TLDR:
>MC (Taiki) is away on a school trip for a while
>FMC (Chinatsu) is living alone for the first time
>New unknown neighbor dude shows up immediately with expensive gift at night when she is alone

In chapter 199, Chinatsu’s new neighbor rang her doorbell late at night just to give her a housewarming gift. And as we see, they brought a whole box of Ukokkei Baumkuchen. I looked it up, and a box of Ukokkei Baumkuchen costs 5,281 yen—which is pretty expensive for a housewarming gift
https://www.ukokkei.co.jp/c/21

If you're not familiar with Japanese customs around housewarming gifts for new neighbors, here's some data I found on a Japanese site:
https://hikkoshizamurai.jp/report/report015/
>Typical Price Range and Popular Items for Housewarming Gifts
>The total amount spent on housewarming gifts is most commonly under 1,000 yen.
>Many people choose to give small, token gifts, and the lowest per-household amount recorded was 200 yen for some detergent.
>Even from the recipient's perspective, expensive items can be difficult to accept, so it's better to keep the gift modest.

Chinatsu’s new neighbor giving her an expensive box of Baumkuchen is already kinda weird, but what’s even weirder is that they chose to give it to her late at night. Couldn’t they have done it during the day like a normal person? It just feels like they completely lack common sense. If I were Chinatsu, I’d definitely be weirded out.

I checked out the reactions from Japanese fans, and they also think it was strange. This sudden development made a lot of people uneasy.

https://togetter.com/li/2564813

Chapter 200 spoiler:
When they arrive at the inn, Taiki calls Chinatsu.
She’s her usual cheerful self.
They switch to video call so they can see each other as they talk.
Chinatsu is in the middle of eating that baumkuchen she received earlier.
She just says it was a gift — but there's still no clue shown about who it was from.

>>279808186 (OP)
Everything made by a female author just has to have NTR arc

This is written by a woman isn't it

>>279808476
And she made this development in the 199th and 200th chapter, after the main couple have been dating for almost 100 chapters... truly a woman moment.
>>279808523
Yes

Two kinds of reaction from Japanese

>>279808556
Based

>>279808556

>another man exists in the universe
>omg it's NTR
Why are modern """males""" like this?

I'm gonna be honest Daiki is fucking dull and boring and not exciting and every woman will eventually get tired of him

>>279808668
Blame the women

Next the author is going to announce her marriage and retirement. How retarded do you have to be to read manga written by a woman, anyway?

I think you guys freak out over nothing.

>>279808724
You've probably read some without knowing.

>>279808556
Man of culture there. I love drama in romance and hate fluff with a passion.
You will often get insane character development in drama

>>279808668
It's not just the NTR part. If you look at the OP image (from left to right) >>279808186 (OP)
In the previous chapter (198 or something):
>Taiki and Chinatsu were cuddling and almost had done it in Chinatsu's new apartment, then suddenly they heard a "thump" sound from the neighbor's room.
>Suddenly after she moved in, the neighbor introduced himself LATE AT NIGHT, while bringing an expensive food as gift (read the OP again, normally Japanese people wouldn't spend that much because it might be too hard to receive).
When the chapter dropped, people started speculating that the new neighbor might be a STALKER and used this chance to drug her and done something bad to her.

Although in chapter 200 leaks it was revealed that she accepted the gift and happily eating the Baumkuchen, which again, shows that Chinatsu has very poor judgement. She trusts new people way too easily, she might've. People are saying that she shouldn't open her door to some stranger late at night, let alone eat the food that she got from someone she just met. The other theory is that the neighbor is not a stalker, he just happens to be a handsome guy, so as a woman Chinatsu feels it's safe to eat the Baumkuchen.

>>279808989
Wow Japan is full of sex criminals or smt.
Chinatsu is fucking mid. How does she have stalkers or have her food spiked?

>>279808989
Chinatsu is a young girl, she needs to find out if she's still free before settling for Taiki

>>279712006
>The fact that we don't see here sending it feels like it's the neighbour sending it and she's tied up, or she's in bed with the neighbour and sending it while being railed.
>>279712110
>Im voting it for her sending it after she made a terrible mistake by letting him, dude sweet talking her and spiking her drink, and then while drugged fucking her all night.
>She woke up next to him in bed in the morning but doesn't remember much from the previous night, she is trying to play it off in the text like everything is normal.
>Later she clearly starts acting off, maybe losing some clearly easy games, and then the next arc begins when she gets a text with pictures of that night and telling her to come see him if she doesn't want her boyfriends seeing them.
>>279712204
>It would be better if she is just seduced and makes a lapse of judgement, makes the drama much better since she it was fully consensual.
>It also means the neighbor would be handsome, charming and possibly in college with a lot in common with her.
>Even better if the dude can claim that he didn't know she had a boyfriend, so its all on her even more.
>>279712332
>Compromise
>The dude and hot and college aged, but also a scumbag.
>He could have brought alcohol instead.
>Drunkenness is a bit more palable than drugs, while still lowering inhibitions and making her vulnerable.
>Could have been one of the gifts the dude's brings, flatters her by telling her he thought she was a college senpai because of "mature she acts" or something like that, so she actual drinks with him.
>Does sends her the thirst traps texts and pictures of her with him in bed, telling her he wants to see her again,
>Doesn't bring the boyfriend up, and pretends like he just wants a relationship with her.
>There is the next arc, secret affair.

>>279809084
These were the NTR speculations from anon from the dump thread >>279695041
It had way more replies that it usually did.

NTR builds character
This is good news

>>279809051
The Japanese culture of drinking party for freshmen perpetuates this stereotype, I mean the legal age of drinking in Japan is 20, but this kind of party is usually attended by fresh out of high school kids aged 18 or something, so yeah, even if girls get raped, they could just say it was consensual (or blackmailed into hiding it).

>>279809265
You must believe some people get wasted with 1 beer or chocolate wine.
I have seen drinking orientation trope in Manhwa too. Rape culture must be Asian thing.

>>279808186 (OP)
Best case scenario is she got raped

>>279809436
It is. Pregnant and raped women are usually forced to marry their rapists out of shame and give birth to rape babies.

>>279809512
I am booking my flight right now. They must love foreign weiners

>[Sad News]

>>279809232
>>279809451
>>279810740
When did /a/ start liking NTR?

>>279810868
Happens over time as one ventures down the porn rabbit hole.

>>279808556
He's my brother from the other side of the world

>>279811064
Does NTR become mainstream?
>>279808556
>>279811156
Somebody is going to sell their entire collection because of NTR and somebody else is going to buy the entire collection because it too... amazing.

>>279808186 (OP)
I thought this was about football

>>279808556
>>279808603
In general there's two ways to engage with media, you either insert as one of the characters you find relatable or you enjoy the story as an outside observer
People who dislike the MC getting NTR'd are usually the self-inseters who feel like they themselves are being cheated on

>>279812784
no way...

>>279808186 (OP)
>another conflict with the main couple that will be resolved in 4 pages
ok...? nice thread i guess?
the secondary couple is where the actual drama is at in Bluebox anyways.

>>279808186 (OP)
>She just says it was a gift — but there's still no clue shown about who it was from.
I legit thought that the whole NTR bait was bullshit, but they are really going to do the whole secret "friend" while boyfriend is away and she is lonely living alone, uh?
Imagine if the dude is some handsome dude that goes to the same university as her and visits her often since he lives next door?
Also, legit, why didn't he want to fuck her when she was clearly inviting him to go upstairs to do that?

>>279813237
>Girlfriend horny and lonely, living for the first time by herself
>Boyfriend won't fuck her and then leaves her alone
>New dude moves in and start making move on her ASAP
Seems about right

Yabba dabba doo....

It's okay, this series is boring and shit, anything to get it axed faster will do.

Dude deserves to get cucked, you girlfriend has her own place and clearly wants to fuck you, and yet you pass on that?
What a faggot.

>>279814197
If anything it's going to double the sales. Women love NTR and cheating.

Clearly they won't do a fat ugly bastard or tanned muscular dude, so what type bait can they do?
What's the mysterious neighbor like?

>>279808556
My brethren

>>279808556
Based
If this mid series suddenly goes into full blown NTR I might have to support it

Never read romance manga from female authors, never read shonens from male authors.

There's a reason why the author made them a couple before ending the manga. NTR plot is real. Hina will win.

>>279814839
>CF wins in the end due to netorare
Too based of an ending for this author, would love to be proven wrong however.

>>279813479
Could it actually happen?

She gone

Hina will win the taikibOWL

>>279808186 (OP)
There’s no way this is NTR. I’m sorry but I think people are reading too much into this.

I won't even begin to get my hopes up until we have confirmation that the neighbor is a dude at least.
NTR Kino has been promised before and not delivered.

>>279815213
It's NTR bait, but like everything else in this series, nothing will happen.

>>279815053
Chinatsu will lose?

>>279815776
Not if the neighbor dude is more handsome

>>279808186 (OP)
People.are acting so weird about this.
We don't even know if the neighbor is a man for sure.

>>279815388
Context of that pic, anon?

Isn't this the story with the NTR plot where sidecharacter skank goes out with senpai instead of the guy who likes her, that she also likes, but keeps telling him about it?
Why would it be unexpected for a cuck author to shove in more cuckery?

>>279808186 (OP)
every romance will have NTR

>Eventually the subject of the next door neighbor comes up during one of Taiki and Chinatsu's video calls
>She mentions how much a nice guy he is, always bringing her presents and keeping her company since she still feeling lonely, and how lucky she is to have made a new friend that will be going to the same university as her.
>Maybe he is even in the background hence the whole plot point of video calls, and he can't help but to notice that he is hansome slightly older dude.
>Taiki tries to play it cool but inside he is freaking the fuck out
>Has a super vivid and graphic NTR induced nightmare that is the equilavent of the Pool Chapter in Rent a Girlfriend.
>Gets no rest, and then totally blows it when Hina's new love interest beats him in their upcoming match
>Hina then starts noticing him in a new light.
>This ultimately being the event that motivates Taiki to stop being a faggot and when he is back, he finally fucks Chinatsu.
I can see this happen since it would be all in his mind, and actually make his match matter, by Hina finally getting a boyfriend and Taiki fucking his own girlfriend.

>Eventually the subject of the next door neighbor comes up during one of Taiki and Chinatsu's video calls
>She mentions how much a nice guy he is, always bringing her presents and keeping her company since she still feeling lonely, and how lucky she is to have made a new friend that will be going to the same university as her.
>Maybe he is even in the background hence the whole plot point of video calls, and he can't help but to notice that he is hansome slightly older dude.
>Taiki tries to play it cool but inside he is freaking the fuck out
>Has a super vivid and graphic NTR induced nightmare that is the equilavent of the Pool Chapter in Rent a Girlfriend.
>Gets no rest, and then totally blows it when Hina's new love interest beats him in their upcoming match
>Hina then starts noticing him in a new light.
>This ultimately being the event that motivates Taiki to stop being a faggot and when he is back, he finally fucks Chinatsu.
I can see this happen since it would be all in his mind, and actually make his match matter, by Hina finally getting a boyfriend and Taiki fucking his own girlfriend.

What the fuck was even the point of the Kyo and Ayame's storyline anyway?
All that build up for nothing, now that was cucking the reader.

>>279817528
A cautionary tale of women moment

>>279818352
Bitch didn't even bother to wait for him to wake up and properly reject the dude, just went to the next cock in line immediately.

>>279808668
They read shoujo without understanding classic tropes.

>>279814901
This.

Hina wins by default

How many chapters before we even get a confirmation if it’s a guy or not?