Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu Chapter 165 Discussion

Yeah this arc is too boring. I didn't even get cliffhanger,LAMAO.

@nhiudv Sorry for the repetitive comments, it wouldn't let me post but I'll stop now haha.

I just reread the manga from chapter 155 and surprisingly I didn't find it boring at all, the focus to secondary in fact, quite little and the drama is silly and treated as such, it's not given seriousness and that's important.

Reading it straight through was much better than reading it biweekly, ichi x Anna's relationship is not affected and they are not ignored as I thought, they are given their space, thoughts and live their day to day lives normally. This manga is slow and its episodes are very short, but it was an enjoyable read as always.

I think a lot of people have this view of “boring” because reading this biweekly has been a torment, but if you read it straight through you don't feel that way. It gives this perspective because of what I mentioned before, short episodes and two episodes per month, I think it's best to give it a few months and read it straight through because if you read it bi-weekly, you're going to get stressed out and not even remember what happened because of the time in which they air.

@kleb90

Respectfully I disagree. You’re outlining the exact problem I think readers who don’t like this arc are feeling, it’s so silly and out of place with little importance, that why has so much time been devoted to it. Someone made an excellent point on another thread elsewhere, that if one removed this entire arc, it wouldn’t impact the main story whatsoever.

“Kyo and Anna’s relationship isn’t affected,” that’s likely the case in your perspective since their relationship isn’t even the focus right now. Just because they’re “around” does not equate to them actually getting proper focus in advancing the story, which they’ve lacked recently. The writing is not affording them any opportunities to do so. And Ichikawa being randomly invested in this band girldrama functionally has nothing to do with his relationship with Yamada besides discovering some “epiphany” allegedly, that we don’t even know what it is yet. And Yamada has spent half this volume looking anxious and sad. The way the last volume concluded, Norio has barely built on it at all. The main issue here is much more important plot threads like the whole “we can’t meet outside” thing, the KimiOku show, Ichikawa’s exam, and Yamada’s career advancement and her agency have all been sidelined to accommodate this band subplot for no reason.

And frankly, maybe it wouldn’t be “boring” to speedrun the manga, but that doesn’t make it not disappointing and random. Reading it slowly or quickly doesn’t change the fact Norio’s pacing and story direction at the moment is poor overall.

@sauragorn10 @sauragorn10 Yamada has been like this since they confessed and made their relationship official, sad expressions, pensive and mood swings, I think it's a slow process to develop and at the moment it's intriguing, this particular arc has not focused on the band's problem as a whole, although it is the anchor point, there are episodes where the main couple talks, where Anna emphasizes and reflects on her work, where Kyo is more aware of Anna's popularity, the theme of Kimi's role and its impact in the future, even he himself feels that she is getting farther and farther away from him, what I'm getting at is that I think the commotion generated by this arc is wrong when it does not focus in its totality this problem of the gang, the main characters are more and more conscious of their future and that is what has been worked here, the gang was built little by little in an unexpected way of course, but it was not only about this in the first place.

What I'm getting at is that the series treats this problem as a worthless nonsense, as what it is and doesn't give it the necessary focus because it's not worth it, on the other hand it develops the secondary characters a bit thanks to this which isn't bad at all. Certainly my only problem is the “epiphany” which I fail to understand and the reason why Kyotaro was so involved, there are 3 episodes left to finish the volume and the way it's going it can be disappointing if this is not solved somehow, I think people's problem is that they don't like the band theme and not the arc in general, because it's pretty decent.

“ The fact that they are “close” doesn't mean they really concentrate properly on advancing the story, something they have been lacking lately” I totally agree with you, but they have become more self aware of their relationship and future on their own, going straight to the real issue and its resolution would be interesting, but first you have to make them aware of the problem to deal with, whatever it is, if this band nonsense makes Kyotaro put his feet on the ground I don't care, but I want him to be more aware of his relationship with Yamada and solve the problems you and I know.

EDIT: The theme of the band and its importance is irrelevant (For now) and as you say, if it is eliminated everything would remain practically the same, I see it more as a way to show us the adult problems from a realistic perspective, not everything is rosy in relationships as painted by Anna and Kyo, the secondary cast also has its problems even in adulthood, however silly they are. It all depends on the next 3 episodes and the “epiphany” we are talking about, at this point I wouldn't say the arc is bad, it's an interesting arc and the band issue will be important or irrelevant once the volume is over, just like the condom of the study camp arc that had great impact at the end when it seemed to be a stupid plot without any apparent sense.

@nhiudv Sorry for the repetitive comments, it wouldn't let me post but I'll stop now haha.

I just reread the manga from chapter 155 and surprisingly I didn't find it boring at all, the focus to secondary in fact, quite little and the drama is silly and treated as such, it's not given seriousness and that's important.

Reading it straight through was much better than reading it biweekly, ichi x Anna's relationship is not affected and they are not ignored as I thought, they are given their space, thoughts and live their day to day lives normally. This manga is slow and its episodes are very short, but it was an enjoyable read as always.

I think a lot of people have this view of “boring” because reading this biweekly has been a torment, but if you read it straight through you don't feel that way. It gives this perspective because of what I mentioned before, short episodes and two episodes per month, I think it's best to give it a few months and read it straight through because if you read it bi-weekly, you're going to get stressed out and not even remember what happened because of the time in which they air.