Watashi no Musuko ga Isekai Tensei Shitappoi - Vol. 4 Ch. 30 - That's Wrong!

[Nekoriz]

WTF THE GASLIGHTING I SWEAR, can someone punch that dude please wtf

 

[strawhatwoos]

You don't have to make him horrible to make a complex story about the death of a child, even if he's "grieving" and frustrated on how his wife handled it along with the expectations set from his parents. But yeah, I get it.

It's not about making him horrible for the sake of story, he's genuinely a horrible person. We know this, he was sleeping around with other women while his wife was missing. He's blaming the mother of his child for his death, that's not good person stuff. He's been an asshole this entire story.

 

[Snowmanne]

I feel like Haruji just being a straight up evil asshole is a bit of a cop-out. Until now it seemed like he was genuinely struggling with Taiga's death, too.

 

[lolfacesayshi]

I feel like Haruji just being a straight up evil asshole is a bit of a cop-out. Until now it seemed like he was genuinely struggling with Taiga's death, too.

Nah, he's bummed that his normal life is ruined, how people expect him to be grieving, how they look at him with pity.

This chapter proves it, it was never about Taiga's death, but Taiga dying.

 

[Weoooo]

I feel like Haruji just being a straight up evil asshole is a bit of a cop-out. Until now it seemed like he was genuinely struggling with Taiga's death, too.

I think people are looking at this a bit wrong. I can understand why you think "oh its a cop out," but he's been a dick the whole time for sure. It's always been there. But a lot of people saw him, and hoped for better. They thought he was grieving. They thought he wasn't irredeemable. They thought "hey, this guy's going through a rough patch too."

You were Mio. You were their friends. You're every friend of an asshole, every battered spouse, every abused child. "There's gotta be more to them," you say. "They're people, they're complicated, but there's good in there," you say. "They're just lashing out," you say. You see a future where they're better, a potential world where they're happier, where they don't act like this. Maybe, if you're his boss, you give him some slack. If you're his friend, you try and get him to talk about it. If you're family, you try and tiptoe around him and keep away from things that make him upset. You're rebuffed each time, like they were here, but you still dream of a time where they're able to finally talk it out. Finally feel better about it. Finally be more than an awful dick who only cares about themselves, because they expose their pain and let themselves be better.

So you built that scenario up. That he's going to find Mio, that they're going to talk it out. That he's going to reveal more about his pain. That he'll apologize for being so distant. That he'll come to terms with the idea that they're both sad for the same reason. That maybe... maybe they can figure this whole thing out together.

What'd you get? Well, Haruji. A violent, entitled asshole who centers everything around him and how his life has been interrupted. A pathetic man who can't take responsibility for anything, not even his lack of desire to have a child. Who lacks the power and resolve to actually do what he wants, so just blames everyone else that he can't. He didn't wanna be with Mio, he didn't wanna be a father, he didn't want to have to be 'the man who lost his son,' he didn't want any of this, and it's all Mio's fault. Him having a son, that son dying, his loss of status, his inconvenience... all hers.

In this moment, Haruji was revealed to you. Just as he was to Mio, just as he was to Dobura. None of you liked what you saw. But that's not a flaw in the story. That's what people like this are like. They trick you into thinking there's something more to them. Somewhere, under all that, is a good person. But there isn't. Their hostility comes from resentment. Their resentment comes from victimization. Their victimization comes from entitlement. There's layers. There's a complicated stew of expectations and powerlessness and the angst that comes from a self-image that doesn't match with reality.

BUT IT ALL SUCKS.

 

[MisterMemeDaddy]

Every manga otaku: I will now commence my ultimate self-defense strategy, getting the shit beaten out of me.

 

[monsterfuzz]

Thank you for continuing this series, I've been hanging on for months. Also, fuck Haruji.

 

[kiero13]

I mean I get that haruji is also grieving but... he already has some issues prior to taigas death. Taigas death just worsened him.

He can be a griever and at the same time be the villain here as well. Welp, thats what I want to believe.

He never owed up to anything like in this flashback. Everyone is at fault and shitty except from him. This might all stem to him subconsciously knowing he is also at fault and is shitty, and he can't accept it so he lashes it out on someone else.

I want to believe he is grieving and is not just angry about his reputation. But if the spoiler is true then it's sad that the author just used him as plot point and didn't expand his PoV.

 

[Keplite]

You see the author had to make him act like total over the top jerk this chapter otherwise everything would have been resolved.

are you retarded?