Too suspicious with 〜すぎる

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Rize comments on how Chino and Cocoa seems to have gotten over their fight.

シャロ・千夜(ちや):
「いつもあんな感(かん)じじゃないの?」
“Aren't they always like that?”
リゼ:
「こいつらが鈍感(どんかん)なのか私(わたし)が勘繰(かんぐ)り過(す)ぎなのかわからなくなってくる…」
“I can't tell whether these two are oblivious, or if I'm reading into it too much...”
Literal: “I start not knowing whether these people are insensitive, or whether I am suspecting too much...”

Key Points

1勘繰(かんぐ)り過(す)ぎ means reading too much into the situation
  • 勘繰(かんぐ)る means suspecting hidden motives, and the noun-like stem joins 過(す)ぎ to mark excess.
2なのか〜なのか presents two competing explanations
  • Rize cannot tell whether the others are oblivious or she is overthinking things; わからなくなってくる shows her growing uncertainty.
3あんな感(かん)じじゃないの? checks an assumption
  • じゃない is the casual negative of ではない, and final の? asks whether the pair are not always like that.

Vocabulary

(Insensitivity)

鈍感(どんかん) means insensitive or slow to notice feelings, hints, or subtle changes.

(I)

私(わたし) means “I” or “me”. It is the standard first-person pronoun in polite speech and is also common in casual speech among women.

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