Danjo-hi 1:39 no Heikou Sekai wa Omoi no Hoka Futsuu - Ch. 300 - A Family with a Son

[a55x]

Big lore drop. This is how I cope with HxH hiatuses.

 

[SirBlizz]

Naturally, as with all romance manga, we now have to take our big swing into ~serious drama territory~
This might possibly be the widest gap in tone I've personally seen, though.

 

[Psychronia]

Oh dang. So that's how Ruri is so good (and toxic) about how she handles both men and protective mothers.
I saw that shaking too, Hinata.

It's mommy issues everywhere.

Apparently Akane is a rather kind mom who also treats her daughters lovingly. Did not expect mom stocks to go up from this, but here we are.

 

[Ingway]

I came here to see brats get mindbroken, not for brats to make me feel sad for them!

 

[dereth]

I don't think expelled is the right translation here. Expelled would be that the school made the decision to remove Sou from the student body. If the parents/student chooses to leave the school it would be withdraw, dropping out, or unenrollment. None of those can cleanly be swapped with expelled that clearly explains itself without additional context so maybe expelled is fine here even if not exactly accurate.

What about "removed" (from the school)?

 

[SotetsuGuy]

Yes! As much as I love the humor, I would love it if this also got into the harder aspects of living in a world like this. Not TOO dark, mind you, but at least some hints at what it is like to be a normal, non-Sou person in this world.

 

[namingwrongs]

It may be useful to note that based on the apartment building and the apartment foyer, Ruri's mother has money. Upper-middle, give or take, but not  rich rich. Given the age gaps between Sou and his sisters, as well as the size of the sneakers in the entrance, Kurose Ko (Kou?) is at least three years younger than Ruri, probably more. My estimate is 11 or 12.

Keep in mind that there's significant financial compensation from the state for mothers who bear sons. I'm sure it would be possible to fritter it all away, but that seems like a good way to lose custody, so the default assumption is that any household with a boy is at least upper middle class.

 

[Shortstos]

Well now i feel bad for her, she deserves some head pats and hug.

 

[zaitcev]

Not going to be too sorry for Ruri. She's a bad person at heart. I don't think the neglect at home counts at as an excuse. Hinata is in a worse situation and yet look at her.

 

[aadam12321]

Gosh we're at chapter 300 already! The story's going good so far, i like it. Thanks for the TL as always

 

[zaitcev]

BTW, who wants to guess what the book obscured by Ruri's knee is? Something like "Haha wa naze nakayokunai" perhaps?

 

[Devvyy]

300 chapters! Congratulations!!

 

[w3searcher]

Well, that explains a bit about her personality. I guess this is probably the more common outcome compared to Sou's household.

From what we know, moms usually stop having kids after they have a son.
The son gets special treatment, but as we've now seen, it varies from mother to mother.
Satou Akane loves her daughters even if she already has a son, but Ruri's mom probably ignores, if not abuses her.

I forgot about that part (first line), so it's interesting that Sou has a younger sister. Was it brought up before why she decided to have another child?

 

[phorx]

It's nice to be reminded that Akane is a really good mother.

Yes, she’s the breast

 

[nninja_strike]

As always, pure peak. First of all, thank you dear translator for translating all those books. Very important for the plot.
Now, we see, again, a part of why this world is arguably a dystopia. I believe the theme HAS been mentioned before, albeit too long ago (like 100 chapters or more kinda long).
Imagine the absolute preferential treatment, the fact that it's simply the norm, the fact that women's bodies are conditioned to work in a specific way in that world... Being a man in that world is scary, considering you can get kidnapped any day.
But being a woman is not good either. Leaving the fact that you're bound BY LAW to get artificially impregnated (I believe every woman has to birth at least once), raise your child COMPLETELY alone, remember, the child doesn't have 4 grandparents, it just has ONE grandma. Grandmas that by the way WE HAVEN'T SEEN. NOT EVEN ONE. People just don't grow old in this world... why?
And to top that off, if you have a boy, you have to safeguard him constantly. If you have a girl, that's normal, cool, the girl will grow fatherless tho.
I don't know what's worse. If being a girl with a brother and no sisters, or being the youngest girl and your mom birthing a boy just after you. In that scenario you never got to have the love of your mother fully for yourself (let alone your dad).
Although I believe that having another girl to help support each other and deal with life WOULD be much better.
Anyways, thanks for reading!

When does it mention that all women need to birth a child?

 

[Knithzero]

Poor girl, she needs love

 

[BlackSword]

What about "removed" (from the school)?

Withdrawn is usually the word used.

 

[Me]

Sou will fix this.

With his d... wait, this isn't the R-18-verse.

 

[dimox]

When does it mention that all women need to birth a child?

The only thing I remember getting mentioned is that the government supports women who want to raise kids. And that only makes sense if they don't force them. Not to mention the ethical issues with forcing women into pregnancy. Forcing men to donate sperm is one thing, the countries have no choice and usually that in itself would do no harm. It's just inconvenient for men to go to the SCC once a month. For women... there are dedicated schools for girls who want to become mothers, so can learn about parenting, childcare and the like. Women can apply for artificial insemnation without much formalities and there's even substancial financial support when they have a child. A real obligation to birth kids does not exist and it isn't even needed in the first place. Only men face that force, in the matter that they have donate sperm (if they are healthy).
That's understandable because otherwise there are way too few males to keep the country going on and women who really want kids would probably be driven crazy if they had no guy and no alternative. Another reason why there is no such legal obligation is that there are more than enough women to keep the population level up. Some women obviously won't have kids because they don't want any but others have multiple... take Suzuki's family, he has three older sisters, so his mother has four kids. Akane got three. The Konno's are twins snf Kanaria has at least one older sister (maybe more we don't know), so... the issue with birthrates is not that women won't give birth unless forced, the core problem in that world is with men, or rather the lack of them.

 

[radstylix]

As always, pure peak. First of all, thank you dear translator for translating all those books. Very important for the plot.
Now, we see, again, a part of why this world is arguably a dystopia. I believe the theme HAS been mentioned before, albeit too long ago (like 100 chapters or more kinda long).
Imagine the absolute preferential treatment, the fact that it's simply the norm, the fact that women's bodies are conditioned to work in a specific way in that world... Being a man in that world is scary, considering you can get kidnapped any day.
But being a woman is not good either. Leaving the fact that you're bound BY LAW to get artificially impregnated (I believe every woman has to birth at least once), raise your child COMPLETELY alone, remember, the child doesn't have 4 grandparents, it just has ONE grandma. Grandmas that by the way WE HAVEN'T SEEN. NOT EVEN ONE. People just don't grow old in this world... why?
And to top that off, if you have a boy, you have to safeguard him constantly. If you have a girl, that's normal, cool, the girl will grow fatherless tho.
I don't know what's worse. If being a girl with a brother and no sisters, or being the youngest girl and your mom birthing a boy just after you. In that scenario you never got to have the love of your mother fully for yourself (let alone your dad).
Although I believe that having another girl to help support each other and deal with life WOULD be much better.
Anyways, thanks for reading!

I've reread this series a ton of times. I literally do not recall them needing to be pregnant by law.

I'll give you that something like that might be necessary for humanity's survival in this world, but unless a character states it, then it is just an assumption. If humanity is really desperate, males would be getting even LESS freedom to protect their precious sperm, their happiness and freedom be damned.

However, we've only been seeing it from Sou/Japan's POV. Who knows if it's this worse in other countries?

I wager the rich families, or perhaps they're rich because they have a slightly better chance of birthing sons, have more "normal" atomic families (i.e. Have grandparents). But that might not be the case because of how Kanaria's sister acts. Also, I doubt Kissa-sensei wants to draw grandmas (with the exception of Akane in the R18 world). This is still a harem series after all.