[TLDR: Just ignore me. I'm a human circus 🤣 I suck at sleeping, so I just ponder everything most people don't think/care about.]

Probably too early to get a decent read on her, but I think I'm seeing the Chaotic Good alignment. And I would recognize it more easily than most, because it's mine too. In a coconutshell it's that I exclusively do good things, but I decide for myself which things are good. I don't oppose traditional policies just on principle, but I don't adhere to them on principle either. Knowing something has always been a certain way doesn't invoke a default "It''s probably ideal" or "It's probably obsolete by now" type of thought in me.

If I determine a tradition is affecting the world in a good way, I follow it. If I think it's ineffective and people just cling to it because it's familiar, I disregard it. If I think it's significantly harmful, I'll try to tear it down. Of course by "I exclusively do good things" I mean I always have good intentions. Obviously I can still cause harm, but it will be out of negligence/incompetence. Never deliberately out of malice.

She's doing things by the book with the event organizing stuff because the principles are time-tested, tried and true. Manpower, budget, schedule, etc. It's not complicated enough that innovation is needed. Ya don't fix what ain't broke. She doesn't have a thirst to be unique. But she's disregarding social etiquette with Saotome. She wants to have her fun, but she also wants to help him. She thinks his blindness is holding his group of friends back, so she's gonna open his eyes.

All those girls are great people, they all deserve to be loved as somebody's one-and-only, but there they all are, halfway through high school without having done any dating. If Saotome can make up his damn mind, whoever gets him will have him and the rest can move on. Until then, they're all in a state of frustrating limbo. It's unfair to all of them. They all deserve better.

If meddling in other people's shit earns her nothing but resentment, so be it. As long as she enjoys it and they're gonna be better off in the long run, mission accomplished. They may not realize how much her decisions helped them until she's long gone, and they may not think she did it on purpose, but that's irrelevant. Gratitude isn't needed. Chaotic Good people know they're good, because they decide what good is.

If she makes it worse for everyone, lesson learned. She fucked up. Good intentions don't outweigh bad outcomes. She will own up to it, and not even think about forgiveness. She'll never do that again, and she'll do everything she can to mitigate the damage she caused. She will expect no gratitude, and not accept any that might be offered. When there's nothing left to be done, she will fuck off and not come back. I don't mean leave town or school, just leave the people alone.

Under most circumstances I'd agree, but those two seem to be old friends. I think she'd assume Makoto was the troublemaker even if she was being chased down the street 😆

I stopped using that word since its origin is so bad. I miss when it was understood that all I meant was incompetent, and usually only in one small aspect. I never meant neurodivergence.

All the other really bad words actually SOUND bad, like all the slurs just kinda SMACK my ear in a way that makes me think they'd bother me even if they meant something else.

Well, all the slurs that are their own words that only mean the one thing. If it's something that's made up of words that are commonly used for mundane things, it's different. It's still unpleasant, but no ear smack.

But that word sounds funny, like idk, like something small but heavy slammed into something big but flimsy in just the right way and it fell over? Idk, my mind is a circus 🙄

What is the social etiquette in Japan about patting someone's head like in the last page? It seems like the person reacts negatively about 80% of the time, if not more. I'm surprised they keep trying.

I think it's cute devoid of context, and usually seems like a wholesome gesture, but can definitely be done in a condescending way. And nobody likes that where I live.

Well me and my wife do, but we're weird cringy goofball weebs. Not an accurate reflection of our society.

"Are you all right?"

"Nah I'm pretty fuckin' far from all right"

Yupiel would approve 😏

Same. Its a fun fantasy and I'll never get tired of it the way it works in manga/anime, but if you really think about it, the harem situation would be quite a mess irl.

I'm only one person with only one story, can't speak for my society but in my experience, teenagers are not so chill about liking the same person. Most couldn't all be that tight of friends with all that going on.

The closest thing I've seen to this that actually went smoothly was there's been two times where a girl I was into kinda handed me off to her bestie, because they both liked me but the bestie liked me more, and I liked both girls. Now that's pretty chill, sure, but two is a pretty small number.

And those weren't just friends, they were besties. They trusted each other a lot more than most friends. I've heard of longtime friendships ending over the kinda stuff that happens in these stories

For real though! She might have just helped him as much as most of the others have so far, just with that alone.

The guy needed that kick in the ass to open his eyes, and it had to come from someone who's not a friend.

If anyone else had said it, he'd have probably thought they were just being kind out of compassion and blown it off.

Oh my fucking Science, that new girl is such a fuckin' SNACK!!

She's the kinda snack that'll spoil your dinner before you even had lunch 🤤

I swear to Science, the first time they do butt fanservice with her I'm gonna need a cigarette just from looking 🥵

I don't even smoke, but I'ma try it just this once. Which end goes where?? Like this? 👀👂🚬👌

Or the more based alternative, "Yes homo" 😄

And keep your eyes wide open for the kiss even though you don't even do it that way with girls 🤣

Did she seriously kiss him, or did she just get close and make the "blow a kiss" sound? I can't tell.

If the first girl to kiss him after 188 chapters did it in front of the entire harem on the second time she saw him, that's gonna make stuff hard as a rock 🪨 Because she's boulder than all of 'em 😁

Girl's got a booty like a beacon 😏 She could use it to guide ships to the shore during thunderstorms 🤣

Actually, on second thought, nah. They would still crash into the shore 🤔

Ooo, good call! I'ma get ready to pick up the phone 📱🖐😁

True, but admittedly that's a bit further than I expected her to go. I guess I got a bad read on her. I was sensing it was just playful, not that she wanted to cause that much trouble.

[TLDR: I wouldn't consider it impolite if you skipped this whole comment. I had fun writing it. Someone else may see it eventually too.]

Hell yeah! I see good potential for the plot. Takae has always been the mildly shady plotting schemer, but I think that's one role where it wouldn't hurt to have two. They can always be trying to outfox each other, like Yu-Gi-Oh characters. And maybe nobody else notices they're doing it, or at least nobody senses the full extent of the hostility. Well Itachi would definitely notice. She's too perceptive not to. I suspect we're eventually gonna find out it's actually vigilance from living in dangerous circumstances.

I also hope Nekomiya's brother Shouta will join the school next year and get his own harem. It'd be odd not to add any new first years, and even more to add only one. I think it's plausible because they did introduce one pretty good character that they implied was too young for Saotome's taste. She was Hanako's rival from MMA. I'm 90% sure her name was Ryona. She could be Shouta's Hanako! That would be risky though. That degree of similarity might be off-putting to some readers.

I think it's possible Ryona was only included because they needed some conflict for the training trip part of the story, but if that's true, why make her younger? It makes it more awkward, which awkwardness is amusing, but I think this manga has enough of that already. It's going fine without being edgy. If Ryona was that temporary I think it would have been more effective to make her a year older. She would've seemed more imposing that way. She'd seem like she had a better shot at charming Saotome, and winning the match against Hanako.

I've never been less upset about a spoiler 😂 I've only been keeping up with the anime, so I didn't know if it was gonna ever go that far.

I get it in most of these stories since the characters are usually school age and there is effort made to cover up the fact that most people get rid of their virginity in their teens, but if you're 20+ and not virgins then why tf wait? Who benefits from that?

Of course that's if you both want it and you're using contraceptives, obviously. I've been married for 8 years now and we would've fucked on the first date if we could've found privacy. Fuck all this "make them work for it" shit. Life is too short.

I've gotten used a few times when I was hoping for a relationship, sure it sucked because I was lonely as fuck, but no regerts. As Lonely Island says "Doesn't matter, had sex 🤷"

OOF!!! He's gonna self-identify as "slave number twenty-three" instead of using the name he wasn't given until he was almost an adult, by someone who educated him into earning his freedom and made him biologically immortal 🤣

That's how you know your competence as a teacher doesn't make up for your scumbaggery. Your student had a slave owner who didn't teach him how to read or write and gave him a number instead of a name, and he still respects the slave owner more than you 😂🤣😂🤣

Hahaha I done heard of a smack in the face, but that's more like a Thwack in the face! 💀 (Thwack is an instant death spell from Dragon Quest)

If that had happened I would've cried 😅 Another manga I'm reading rn JUST pulled some shit like that last chapter. I was not ready for another one yet 🤣

(Echoing) LET'S GOOOO!!!!

🎶 If you WAWNit you kin-GID-dit let meh knowwww🎶

There's been no more chapters since 2020? It's 2024 right now. Does "ongoing" apply to every manga where the story hasn't ended? They've obviously stopped working on it. I'm not being disrespectful, it just seems odd to use that word for something that's not going.