Chihayafuru Chapter 138 Discussion

akdgn said:
@yosish:

What you do is only repeating the same things over and over. You could write them in one post instead of eight.
Chihaya is also a human-being and she has freedom to love whoever she wants.
Her reaction was understandable since she felt she suddenly lost her best friend.

Just because you're a fan of Taichi doesn't mean every audience has to like him.
Everyone here is FREE to dislike Taichi and criticize him. RESPECT others' opinions!

maririn said:
Criticism is something. Talking bullshit is something else.

It IS okay to hate Taichi and bash them, calling rapist or jerk. It IS okay to being delusional as f**k and basically be sweetangie

It ain't okay to defend or like Taichi, because they need to respect other people
Nope.

Jakerams said:
Taichi is easily my favorite character. Although I like Arata he isn't shown much and rarely gets character development while lately Taichi has been developing lots.

smegmarta said:
The most amazing thing about this discussion is how many delusional people there are. To begin with, where do you even draw these facts? These conclusions are ridiculous. Taichi is rich so he doesn't deserve to be happy. Gee how greedy he is with all that money he even dares to like a girl and play karuta. Ugh he should totally go play golf and do bitchez and let poor kid Arata take those since he wasn't born into a rich family. If anything Taichi's position hardly did any good in that light. That isn't even an issue this manga deals with wtf. Another thing is how Taichi intentionally left the club to hurt Chihaya. Lol! Isn't Chihaya the bad guy being all selfish and wanting him to stay although she was a shitty person who couldn't reject him properly like she'd rather he never confessed so they could go on with her karuta obsession companions act.
I don't care who ends up with whom since I like all the characters but Taichi has the best character development. Fact.

sweetangie said:
^ Like people say, "the truth hurts" and the evidence of the story speaks for itself.

As for Taichi as a character I admit I don't pity him because his actions what speaks out rather if he deserves sympathy or not: the moment he was acting all desperate is something I don't support because he wasn't thinking about Chihaya when he went and did that: if he truly loves her, he should of thought about Chihaya's happiness before his own and all he did was acting all selfish and forceful to make Chihaya love him back ( things don't work out that way): I mean if someone belongs to you, no one nor anything can't take that away: the feelings of love always comes out naturally without any force measures ( everything that's force is all fake and dishonest). Taichi is already aware what's in Chihaya's heart ( he can't fool himself who's the person Chihaya loves: Arata) and despite that he doesn't care for her or her feelings at all: instead of being forceful and wants her to let go of her own feelings: he could of encourage Chihaya to open up her heart and tell her feelings towards the person she loves (just like what Sumire encouraged him to tell his feelings to her: but she didn't mention to make Chihaya love him back by force: his own actions is dragging himself down and because of that, he doesn't deserve any room for sympathy): he's no longer a child to be taught what's right and wrong. For now on, I'll keep my opinions about Taichi's rude behavior to myself.

yosish said:
Here’s the last thing that irked me about this chapter, Chihaya’s actions in the last couple of pages when she finds out Taichi left. Now, before people jump down my throat, let me explain. As I said before, Chihaya is very self-centered sometimes and so Karuta-centered. She was confused with what happened between her and Taichi, feeling so awkward and weird (probably guilty?). The right course of action when you find out your best friend who just confessed his love to you (and you rejected him) quit your favorite club… is not to run after him on the street, crying and bawling and ordering him to not leave the club. Again, the world doesn’t revolve around Chihaya and her feelings only, other people have their own feelings too. Taichi does. Chihaya didn’t even ‘ask’ him why he decided to leave the club. She didn’t even ask him how he’s been doing the last couple of days after confessing (when all she did was keeping her distance away from him and not even looking him in the eyes). She, instead, demanded and pleaded he stays with the club. Chihaya just doesn’t understand the amount of struggle Taichi has been going through and she seems oblivious to his pain, anger and sadness on top of that and this breaks Taichi even more. Because it’s all about Karuta to Chihaya and his feelings be damned. That’s why he pointed it out to her, that he’s not ‘made of stone’, that he’s got feelings too, that he’s also just… tired of all of this. This is the lowest pit of despair that Taichi reached in this story. And as for the kiss, like I said I’m not going to condone it, call it romantic or romanticize it. Taichi was so full of desperation and anger that he wanted all those feelings to reach Chihaya (understandably). You can even tell that Taichi kind of regretted what he did the moment their lips touched so he backed away right after. But I’m not going to blow the kiss out of proportion too, calling it rapey and gross and yuck and OMG TAICHI YOU JERK! because no, it wasn’t like that.

Saccharine said:
Let me just first start things off with I am a Chihaya x Arata shipper, and a lot of criticisms I see from the people who ship said pairing in regards to Taichi is very unfair.

Taichi is a human being. Of course he would need space from Chihaya. The love of his life life just rejected him, and he's supposed to pretend like it isn't tearing him up inside? So he can make Chihaya happy? It wouldn't be good for his mental health if he were to ignore his feelings for Chihaya's sake. It wouldn't be good for the team if he were to stay because he can no longer play karuta. He wouldn't be able to be the support pillar that he usually played the role of. People are calling Taichi selfish but that isn't correct. He's trying to do what's best for him. And seriously? Taichi is the last person anyone should be calling selfish. I think it's been pretty evident in past chapters Taichi himself doesn't like karuta as much as all the other people who play. He plays for Chihaya's and the team's sake even though he himself doesn't like it. lol so why are u calling him selfish idgi

Granted, the kiss that Taichi forced on Chihaya was unacceptable. I understand? I guess? but like forcing a kiss is really shitty and it's a trope that should end bc it isn't romantic at all it's uncomfortable for the person receiving

Personally, I loved Taichi's confession and it was easily one of the best scenes in the manga. Hands down. Taichi's confession is important because it's forcing Chihaya to grow up. It's one thing if Arata confessed to her, but it means an entirely different thing because Taichi confessed to her. This is Taichi, someone she knew from childhood, someone whom she grew up with (granted they were distant in middle school years, but). His confession will allow her to reevaluate both what Taichi and Arata mean to her, and then properly choose a partner, if not any. Chihaya's childish, and her childishness is what has been hurting him. Hopefully this causes much needed development for her, because though Arata and Chihaya have received development, Taichi's development was far more in depth and literally overtakes everyone's development, like holy shit. i thought this was chihaya's story l o l

Also? People are saying Taichi's awful because he's rich? Why are you attacking him for circumstances he literally cannot fucking help? Why is he being vilified because he has money? That may have influenced who he was when he was younger, but he's so much more than being a rich kid. So because he's rich he can't have the girl he loves? like what r u sayin

tl;dr taichi ain't selfish he's a human being w human feelings who is going to help chihaya develop more as a character god bless and

also why people hate taichi and arata so much they're so good wow i love them both

wow i just caught up to this manga @4 am i love it so much god bless