Yancha Gal no Anjou-san - Ch. 197 - Tokio-kun's Biggest Clumsy Act

[foist]

As someone who actually enjoys reading Chii chapters it's always funny to come here and see the forum threads burning

NO ONE complains quite like MFers who read this stuff for free, its quite something

 

[HippoPilot]

Just dump him already, stringing a guy along is narcissism

 

[Tarage]

Just because you like someone doesn't mean they owe you a rejection or acceptance. You aren't owed anything if you aren't even in a relationship. Christ.

 

[Insev]

i had hopes, so she knew from the start uh...
who writes these two? fire that assistant lol

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honestly it's not like i don't understand her, i too felt change has always been somewhat scary, and i don't enjoy it.
when i was an highschooler it was more difficult to deal with but roping my friends into it and stringing along people (i got some attention) always felt wrong. so eh- for how much i share her dislike for change i still don't like her that much

 

[chojinra]

I do feel sorry for Chii. Life changes, and you unfortunately have to change with it. Or be a basement dwelling troglodyte.

As for her knowing, people get crushes on other people all the time. She doesn’t have to act on it, especially if he hasn’t been clear. It’s the bare minimum for the man to summon the courage to ask someone out properly. If they don’t, then it means they probably aren’t ready for it, or sense that she isn’t. Not to mention what happens to the friendship afterwards.

Coincidentally, it takes the maximum amount of courage to shoot your shot, get rejected, and not be an asshole afterwards. And figure out if you can still be friends afterwards.

 

[DrKrew98]

 

[story645]

She doesn’t have to act on it, especially if he hasn’t been clear.

Yup, like she's allowed to have the time and space to figure out if it's what she wants and if she feels ready to give it a shot. Which, it's not stringing him along if she might like him.

 

[MiguelH224]

I read it as she's aware he likes her and also aware that she's a shit person who's undateable.

The latter makes perfect sense, she def is undatable

 

[Shaeikh]

Y'all just hating for no apparent reason...

 

[MiguelH224]

Chii did. We have a community of Hurt By Chii, we meet every wednesday to lick each other's wounds.
You would not understand therefore, you are not invited.

Thanks for the laugh, btw y'all recruiting? And by that I mean actual haters, that community sounds fun

 

[Wrath6577]

Why do I feel like this is a turn toward the end?

 

[intmanga]

saswedontcare.gif

 

[story645]

Why do I feel like this is a turn toward the end?

B/c it's wrapping up the last major open storyline?

Like the only other biggish unknown is what Seto wants to do in college, but the author has been foreshadowing teacher in neon lights.

 

[ShadowSilence]

Also, when she said she didn’t wanted them to have boyfriends because she wanted to keep them both to herself ?

Such a selfish brat good friend to have !

The thing is... SHE'S STILL LIKE THAT.

she just has the brother to distract her now

 

[wandere]

You're completely correct, but you're forgetting a critical aspect to this whole thing: Teenagers are really, really fucking annoying.

Chii is the archetype of the eternal manchild (or whatever the female equivalent is), the person who can't let go of the past, who's all talk and big dreams but makes at best a token effort following up on any of it, and generally is just someone you eventually outgrow as a person. This is coupled with her crab in a bucket mentality, where instead of supporting her closest friends and the changes in their lives, she wants to drag them into the muck of her standstill attitude with her, keep them from developing. There's also the fact that Tokio is just kind of a decent guy who doesn't deserve being ignored/strung along like this. And finally... this chapter honestly makes things worse, because it seems to recontextualize everything as Chii being completely aware of this, and that's just inexcusable.

To counter that, I think that judging a child for being a child is a bit unfair. That's maybe a bit of a personal take; but I know when I was a kid I was definitely immature as fuck, even into my college years. It can be annoying to watch from an adult perspective because you're watching something happen that seems like it could be solved if they were just more mature, but I see that as the point; she is going to learn to be more mature. That's the arc I see. In fact, we've seen similar arcs for all the characters in the main cast, usually using themes of duality:
Anjou and Seto: Feeling stuck in your identity vs Not knowing your identity
Toyoda and Inuyama: Passion without knowledge/skill vs Knowledge/skill without passion
Tokio and Chii: Wanting to grow up vs Not wanting to grow up
I feel like the formula here is generally that the boy part of the pair is the driving factor in influencing the girl part of the pair, and that worked well for the first two because we got a good amount of focus on them throughout the story. Then, we kind of cram all of this development between Tokio and Chii later on, and it does feel a little forced, a bit like they could have characterized Chii a bit earlier but they didn't (and to be fair they didn't really dip into Anjou's biggest problems until we were really deep in). But most of all, unlike Anjou or Toyoda, Chii appeared to simply be unaffected, and from this chapter we now know intentionally is trying to not be moved. Which I think in a romance story is definitely irritating. What this makes me wonder is what the turning point is going to be: Chii getting past her insecurity to tell Tokio how she feels (and hopefully not reject him or commenters are going to crash out), or Tokio working up the maturity to finally just confess to her straight out? I bet 100 zenny on Tokio, any other bets?

 

[wandere]

"Chii ain't so bad! Y'all meanies!"
Remember when Chii tried to whore her friends out for views online?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Oh yeah, that chapter was such a weird tonal shift

 

[GamingSage]

ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!!!!

 

[brainman]

To counter that, I think that judging a child for being a child is a bit unfair.

Chii has to endure being compared to the rest of the cast precisely because her arc is so similar. And where everyone else supports and uplifts each other, tries to empathize with their partner, recognizes their faults and works on them, Chii is the complete opposite. She revels in her flaws while being fully aware of them, lets Tokio humiliate himself fully knowing why he's doing it but too much of a coward to blow him off at least, and actively tries to impede her friends from moving on without her, or drag them into her nonsensical schemes she has neither the drive nor the maturity to follow up on. In combination with her weird pseudo-jealous-lesbian behavior, she just comes away looking absolutely terrible.

So if anything, her arc mirroring the others is working against her, and serves to highlight precisely why she's kind of a terrible person, even accounting for her youth.

 

[TinsleyNocturnal]

Chii did. We have a community of Hurt By Chii, we meet every wednesday to lick each other's wounds.
You would not understand therefore, you are not invited.

I was just scrolling through thinking 'damn, why is Chii so unpopular?' But this fucking reply took me out immediately. Goddamn. I've been laughing for like a minute straight.

 

[Rialtoir]

Sooo…she’s aware, she’s just…ignoring it?

Het whole character is going against changes in status quo and wanting things to stay the same forever she explicitly states so this chapter. She was happy being friends, she was happy always hanging with her girls jusy the three of them, which is why she wont aknowldege Tokio's feelings she feels she already lost partially at least Toyoda and Anna. Aknowledging his feelings would risk the only friendship she feels remains as she likes