Souichi running away even tho they literally live together was so funny to me 😂
I was grinning like an idiot the whole time ohhhhhh they way he melts into morinagas kisses and the way he just kind of leans into it and is more vocal about his feelings even if hes still trying to insist logic over emotion and YES HE ABSOLUTELY BASICALLY SAID "I MEAN WE'RE ALREADY BASICALLY MARRIED IN EVERY WAY BUT LEGALLY"
Augh.
Thank you so much 😭
He was running like that would stop them from having this conversation eventually. He knows very well Morinaga wasn't going to drop having a conversation when he basically told his mother he was going to marry him. There was just no world where he was getting out of talking about it.
He keeps doing things that he knows Morinaga would find extremely significant when he thinks Morinaga isn't around, and Morinaga keeps finding out (eavesdropping lol) and making it a thing, just like Souichi was fully aware he would do if he knew about it.
Maybe you should just stop expecting your boyfriend to be oblivious about how obsessed you are with him, Souichi lol
and yeah, he definitely said they're basically already married lol
Picking up where the last one left off... very short because it was supposed to be part of the last chapter.... and we're still not at the end of vol 16 lol
They drop the mom off at the train station, Souichi says he seem to be in a better mood but he gets why. Since his mother seems to be opening up he has hope. Morinaga says it's because of what Souichi said and he's like "I didn't really do anything". Morinaga's then like "you said you'd take me" and Souichi literally runs away like "no I did not!!!" "you were hearing this" and runs into the house. Morinaga catches him and says there's no reason for him to run because it made him really happy to hear it.
Souichi says "I mean that the Tatsumi family would take you in" and Morinaga's like "no you definitely said I" and Souichi says "that's just cause you were eavesdropping!!" Morinaga kisses him and then says "Hey, let's get married?" "let's become spouses" and Souichi's like "we can't we're both men" and Morinaga says "Kurokawa and Tomoe are married" Souichi says "but this is japan" Morinaga says "but you said you'd take me. make me a Tatsumi." "I want you to promise me"
Souichi says "I keep telling you we're like family and we live together so it's basically the same" and Morinaga's like "so we're basically married already?" and Souichi's like "I didn't say that!!!" and it ends with Morinaga thinking he really does want him to make a promise to him.
I understand that some are frustrated that he's tsun-ing out this hard still. It's been this many years and he still won't say they're dating...
But it's also frustrating that folks don't appreciate that in the same chapter, he basically proposes lmao??? "I'll be taking Morinaga"－Guys, forget about admitting they're dating. Souichi already went "yeah, no, he's MINE now". He can't actually put Morinaga on his family register but－man?!
I wonder if they just don't understand the meaning of such a statement.
Like sensei obviously put his denials in there to be like "haha look at this clown ass liar. gay gay homosexual gay"
He is the king of tsundere and I think it's great Takanaga commits to the bit as much as she does since there's so many tsundere characters that their personalities just do a completely 180 as soon as they're in a relationship??
What do you mean they're all deredere now? Why would they have a whole personality change like that? It always feels cheap to me when they change like that. Souichi has been the most satisfying tsundere I've seen after getting into a relationship honestly lol
And yeah, he really did basically say "I'm marrying him if you decide to disown him but he's mine already"... and he CAN put him on the family register if he adopts him lol... marriage by adoption is a thing! But I already said that in all these posts from the last chapter lol
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I know not everybody reads my comments but come on!!!
This is one of those times I'm like, maybe I should make translators notes pages I release with the chapter to explain this lol
Hi, I just wanted to thank you. I’m autistic and reading between the lines when it comes to The Tyrant Fall in Love and how Souichi accepts Mori and is in an established relationship with him by volume 9 has helped me change my view of their relationship. It was really hard for me because he never outright says it and so I was constantly reading it with this sort of “it's up in the air still” mentality, which really fucked with me. But now I understand that he is just Like That because he is based on a trope, and that he is also a HUGE liar who lies — to himself, to others — and that he’s super in love with Mori and is also most likely demi. It really made me view the whole manga through a completely new lens, and now as I am re-reading it I am enjoying it a lot more.
One thing I want to ask you is, what is your personal favorite moment where Souichi interacts with his own feelings (Like, a realization, an acceptance, a change of heart, etc etc.) and if you have any commentary/analysis of said scene? I really enjoy reading what you have to say.
Thank you again! You helped me a lot!
Aw thank you for your kind message! I'm happy I've been able to help you appreciate this story more!
It can be hard to understand characters when they lie, especially when you're missing the cultural context of the tropes and phrases they use in Japan to convey things. I try my best to explain and translate in ways that get these ideas across but sometimes I think back on translations I've made and wonder if I actually accomplished that lol
So it's nice to be assured that I've at least help you understand some parts of it better!
I have so many parts of this story I could go on about lol.... It's hard to chose just one scene.... I'm going to go with volume 4 in general. I've skipped over vol 4 when I've talked about the series before on here, and that's honestly a shame because I feel like it's him being more straightforward with his emotions than normal, but because of all the extenuating circumstances it's not him being his usual self at all.
So, volume 4 starts have Souichi pissing off an otaku by breaking his phone, but more importantly, breaking his limited edition anime figure!!
This causes the otaku to stalk and harass him for this.
I know the current translation online doesn't make that part clear...
I know I've always said that volume 3 was the volume that was translated the worst, but some people have made the argument that 4 is the worst... so fair enough I guess lol
I'll take screenshots of my translation for some parts, but here's a link to my volume 4 translation
(it's not finalized yet! it's still up to change lol. I edited some parts while I was taking screenshots...)
After several incidents happen, Morinaga convinces Souichi to let him move into the house by telling him that he cares about him and is worried about him... and throwing in that he can help protect Kanako too as an excuse. I really feel like the kabedon is important in here too lol
And then! When Morinaga gets hurt by the stalker, Souichi lets the facade slip. He tells Morinaga that that he's important to him! As soon as he sees Morinaga's face he knows he said more than he wanted to. He tries to press forward, telling him he'd be getting in the way if he can't protect himself but Morinaga is only hearing that he's important lol
Morinaga tells him he doesn't want to leave for the same reasons... and look at this yearning!! Look at his face when he says he doesn't want Morinaga to get hurt!
and then he uses that injury to run away lol (ouch!)
He uses the excuse that Kanako is there, but when Morinaga asks if it would have been fine if Kanako wasn't there, he just says "I don't know"
"I don't know"!? wtf do you mean "I don't know"!?!?!?! Wouldn't you normally just say no?? lol (That's just him avoiding)
And then the fire happens. While Morinaga is in the burning house, thinking that he's being abandoned and going to die because no one would willingly come into a burning building, Souichi is freaking out. He instantly runs in there and starts crying and yelling at him that he told him to get out because he didn't want anything to happen to him.
He's definitely crying. It's not just the water. (He's lying. Avoiding. That's an excuse lol)
Later at the hotel, Morinaga is thinking that if they were in a relationship then he would be able to kiss him and they could have sex to comfort him but that he can't take advantage of Souichi when he's vulnerable.... but that's actually what Souichi wanted!!
He's literally pulling him down on top on himself meanwhile Morinaga is trying to be a respectable person for once and not take advantage of him in a vulnerable situation. Trying to tell Souichi him he's just trying to be comforting and would hug any normal friend if they were going through something like this!
Souichi is NOT amused
He's pouting…. he's literally pouting because Morinaga is saying he doesn't want to have sex with him and that he'd do this for anybody.
Eventually he gets frustrated by him just pressing up against him and not doing anything he ends up just kissing him himself and Morinaga is shocked.
and what I think is probably the most important interaction here, he nuzzles his injured arm because he's upset he got hurt. You can tell he is really affected by Morinaga being hurt. That he was scared Morinaga was going to die.
Souichi tries to act like like nothing happened after this but he was pretty thoroughly exposed this time. Just ignore it. Nothing to see here.
When Morinaga convinces him to move into an apartment with him, he convinces Souichi by telling him he would feel lonely now that he's been experiencing family life! Souichi, how is that a logical reason to move in with someone?? "Oh no! He'd feel lonely! Can't have that!" But that was Morinaga providing him an excuse. It's not because Souichi would like to live with him, it's because Morinaga would feel lonely living by himself.
And then in the extra, we're shown that after they had sex, Souichi wakes up and freaks out because he knows what he did and he's very disturbed because he wants to find an excuse for it an can't lol
Somehow it's Morinaga's fault and he didn't start it. Yes.
Volume 4 is a huge show if how much Souichi cares about Morinaga and an example of him actually coming on to Morinaga first! (Morinaga event points it out at one point but I'm out of screenshots I got to cut somewhere... I would post so many more pictures if tumblr would let me. They're so mean.)
