Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai - Light Novel Discussion

[kazzuya13]

I think in the picture is stella and Sena's mom.
I think I read somewhere that St. Chronica academy is a type of rich prepschool then that means every member of the Club is rich then in my speculation that means the reason whyy yukimura is crossdressing might be because she is from an "old" family which dictates the heir must be male or something.
And it came to me that this LN might have the longest prologue ever(8 vol).

[ueXia]

Originally Posted by SquaredCircle

I agree with the history on Kodaka and Sena's mom at St. Chronica. Regarding the uniform on Stella, have you payed close attention to it, take a closer look at the skirt color (something that identifies several highschools, regarding the uniform), it's actually grey, and not green, which is St. Chronica's color. On the other hand this blond character is wearing the same black bows on her hair in both images, now I'm confused...

I think the definitive reason why this blonde girl is NOT Stella and is indeed Sena's mom (assuming the little girl is Sena or Stella) is the age gap between them in the cover. The girl in the cover looks more or less 17-18-19 and the girl is super small. But Sena is 17 and Stella is in her mid 20s, so the difference wouldn't be so big in the end

And of course, the fact that she's blushing with Pegasus on a date with Kodaka's parents, that's something you don't do with your father.

[frivolity]

How about... Kobato is actually Pegasus' daughter and was adopted into Kodaka's family?

Mind = Blown

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by frivolity

How about... Kobato is actually Pegasus' daughter and was adopted into Kodaka's family?

Mind = Blown

I think the woman next to Kodaka's father is actually Sena's mother and the blushing one Kodaka's

But yeah Kobato and Sena are definitely related in one way or another. The two mothers look too similar tbh.
If you just put Sena next to Kobato the two of them will look good next to another.
The anime didn't use this wording (unlike most anime who would have hinted it this way), but let a random character think Sena was Kobato's mother.

[ueXia]

Originally Posted by AC-Phoenix

I think the woman next to Kodaka's father is actually Sena's mother and the blushing one Kodaka's

But yeah Kobato and Sena are definitely related in one way or another. The two mothers look too similar tbh.
If you just put Sena next to Kobato the two of them will look good next to another.
The anime didn't use this wording (unlike most anime who would have hinted it this way), but let a random character think Sena was Kobato's mother.

So the cover is showing Kodaka's mother with her niece, Sena? It's not a bad assumption at all .. there are plenty of possibilities but I don't think Stella is one of those.

[novalysis]

If that's the case, then Kobato and Sena are cousins. And in an Only Child family, cousins are closest thing you've got to actual siblings.

[AC-Phoenix]

Its just a thought, since the the girl with the eyepatch looks a lot more like Kobato than the Woman next to her, who does in return look moe like Sena than like Kobato.

The only problem I would see with this is that 2 year old Sena must have been pretty big by then because if she was older than 2 on this picture Kodaka's mother would be dead by then already. oO.
On the other hand she doesn't seem to have an eyepatch either.

[JamJackEvo]

The Proof Spoiler below this line is a loli-type NSFW, so... m'yeah...

Spoiler for NSFW Proof of Stella not being the Twin-tailed girl in the cover:

^ This is my proof for Stella not being the twin-tailed girl. The little child there is obviously Sena. In this picture, Stella is still fourteen, thus a middle schooler.

From what I can interpret about CONNECT and the pictures provided:

Spoiler for Spoiler Discussion:

The cover is more likely using warped time (in other words, their appearances cannot be used for setting their age gap), and I believe that the eye-patched woman is either Kobato's mom (pettanko, twintails, and Kobato copying the one-eye thing with pseudo-heterochromia) or Stella's mom, which would very much explain her and Pegasus's blushing faces and her appearance alongside her future daughter in the cover (yes, I believe that's Stella when she was still a kid, because Sena, as a kid, had long hair like in the picture).

For those who want to see most, if not all (I can't say for certain), of the pictures provided in CONNECT, there's this Spanish site I found.

http://www.richirocko.com/haganai-connect-spin-off/

The second to last picture... another unknown character. Seriously, who is she supposed to be?! Her hair must be brown, because of the lighter shading, with some blonde tresses (but that's more likely Buriki's hair-reflecting-light style). But if she does have brown hair with blonde tresses, that's Mrs. Hasegawa written all over it, yet I read somewhere in the LN that Kodaka implied his mother had fully blonde hair. This is just getting more confusing...

With too little information to go on, I honestly wish that there's someone here who can read Japanese or Mandarin and translate for us a summary of CONNECT so that they can set the record straight. Anyone here who can do this favor for us? Anyone?

[Miraluka]

Guys, the girls in the cover are a child Stella and her mother.
The illustration JamJackEvo posted is when Stella was older and moved to Japan and started living with the Kashiwazaki.

Those in the second illustration from left to Right are Stella's mother, Kodaka's deceased mother, Kodaka's father and Pegasus.

[JamJackEvo]

Finally!

Someone set the record straight. There you have it, people. Thanks for that, Wilfriback.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a certain Haganai fanfic I need to rewrite.

[ueXia]

EDIT: Thinking about it, it does make sense that she's Stella's mother and why the uniform is different.

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Wilfriback

Guys, the girls in the cover are a child Stella and her mother.
The illustration JamJackEvo posted is when Stella was older and moved to Japan and started living with the Kashiwazaki.

Those in the second illustration from left to Right are Stella's mother, Kodaka's deceased mother, Kodaka's father and Pegasus.

Originally Posted by JamJackEvo

Finally!

Someone set the record straight. There you have it, people. Thanks for that, Wilfriback.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a certain Haganai fanfic I need to rewrite.

Could you please tell us the source of this?

[Johnny]

If you haven't checked some of it was discussed way back on page 68. Scroll down to lkostas's post and go from there. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but at least it's a start...

[ueXia]

If I remember correctly, Stella's mother was an exchange student and gave birth to Stella back in England. Hmm .. there is no need for a time-warp in the cover after all, that would explain the different uniform and chibi Stella.

But still, the uncanny resemblance to Kobato is a mistery. I don't think Stella's mom is Kodak's mom sister, why would they be separated anyway? So they are probably cousins ... but it's damn weird that your daughter ended up looking like your cousin o.o

[mangamuscle]

^ Let's not forget that pegasus has a "thing" for blondes, so it would not be out of the question that before the mom of Kobato/Kodaka give birth to them, she gave birth to Stella first <--- now that would be a complicated family tree.

[ueXia]

Originally Posted by ogon_bat

^ Let's not forget that pegasus has a "thing" for blondes, so it would not be out of the question that before the mom of Kobato/Kodaka give birth to them, she gave birth to Stella first <--- now that would be a complicated family tree.

Haha, no that can't be. According to spoilers Stella's mom is till in England (alive) and married to another man. It also would be too much of a stretch.
Another thing while looking at that parents reunion: I think Kodaka inherited his fierce, delinquent look from his mother, his father looks so tame in comparison.

[mironicus]

Originally Posted by ueXia

I think Kodaka inherited his fierce, delinquent look from his mother, his father looks so tame in comparison.

He inherited the (japanese) face of his father and the blond hair of his mother.

Kodaka once said that he wished that he had inherited the looks of his mother like Kobato. So he really likes blond and blue-eyed people.

[AC-Phoenix]

Originally Posted by Johnny

If you haven't checked some of it was discussed way back on page 68. Scroll down to lkostas's post and go from there. Not sure if that's what you're looking for, but at least it's a start...

I did and no one really said the girl in the picture was stella's mother. I read some background information on Stella but thats it - i didn't press the links though

[Johnny]

I highly doubt it was Stella's mother...

Spoiler:

Because in the spoilers it says they never really had a relationship and it was more of a one time thing. She discovered she was prego and went back to England so she wouldn't shame Pegasus...

If we're talking about the same pic? The one we can agree on in the red is Kodaka's mother and she looks grown-up. Pegasus and Stella's mother had their fling in school, so my money is the other in the photo on the left is Stella...

[Flere821]

Originally Posted by AC-Phoenix

Attention x818 picture

Spoiler for The pictures finalfury probably meant::

We can now guess who is whose mother; but yeah the two woman look pretty alinke. Maybe sisters oO?
But seriously its hard to tell who is who.
From the looks of it i'd say the kobato alike is Kodaka's mother and the woman next to Kodaka's father is Sena's.
Then again Kobato-alike holds chibi sena in her arms lol

I'm going to have to debunk Wilfriback's position that the cover is Stella and Stella's mother: The older girl is wearing a Butler's suit. The cover is Stella at age 15-16, beginning to work for Pegasus as a butler to take care of Sena, with her younger half-sister Sena with her on the cover.

2nd pic, the LN says the two girls aren't related. The girl with the eyepatch is Kodaka and Kobato's mother, while the other girl is Stella's mother. This is a scene from Pegasus' high school days, and Pegasus haven't met his fiancee (Sena's mother) by this point yet.

Originally Posted by frivolity

How about... Kobato is actually Pegasus' daughter and was adopted into Kodaka's family?

Mind = Blown

Yeah, no. It's confirmed that Kobato is really Kodaka's sister. Kodaka's father was there when she's born.