Hoo boy, this is way too close for comfort... A world of pain awaits in ch. 152.
Cerberus
Mar 7, 2019 10:21PM
dab
random
Mar 7, 2019 10:30PM
^^She did self-destruct rather spectacularly didn't she.
katewarner
Mar 7, 2019 10:48PM
^The most painful chapter in a long time.
random
Mar 7, 2019 11:02PM
^On the upside at least one of her friends is now a Shipper On Deck and the rest are roughly "uh, sure".
katewarner
Mar 7, 2019 11:04PM
^ That is what's funny. They are way better friends than she is probably even capable of knowing.
sorathecrow
Mar 7, 2019 11:05PM
Ucchi's blush in the newest chapter was actually even cuter than that.
katewarner
Mar 7, 2019 11:09PM
The most startling thing that happens in the new chapter is we suddenly see what Emoji's face really looks like.
Urashi C. Pin
Mar 7, 2019 11:15PM
latest chapter had me dying.
random
Mar 7, 2019 11:16PM
^^^^I reckon she'd realize if she wasn't (still) far too gay to function... :P
last edited at Mar 7, 2019 11:16PM
kickap00
Mar 8, 2019 12:24AM
How will ucchi recover her spot in the tomobowl? I feel more sad for her than usual.
But she was pretty expressive this chapter so that was a plus
GrimEater
Mar 8, 2019 1:27AM
Its too soon!
Mieru
Mar 8, 2019 1:49AM
You had one job, Ucchi, one job. Ya blew it!
ChippedIce
Mar 8, 2019 3:27AM
Man, Ucchi blew it so damn hard with her tsundere attack at the end of the chapter, hopefully they make up :(
Ucchi's got some good friends too! I'm sure they will make great wingwomen.
awsomepega
Mar 8, 2019 5:25AM
feel so bad for Ucchi
katewarner
Mar 8, 2019 11:06AM
Uchi has been trying so very, very hard to actually deal with Tomoko as another human being. What's strange is that the more she does, the more like the "old" Tomoko she becomes, skidding out of control because she tries too hard, ignoring help because of the misery of isolation, and being unable or unwilling to read what others are thinking or feeling. What's horribly ironic is that Uchi is reaching this point by wandering outside her social comfort zone, the same as Tomoko, except Tomoko is socially rising and Uchi is falling.
last edited at Mar 8, 2019 11:17AM
Kisa
Mar 8, 2019 11:42AM
Ucchi
You blew it....(sigh)
Symphogeah
Mar 8, 2019 1:31PM
Author-san keeps bullying Ucchi...
random
Mar 8, 2019 1:58PM
^tbh I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they were using her to make a statement or two about tsundere clichés... all the more so given how one of the underlying themes of the manga seems to be, roughly, that you only come to get along with people by actually interacting with them. katewarner may well be on to something with that observation that Ucchi has just about been undergoing Tomoko's character developement in reverse... (on which note, can't really blame her friends for finally getting upset.)
katewarner
Mar 8, 2019 3:24PM
Please forgive me for the length of the following. I wrote this profile of Uchi and would like to share it with all of you, but there is nowhere I can think of to put it but here.
*
Because I'm unpopular, I've come up with a theory about Uchi.
First, Uchi is normal. Really normal. If we focus our memory right, we'll remember her, and there were a lot of her. The person we'll remember clearest when we remember her is ourselves. No one wants to think so, but at that age I and everyone I really talked to went through it, confused obsessive yearning "love".
Who has not stalked or surveilled someone, while in that state? Everyone has, if only between classes or minutes or seconds a day, paying attention to that puzzling person who infuriatingly may not be someone you understand liking. The rich girl or guy can't shake thoughts about a scruffy, poor kid. The scruffy, poor kid can't stop thinking about a rich kid. Precociously successful users of the other sex start fantasizing about being the passive partners of someone of their own. Proudly ignorant kids secretly envy and yearn for smart kids, and vice versa. "Bad" kids yearn for "good" kids.
All these kids, like Uchi, begin mysteriously appearing where they normally don't belong, paying strange attention in ways people don't associate with them. As Akane said, looking at Uchi walking beside her, "What is she doing here?"
Why? Because we all have voids within that need to be filled in specific, specialized ways. One of those voids is the need to achieve identity through the internalization of difference. Uchi, I think, sees herself as an "Emoji", a simple-minded, simple-faced innocuous person as Tomoko sees her. Her friends value her, but she doesn't know why. She's a cypher to herself, and she feels like a fraud, because like several other kids in the series, especially Yuri, she suspects that she really doesn't exist. Being "normal" is hell. She fucking hates it.
So this perverse, "disgusting" person, this panty-stealing weirdo, suddenly becomes relevant. But desiring an acquaintenance with that person, or an intimate relationship of indeterminate and possibly unwelcome nature, is scary as hell. So Uchi has to see Tomoko as "disgusting" for wanting her and thereby kept at some kind of distance, because Tomoko not wanting her would make Uchi collapse back in upon herself, and she fucking hates herself. But she wants Tomoko.
How? Maybe sexually. I mean, every freaking thing people are when they are teenagers is sexually charged. Sex is the functioning brain. It's more subtle for girls, but still true to a considerable extent.
But really, whatever her sexual draw, Uchi just wants to be Tomoko's friend. She wants to hang out and talk with Tomoko the way Tomoko's "harem" does, because she knows they are real friends who really know the girl she wants to get to know. The irony is that Uchi has a stellar group of friends, and finding her way back around to them will mean she is finally the person who can talk with Tomoko as a friend, who doesn't feel like an emoji, who doesn't hate her own guts.
last edited at Mar 8, 2019 3:58PM
Random Wanderer
Mar 8, 2019 4:24PM
Poor Ucchi crashed so hard in the last chapter. Her friends even figured it out and were being completely supportive, and she still blew it.
MrL
Mar 8, 2019 9:27PM
Ucchi used Tsundere attack
Ucchi is confused
Is so confused that hurt herself
rincewind
Mar 8, 2019 9:53PM
Ucchi is way too cute!
Go Ucchi, win the Tomobowl!! Team Ucchi
Kisa
Mar 9, 2019 1:47PM
^^^^Nice kate!
In some ways I can see why Ucchi self destructed. She possibly got very insecure and defensive over her friends becoming aware that she is gay. And even tho her friends seemed to be supporting her and encouraging her, Uchi, in the end was not ready, or willing to share that aspect of her life, her heart with them. I laughed at the comedy in this chapter, but also felt sad for Uchi on many levels. This manga really can hit you in different ways.
last edited at Mar 9, 2019 1:48PM
katewarner
Mar 10, 2019 12:03AM
^ For so long, it's seemed that Uchi was a caricature and not much would happen with her. Now, the mangakas hit us with a shovel revealing the tormented person behind the emoji. This series is high art.
katewarner Mar 7, 2019 10:14PM
Hoo boy, this is way too close for comfort... A world of pain awaits in ch. 152.
Cerberus Mar 7, 2019 10:21PM
dab
random Mar 7, 2019 10:30PM
^^She did self-destruct rather spectacularly didn't she.
katewarner Mar 7, 2019 10:48PM
^The most painful chapter in a long time.
random Mar 7, 2019 11:02PM
^On the upside at least one of her friends is now a Shipper On Deck and the rest are roughly "uh, sure".
katewarner Mar 7, 2019 11:04PM
^ That is what's funny. They are way better friends than she is probably even capable of knowing.
sorathecrow Mar 7, 2019 11:05PM
Ucchi's blush in the newest chapter was actually even cuter than that.
katewarner Mar 7, 2019 11:09PM
The most startling thing that happens in the new chapter is we suddenly see what Emoji's face really looks like.
Urashi C. Pin Mar 7, 2019 11:15PM
latest chapter had me dying.
random Mar 7, 2019 11:16PM
^^^^I reckon she'd realize if she wasn't (still) far too gay to function... :P
last edited at Mar 7, 2019 11:16PM
kickap00 Mar 8, 2019 12:24AM
How will ucchi recover her spot in the tomobowl? I feel more sad for her than usual.
But she was pretty expressive this chapter so that was a plus
GrimEater Mar 8, 2019 1:27AM
Its too soon!
Mieru Mar 8, 2019 1:49AM
You had one job, Ucchi, one job. Ya blew it!
ChippedIce Mar 8, 2019 3:27AM
Man, Ucchi blew it so damn hard with her tsundere attack at the end of the chapter, hopefully they make up :(
Ucchi's got some good friends too! I'm sure they will make great wingwomen.
awsomepega Mar 8, 2019 5:25AM
feel so bad for Ucchi
katewarner Mar 8, 2019 11:06AM
Uchi has been trying so very, very hard to actually deal with Tomoko as another human being. What's strange is that the more she does, the more like the "old" Tomoko she becomes, skidding out of control because she tries too hard, ignoring help because of the misery of isolation, and being unable or unwilling to read what others are thinking or feeling. What's horribly ironic is that Uchi is reaching this point by wandering outside her social comfort zone, the same as Tomoko, except Tomoko is socially rising and Uchi is falling.
last edited at Mar 8, 2019 11:17AM
Kisa Mar 8, 2019 11:42AM
Ucchi
You blew it....(sigh)
Symphogeah Mar 8, 2019 1:31PM
Author-san keeps bullying Ucchi...
random Mar 8, 2019 1:58PM
^tbh I wouldn't be particularly surprised if they were using her to make a statement or two about tsundere clichés... all the more so given how one of the underlying themes of the manga seems to be, roughly, that you only come to get along with people by actually interacting with them. katewarner may well be on to something with that observation that Ucchi has just about been undergoing Tomoko's character developement in reverse... (on which note, can't really blame her friends for finally getting upset.)
katewarner Mar 8, 2019 3:24PM
Please forgive me for the length of the following. I wrote this profile of Uchi and would like to share it with all of you, but there is nowhere I can think of to put it but here.
*
Because I'm unpopular, I've come up with a theory about Uchi.
First, Uchi is normal. Really normal. If we focus our memory right, we'll remember her, and there were a lot of her. The person we'll remember clearest when we remember her is ourselves. No one wants to think so, but at that age I and everyone I really talked to went through it, confused obsessive yearning "love".
Who has not stalked or surveilled someone, while in that state? Everyone has, if only between classes or minutes or seconds a day, paying attention to that puzzling person who infuriatingly may not be someone you understand liking. The rich girl or guy can't shake thoughts about a scruffy, poor kid. The scruffy, poor kid can't stop thinking about a rich kid. Precociously successful users of the other sex start fantasizing about being the passive partners of someone of their own. Proudly ignorant kids secretly envy and yearn for smart kids, and vice versa. "Bad" kids yearn for "good" kids.
All these kids, like Uchi, begin mysteriously appearing where they normally don't belong, paying strange attention in ways people don't associate with them. As Akane said, looking at Uchi walking beside her, "What is she doing here?"
Why? Because we all have voids within that need to be filled in specific, specialized ways. One of those voids is the need to achieve identity through the internalization of difference. Uchi, I think, sees herself as an "Emoji", a simple-minded, simple-faced innocuous person as Tomoko sees her. Her friends value her, but she doesn't know why. She's a cypher to herself, and she feels like a fraud, because like several other kids in the series, especially Yuri, she suspects that she really doesn't exist. Being "normal" is hell. She fucking hates it.
So this perverse, "disgusting" person, this panty-stealing weirdo, suddenly becomes relevant. But desiring an acquaintenance with that person, or an intimate relationship of indeterminate and possibly unwelcome nature, is scary as hell. So Uchi has to see Tomoko as "disgusting" for wanting her and thereby kept at some kind of distance, because Tomoko not wanting her would make Uchi collapse back in upon herself, and she fucking hates herself. But she wants Tomoko.
How? Maybe sexually. I mean, every freaking thing people are when they are teenagers is sexually charged. Sex is the functioning brain. It's more subtle for girls, but still true to a considerable extent.
But really, whatever her sexual draw, Uchi just wants to be Tomoko's friend. She wants to hang out and talk with Tomoko the way Tomoko's "harem" does, because she knows they are real friends who really know the girl she wants to get to know. The irony is that Uchi has a stellar group of friends, and finding her way back around to them will mean she is finally the person who can talk with Tomoko as a friend, who doesn't feel like an emoji, who doesn't hate her own guts.
last edited at Mar 8, 2019 3:58PM
Random Wanderer Mar 8, 2019 4:24PM
Poor Ucchi crashed so hard in the last chapter. Her friends even figured it out and were being completely supportive, and she still blew it.
MrL Mar 8, 2019 9:27PM
Ucchi used Tsundere attack
Ucchi is confused
Is so confused that hurt herself
rincewind Mar 8, 2019 9:53PM
Ucchi is way too cute!
Go Ucchi, win the Tomobowl!!
Team Ucchi
Kisa Mar 9, 2019 1:47PM
^^^^Nice kate!
In some ways I can see why Ucchi self destructed. She possibly got very insecure and defensive over her friends becoming aware that she is gay. And even tho her friends seemed to be supporting her and encouraging her, Uchi, in the end was not ready, or willing to share that aspect of her life, her heart with them. I laughed at the comedy in this chapter, but also felt sad for Uchi on many levels. This manga really can hit you in different ways.
last edited at Mar 9, 2019 1:48PM
katewarner Mar 10, 2019 12:03AM
^ For so long, it's seemed that Uchi was a caricature and not much would happen with her. Now, the mangakas hit us with a shovel revealing the tormented person behind the emoji. This series is high art.