Our Precious Conversations is an excellent manga authored by Robico (known also for My Little Monster), published from 2015 to 2019.Although it is a shōjo manga, don't worry - it's perfectly palatable to male readers, especially fans of SOL/romance series like: You and I are polar opposites, Yugami-kun has no friends, Insomniacs after school, Smoking behind the supermarket just to name a few.Here's chapter 3Azuma's reading list:>Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human>Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box>Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace
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The text in the bottom left is wrongBasically, a little girl came to Nozomin's piano classes and she kindly tried to teach her something. Turned out that the girl was some kind of conpetition winning prodigy etc...
>>273600702Hey OP! where is the reading list coming from?
>>273600992From the manga, you're not paying enough attention anon. I'll keep updating it as the storytime progresses
>>273601061>you're not paying enough attention anonYou may very well be right, on the other hand this bottle of rum is worthy of a lot of attention
>>273601177Kanpai!
Senjōgahara?!
handsome silent guy reading a book = cool and mysteriousugly silent guy reading a book= creepy and dangerous
>>273601386Sounds like something a JK with an inappropriately short skirt would say
i like her hair a lot, it is extremly cute
>>273601766Is this the end? Thanks, OP.
And that's it for today I'm afraid. See you tomorrow, same hour, same place. See ya
>>273601061First time re-reading it and now I notice Azuma's aunt.
>>273601843Yeah, I almost posted the first page of chapter 4... and I'm completely sober
>>273601932>and I'm completely soberThere's ya problem
>>273601932
>>273601766Thank you, OP. Long way to go before they understand they understand each other properly.
>>273601766I checked the raws to see what was the joke here>Forgive me, MichelangeloI don't get it to be honest
And this is written by a woman? The guy is so bold and straightforward he sometimes boarders on misogynistic, and the girl is so stereotypically teenage girl. Shoujo is weird. Picked up.
>>273604243>And this is written by a woman?She works under a pseudonym but there is little doubt that Robico is a chick
>>273604243>he sometimes boarders on misogynisticHe is misogynistic, and he's also dense as fuck. The complete lack of awareness from >>273601146to >>273601257>I said that she was being manipulative and judgmental like all women are and now she seems depressed, is this my fault?That's kind of what makes this entertaining, he's realistically short-sighted and tunnelminded as a teen boy. She's struggling to communicate through her mixed emotions and he's never had an emotional conversation in his life. It's like someone who's only played COD going paintballing against someone with a grenade launcher, it's great.
>>273601101>>273601146This seems like something people on 4chan would say.
>>273604243>The guy is so bold and straightforwardIt's shoujo after all
>>273601349I don't get it
you and i are polar opposites ended holy fuck i didnt even realize. did they say they were ending it? wtf did it get axed? did the gloomy guy and slut get together? WHO THE FUCK WAS GAPACHO? im really disappointed in the ending anyone got some info more me?
>>273601386>ugly silent guy reading a book= creepy and dangerousJust creepy. Dangerous could be an attractive trait.
>>273609284It's just a bad pun
>>273609564No. This thread is us coping
>>273600702I read this entire series cause you recommended this in the You and I are Polar Opposites thread. It's so good, and very cute :DD
>>273605744Who is who in that analogy?
>>273601844Thank you for posting.
>>273601613The full-face blushes are great
>>273600702the least realistic part of this manga is azuma getting through war & peace that quickly. it's a fucking slog in any language
>>273601386ugly silent guy is actually invisible, if he seemed dangerous he'd be in the same category as the handsome guy
>>273601563It's so fucking fluffy. I want to touch it. I want to smell it. I want to do unspeakable things to it.
Vaguely remember reading this a few years back. I thought it was incredible until they got together and the focus shifted more towards the side pairs. Their progression was on speed-run mode and it really began suffering for it.
>>273619618If only Azuma wasn't so dense and single-minded, he'd notice that Nozomi gets flustered and blushes very easily and realize how fun it would be to tease her.
>>273619889I wonder what the nips did with all those french parts of the novel. And how many volumes they needed to publish it in such a small book size
Nozomin is so cute, I want to stroke her soft hair.
>>273609564it ended less than a week ago. You can check the last chapter in the archive https://desuarchive.org/a/thread/273439779/#273439779.It didn't get axed, it ended because of the author poor health. They also announced an anime adaptation.
>>273619889>the least realistic part of this manga is azuma getting through war & peace that quickly. it's a fucking slog in any languageHe's a teenage boy, he probably read a bit of it then got bored and skimmed/posed with the rest in order to look intelligent while actually daydreaming about home-made fried chicken and shit.
>>273619889It just means he has mastered the 200IQ speed reading techniques that allow you to read any book under 1 hour.
>>273622400I read way more classical literature as a teenage boy than I do now.
>>273615618>It's so good, and very cute :DDOf course it is, after all I have an impeccable taste :)>>273622534I know that feel, however I quite recently finished reading Anna Karenina. Wherever I go I am constantly attacked by NTR mafia...
>>273601146>>273601349Is it a coincidence that Haru from Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun is also, let's say, flippant about social conventions?
>>273624946Robico either has a type or she just thinks that's what men are like.
>>273620330Hey, leave my wife alone
>>273601061nozomi a cute
>>273627448Wait to see how a cute she becomes when she's super in love with him.
>>273601613azuma landing critical hits obliviously is actually very accurate to life
>>273603648yeah no idea, the only two things i found were old twitter posts and one of them was azuma shiro's account
>>273622345>it ended because of the author poor healthThe poor health story could be just an excuse. Maybe she got married or something and her priorities suddenly changed
>>27363047265 chapters, or whaterver it was, I consider to be on the longer side for a romance manga.
>>27358489839 --> sankyu
soon
>>273601101>it's not a male-female thing! Don't take this so seriously!>anyway, did you know women...
Chapter 4Azuma's reading list update:>Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human>Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box>Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace>Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People>Kanae Minato - Confessions
>>273636240Hey OP! where is the reading list coming from?
>>273636278Yo anon!Let me guess, drinking again?
I absolutely adore the reason for his nickname lmaoYou can can me Skis btw
>>273636325Yeah, how did you know?
>>273636438I guess that makes me "therapy"
>>273636714I'm just starting to see a certain pattern here
Azuma is such a based retard
And that's it for today. These three good-for-nothing women will enter the stage tomorrow. See ya guys
>>273637209Why are they all hotter than the MC?
>>273636964Bitches and hoes
>>273637209imagine smelling her hair...
>>273636964welp
>>273636471They're literally me.
>>273636964RIP. I thought it would just be a misunderstanding between the couple at the end.
>>273638045They aren't
>>273636471me on the left>>273636666me on the right
>>273626071She definitely has a type. Her other male characters aren't like that. It's only the love interest. Are autistic boys in now?
>>273642026>Are autistic boys in now?Only 2d ikemen/bishounens.
>>273638045They aren't, these succubi on the other hand...
>>273642117And specifically the kind where they're bold and shameless and confidently defy social expectations, not the kind where they're stuttering bitches who get nervous breakdowns from social situations.
>>273636471these dorks were made for each other
>>273636471Cute
>>273636964Kek
This series, Taiyou no Ie / House of the Sun, and Yugami-kun are the ones I keep rereading every now and then.If anyone happens to feel something matches up to those, please let me know!
>>273647851You have a certain preference?
>>273647851Sell me on Taiyou no Ie, I need more shoujo to read.
>>273647851Maybe try Aya Nakahara's Damekoi
>>273638045They're cute and sexy in their own way, but Aizawa is on a whole nother level.
>>273638045Maybe but the MC has one thing they don't, and it's that her hair is the fluffiest, and that's what really matters.
>>273643150hinagiku...
>>273650401Very clean and cute art style. Moves at a good pace. Never gets ridiculous with the drama, though I admittedly gloss over the last drama when it comes on rereads. Lead girl is very cute.
>>273601386>[unusually] handsome silent guy reading a book"Huh, that guy's hot", then move on>ugly [to average] silent guy reading a bookDon't notice, don't care, move onThe only people who actually people-watch are the silent guys reading books
>>273643150Why are nee-sans like this? I have no trust for these lesbo(?) sadists.And Nozomin is still cuter, with nice eyes and fluffy hair (also innocentsexy).
>>273647851Machida-kun no Sekai is good, you'd probably like that. The romance is very pure and slowburn though, it's all very clean and wholesome but written well enough that that doesn't just make it trite.
>>273656646>nee-sansThey are little sisters.
>>273657013Wow, they look like JDs
No spoilers please
>>273636471Something about the way Robico writes these two is so... perceptive? Insightful? It just feels really authentic.
>>273636240Why does he read so much self-help?
>>273658700Women often write real people that have a touch of 'manga and anime' to them, or more than a touch. Male mangaka often write characters that are anime and manga characters only, sometimes with a touch of grounded or realistic to them. This isn't really a manga for otaku and nerds the same way that male orientated stuff is, yes it's for yumejoshi but it's also just meant (or was in times gone by) for normalfag girls.
>>273660512shouganai ＼(￣▽￣)／
>>273637209Thank you for posting.
>>273660794I'm just kind of surprised a female mangaka is able to portray an otaku "literally me" like this
>>273663090I think female mangaka in general are more likely to succeed in creating interesting male characters than the other way around.Of course there are outliers, like Shuzo Oshimi for example (but then again that guy is a sick fucking degenerate)
>>273664364Once you leave the realms of male authored shounen, and especially generic romcoms, that becomes less of a problem and there's less distinction between the mangaka's gender and quality of male characters they write. For instance there's no point in comparing Nisekoi characters to Takemitsu Samurai characters and then comparing the former, as a representative of male written characters, to the male and female lead in Haru no Noroi .
Aizwawa's hair simultaneously looks very soft and also very greasy. I love that about it
>>273647851Check out Ohayō Ibarahime, if you haven't yet
>>273667407No, it's like a flowing river of black silk.
Nice to see that the thread is still alive. The dump will start in 30 minutes
Chapter 5
Azuma's reading list update:>Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human>Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box>Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace>Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People>Kanae Minato - Confessions>Daigo Umehara - The Will to Keep Winning
Rare Nozomi pout
lmao
That small untranslated text on the right says>Oh, the train is coming (A, densha kita wa ne)BTW, Nozomin really likes to end sentences with particle 'wa', which is a very feminine way of speaking (I have some screenshots so maybe later I'll post examples). This contrasts with the three stoogettes from today's chapter - they sound like they came straight from a trailer park.
I was wondering about the comic, and I think it's probably about her brother's manga she mentions in chapter 1
And that's it for now, tomorrow the end of volume 1. See ya
>>273672614Great advice.
>>273672309Hey OP! I feel like I'm forgetting to ask you about something, but this rum is really good
>>273673635Yo Anon!
>>273664364I can't say I agree. Especially since probably my favorite female character from anything is Rin Tezuka who was written by a man.
>>273637114>you've wanted that since elementary school, right?I'm guessing he had some sort of trauma regarding this which is why he's acting like handmade cookies are so horrible conceptually.
>>273672476>>273672511This guy has to be autistic
>>273672451It's easier to notice with high resolution scans like this but this author uses a lot of tones, huh? Shoujo manga tend to use them a lot but in this case they're somewhat subtle and just amplify some depth.
>>273679971I like the combination of stippling, hatching, and cross hatching to suggest texture as well as colour
>>273673110True
>>273673131Thank you for posting.
>>273672511>doesn't get why friend's GF wanted to talk to friend about her day>doesn't get why the bitch brigade wanted to share their happiness about a thing they likedThis isn't even a girl thing. He's just bad with people period
>>273672614Oh so they're both stupid
>>273683457That's fair.
>>273672543She should pout more often
>>273672476>>273672543I sense a best girl.
>>273665269I agree and most of my favorite female characters are probably written by male writers but there may be a point about how female characters from male writers are less grounded or have less realism. Satoshi Kon discussed this in an interview explaining that he writes female protagonists because he's male and won't know a female protagonist the way he does a male protagonist so he can project certain ideas onto her and expand/explore those aspects.
>>273691531I guess some creative types find it easier to play with characters they are less grounded to. When I think about it it makes sense that his male perspective would find it more of an exploration of the character when he was writing a female, at least at the basic level of comparison when he isn't deliberately trying to explore the character of a male he writes. As an example a female I like who is definitely written by a male is Makura from Kouya ni, works as a character but she's certainly not meant to feel like a explored character who could actually be written by a female; I don't think that mangka writes any women that way and his talents lay elsewhere. Rather she's a male's idealized woman, and not physically(although there's that too), but in personality. Then there's Youko from 12 Kingdoms, written by a woman and feels like but is likeable by men, at least as I see it, for the same strength of character (although she's far more and better developed).
>>273688708soon
>>273672367The more I learn about him the more I think he's just like me.
>>273693550Do you also have a 10/10 yamato nadeshiko stalker?
>>273636471>SOMEONE IS GOING TO DIE!>Of fun!
>>273636774>You know, I came here for YOU guys to help ME, not the other way around
>>273677818I feel like it's just meant to be a sign of Azuma's weirdo incel nature. Well, not incel, literally, but whatever we used to call guys like that around here before everything got all weird. He's always over analyzing the behavior of women and specifically assigning the least charitable interpretations to their motivations while over blowing the impact of their actions.
>>273694129kek
>>273672543smart cheeky girl
>>273672926Right, I said I'll post some examples of Nozomi's speech mannerisms
>>273698281
>>273698303
>>273698281>>273698303>>273698325Is it cute or tryhard cute?
>>273636240>Kanae Minato - ConfessionsOh, I have read that. It's good.
>>273699259Cute and feminine, nothing outlandish. Hanekawa and Senjougahara speak in a similar manner
>>273694209>but whatever we used to call guys like that around here before everything got all weirdAutistic
>>273672476Nozimi is giving excellent advice here btw
>>273698325When I read nozomi's dialogue I hear Saori Hayami
>>273672476>>273672543She has a serious stalking problem
The time has come again, for some of us to enjoy their rum, for others to solve a bunch of captchas...Here's chapter 6, let's go
>>273702471>>273672476What does she mean by 'the line itself'?
I'm not sure what 'Mister Heiwadai' means in this context, but it's also there in the raws
>>273705906That the fact of a woman's anger pre-exists its proxies. If you address the points on the line she'll stay mad. If you address the line itself you'll resolve the situation
>>273706070Isn't it the name of the school? it's all over the station: へいわ台
>>273705824Hey OP! I feel like you forgot something today, have you decided to join me in high quality rum enjoyment?
>>273706426Ah, so it's like Miss USA, Mister Rio de Janeiro kind of thing?
>>273705954>They didn't translate the haikuSad
Nice timing Anon!Azuma's reading list update:>Osamu Dazai - No Longer Human>Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box>Leo Tolstoy - War & Peace>Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People>Kanae Minato - Confessions>Daigo Umehara - The Will to Keep Winning>Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
>>273706461I forgot a (You). Here's a (You)
>>273706269Kek
>>273706269classic
>>273706408Fluffy hair
>>273706531They're right on the page before.
>>273706727Down bad.
Google maps link to that train station if you're interested:https://www.google.com/maps/place/Sangubashi+Station/@35.6795448,139.6933605,1463m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x60188ccb75257b8b:0xfdea8b6b076f9b70!8m2!3d35.6786577!4d139.6935182!16zL20vMDczY2Zz?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEyNC4xIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D
>>273706740Silly to put it on the next page then
End of volume 1, we'll continue tomorrowSo, first time reading anons, how was it? Is it living up to the hype so far?
>>273706880i am enjoying it a lot, thanks for dumping anon! I want to smell her hair...
>>273706880>how was it?3.7
>>273706795>Name the station Heiwadai>base it on SangubashiWhy?it's not even that far.
this entire time I was thinking who those two remind me of and it finally came to meI fucking wish goutou and shinonome were this cute too
>>273706705MAIDEN IN LOVE
>>273707547To keep it at least a little bit ambiguous? or maybe she just liked the name?
>>273706070Heiwa means peace so Heiwadai is peace stand or something right?
>>273709341No, I was confused by the 'mister' part, I didn't initially make the connection with beauty pageants (probably because I'm ESL). I get it now that basically what Tamaki says there is that he's the hottest guy in Heiwadai
>>273705889The actions of a shameless slut
>>273705906Don't miss the forest for the trees. Men tend to default to "problem solving" with women talking about their issues when women are usually more than capable of handling their issues, they just want room to vent or emotional support. By defaulting to problem solving, the man is unironically missing the problem they should address. As opposed to the points on a line (coordinates that affect something's direction and shape), the vector itself is the real point. If the vector is about something as simple or pointless as a phone case, then not participating and immediately shattering the momentum isn't appreciating the line of conversation. >Isn't this phone case cute?>No.The "line" in this example is that the girl likes her new phone case. The point on the line is the phone case itself, whether the case is cute or not is irrelevant to the response to the emotion of liking the case. >but it would be lying to-The phrase "how's it going" or "what's up" is rarely meant to actually check in and is more of a greeting, it's just an exchange and treating it like it's diplomatic is just as wrong as blowing it off. "Isn't this phone case cute" is an invitation to chat with a dozen ways to grow from. In practice his response >>273672746"I love the light blue color" is good, because now the girl can respond about her deciding on the color, or talk about where she got it, etc.
>>273709341It's actually more like "heiwa heights"
>>273705920Whats the matter OP, not gonna add Maple to the reading list?
>>273710802Well, I do think that's different from how guys think during a conversation. I feel like guys speak and look at what's spoken to them totally at face value, partly because anything more is too much effort and partly for the love of simplicity and clarity. That seems like it's trying to use speech to make happen emotional responses the woman wants to get and give during a conversation and that those emotional responses are actually the real conversation itself. That does clear up what 'the line' was, but I'm not sure I'm not now more confused than I was then.I have an all male workplace and no real social contact outside of that, generally a loner, so all of it is that deep it'd feel to me like playing chess with no way to know what your opponent's intentions are.
>>273710966Yeah I also skipped that girlslop Hamarin is reading here >>273705889Regarding メイプル, I tried googling it but couldn't find anything relevant, the closest was some very old baseball manga... I assume that it's a fictional shōjo manga magazine (maybe a thinly veiled Bessatsu?). If I'm wrong about this, let me know, still I don't think I will include magazines/press publications on the list.
>>273711905*I meant Bessatsu Friend
>>273706676Azuma charges up his charm meter by repeated saying stupid shit all day, just so he can unleash moves like this.
>>273706759>Tamaki is used as a stalking horse by his classmatesThe pretty and popular have it rough too
