@Freestyle
Not really, hardcore otaku who call themselves otaku proudly are just embarrassing and gross.

@Gyarurun you seem the most offended and salty

@Freestyle
are you actually offended
imagine being that upset, you shouldn't even wanna be an "otaku", basement dweller

Highschool boys are at a delicate age.
Me? I'd puff my chest and show off my entire collection (sans illegal ones). Heheh.
I have no life...

@Gyarurun
Not as lame as keyboard warriors like you

I'm more shocked that no one here is pointing out how much of the dick the guy was for forcibly opening another persons bag.

And to MC's point, she probably would never have noticed him had they not bumped into each other and swapped books. That's just a probable fact.
But it's also neither here nor there because it did happen and they grew to be chums. That's the reality they are in so there's no point in speculating in what-could-have-been.
Then again, I can't completely blame him for not thinking reasonably in that situation.

@Hamin thanks. I vaguely remember it now. and with so much similar issue in many manga I just don't trust my memory.
gonna re-read it later.

it is suzui's fault but his intentions weren't bad. His issue is he lacks self-awareness and probably because he likes mc as a friend so much he sees him as very simliar. He doesn't know about mc's past and doesn't think about ero-manga in public as a stigma. His popular image spoiled him in a sense.

@shyevsa he came across a girl he liked in middle school shittalking him because he was an otaku. It isn't a particularly bad memory but he felt isolated and hurt. IIRC I think most of the class generally avoided him because he was an otaku as well. So the premise of high school and his relationship with momo was to keep his otaku stuff a secret to avoid a repeat of middle school but here it got out anyways.

We need downvote button in the comment section

tru shit. otaku are lame and gross

This is so melodramatic and overdone. This can't end quick enough.

He really had to give those in the middle of a public gathering?? Is this guy nuts?? Seriously...

Well a chapter like that had to happen sooner or later. Its kinda sad seeing the MC selfdestroying himself...He had just no Luck he alrady WAS depressed beeing rejected and then he got his secret exposed. I think not many normal human would think clear or stay claam in this situation.
Lets see how it ends.

@Cursed_death I mean look at the western world. Even as it was becoming popular people were seen as 'weird' for even talking about anime/manga etc in public spaces, other than like the events. Now he was just found to have a bunch of erotic manga at an after-party.

And once no camera he switch book that's how big brained do.

It really is Suzuki's fault, but he's probably one of the types to read eromanga in public and be completely fine with it.

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Wtf. Is it really bad to be an otaku in japan? Seems pretty exaggerated...

@bacudo10 lol of course not, its his fault for bringing something like that for a party with a fucking ton of people AND with a 'pretty' bag ¬¬

@nogenem its not susuki fault but that pushy guy that dropped the mangas

I don't remember the cause of his "closed otaku" is he happen to has bad memories of being otaku?
this chapter has those kind of traumatic breeze on it.