The Crossing of Thoughts and the Complication of the Story
The protagonist, Ryuzaki, said this.
“It’s time for me to stop being satisfied with our relationship as childhood friends.”
On the other hand, the subheroine Azusa said, “I can’t lose to Shimotsuki-san, so I’m going to confess to Ryoma Onii-chan.”
And then Shimotsuki, the main heroine, said.
“I wish I could make wonderful memories with Nakayama-kun.”
The thoughts of each party intersect.
The story has already begun, which is the “turning point” in the four-part structure of “origins, development, and conclusion,” or the “breaking point” in the three-act structure of “beginning, middle, and end”.
I wonder what kind of ending will be created.
If we think of the story as a template, ……, I think Ryuzaki’s relationship with Shimotsuki takes a step forward here.
A childhood friend, who has always been quiet and never opened up, realizes her feelings for the protagonist during an overnight trip, and reveals the feelings she has kept hidden in her heart since childhood.
“”I’ve always loved you too, Ryuzaki-kun.””
With the confession of the girl in love, Ryuzaki is bound to the main heroine.
I think the catalyst for this is the “confession” of the subheroine, Azusa.
The protagonist, who has been insensitive until now, realizes that the subheroine likes him through the confession. However, the protagonist has someone else in his heart. So he refuses Azusa’s confession, saying that he can’t have a relationship with her.
Then, finally, the insensitive and perceptive protagonist awakens.
He said it was the end of being satisfied with a normal childhood friend. …… If nothing else, I don’t think he’ll ever confess.
Because the harem protagonist is always three things when it comes to love: insensitive, indecisive, and sloppy. He would not have been able to confess or even express his love for her.
However, Azusa’s confession inspires the protagonist to say, “I can’t be a coward.” He must be thinking, “Since I rejected Azusa’s confession, it would be disrespectful to Azusa if I don’t confess to Shiho!”
And yet, the rejected Azusa says, “I’ve only been rejected once. I won’t give up on you until you fall in love with me someday.”, suggesting that there will be a change in their relationship in the future.
This is how the story of Ryoma Ryuzaki ends.
He is finally united with his childhood friend Shimotsuki, and the story has a happy ending.
However, this is only the end of the first volume.
I assumed that there would be a continuation to Ryoma Ryuzaki’s romantic comedy.
Because there are still many foreshadowing lines that have yet to be resolved.
There is still the story of that guy’s harem members.
That’s why in the first volume, the protagonist, who is in love with the pure love of his life, is attracted by the charm of the subheroines, who become more present in the second volume. The main heroine who finished her role in the first volume becomes a convenient yes-man for the protagonist and tolerates other girls from the position of “regular wife” in the second volume onward.
In this way, Ryoma Ryuzaki’s story is finally complete.
With the catharsis of a harem ending, the story concludes with thunderous applause.
–I imagined such a disgusting story.
If it were to follow the template, it would be a story like this.
However, the story of Ryoma Ryuzaki had only one …… element of uncertainty.
That is the main heroine, Shimotsuki.
She is in the position of the main heroine, but she is not even slightly interested in the protagonist.
Because of this, the story is getting complicated.
The story is about to deviate from the standard template, and instead, a bizarre development is about to begin.
In addition to the main characters and sub characters, there was another piece on the board.
That was me, the mob character.
Can a mob character stay a mob character forever?
Even the narrator, me, didn’t know.
I’m really loving the weirdly in-depth analysis of harem plots here.
And yes, my opinion on them is the same as the our main character here.
If you’re going do a romcom, do it correctly or don’t do it at all damnit!
If the mob keeps appearing, they are no longer a mob character but a side character.
Of course this depends on the frequency but I’d say our MC is frequent enough to where he’s not forgotten, after all he confronted the MC in Shiho’s spot and waited for him in the corridor.
What was the point of this chapter?
Lmao. It’s funny how perfectly they captured your typical harem story at the beginning that it almost felt like from a certain story I know… Anyways, thank for the translation!
Our dense MC is acting the same as any template loser Japanese MC… never taking the initiative, supremely goddess hot fmc does all the work and falls in love first yada yada, cure the self-insert Star Trek theme music and your are half way there.
Ryoma is acting the same as any harem proteag… but doesn’t get that Shiho is not part of his harem.
Interesting as it goes but will need to wind it up within 200 chapters or I’ll never be able to keep up interest to follow to the end.
………….In which and how does a regular romcom ends in a harem ending? Regular romcoms can’t end in a harem ending, is simple not possible. The MC is usually a normal dude there is no way a regular person can properly take care of several women +the several children they might have.
And besides if there was such a story with this plot the MC will be way more likeable than Ryuzaki. Ryuzaki isn’t anything more than another Amanoscum Kouki, Amanogawa Scumki, Amano-scum-gawa Kouki, etc.
Well, leaving that aside if our MC(mob) wants to be with Shimotsuki-chan then he will need to stop being a mob. Yeah, a mob can’t be with the heroine successfully, otherwise there is high-chance of NTR appearing after they get married. He will need to improve himself if he wants to be with her.
Naturally, improving himself will require him to get a good reason to do so, which will be “falling in love with Shimotsuki-chan and not wanting Ryuzaki to bother her”.
He is already doing it but he hasn’t realize it yet, he believes he is only doing it for Shimotsuki
but that’s wrong there is also his desire to be with her….but he hasn’t realize it yet. Once he does it will be the time to declare war to Ryuzaki, though the war started way before. And then he might realize that he has already won.
Normally i would feel bad for the rest of the sub-heroines but they reap what they sow.
tl;dr