When I Returned to My Hometown, My Childhood Friend was Broken - Ch. 32

[iamsalad]

Now she's just need to do something about her bad fashion

 

[PlanOfInaction]

Being a trad gf/wife ain't easy. Keep it up Kyouko!

 

[anideki]

That "so don't give up on me just yet" hits different.

 

[darkblade210]

They essentially married already

 

[MewOne]

Awwww a cute chapter.

 

[Robinisback]

That was a cute chapter. I'm glad they aren't exploring the past of kyouko.. yet. It's better if they don't.

 

[Chronigan]

I was hoping we would get to see her at a certain convenience store or supermarket.

 

[jackjack9]

Touma for sure is premium husband material.

I want them to get married already!

 

[JacobCada]

Thx for the chapter 👍🏾

 

[RexNemorensis]

Might as well change the title to "I got myself a neet girlfriend (she's a rape victim btw), now I'm going to fix her!"
The premise becomes rather pointless if you're going to do even less work with the girl's past than in Crybaby Neighbour.

there's not any real mystery left as to what happened. the guys at her college boozed her up and ran a train on her. what else do you need to know? which positions they did? the brand of whisky they gave her? from the start, this story was about her getting herself back together, not endlessly reflecting on what happened. not to mention it was kinda obvious to begin with.

 

[henman]

that's a highly valuable skill for any husband-in-training to eat meal the result of cooking without noticeably twisting face while praising the girlfriend convincingly

Might as well change the title to "I got myself a neet girlfriend (she's a rape victim btw), now I'm going to fix her!"
The premise becomes rather pointless if you're going to do even less work with the girl's past than in Crybaby Neighbour.

well, the author is working in "a man savior" genre. You don't really need a well-set backstory, just a rough outline is enough, the main focus is on how the girl becomes happy in real-time with her knight in shining armour

 

[yummyyummy]

the urge to protect grows stronger every chapter

 

[xXPenisXx]

there's not any real mystery left as to what happened. the guys at her college boozed her up and ran a train on her. what else do you need to know? which positions they did? the brand of whisky they gave her? from the start, this story was about her getting herself back together, not endlessly reflecting on what happened. not to mention it was kinda obvious to begin with.

You don't understand, getting over trauma is all about endlessly dwelling on it and reliving it over and over again. If your trauma isn't a raw, open wound, are you even really hurt?

 

[dowiet]

Touma aka "Chad-kun" is at it again

 

[dowiet]

Nah Kyouko don't need to worry. Touma is basically the embodiment of Rick Astley's song.

Never gonna give you up~
Never gonna let you down~
Never gonna run around and desert you~

Despite the memes about the song it really is a good song

 

[SpudWumper]

thanks for translation

food is good

 

[JustSomeGuyOnHisPhone]

This is the good stuff. So good in fact it heals the soul and keeps you up at night with the overflow of dopamine in your brain

 

[Chuggoth]

there's not any real mystery left as to what happened. the guys at her college boozed her up and ran a train on her. what else do you need to know? which positions they did? the brand of whisky they gave her? from the start, this story was about her getting herself back together, not endlessly reflecting on what happened. not to mention it was kinda obvious to begin with.

Since there's little of her suffering displayed, this "healing" doesn't feel deserved at all.
If there's barely any difference between her and an average hikki neet, then what was the point of making it rape at all?
What do you really recover FROM if all you have to deal with is poor self esteem and asocial behaviour?

 

[LoopsAndArcs]

Ahh, good soup 👌

 

[Gtcvenkai]

Since there's little of her suffering displayed, this "healing" doesn't feel deserved at all.
If there's barely any difference between her and an average hikki neet, then what was the point of making it rape at all?
What do you really recover FROM if all you have to deal with is poor self esteem and asocial behaviour?

Our main POV is from Touma's side. In Touma's memories Kyouko was an extrovert, loud and outgoing person. When he returns he finds her introverted, quiet and withdrawn. It was all but outright stated that for a time Touma questioned if his childhood friend disappeared in the trainwreck he was seeing now. You don't need to see her suffering drawn out to know that something is seriously wrong with Kyouko and that she was definitively not in a good place at the time of the story's start. We are shown contrasts between her current and past self so we know she wasn't like that originally, especially when she parted ways with Touma when they went off to college.