choosing to have a boyfriend instead. not only because the idol storyline is so overused, but also because it would either crowd out the other sisters part of the story or it wouldn't get the time it needs. either way it would be unsatisfying

 

[capt_Nem00]

Japanese (and Korean) Idol culture looks so suffocating

 

[AlecHero]

Oh this can't be serious??? Is this supposed to mimic how people would actually react?? This whole chapter felt like some weird fanfiction or dream sequence. She got scouted, and suddenly, random girls are getting her as their phone background? What is this.

 

[MellowV2]

I always thought she was quite popular in school. So this fast just boosted her popularity even more.

 

[Grug16]

"Idol's Child". Is that really the right translation? If I understand it should be more like "The Little Idol", because she's not a full idol yet.

 

[Erbakhan]

A bit of exaggeration, isn't it

 

[Wizardrone]

idols should stay away

thanks for chapter

 

[NamekazeMinato]

"Idol's Child". Is that really the right translation? If I understand it should be more like "The Little Idol", because she's not a full idol yet.

It's a sort of play on words on "Oshi no Ko", but the literal translation is that, but nobody calls Oshi no Ko by its localized name from what I've seen