Issho ni Kurashite ii desu ka? - Ch. 58 - Won't You Try Being on a Reality Dating Show?
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thx for the mass drop
well its nice to spend some time with Mio. I think its kinda good, we're diving way to deep into Tsubasa's relationship, esp since its clear she still holds some feelings for mc, who now is also in a relationship, did he tell the girls about his relationship? i legit forgot
well its nice to spend some time with Mio. I think its kinda good, we're diving way to deep into Tsubasa's relationship, esp since its clear she still holds some feelings for mc, who now is also in a relationship, did he tell the girls about his relationship? i legit forgot
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Why do i feel like she'll say MC's name when it gets hot
I dont think he do, all he doing was upping all the girls affection and when it was about to burst, he will say things like "i hope you find a good boyfriend, i'm not deserved to be love by someone like you guys." Etc.
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you know if the boy isn't actually faking his answers or is secretly a playboy, I wouldn't be mad at this if he goes with Mio, she's still on the not 100% sure of her feelings but kinda, so it wouldn't be that bad getting the chance to change her feelings, well only if it's well characterized ... and obviously with sasuga kei we aren't gonna get this, but after the BS with tsubasa's side, I kinda don't want to drop the series because author is going back to her roots of BS moments.
ps: page 5, 2nd panel, right at then end she says: "I geit~!" ... is supposed to be "I get it!" or another word??
ps: page 5, 2nd panel, right at then end she says: "I geit~!" ... is supposed to be "I get it!" or another word??
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Thanks for the mass upload. I'm not looking forward to this Mio arc. We already saw her being softly rejected. So I wonder what Sasuga Kei is setting up here...
My predictions for this manga:
Naaah, I'm just messing with you guys. 😂
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My predictions for this manga:
Going back the objections in Chapter 54/55 comments:
Ok guys, I can explain why Hiromi was trapped by a woman half his size. Regarding Anju, Hiromi's number one goal is trying to re-establish mental/emotional stability. How do you say no if you can't reject her? He believes stopping her will cause more harm.
Let me setup what this means for this Manga, Hiromi, and his relational blindness:
This arc is important, because Hiromi has yet to experience consequences for how he chooses to structure his relationships. His main weakness, as everyone called him out, is being overly-responsible. His background taught him to stabilize everything, and this sharehouse is the perfect recipe to reinforce him as an emotional anchor. His pathological caretaking did not stop Anju in the past leading to this moment. Anju is the perfect stress tester. Narratively, she is functioning as the embodiment of what happens when emotional ambiguity is allowed to rot. And she does so, more potently than all the other women because she is pulls out his character failings directly. His paralysis with Anju is purely (externally) moral and that is exactly the problem. Hiromi prioritizes damage control over truth.
The four women (Yes, four. We'll come back to Yukari in a bit) in this sharehouse aren't just opportunities for Hiromi to become an emotional anchor. They are reflections of his own problems. Lili and Mio represent Hiromi's questioning of his efforts and lived experience. A sort of relational-imposter-syndrome. Anju and Tsubasa represent Hiromi's self worth and perceived desireability. These unresolved attachment issues and their solutions are revealed when Hiromi takes care of the sharehouse ladies. They foretell the growth Hiromi needs that readers frustratingly desire.
Readers are angry because they want Hiromi to be good. They want clean moral alignment. And reassurance that choosing Nonoka (or really any woman) fixes everything. But Sasuga Kei refuses to comfort us. Instead, Sasuga Kei is responding on the Narrative Layer:
Note: Not an actual quote. Just my interpretation on what she is doing.
Nonoka's introduction right now is the most important. On the Emotional Layer, she represents what Hiromi wanted before he became overly-responsible, before things became unstable, before clarity was lost. For the first time Hiromi's weakness now presents consequences: to someone he loves (Nonoka), someone he feels responsible for (Anju), and the ethical coherence of his life (his morals and his actual lived actions). He can't maintain this relationship because being overly-responsbile makes him the most irresponsible in the one place that matters most: Hiromi never asks what he wants. Hiromi cannot align with anybody because he can't align with himself. And that's why he seems boundary-less.
The four woman in this sharehouse all reveal that fatal flaw. And the stress-testor, Anju (with the help of the other three), will show Hiromi that situation where old rules no longer protect him, and his avoidance becomes active harm.
His relationship with Nonoka will fail on both the Emotional and Narrative Layers to pave a path for what comes next.
This manga is not punishing us with melodrama. These incidents with Anju (and the other three) are showing the logical escalation that Hiromi has to confront due to his passivity. It's uncomfortable and effective without breaking any layers. These incidents aren't about cheating or wavering feelings. They are forcing individuation in Hiromi: a process to pull out the inner situation Hiromi struggles with in order for him to mature.
This scene with Anju pinning and kissing Hiromi while on the phone with Nonoka is setting up how Hiromi will not be able to hide behind rules, concerns, and "I didn't mean to" rhetoric. He will have to answer the core question: "Who am I willing to hurt by choosing... and by not choosing?
And that's where Yukari (Day 1 Best Girl, hands down) comes in.
Like the four women in the sharehouse, Yukari is also reflection of Hiromi. But she is representation of Hiromi in the future. That's why her arc was shown first in the beginning of this manga. It was the only arc where Hiromi sat back and did nothing. In fact, whenever Yukari's "arc" appeared, they are short and to the point. During those arc's, Sasuga Kei shows us on the Emotional Layer of how Hiromi is now the one being emotionally anchored (for the future). And on the Narrative Layer, a seed was planted for how Sasuga Kei wants to responds to readers (see quote above and linked "Narrative Layer").
We are now entering another arc with Mio after the heat on this sharehouse has been turned up. And it looks like Hiromi is already showing up to support her the same way he did with Lili. This is his second chance to show what he learned about himself and the women he deals with. Sasuga Kei is using the four women in the sharehouse to reflect Hiromi in pairs. The first in the pair reveals, and the second shows how he applies the lessons learned.
Yukari's Past as a Future for Hiromi
Nonoka and Yukari both bared the overly-responsible pains that plagued Hiromi. Nonoka did so with a vision that Hiromi believed he would live: a fun and lively family with the one who makes that dream come true. However, Yukari does not do so anymore. Yukari learned to stop lying to her heart and that it is her duty to ensure her own happiness: she's not afraid of her own choice. Nonoka is Yukari's pair: his past, before the maturation of his shadow, vs the future maturation of his growth.
By future, I mean that Yukari is proof to Hiromi's struggle: can you allow others to carry their own conseqeunces? As Yukari has shown, the answer is yes, choosing does not require collapse. This is the answer Hiromi will come to realize as Nonoka's entry tests if Hiromi's actions match his values. For now, Yukari acts as a non-anxious reference point to Hiromi's failings.
These pairings act as a diagnostic phase for what is wrong with Hiromi. A phase that is ending soon. Sasuga Kei is setting up the decision phase: Anju, Nonoka, and Yukari determine what must be chosen. Do not be mistaken though. Sasuga Kei is not asking which woman is the answer. She is asking which demand will Hiromi stop trying to satisfy simultaneously. Until he chooses, Anju will escalate, Nonoka will be hurt, and Yukari will remain untouchable.
Even though she joked about being married with Hiromi before, Yukari cannot have a proper arc in this manga with Hiromi. His relationship with Nonoka must fail, and his boundary-less protection of Anju must rupture, possibly hurting everyone. Until all the boundary collapses with the four women in the sharehouse, and until he learns from his eventual break-up with Nonoka, Yukari will not move until Hiromi demonstrates self-authorization.
Here is what to look out for:
Hiromi will be forced to choose the first time someone explicitly asks him to take responsibility for the harm he caused. It will look something like:
Everything so far has had no consequences or was gently brushed. "What were you thinking?" "Do you like her?".
Sasuga Kei is going to be ruthless about either ending. She is sending a message: avoiding harm is not the same as being ethical. This is what Hiromi has been confusing. And when it all plays out, readers can't make up excuses for Hiromi because the story will have shown that not choosing is choosing.
I think that Sasuga Kei will go with Option B (The "Good" Ending), because Yukari is a bit too close to a Checkov's gun. It would be a waste to not show something about her in respect to Hiromi's transformation.
When that finally happens, Hiromi will be moved up into the Narrative Layer just like Yukari. The title question of this manga will be revealed into a single meaning:
That is the end-state Sasuga Kei is building toward. It is my hope when that point arrives, she gives us a retrospective on Hiromi's dreams: what does family look like to him?
Ok guys, I can explain why Hiromi was trapped by a woman half his size. Regarding Anju, Hiromi's number one goal is trying to re-establish mental/emotional stability. How do you say no if you can't reject her? He believes stopping her will cause more harm.
Let me setup what this means for this Manga, Hiromi, and his relational blindness:
Anju
This arc is important, because Hiromi has yet to experience consequences for how he chooses to structure his relationships. His main weakness, as everyone called him out, is being overly-responsible. His background taught him to stabilize everything, and this sharehouse is the perfect recipe to reinforce him as an emotional anchor. His pathological caretaking did not stop Anju in the past leading to this moment. Anju is the perfect stress tester. Narratively, she is functioning as the embodiment of what happens when emotional ambiguity is allowed to rot. And she does so, more potently than all the other women because she is pulls out his character failings directly. His paralysis with Anju is purely (externally) moral and that is exactly the problem. Hiromi prioritizes damage control over truth.
The Four Women
The four women (Yes, four. We'll come back to Yukari in a bit) in this sharehouse aren't just opportunities for Hiromi to become an emotional anchor. They are reflections of his own problems. Lili and Mio represent Hiromi's questioning of his efforts and lived experience. A sort of relational-imposter-syndrome. Anju and Tsubasa represent Hiromi's self worth and perceived desireability. These unresolved attachment issues and their solutions are revealed when Hiromi takes care of the sharehouse ladies. They foretell the growth Hiromi needs that readers frustratingly desire.
Readers are angry because they want Hiromi to be good. They want clean moral alignment. And reassurance that choosing Nonoka (or really any woman) fixes everything. But Sasuga Kei refuses to comfort us. Instead, Sasuga Kei is responding on the Narrative Layer:
Note: Not an actual quote. Just my interpretation on what she is doing.
Nonoka
Nonoka's introduction right now is the most important. On the Emotional Layer, she represents what Hiromi wanted before he became overly-responsible, before things became unstable, before clarity was lost. For the first time Hiromi's weakness now presents consequences: to someone he loves (Nonoka), someone he feels responsible for (Anju), and the ethical coherence of his life (his morals and his actual lived actions). He can't maintain this relationship because being overly-responsbile makes him the most irresponsible in the one place that matters most: Hiromi never asks what he wants. Hiromi cannot align with anybody because he can't align with himself. And that's why he seems boundary-less.
The four woman in this sharehouse all reveal that fatal flaw. And the stress-testor, Anju (with the help of the other three), will show Hiromi that situation where old rules no longer protect him, and his avoidance becomes active harm.
His relationship with Nonoka will fail on both the Emotional and Narrative Layers to pave a path for what comes next.
Yukari
This manga is not punishing us with melodrama. These incidents with Anju (and the other three) are showing the logical escalation that Hiromi has to confront due to his passivity. It's uncomfortable and effective without breaking any layers. These incidents aren't about cheating or wavering feelings. They are forcing individuation in Hiromi: a process to pull out the inner situation Hiromi struggles with in order for him to mature.
This scene with Anju pinning and kissing Hiromi while on the phone with Nonoka is setting up how Hiromi will not be able to hide behind rules, concerns, and "I didn't mean to" rhetoric. He will have to answer the core question: "Who am I willing to hurt by choosing... and by not choosing?
And that's where Yukari (Day 1 Best Girl, hands down) comes in.
Like the four women in the sharehouse, Yukari is also reflection of Hiromi. But she is representation of Hiromi in the future. That's why her arc was shown first in the beginning of this manga. It was the only arc where Hiromi sat back and did nothing. In fact, whenever Yukari's "arc" appeared, they are short and to the point. During those arc's, Sasuga Kei shows us on the Emotional Layer of how Hiromi is now the one being emotionally anchored (for the future). And on the Narrative Layer, a seed was planted for how Sasuga Kei wants to responds to readers (see quote above and linked "Narrative Layer").
We are now entering another arc with Mio after the heat on this sharehouse has been turned up. And it looks like Hiromi is already showing up to support her the same way he did with Lili. This is his second chance to show what he learned about himself and the women he deals with. Sasuga Kei is using the four women in the sharehouse to reflect Hiromi in pairs. The first in the pair reveals, and the second shows how he applies the lessons learned.
Yukari's Past as a Future for Hiromi
Nonoka and Yukari both bared the overly-responsible pains that plagued Hiromi. Nonoka did so with a vision that Hiromi believed he would live: a fun and lively family with the one who makes that dream come true. However, Yukari does not do so anymore. Yukari learned to stop lying to her heart and that it is her duty to ensure her own happiness: she's not afraid of her own choice. Nonoka is Yukari's pair: his past, before the maturation of his shadow, vs the future maturation of his growth.
By future, I mean that Yukari is proof to Hiromi's struggle: can you allow others to carry their own conseqeunces? As Yukari has shown, the answer is yes, choosing does not require collapse. This is the answer Hiromi will come to realize as Nonoka's entry tests if Hiromi's actions match his values. For now, Yukari acts as a non-anxious reference point to Hiromi's failings.
These pairings act as a diagnostic phase for what is wrong with Hiromi. A phase that is ending soon. Sasuga Kei is setting up the decision phase: Anju, Nonoka, and Yukari determine what must be chosen. Do not be mistaken though. Sasuga Kei is not asking which woman is the answer. She is asking which demand will Hiromi stop trying to satisfy simultaneously. Until he chooses, Anju will escalate, Nonoka will be hurt, and Yukari will remain untouchable.
Final Predictions
Even though she joked about being married with Hiromi before, Yukari cannot have a proper arc in this manga with Hiromi. His relationship with Nonoka must fail, and his boundary-less protection of Anju must rupture, possibly hurting everyone. Until all the boundary collapses with the four women in the sharehouse, and until he learns from his eventual break-up with Nonoka, Yukari will not move until Hiromi demonstrates self-authorization.
Here is what to look out for:
Hiromi will be forced to choose the first time someone explicitly asks him to take responsibility for the harm he caused. It will look something like:
Everything so far has had no consequences or was gently brushed. "What were you thinking?" "Do you like her?".
- There needs to be a clear victim. Best candidates: Nonoka or Anju. Most likely Nonoka.
- A direct question that can't conveniently pass him:
- “Are you choosing me: yes or no?”
- “Are you going to keep protecting me from consequences?”
- Witnesses at the time of the event or its inevitable spread. Others will know, and it will redefine his role in the house.
- Yukari will not intervene. She already answered the question for herself and exists to prove that choice itself is survivable.
- Option A — Containment Without Truth (The "Bad" Ending)
- Hiromi will continue to be a stabilizer. Specifically with Anju but I won't discount the others.
- Lose Nonoka through ethical incoherence
- Preserve the illusion of goodness
- Become morally fragmented
- Option B — Truth With Harm (The "Good" Ending)
- Hiromi will finally say no clearly. He will not falter to stabilizing someone in a way that will comprise a choice he made earlier.
- Allow someone to be hurt by reality
- Accept guilt without losing clarity
- Become an adult agent
Sasuga Kei is going to be ruthless about either ending. She is sending a message: avoiding harm is not the same as being ethical. This is what Hiromi has been confusing. And when it all plays out, readers can't make up excuses for Hiromi because the story will have shown that not choosing is choosing.
I think that Sasuga Kei will go with Option B (The "Good" Ending), because Yukari is a bit too close to a Checkov's gun. It would be a waste to not show something about her in respect to Hiromi's transformation.
When that finally happens, Hiromi will be moved up into the Narrative Layer just like Yukari. The title question of this manga will be revealed into a single meaning:
That is the end-state Sasuga Kei is building toward. It is my hope when that point arrives, she gives us a retrospective on Hiromi's dreams: what does family look like to him?
Naaah, I'm just messing with you guys. 😂
Sasuga, Sasuga Kei.
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Suddenly we Oshi no Ko.
Anyway, with this:
Sudden twist pending, we thus have Anju and Yukari still in the run. I doubt Yukari would get the win, though, being older and all.
Guess Anju's on the winning track.
Anyway, with this:
- Lili is the ex.
- Tsubasa has a boyfriend.
- Mio will likely end up with someone from the show.
- Hiromi's actual long-distance girlfriend has already been cucked and didn't even get mentioned in these past few chapters, she's definitely getting the boot soon™.
Sudden twist pending, we thus have Anju and Yukari still in the run. I doubt Yukari would get the win, though, being older and all.
Guess Anju's on the winning track.
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Mio has already fallen love for MC, i’m sure Hiroto will be rejected by Mio
Thank you for translating & mass upload 3 chapters after 2 months
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He told Anju back in chapter 53 - who proceeded to come into his room in chapter 55, when he was on the phone with his GF, and that's when she threw herself at him and stripped and made out with him while he was on the phone and he did fuck-all to actually get her to stop.
And then when they were found by Mio and then everyone came in, he apologized for Anju's bullshit and let her off scot-free. I do not think his girlfriend was any the wiser.
As of now he has not told any of the others, from what I can find.
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I will say this.
It really seems like Sasuga Kei can write male characters that you don't want to instantly punch. Hiroto could be putting on a huge act this whole time, in which case "the jury's still out" I suppose, but
Hiromi is obviously a walking Problem as the male lead causing every problem currently occurring, and Tsubasa's new boyfriend seems to have lots of preconceived opinions but lacks tact and the ability to resist going off half-cocked about things.
So I'm curious to see what red flags Mio's current "love interest" will throw up.
It really seems like Sasuga Kei can write male characters that you don't want to instantly punch. Hiroto could be putting on a huge act this whole time, in which case "the jury's still out" I suppose, but
Hiromi is obviously a walking Problem as the male lead causing every problem currently occurring, and Tsubasa's new boyfriend seems to have lots of preconceived opinions but lacks tact and the ability to resist going off half-cocked about things.
So I'm curious to see what red flags Mio's current "love interest" will throw up.
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the only thing is that NTR would technically require that Hiromi be in an actual romantic relationship with any of them, at the point the heroine gets with someone else. Even BSS wouldn't apply because of the whole "but I liked them first" prerequisite, that doesn't apply in his case.I'm quite sure that Sasuga Kei will pull another NTR BS like she did with Tsubasa.
Hiromi is just fully an idiot and it's all one-sided on the four sharemates' part (not including Yukari because she's actually got her life together/knows better, it seems). He's obliviously leading them all on while he himself is in a relationship that only Anju knows about.
So if anything, they're....I guess self-NTR'ing by proxy, or something
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YAY MIO .
Thank you for the translation.
.Thank you for the translation.
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bonkers comment, and I mean that in a complimentary sense.
I think Option B will be the target for Sasuga Kei, for the same "Chekov's Gun" allusion you referenced.
Taking this view of Hiromi being the only "agency character", and the six women all being narrative reflections of facets and periods in his life that he must surmount and grow through kinda reframes the entire title for me. If that truly is Sasuga Kei's focus from the start, then it's inspired, and I'm sad I didn't consider it before now (even if I did think that Yukari felt like an anomaly among the cast, and Nonoka's inclusion seemed strangly "equalizing" in terms of the interrelational dynamic of one man and five->six women).
But--I suspect that while Nonoka and Yukari represent the past & future of Hiromi, respectively, Nonoka will be tied most closely with Anju within the narrative as far as the plot goes--precisely because of the events we saw play out in chapter 55.
Anju is a ticking time bomb, in a way the other five are not. She's inherently unstable right now, thanks to Hiromi's inability to set boundaries as you stated. The fact that she's also the only one without an obvious "non-Hiromi counterpart" (Tsubasa has her Kouhai; Lili has her classmate; Mio has this new Hiroto figure) means that Hiromi is stuck squarely between her and Nonoka, and the three of them will be entangled in one another as long as Hiromi fails to successfully learn the lesson required of him at this point.
So in that sense--while Tsubasa and Lili are "handled" for the time being and Mio is currently in-progress, Anju will be actively along for the ride for the duration of Nonoka's involvement with Hiromi. And the two of them will come to (figurative) blows over him, leading to that fork in the narrative road: Hiromi either stays the course of 'no boundaries/overly responsible-ness'; or he takes a step forward and lets someone get hurt in order to prevent greater tragedy.
I'm mostly curious if any of the other three women are "solved"; I guess Mio is currently underway still, but are Tsubasa and Lili effectively "cleared" in terms of Hiromi's overall growth arc? I feel like the answer is yes, in that they've since paird off (to some extent) and are no longer actively engaging with Hiromi in the fashion they once were.
But after the events with Tsubasa's boyfriend two chapters ago, I feel like it's more a midterm exam situation for Hiromi, to see if he's learned anything since his time with each of them--whether he can properly distance himself and not 'tread on the toes' of their boyfriends, finding that point where he can be friendly but not intrusive or suspicious-seeming (again, see Tsubasa's boyfriend in the restaurant bathroom scene).
But if we're nearing the conclusion, and Mio represents the second-to-last "arc" before we hit the finale involving Anju & Nonoka & Yukari, then I think there's not much more to be said, other than all six women playing into whatever climax occurs at that point.
I think everyone getting hurt in the fallout of whatever happens is most realistic--Yukari perhaps least of all, but it would impact their entire living situation, so she won't be unaffected. But I see Nonoka and Anju being hurt the most, then Tsubasa, then Mio, then Lili--Lili second to last, only because she has the greatest distance from Hiromi at this point and the most time to heal, of those who've caught feelings for him.
And the trigger will be Anju, but it will definitely be because of Hiromi. I'd like to think it's because he actually makes a conscious choice at that time, but I suppose the more "dramatic" would be him not making a choice, choosing to fall back on his old faults, and that being the bomb that explodes and ruins everyone's life. The actual specifics of what occurs in the plot are up for debate, but I suspect no one will walk away unscathed.
From there, Hiromi might receive counseling from Yukari, and depending on whether he goes Option A or Option B, she either congratulates him, or lectures him, leading into the conclusion of the series with them all going their separate ways (or, if Option B, some of the eventually reconcile and get in/stay in touch).
No clue how much of the actual guesswork above will end up playing out in the actual manga, but I think I'll come back to this at that point and see how inaccurate I was.
Taking this view of Hiromi being the only "agency character", and the six women all being narrative reflections of facets and periods in his life that he must surmount and grow through kinda reframes the entire title for me. If that truly is Sasuga Kei's focus from the start, then it's inspired, and I'm sad I didn't consider it before now (even if I did think that Yukari felt like an anomaly among the cast, and Nonoka's inclusion seemed strangly "equalizing" in terms of the interrelational dynamic of one man and five->six women).
But--I suspect that while Nonoka and Yukari represent the past & future of Hiromi, respectively, Nonoka will be tied most closely with Anju within the narrative as far as the plot goes--precisely because of the events we saw play out in chapter 55.
Anju is a ticking time bomb, in a way the other five are not. She's inherently unstable right now, thanks to Hiromi's inability to set boundaries as you stated. The fact that she's also the only one without an obvious "non-Hiromi counterpart" (Tsubasa has her Kouhai; Lili has her classmate; Mio has this new Hiroto figure) means that Hiromi is stuck squarely between her and Nonoka, and the three of them will be entangled in one another as long as Hiromi fails to successfully learn the lesson required of him at this point.
So in that sense--while Tsubasa and Lili are "handled" for the time being and Mio is currently in-progress, Anju will be actively along for the ride for the duration of Nonoka's involvement with Hiromi. And the two of them will come to (figurative) blows over him, leading to that fork in the narrative road: Hiromi either stays the course of 'no boundaries/overly responsible-ness'; or he takes a step forward and lets someone get hurt in order to prevent greater tragedy.
I'm mostly curious if any of the other three women are "solved"; I guess Mio is currently underway still, but are Tsubasa and Lili effectively "cleared" in terms of Hiromi's overall growth arc? I feel like the answer is yes, in that they've since paird off (to some extent) and are no longer actively engaging with Hiromi in the fashion they once were.
But after the events with Tsubasa's boyfriend two chapters ago, I feel like it's more a midterm exam situation for Hiromi, to see if he's learned anything since his time with each of them--whether he can properly distance himself and not 'tread on the toes' of their boyfriends, finding that point where he can be friendly but not intrusive or suspicious-seeming (again, see Tsubasa's boyfriend in the restaurant bathroom scene).
But if we're nearing the conclusion, and Mio represents the second-to-last "arc" before we hit the finale involving Anju & Nonoka & Yukari, then I think there's not much more to be said, other than all six women playing into whatever climax occurs at that point.
I think everyone getting hurt in the fallout of whatever happens is most realistic--Yukari perhaps least of all, but it would impact their entire living situation, so she won't be unaffected. But I see Nonoka and Anju being hurt the most, then Tsubasa, then Mio, then Lili--Lili second to last, only because she has the greatest distance from Hiromi at this point and the most time to heal, of those who've caught feelings for him.
And the trigger will be Anju, but it will definitely be because of Hiromi. I'd like to think it's because he actually makes a conscious choice at that time, but I suppose the more "dramatic" would be him not making a choice, choosing to fall back on his old faults, and that being the bomb that explodes and ruins everyone's life. The actual specifics of what occurs in the plot are up for debate, but I suspect no one will walk away unscathed.
From there, Hiromi might receive counseling from Yukari, and depending on whether he goes Option A or Option B, she either congratulates him, or lectures him, leading into the conclusion of the series with them all going their separate ways (or, if Option B, some of the eventually reconcile and get in/stay in touch).
No clue how much of the actual guesswork above will end up playing out in the actual manga, but I think I'll come back to this at that point and see how inaccurate I was.
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Isn't it odd to have an active idol put on a dating show?
I wonder if that guy is just making it all up, like the divorced parents, to go after Mio. Or maybe the show is staging to put them together having her arrive first and then him
I wonder if that guy is just making it all up, like the divorced parents, to go after Mio. Or maybe the show is staging to put them together having her arrive first and then him
Still not a whisper in the share house about Hiromi having a girlfriend now?… seriously, this guy is a piece of work.
So much BS could be spared if he told them. But of course he doesn’t, because he never does anything right unless it’s related to cooking.
At a minimum he should have told them that he’s looking at apartments so it doesn’t screw them over, but again, he sucks.
He is pathologically incapable of talking about anything remotely uncomfortable at any time with anyone.
So much BS could be spared if he told them. But of course he doesn’t, because he never does anything right unless it’s related to cooking.
At a minimum he should have told them that he’s looking at apartments so it doesn’t screw them over, but again, he sucks.
He is pathologically incapable of talking about anything remotely uncomfortable at any time with anyone.
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the thing that most confuses me about this is how anti-dating idol agencies are. most idols that get a boyfriend lose a ton of fans, in turn losing a ton of money for the agency, so why the hell would her agent sign her up (without even consulting her first) for a dating show? that just seems like a really strange career move
