Yande Kita Mahou Shoujo no Nichijou - Ch. 12 - A Certain Teacher's Story...

[tonie]

The mental health thing is complex enough without the magical girl bullshit making everything worse. Remember, for her parents nothing is wrong because her mascot is keeping the illusion of everything being fine.

Um I think I saw this before but guys... She is not ill yet at this time. She might be feeling a bit not good

but is it mental ilness? Nah man, unless we assume the magical girls don't exist and in fact all magical girls are mentally ill.

What I think she has is most probably some other condition that is not ilness but still requires some attention.

Alright that's enough of positive contribution for now 🤪
Hopefully I'll see with next few chapters if I'm right or maybe even somebody else guessing what I think of.

 

[Goodbyefrankenstein]

It kind of cracks me up that these really young kids are so articulate lmao

 

[Toon_Jay]

It kind of cracks me up that these really young kids are so articulate lmao

Manga will make even average kindergarteners articulate as fuck xD

 

[Ochredog]

Damn, this is actually a very nuanced depiction of this topic.

The teacher did try to do something about it, but everyone, even the victim herself kept telling her to leave it as it is, refusing any outside help.

I honestly would not be sure what I would have done to help her myself in a similar situation.

Where I live, our school system has specialized counselors for these kinds of issues. They could probably deal with this issue rather well, at least compared to what a teacher could do anyways (who knows how actually effective it would be, depends on the person). Even if the kids reject help, they're good at helping anyways. I remember I once tried to reject their help but they wouldn't let me lol. But what they wouldn't be able to handle are kids with issue that aren't visible, who look completely fine on the surface but have deep issues on the inside. I don't think our protagonist fits that bill, there's some obvious stuff going on that anyone paying a little attention can see. But it makes me wonder if Japan doesn't have those kinds of psychological counseling stuff in schools. At least, this manga seems to paint a very "mind your own business" picture of Japanese culture.

 

[MagicNumbers]

I love this chapter in the sense that it would of course be out-of-character for a highschooler to have that whole spiel about 'hating' someone. However, it is very realistic for a kid to think that way, subconsciously. Really the entire manga is steeped in this sense of insecurity and self-loathing, where the artistic style of long dialogue, dry panels, apathetic characters intentionally amplify this feeling. Sure it might not be realistic but these imagined conversations are so provocative because we truly DO think that other people have these thoughts. Being hated, being alienated for good reason. The manga justifies her alienation as a perpetrator-less crime because when you're depressed, you think that way, that you deserve everything you get and you deserve to die alone. The manga is just a way to show these thoughts through a style that departs from realism, yet still contains relatable feelings.