Watashi no Kokoro wa Oji-san de Aru - Ch. 11

[MangaDex]

 

[CrimsonWarden]

Nice and thoughtful. Gives some humanity despite the slow pace

 

[Airzpool]

Ahh, I know this old man's feeling. I also think the same thing as this old man. When I was still young, I thought being kind was correct, but the more I grew up, the more I knew that society doesn't want a good guy but a good masking person.

I still remember when I reported a problem child, the teacher was not happy at all. Now I become an adult, I know the teacher just doesn't want more work.

But ironically, I just know about this truth when I work in society. It has been too late for me to change myself. Though changed a little, I don't think that I can change completely.

 

[Elizviel]

Al my guy really make a good move

 

[Odious1]

What a silly chapter🫤. At least we are finally done reading about this old man's prior life's emotional damage. If it made sense, and if it was delivered with proper timing and emotion, I wouldn't have minded it. This just felt like they forced his depressing past together just to get some pity from us. He had "kind" parents? Parents that are too busy to even listen to your worries are kind? 😑. His past life was buried in books with almost no human interactions. This life, he was forced into human interactions and books aren't a part of his life either. He suffered from modern day mental illnesses, but he's no longer ABLE to live that kind of life! Being thrown into this otherworld should've been shock therapy for him! Instead, we got a moping, brooding elf? Lis, this whole chapter was just silly😅.

 

[ShieldStop]

Yep, another point to the tally of "every anime protagonist has autism".

I actually really liked this chapter. Being able to honestly compliment someone like haruka does here is something I've been working on for years, and i like how it was done here. It feels real.

 

[blublab123]

Big flashback chapter.
Man, Haruka really didn't have it easy! Looking forward to see further elf bishoujou oji-san adventures

Thanks for the TL! <3

 

[Barrubo]

All we needed was a good push. To show that you are more than what you think you are. All of us at least need that once in our lives.

 

[Chita13]

Afraid to do something that would hurt someone results in inability to do something and stay silent. Yet, staying silent just inflicts pain on those around you because you do nothing. Oh, the agony...

 

[Tijnob]

Aah yet another MC with social anxiety
ITS JUST LIKE ME FR

 

[superdubes]

Iirc this event went a little different in the web novel. If anyone else read it too can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Haruka had confided in Corin that she had no memories and Corin then scolded Al and he chased after Haruka to apologize.

 

[Julianganteng]

TBH, I'm kind of disappointed. He doesn't represent his age at all. don't get me wrong, I know he's kind of an introvert and doesn't really like socializing with others, but hey, at least he should've mature enough to deal with his own problem, right? I don't mind he's running away, and honestly sometimes I also feel that way, but at least stop acting like a maiden that was about to have her first time.

Ur a dude, bruh. man up and say things straightly. since he's an adult salaryman (white collar worker in japan) I expect him to at least keep his composure even if he was shaken in front of others, but well. I can't have much to complain since it's basically his first time to have that kind of friend in real life..😅

 

[Swagblu]

This hit close to home.

 

[Ungrave]

There's two kinds of people in these comments and I think one type is lacking some mental faculties. I'd recommend meeting some more people of different walks of life to get a broader perspective.

 

[Zblurth]

TBH, I'm kind of disappointed. He doesn't represent his age at all. don't get me wrong, I know he's kind of an introvert and doesn't really like socializing with others, but hey, at least he should've mature enough to deal with his own problem, right? I don't mind he's running away, and honestly sometimes I also feel that way, but at least stop acting like a maiden that was about to have her first time.

Ur a dude, bruh. man up and say things straightly. since he's an adult salaryman (white collar worker in japan) I expect him to at least keep his composure even if he was shaken in front of others, but well. I can't have much to complain since it's basically his first time to have that kind of friend in real life..😅

The thing is when all you do is mask and act not for you but for other... well the real you is stuck in place frozen in time so yeah... when you leave that part of you talk you end up pretty immature for your age but that because you killed that part of you for most of your life... Trust me it is as painfully obvious for us than it is for the person in front

Yep, another point to the tally of "every anime protagonist has autism".

I do agree we have quite a few but crimpling social anxiety and the tism' are similar but not the same, Haruka does not seem to have ritual in her daily life, or quite a few other autistic trait, and to get the label you need to have many trait and them to be pretty present, so I would not jump the gun.
Also PTSD can have some similarity depression too, heck even ADHD to a degree


Now that say it is a fair way to read Haruka character and more power to you


btw little edit but I forgot to mention but not having a strong gender identity often associated with the tism' so I am not saying they are not on the spectrum just it can be easy to not be on it and have a lot of trait

 

[Drm186]

Isekia authors can't win, they get complaints if the past life doesn't affect the story, if they include chapters explaining why the mc behaves the way they do you get complaints like we are seeing here (waste of a chapter, unnecessary, every mc has social anxiety)

Personally I like this chapter

 

[Zblurth]

There's two kinds of people in these comments and I think one type is lacking some mental faculties. I'd recommend meeting some more people of different walks of life to get a broader perspective.

tbh, to a degree it is fine to not understand, those can be pretty painful life experience and understanding them can take time and not being a great time.
I think as a society empathy and understanding is only a net benefit but if an individual has a hard time or does not care I do not think it is that much of a lack for them, heck to a degree Haruka do lack empathy outside of their own experience, trying to act how people think they should act and not understanding how they would want them to interact with them, the GF is the perfect example, I am pretty sure she wanted to understand him better but he tough she wanted to break up and he was doing her arm, could have try to talked it out but he just escaped (which is fair just pointing out how everyone has their own understanding of the word and relation)

 

[raidanzoup]

I feel bad for this guy because he had no outlets in his formative years. He couldn't even talk about things at home. I mean, I barely ever did that myself, but only in the normal sense that when a parent asks their child of something the child doesn't always want to do it, meanwhile this guy was just brushed aside because the adults had adult worries that weighed on them. The same kind of "I don't want to inconvenience anyone" mode he was in at school never turned off at home. No off-switch, no unmasking. I'm glad they got the push they needed to step forward towards the future at the end because that's what they'd been lacking their entire past life.

Anyway, authors always lay it on a bit thick with how isolated they make their characters so they can serve their function in the story or prove whatever point. Even the author of Bocchi the Rock jokingly referred to Bocchi as some inhuman lifeform, and it's hard for me not to recall that whenever I come across parts of a story that "have to be like this" for things to work lol

 

[Shiden]

And there's the root of the social anxiety.

To make things even more difficult, if he's been like that for 30 years (high school to mid-40s), the defensive masking, keeping people at a distance, and self reliance are basically core personality traits.

But it's great seeing the old man continuing to get some much-needed social therapy.

 

[Lunkli]

This honestly has a lot more depth than I was expecting from something with the premise of "Old man reincarnates as hot elf girl in fantasy world." Nice to get something honest like this every once in a while.