Shimoneta Manga Chapter 3

## Chapter 3

**Chapter 3** is the third chapter of the *Shimoneta* manga series and the third chapter of Volume 1.

## Cover Page

The cover page features Otome Saotome standing with illustrations of Tanukichi Okuma and Ayame Kajou.

## Characters

* Ayame Kajou
* Tanukichi Okuma
* Otome Saotome
* Anna Nishikinomiya
* Raiki Gouriki
* Master

## Plot

Otome threatens Tanukichi to help him in getting her out of her artistic slump. As they walk around the school, Ayame encounters them and immediately runs off, calling Otome a pervert. After she runs off, Otome explains that Ayame is her romantic rival, but after Tanukichi gives her a weird reaction, she yells at Tanukichi. He then decides to tickle her feet before Gouriki carries her away.

Later, Ayame and Tanukichi discuss Otome at the café and Ayame wonders if she could get her to join SOX. Tanukichi reluctantly offers to help Ayame, but in exchange, asks why Anna had been acting so strange. Ayame decides not to tell Tanukichi until after their Student Council meeting.

During the meeting, an enraged Gouriki slams his fist on the table and begins to wildly accuse Tanukichi of being Anna's stalker. However, Anna reaffirms that Tanukichi is not the type of person to do such a thing, and assures Tanukichi that everything will be okay.

Back at the café, Ayame apologizes to Tanukichi for not telling him sooner and explained that she didn't want to cause more problems between him and Gouriki. She also tells Tanukichi not to worry, as she had already made a plan to catch the stalkers. Ayame planned to dress up as Anna's "boyfriend" to make the stalkers jealous and expose himself. After Ayame left the café, Otome came in to discuss matters with Tanukichi and immediately begins to frantically draw a picture of Tanukichi and Ayame before declaring that it was no good. Tanukichi promised to help Otome only if she gave him one of her drawings, and she obliged. Not long after, Otome was afraid to reveal her true love, but Tanukichi revealed that he had a love interest of his own. Otome then decided that the two should yell out their love interests in unison, but as Otome revealed that she had a crush on Anna, Tanukichi was distracted by an e-mail that was sent to him. He nearly revealed that he also had a crush on Anna, but in a last-second decision, decided to name Ayame as her crush. Otome was happy with this because they could both help each other get with their love interests and create a win-win situation. Tanukichi then suggests that Otome should help protect Anna from her stalkers to get closer to her.

At the park, Otome frantically draws Anna in her sketchbook out of jealousy and sobs, explaining to Tanukichi that it was the only way she could express her love towards her. However, she is too afraid to show Anna out of fear that she would hate her drawings. Suddenly, though, their plan goes south quickly as Gouriki walks up to Tanukichi and nearly punches him before they see Ayame begin to fight and defeat the stalkers. Tanukichi decides to take matters into his own hands, but as he does, he mistakenly trips and falls right onto Anna, causing them to kiss. Tanukichi immediately apologizes and runs off before falling unconscious. As everyone tries to help Tanukichi, Anna gains new feelings and doesn't know how to process them.