Read that wrong lol
[Chapter] Futari Bus - Ch. 48 - Sharing a Bite - MangaDex
Submitted 20 hours ago by Rottcodd@ani.social to manga@ani.social
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Midnight1938@reddthat.com 20 hours ago
Rottcodd@ani.social 19 hours ago
You and me both honestly. I’ve been following this one for a while now and I know full well what it’s really about, but still I sort of stumble over that title - just two more letters in the middle of that “futari” and we’d have a completely different sort of a series.
I generally prefer Romaji titles, especially when they’re as short as this one, but maybe I should start using the English equivalent…
Susaga@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago I mean, the word we’re thinking of just means “two forms”. The fact the word “two” is treated like a sex thing is pretty bad for weeb culture.
Rottcodd@ani.social 19 hours ago
The last few chapters have been interesting from a writing perspective. It strikes me that they sort of neatly illustrate how it is that tropes can be and so often are sort of disappointing.
That moment after An gave him the cookies was like full-blown tsundere. But in another way, it wasn’t - there’s an important distinction there.
What happened was that, as of a couple of chapters ago, she was so comfortable with him that when she was talking to him about Lulu, she was sitting in the seat directly behind him, leaning forward and sort of draped over the seat next to him, so she was technically only a couple of feet away from him, just chatting and not even thinking about it. Then in the next chapter, after crying over her predictably rejected confession, Lulu asked her how things were going with Shunpei and she got all flustered, then later when she got on the bus, she threw up a wall between them and went and sat by herself. Then again in this chapter, after her friends started teasing her about him, she got all flustered again, then pretty much ignored him completely on the bus. But then when she essentially got backed into offering him some cookies, she covered it up with what was essentially a tsundere attitude.
But even though we ended up at a trope, the way we got there was completely different from most series. Most of the time, what happens is that the author just brings two characters together, then it’s just as if they decide, “Okay - now activate tsundere mode,” and one of them is tsundere, just instantly. But what happened here was that the author actually laid the groundwork through a whole series of events, and one of the characters naturally ended up essentially having a tsundere moment.
And that’s the key. Tropes become tropes because they’re things that make so much sense in context that they occur regularly enough to be recognized. But the problem is that lazy or inattentive writers tend to just jump straight to a trope, and that’s what makes them seem cheap. In this case, the author just related a series of events and An’s emotional response to those events, and naturally ended up at something that could be considered to be an example of a trope.
I guess broadly it could be said that the difference is whether the author starts with the trope and then has the character act in a particular way to fit it, or focuses on the character’s actions and just sort of ends up with something that happens to match a trope. And the difference between those two approaches is how it is that tropes generally seem cheap, in spite of the fact that they aren’t necessarily bad just in and of themselves.
Or something like that…
wjs018@ani.social 8 hours ago
It’s you and me
I really like how we didn’t see her face after she got off the bus. I can only imagine it was either the blush to end all blushes, or the biggest stupid grin ever. We just see her try to play it cool and leave, and don’t get too much of a picture of how she felt about it when she wasn’t in front of Shunpei.
Rottcodd@ani.social 8 hours ago
My money’s on the blush.
She seems to have simply not realized how close they’ve gotten, and more to the point what that means. And now suddenly, faced with the awkward truth via Lulu and her other two friends, she’s gone into a sort of panicked shutdown. But it can’t last.