WataMote Chapter 227

Chapter 227
Information
Volume Number	27
Chapter Title	Because I'm not popular, we're Kigurumi friends.
Published	December 11, 2024
Previous Chapter	Omake
Next Chapter	Chapter 228

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

Over the prone costumed-body of Tomoko, an agitated Mitsuki Wakui asks Megumi if she is alright and if anything perverted happened. A stunned Megumi emits an "un" as a "yes," while Tomoko emits an "uu" groan as she holds her back. The next panel shows her moving in a circle similar to a "coffee grinder" dance move, as she groans. Hina watches with concern while Yuri appears to suppress laughter.

Very concerned, Megumi kneels down, places her hands on the costume's head, and asks, "are you okay?" Mitsuki insists she is, then adds, "she's just exaggerating." Asuka places her hands on the costume's back where Tomoko's hands hold it and asks, "Here? Does it hurt here?"

Yuri, with a smile, helps up the costumed Tomoko with Hina's help. Hina notes that they are making a scene and suggests they rest over here. As they lead the limp Tomoko away, Yuri asks her to not keep her body limp. Behind her, Megumi inwardly wonders who the person in the costume is. She is startled by the declaration, "Hey today also you're a pervert, Student Council President!" She turns to find a smiling Anna sitting next to Reina and Masaki. Beaming, Anna asks if, "Cu●ninu is house sitting?" Reina helpfully adds that if she brings that kind of eroticism, "everyone will get an erection!" Refusing to take the bait, Megumi merely replies, "Always the same, right, you two." For her part, Masaki observes in silence. Behind Megumi, Mitsuki blushes and watched. Both Reina and Anna repeat the C●nsor'd in the Japanese Original nickname for Megumi's pet. Mitsuki inwardly marvels that "Senpai" can talk to them.

Shown: "Yo"

Emitting a "yo," Masaki stands. She tells her if she is going to "that one's place," she will take her to 3-5. Megumi pleasantly accepts her offer to guide her. Megumi's Friend smiles and tells Megumi she will stay here and she should go along. Watching, Mitsuki inwardly laments, "Senpai, I want to talk to you about something. . . ." With her face superimposed over a scene of the festival, she continues to wonder, "that girl, who is she?"

As Megumi and Masaki walk past WataGirls who may one day become significant, Megumi asks her if she has found what she wants to do. Masaki strokes her hair and replies, "A- About that, I'm kind of interested or something like that." "What? What?" Megumi quickly asks. ". . . don't laugh," Masaki replies. The next panel pulls back to show her blushing as she whispers to Megumi. In the background, Asuka, Yuri, and Hina attend to the costumed Tomoko who sits up against a tree. In the foreground, Mako observes Masaki with Megumi. In the next panel, she smiles as she watches a happy Masaki walk with Megumi. Megumi replies, "Awesome, good, you should do it." Smiling, Masaki insists that she is not sure yet.

The outside of the maid café marks a transition. Inside, Shizuku attends to two anonymous boys. Sitting at a table behind her, Kiko observes and smiles. Shizuku approaches her and apologizes and explains she was asked to help only for the morning. Kiko politely declines her apology and insists it is fine. She then excitedly suggests, "Hirasawa-san and the people of the class have become friends." Shizuku agrees, thanks her, then credits both her and "senpai." Over a flowered background, Chibi Kiko suggests that they go around together in the afternoon. Until then, she will go and look around elsewhere. Chibi Shizuku agrees.

In the next panels, Kiko walks the hallways, passing a sitting Koharu, then a standing Kaho. In front of her, Oka announces Class 3-5's movie will start screening soon. She passes the concerned Yoshinori and Akane. Sweating, Akane notices the size of the line and confesses to being nervous.

Shown: Fūka-chan!!
Because Fūka-chan!
Also Shown: WataMote Wiki still wonders how Miho – happily – received those hand prints . . . for . . . SCIENCE!

Fūka loudly announces that they are doing a haunted house. Miho suggests that the barker lacks a ghostly or horror feel. Rise joins the two and Fūka presents her by announcing that right now, their ghosts will give them a "service" in the mansion. Miho suggests that that makes it into a sex store. Kiko promises to come later with a friend.

Meanwhile, Asuka, Hina, and Yuri attend to Tomoko, who is still in the costume and sitting against the tree. Hina looks at her phone and announces that "Ā-chan will be coming back after the beginning of the first screening. Tomoko tells them to go ahead, and she will follow them later. Hina repeats Tomoko's statement and deems, "the lines are cool." Yuri suggests that Tomoko is already fine, and they should go together. Tomoko responds, that it is too late since the costume and body have begun to merge. Hina replies that she is saying scary things. Asuka stands and tell Hina and Yuri to go on ahead since she will wait with "Tomo-chan." After the two leave, Asuka asks Tomoko if there is anything she wants. Tomoko quietly answers, "water. . . ." "Water?" Asuka repeats, "Wait."

Kiko continues her tour outside, then sees the costumed Tomoko sitting against the tree. She excitedly thinks, "What's that. . . ." For her part, Tomoko notices Kiko and inwardly screams, "Kī Brat?!!" She calmly writes with a conveniently-placed marker on a conveniently-placed stack of fliers then reveals the question, "What's wrong?" She then adds, "want to talk?"

"Like Ra●ma's panda!" Kiko thinks.

For a pause, Kiko silently sits next to Tomoko. She then asks if she is doing a Cultural Festival performance: "Like a costumed person willing to give advice?" Tomoko scribbles then reveals, "Well, yeah." Kiko complains that the timing of her responses is too slow so please use gestures. She then observes that she is sitting next to a costumed character, but she has nothing to say since they have met for the first time. Inwardly, Tomoko screams, "Kī Brat this bitch!!" She then produces a long message that states that there are things she can only talk about when meeting a costumed character for the first time. Kiko agrees.

After a pause, Kiko starts to say that there is a person she likes. She pauses again, then explains she does not mean liking romantically but as a person. She then states that she was interested in this person's daily life and friends, so she followed her yesterday and today and later on. She admits that she thought she would get a little closer but feels a little further away. She continues that when they met, she actually wanted to talk about a lot of things, but she was irritated and could not be honest. She turns and ask what she should do, and Tomoko produces a flier she wrote, "Costume character so difficult."

"Yeah, so when you want to be spoiled by someone what's good?" Kiko asks. Tomoko holds up a flier with "Come closer" written on it. Kiko complies, and Tomoko pats her on the head. Tomoko holds up a paper with "I don't need words," and Kiko asks if she is just pampering her doggie.

They are interrupted by Asuka and Emiri arriving. Emiri exclaims, "Kuroki?!"

Kiko emits an "E?"

She then looks at Tomoko with her patented cute look. Her eyes bleach as she asks, "Big Sister?"

She remains in this stunned expression as Tomoko stands and Asuka crouches a bit to address her. Asuka beams, "Kiko-chan you did it, right, by Tomo-chan you're being spoiled."

Tomoko hears, "Big Sister."

With a return of her Patented Expression, Kiko punches Tomoko in her back. She starts to punch repeatedly. Tomoko responds with a "Wait . . . Kī-chan. . . ." As Kiko continues, Tomoko protests that that is the place that seriously hurts.

Characters

In order of appearance

• Mitsuki Wakui
• Megumi Imae
• Tomoko Kuroki
• Yuri Tamura
• Hina Nemoto
• Asuka Katō
• Anna Haruna
• Reina
• Masaki Yoshida
• Megumi Friend one - Check Linkypoo
• Mako Tanaka
• Shizuku Hirasawa
• Kiko Satozaki
• Koharu Minami
• Kaho Kusunoki
• Oka
• Akane Okada
• Yoshinori Kiyota
• Fūka Sasaki
• Miho Narita
• Rise
• Emiri Uchi

Referbacks and Referforwards

• PETA: In Chapter 226-3, after Mitsuki saw Tomoko, who was wearing a dog's costume, hug Megumi, she punched Tomoko on her assumption that Tomoko was sexually harassing her.
• "The Gang's All Here!": During the summer break, both Tomoko, the delinquent gang and Shiki spotted the cunny-mutt riding in a car, which they follow to find out who was its owner, and with it they saw it was Megumi. Later in Chapter 182, Megumi had a conversation with the group of delinquents that involved sexual entendred topic regarding her dog.
• ”I saw you were in that movie": when Tomoko met with Megumi in Chapter 182, she mentioned how her class intended to make a movie, although nothing was decided by that time. Now it's confirmed Megumi watched that movie online.
• "To even people like them": ever since her full face was shown by first time in Chapter 226-2, Mitsuki has shown the trend of looking down those ones who don't fit in her standars of social status, beginnign with Tomoko in that same chapter, only for later in the Chapter 226-3 to show anger to the idea of how someone like Tomoko can have friends or have make a movie that became viral. Now in this chapter, when Mitsuki sees Megumi talking with Masaki, Reina and Anna, she deems them like the kind of people who wouldn't be worthy to talk with her senior.
• "An unusual asking for help": Shizuku expressed how her females classmates had left her outside from any participation for the school festival in Chapter 202-1, which extents until chapter Chapter 221, where Shizuku informs Kiko how she hasn't been asked to help in the Korean café, which leads Kiko to interfere to allow Shizuku to participate. Thus, it's inusual to see Shizuku serving as a maid in the second day of school festival, although it could be because of her female classmates assuming the senior whom Kiko referred was Fūka.
• "A sad and lonely pig": in Chapter 226-2, Koharu intended to walk around with Sachi in the school festival, but this one explained she couldn't since something happened and she had no choice but help out with her classroom's project, leaving Koharu sitting alone at the hallway while waiting.
• "I couldn't be honest with myself": Tomoko realized Kiko was hiding at the same restaurant as her in Chapter 224-3, but instead of talking with her, Kiko went directly with Yuri to sleep over in her house. In Chapter 225, after Yuri denied to accept Kiko in her house, she said it'd be okay if Tomoko went too, thing that Kiko opposed to. For some reason, Kiko was intendently avoiding Tomoko, now after confessing Tomoko in dog's costume without knowing it was her, that Kiko had much to talk to Tomoko once she met her, but she felt irritated in that time and just avoided her.
• "It feels like I'm drifting away": Kiko confessed to Yuri and Hina in Chapter 225 how she lamented to not attend the same school as Tomoko and her friends. Kiko now confesses the more she knew about Tomoko's daily life, the more distant she felt from her.
• "If I want someone to spoil me": after meeting and talking alone with Asuka in Chapter 224-1, this one told her how she actually wanted to be spoiled by Tomoko.

Cultural References

• Ranma ½: Kiko's reference is to a character who turns into a panda and communicates comically with signs. This is an obscure manga from some creatrix who has had no success . . . probably.

Memorable Moments

• "Tomoko is everyone's friend": this one would come be being the first chapter where Tomoko appears and in no moment her faces is shown, since she was wearing dog's costume all along.
• "Making paces with onē-chan?": ignoring the awkward realization, and the violence that came afterwards, Tomoko got the chance to talk with Kiko about her feelings, and how this one was down because of feeling drifted away of her; as well as and such a suggested by Asuka, Kiko got to be spoiled by Tomoko, albeit this one was not aware it was Tomoko because she was wearing a dog's costume.

Quotes

• "Hey today also you're a pervert, Student Council President! Cunninu house sitting?" – Anna Haruna to Megumi Imae " – Tomoko Kuroki
• "What you want to do, have you found it?" – Megumi
  • "A- About that, I'm kind of interested or something like that." – Masaki Yoshida
  • "What? What?" – Megumi
  • ". . . don't laugh." – Masaki
• "Is this a cultural festival performance? Like a costumed person willing to give advice?" – Kiko Satozaki to Tomoko

Gallery

Original Art from Nico Tanigawa's Gallery