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Banken Hero
| Alt Names: |  番犬ヒーロー The Watchdog Hero |
| Author: | Mitsui Haruka |
| Artist: | Mitsui Haruka |
| Genres: |  Comedy Oneshot Romance Shoujo |
| Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
| Status: | Complete |
| Description: | "I wish I can be stronger instead to protect you rather than the other way round..." Nagisa wants to be strong and cool in front of Misaki, but all he managed to do was getting protected instead by Misaki. What can a guy do to win the girl he loves?! |
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I think the author kinda stumbled in delivering the message here: while it was meant to be "two people in a relationship should be able to entrust things to each other and share burdens and happiness alike", it felt more on the line of "it works if the girl needs to be protected by the guy".
story is good and all but ummm is this umbrella a lie? Why does it suddenly appear for one panel and disappears in the next page?
If she was just going for his looks, it sounds like she ain't looking for the right things. Those usually don't last long eh? Even in this oneshot the reason she went for the other guy was because she wasn't concerned with looks but personality.
Don't worry about not finding the right person. In the meantime, we can always better ourselves first ^^b Then we'll attract others yeah? Two birds with one stone~
Short, but cute story~
Dude, stop feeling sorry for yourself - yeah, real life isn't easy and not everybody you fancy will like you back, but realize this is not the 'evil girls only liking hot guys' and 'nobody will ever pick me cause I am not a bishie' but more of a case of ' Ihave to find the right person' - cause I can tell you rn, if you stop whining about stuff and try getting to know more people, your chances of finding one that will be able to put up with you will increase exponentially.
And okay, life's not a manga, so maybe the girl won't be tiny, adorable, with big round eyes.. but odds are, if she can find your semi-obese otaku self likable, that you won't care about how she looks like either.
tl;dr don't drown in self pity, the right person will show up
This guy's like me.
Except I failed and the girl I had a crush on got taken by the good looking dude.
Because in Real Life, 95% of girls go for the better guy. (throw 2 dude, one regular semi-obese otaku, one body builder bishounen, who would the girls go for?)
Things in this series only happens in Manga and Anime, IE: Perfect Fantasy where everything goes the right way.
Damn it... now I made myself depressed, gonna go ram a wall for a while.
I said I was always a bit annoyed by it, not that it was always bad. If pushed to justify my annoyance, I might go so far as to say that in, aggregate, a general tendency towards such stories concluding happily through conformity can be problematic in how it shapes a societal narrative.
Or, if I were to make my complaint more specific to this, I might complain that her whole "But I worry everyone would hate me if I weren't strong" scene seemed a bit out of character, and worse seemed to turn "I am a strong girl that does things my own way" into "I only act strong out of a constant fear of being disliked" = "I'm weak and vulnerable actually". Which would be fine if that were explored at all as a theme of, e.g., the difficulties she has keeping up appearances, but no, she gets the "just another weak girl inside" treatment and then that's something to celebrate. I don't know, the whole tone seems to veer off at the end for me.
Rant aside, mind, I actually liked it overall. Though the fridge logic is getting worse the more I think about it.
romantic,short,cute & funny - just the way I like it!
Will also add that their relationship previously had no balance. This wasn't about gender roles, it was about what they provided each other, both emotionally and practically; which, regardless of any modern fairy tale delusions about romance and relationships, are BOTH important to a healthy relationship.
Also, why on earth do you have a problem with a story that sees people assuming traditional gender roles?
Please note that I am NOT saying there is a PROBLEM with series choose to subvert traditional gender roles; however, while it's great to not be held down by stereotypes, what's wrong with people who happily and quite naturally fit a perceived stereotype? Stereotypes are wrong because they assume things about groups of people in general and limit our ability to communicate. It is wrong to lambaste someone for "failing" to fit into a traditional gender role, it is not wrong for someone's natural, healthy persona to match the social definition of a gender stereotype.
Lastly, assuming this guy should just "get over himself", where do you assume he should go from there? As I said before, they had no balance. Even if he didn't understand it himself, he wasn't really chasing a stereotypical hero-princess relationship; he was trying to have value in her life in the only way he understood how.
Perhaps this wasn't your intention but I'm saying it now to be certain, if your idea of a good ending here was that they switch traditional gender roles then you are the one stereotyping and putting people/characters in boxes; more so if you fail to understand what a woman provides in a relationship that operates according to "traditional gender roles", believing that the traditional gender roles in most countries are that the woman in a relationship provides nothing and is little more than a pretty decoration for the capable and active man. (For those who missed it, I am saying that is WRONG.)
Nice oneshot.
I want this to be a series.
You make a fair point, it generally goes that way, but why shouldn't stories end that way? Not every story has to go against the grain (and there's plenty out there that do, if you care to look), and worrying about whether or not someone subscribes to "traditional gender roles" is really sort of a pointless judgement. People can choose to behave however they want to, and criticizing a cute story for not turning out the way you wanted it to just comes across as bitterness.
I thought it was nice that she thought he was wonderful without him having to completely change the way he was, and she was certainly no perfectly "girly-girl". The fact that she relied on him was sweet because it made him feel more confident and told him it was okay to keep being the way he was, and he admired her from the start not just for being perfect and pretty, but for being brave and strong, as well as flawed and overreaching.
It came across much more to me as a sweet story of two people leaning on each other for support and strength, each one admiring and loving the other, than it did "boy overturns his weakness and sweeps girl off her feet". Not incredibly new or different, but definitely not quite the same as a lot that you'll find out there. It was really just a nice little love tale.
Sorry for the text-wall!
Cute!
Cute, but I'm always a bit annoyed by stories like this that end with people assuming their traditional gender roles, rather than the guy getting over himself.