WataMote Chapter 144

Chapter 144
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Information
Volume Number	Volume 14
Chapter Title	Because I'm Not Popular, I'll Call Out Names
Published	18 October 2018
Previous Chapter	Chapter 143
Next Chapter	Chapter 145

私がモテないのはどう考えてもお前らが悪い!

Watashi ga Motenai no wa dō Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui!

No Matter How I Look at It, It’s You Guys' Fault I’m Not Popular!

Synopsis

At the Kaihimmakuhari Station on their way to school Yuri encounters Uchi. The side narration reads: "On the morning after GW . . ." The two greet one another, and Uchi asks Yuri what she did during Golden Week. Yuri asks, "in particular?" She starts to reply that "together" she and Tomoko, but Uchi sees Tomoko holding a bag and immediately greets her. Surprised and stammering, Tomoko replies with a "good morning." Uchi remarks that the sky is beautiful. Tomoko agrees and inwardly feels surprised that Uchi is conversing with her. Yuri introjects her own greeting to Tomoko, but Uchi asks Tomoko what she bought. Tomoko replies she bought "Jump," and Uchi asks if it is for "One Piece" since she also reads it.

In class, Tomoko takes her seat next to Hina. Hina asks her what she did during Golden week, and Tomoko replies that she went to colleges and studied. As Yuri sits and listens in silents, Hina eagerly begins to tell Tomoko that she also studied and took "lessons (レッソン・resson)." Tomoko asks if "lessons" refer to voice actress (声優・seiyū) training.

[ENGLISH PICKIE HINA EROGE HERE]Tomoko asks Hina about her eroge game. Sweating, Hina admits she completed it. When Tomoko asks her how it went, Hina hautily claims that while she found some of the pictures and dialogue disappointing, it was "not a big deal," over a flashback of her furiously playing the game in blushing excitement. Tomoko rhetorically asks Hina that she will not watch anime involving death, but will watch eroge and perversion. Hina tries to retort that it is Tomoko who is perverted for playing such games when she is still a "girl (女の子・onna no ko)."

Tomoko calmly replies that Hina is wrong since it is an eroge for a man "who doesn't do it well," which she figured out just from Hina's description. She then remarks that she never expected Hina to play it seriously, which leaves Hina speechless for a moment. Hina remarks that she has been trapped, but Tomoko calmly replies that she did not intend to trap her. Sitting behind Mako Tanaka, Yuri sarcastically interrupts that she is not in a hurry, and Mako sheepishly wishes her a good morning.

After some passage of time, Yuri looks back to see Tomoko reading her Shonen Jump at a desk behind her. Yoshinori Kiyota interrupts Tomoko to present her with a paper to place her name in the class seating chart lottery as Asuka Katō looks on. Katō asks Yoshinori if he is change seats as Tomoko writes down her name on the paper. He replies 

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Characters

In order of appearance:

• Yuri Tamura
• Emiri Uchi
• Tomoko Kuroki
• Hina Nemoto
• Mako Tanaka
• Asuka Katō
• Yoshinori Kiyota
• Girl in Front of Tomoko {Wada 和田 CHECK}
• Futaki
• Koharu Minami
• Kotomi Komiyama
• Akane Okada

Cultural References

• Kaihimmakuhari Station
• Golden Week (ゴールデンウィーク・Gōruden Wīku)
• Shonen Jump(週刊少年ジャンプ・Shūkan Shōnen Janpu)
• One Piece

Memorable Moments

• Uchi greets and talks to Tomoko