WataMote Chapter 175.5

Special Chapter
Information
Volume Number	Volume 18
Chapter Title	Special Chapter
Published	April 1, 2020
Previous Chapter	Chapter 175
Next Chapter	Chapter 176

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

With the title "Special Chapter (別編・betsu hen)," the cover depicts Asuka sleeping between Yuri and Uchi. The side narration announces the full recovery of Nico Tanigawa then introduces how each room spends its night.

Not Shown: A Serial Killer . . . probably.

Without opening her eyes, Asuka calls out to "Tamura-san." She explains that she is curious about why Yuri was holding her underwear and laughing when she came out of the bath. Yuri wonders how she should respond. She inwardly recall that she was confused to see "Katō-san" naked, then finding her underwear, and thought she was being a bit like Tomoko which made her laugh. She decides to make up something to fool Asuka. She simply replies that she just remembered something funny.

Asuka then asks her what she remembered. Yuri haltingly replies that it was about Tomoko, to which Asuka asks why seeing her underwear would remind her of Tomoko. Yuri laments that Asuka is more persistent than she surmised, then thinks that if Mako were here, she would easily brush off Asuka.

Uchi interrupts to remark that during their second year, on the final day of their school trip, she shared a room with "that woman (女・onna)." As Yuri marvels that Uchi is telling a story, Uchi explains that "that woman" was looking through her things while she was taking a shower. When she finished and returned to the room, she noticed that she had stolen her panties. Uchi rhetorically asks why she would do such a thing. She then . . . waits for MOAR TRANSLATION!

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Characters

In order of appearance:

• Asuka Katō
• Yuri Tamura
• Emiri Uchi
• Tomoko Kuroki (Mentioned)
• Mako Tanaka (Mentioned)
• Hikari Itō
• Kaho Kusunoki
• Kotomi Komiyama

Referbacks

• Tomoko eye make up chapters.
• "I was being a bit like Tomoko and ended up laughing": Yuri accidentally saw Asuka when she came out from the shower and after that she laughed while she held her underwear in the Chapter 172.
• "On the final day of the school trip... I shared a room with that woman": Emiri narrates her experience lived in that day in the hotel during trip of Kyoto from Chapter 80.
• "... I got a friend to teach me...": The friend of whom Kaho is talking about is Asuka, who in the past had put make up on her, just like she did with Tomoko in the Chapters 106 and 135.

Cultural References

• Blepharoplasty: which is a surgery very popular in Japan and other Asian countries to convert the epicanthic fold. This link, Japanese Double-Eyelid Surgery by Yumi Nakata, contains a very details discussion that includes the non-surgical techniques including glue as practiced by Kaho. It also appears that Asuka painted a "double-lid" on Tomoko.

Trivia

• "Those eyelids are Satozaki grade": Kotomi is rating Itō's by using Tomoya Satozaki like reference, being this a player of Chiba Lotte Marines and whose surname was used to naming Kiko Satozaki. As double curiosity, Hikari and Kiko's eyes look quite similar between them.

Memorable moments

• WWMD: ["What Would Mako Do?" – Ed.] Yuri thinks that Mako would handle Asuka's questions better, which begs the question, given that Mako would probably simply told Asuka the truth, why Yuri lies to her.
• Eye Make-Up
• Woman, Thine Name is Tomoko!: Uchi on Tomoko