Aisai no Ura Aka

[phoslapis]

So is she supposed to be on the aroace spectrum? and I hope author does not try to reconcile their relationship because she is just not right in her head and wants Sousuke to become a cuck for her delusional self.

 

[UdenEmpati]

So is she supposed to be on the aroace spectrum? and I hope author does not try to reconcile their relationship because she is just not right in her head and wants Sousuke to become a cuck for her delusional self.

I don't think it can be chalked up to her being aromantic, so much as she's just generally fucked in the head and has a skewed interpretation of what "love" is. Sounds like her home life was absolute shit, and she got into bad shit during adolescence with seemingly no support system to help her out from getting into deeper trouble.

I guess there's an argument that "love" and "happiness" and so on are all incredibly subjective concepts that rely heavily on one's perspective, along with a dependency on what it means to have a "healthy relationship" with something or someone. But I would argue conventional wisdom says that Rika has an incredibly unhealthy understanding of love and affection and family, and without anyone around her to tell her otherwise, it became cemented by the time she actually turned to Sousuke.
And while Sousuke did represent a "conventionally healthy" version of love and familial life, Rika was too far gone to actually appreciate and learn to exist within it.
There's probably a very unflattering, borderline-misogynistic read on the situation that says she slept with too many people from too early an age to ever be able to "settle down", but that's always felt reductive to me, and more the territory of paper-thin NTR doujin to justify the woman "falling for the biggest dick and throwing her family and life away for carnal fulfillment". It removes agency and dehumanizes people, in my mind, so I don't want to go in that direction for this story.

But I do think that she's got problems that were never treated, and she instead filled them up with sex and with the online video site stuff and the ever-increasing debauchery of trying to corrupt Sousuke to ensure he'd never leave her, no matter how depraved or "sullied" she got. Which to me, means they shouldn't get together, because relationships are all about compromise, and she's saying that Sousuke has to accept her, but that she won't meet him halfway on what he wants for his family and home life. She wants to take in the relationship, not give, and she's spent too long lying and running and hurting Sousuke and Shiho and many others, to the point that she needs psychiatric help before she needs a romantic partner.
I don't know if I expect the author to "stick the landing" on having Sousuke turn his back on her. This chapter was some real 11th-hour glazing on Rika to try and make her story more sympathetic, with the whole "my life growing up was terrible and I was lost and alone and had no support and no one would love me until you came along, so please love me even at my worst that I'm still actively pursuing". Sousuke's done a lot of work throughout the story in his pursuit of Rika, learning about her, and himself, and what it means to actually compromise and sacrifice for a relationship and how to be a good partner even through rough patches and fights. But Rika's always run away or thrown ultimatums or hurt others, and has never come to him in good faith.

 

[phoslapis]

I don't think it can be chalked up to her being aromantic, so much as she's just generally fucked in the head and has a skewed interpretation of what "love" is. Sounds like her home life was absolute shit, and she got into bad shit during adolescence with seemingly no support system to help her out from getting into deeper trouble.

I guess there's an argument that "love" and "happiness" and so on are all incredibly subjective concepts that rely heavily on one's perspective, along with a dependency on what it means to have a "healthy relationship" with something or someone. But I would argue conventional wisdom says that Rika has an incredibly unhealthy understanding of love and affection and family, and without anyone around her to tell her otherwise, it became cemented by the time she actually turned to Sousuke.
And while Sousuke did represent a "conventionally healthy" version of love and familial life, Rika was too far gone to actually appreciate and learn to exist within it.
There's probably a very unflattering, borderline-misogynistic read on the situation that says she slept with too many people from too early an age to ever be able to "settle down", but that's always felt reductive to me, and more the territory of paper-thin NTR doujin to justify the woman "falling for the biggest dick and throwing her family and life away for carnal fulfillment". It removes agency and dehumanizes people, in my mind, so I don't want to go in that direction for this story.

But I do think that she's got problems that were never treated, and she instead filled them up with sex and with the online video site stuff and the ever-increasing debauchery of trying to corrupt Sousuke to ensure he'd never leave her, no matter how depraved or "sullied" she got. Which to me, means they shouldn't get together, because relationships are all about compromise, and she's saying that Sousuke has to accept her, but that she won't meet him halfway on what he wants for his family and home life. She wants to take in the relationship, not give, and she's spent too long lying and running and hurting Sousuke and Shiho and many others, to the point that she needs psychiatric help before she needs a romantic partner.
I don't know if I expect the author to "stick the landing" on having Sousuke turn his back on her. This chapter was some real 11th-hour glazing on Rika to try and make her story more sympathetic, with the whole "my life growing up was terrible and I was lost and alone and had no support and no one would love me until you came along, so please love me even at my worst that I'm still actively pursuing". Sousuke's done a lot of work throughout the story in his pursuit of Rika, learning about her, and himself, and what it means to actually compromise and sacrifice for a relationship and how to be a good partner even through rough patches and fights. But Rika's always run away or thrown ultimatums or hurt others, and has never come to him in good faith.

yeah,even if we sympathize with her sad upbringing, she is clearly involved in criminal activities behind his back, trying to ruin other people's lives in pursuit of her love. I have my doubts regarding whether author will write her being punished or not but I hope atleast they get divorced(in a way that might be the biggest punishment for her).

 

[XiaoNate]

Rest in peace mukola, your theories will never be forgotten in this forum,
even though they never materialized.
Sadly, your end has finally come.

"Mukola" 2025-2026

 

[Kalimaman]

OK, about chapter 102:

- As some have noticed, the entire account telling was somewhat tailored to make Rika more simpathetic and less of the devil we've seen thus far. I believe this was all a half-truth, in case she was caught among the way. Remember: the authors always treated Rika as a cunning, ruthless woman who this of herself above other.

- "Soon after my heart skipped a beat, it was all over. I became a college student. Iwabuchi-san was the best contender to feel love": False. Not only she dismisses the entirety of Misato, and how cold and cruel she was to the other, during Iwabuchi's flashback in chapter 99, we see that she indirectly mentions Misato when trying to put Iwabuchi on her side in the attempt to blackmail her. She started dating Iwabuchi out of breaking him into her scheme. The love part was just a small part of the whole.

- "You were pimping your classmates, they started calling this place the whore's house, i heard from the neighbours yesterday": Not entirely false, but there're some holes here. During chapter 64, Satsuki said it was called that, and Misato ascertained the timestamp from their college years. However, Satsuki herself didn't know why it was called that, and considering she herself didn't know that Misato was being blackmailed into sex, i find it very unlikely that the story leaked and Rika's mother took the blow. Further, during chapter 65, the elders of the village didn't seem to want to talk about it, rather they wanted to brush it off and asked Sousuke to forget about it. Now, there's two ways to go with it, i believe.
If they were simply pimped down, demonizing Rika would still be a thing, even if not trying to bring her up.
But at least to me, they were akin to Misato's case: their children and themselves were blackmailed, and bringing Rika back meant bringing back the reason why they were blackmailed.
In both cases, how this info got to her mother wasn't explained.

- "I thought, since Iwabuchi wasn't papa or mama, it could be different and love me, despiste my soiled self": Rather forced, if i may. While here, she brings a warm perspective of wanting to feel loved, during chapter 99( Iwabuchi's flashback), we saw that she was rather cold and pragmatic about breaking up with him, even pointing out how he couldn't get hard upon finding out she was engaged. But the important detail is that: as Miyabi said, Momonga's views were inflated. Rika knew it was Iwabuchi still into her. So yeah, even if not stated, if we'd taken her account for granted, it means she still used Iwabuchi to boost her account, making it easier to reach Sousuke, but omitting how manipulative she was to others in the process.

- "Doumo, Mori Shingo desu": This one was actually nuanced. Mainly 2 points, an easier one and a deeper one. The first is that, during his monologue on chapter 59, when meeting Rika, Shingo seemed more surprised, while Rika was more natural about it, and Rika was nonchalant about doing the account. On 102, Shingo seems more direct and closer to the same face he showed Shiratori on chapter 34, while we didn't see Rika's face, but a closer look at her mouth seemed to imply her usual "scary ghost face", which she made to Akiba, Misato and Iwabuchi. Meaning, she was in complete control of the situation.
The second point is, even if Shingo was necessary for her true love plan, Ryouga Shiratori wasn't, and he was omitted from her story. But why, what was the necessity of her dealing with him?

- "I want to be loved by you, no matter how soiled i become. Because i love you very much": Problematic by itself. Because it brings us back questions we've been making for a while.
Why'd take her 8 years to begin this plot?
If only her gets to be soiled, why did she plan a blackmailing sex tape between Sousuke and Misato?
Why'd she plan on using Momonga and how did she know it'd hit Sousuke?
What was the necessity of Ryouga Shiratori in the grand scheme of her plan?
Why make sure to not only dispose of Akiba, but to destroy her in front of Sousuke?

The only good thing is that, now, we can finnaly close the lid of the SD card scenario. If Rika knew that Sousuke found out about Momonga since day 1( i.e chapter 1), it means that, when Shingo felt cornered, Rika knew Sousuke catched up and was trying to get the card, so she played him like a damn fiddle.

 

[Kalimaman]

As the last comment became too big( haha) i'd like to share my thoughts on the matter in a better understandable way.

What gives away the entirety of this sham, is the disparity between Rika from Chapter 70, and the Rika from chapter 102. During 102, we see how she wants to be loved, and felt like it, by seeing Sousuke love her no matter how soiled she becomes. She calls it the "True Love/ Hounto no Ai". But during 70, we see how she treated Misato, and in her own phrasing, said that, "in this one boring life, i want to feel the 'Ultimate Love/Saikyou no Ai'".

My belief is that, we're back at the disparity of "Yamada Rika" and "Miyase Rika". The first is Sousuke's wife, a facade of love, further emphasizing by her dialogue here( "papa" and "mama", in the same way she addressed Sousuke on chapter 1). The other is a ruthless woman, making her way through life with blackmailing, backstabbing and social destruction.

If i'm to guess, Miyase Rika is, as Iwabuchi stated, someone like him: a person who enjoys crushing others. But adding today's chapter on the line, i'd add "very sensitive to others taking your things". In this case, while Iwabuchi backs away, Rika makes sure to destroy it. This justify her actions with Misato and Akiba( and somewhat Iwabuchi himself, since he wanted to crush Sousuke, so joining pleasure with work, she pins the blame on him).

This also means that we're back at the "love VS enjoyment" debacle. While Rika's notion of love do exist, and are shared on her secret account, her notion of enjoyment is never fully disclosed, with her saying that she finds life "boring". So, if i may propose an alternative:

• Rika started pimping herself since high school, or even junior high( Misato did say Rika was rather popular, and the way her "friends" approached her in 102 may infer potential prostitution);
• She found out blackmailing people was funnier, because it earned more money and she could see their suffering faces;
• She did so with Misato out of spite for her being a friend of Sousuke;
• When shit hit the fan in her college years, she pinned the blame unto her mother and escaped;
• She worked with Iwabuchi because she enjoyed the way he was making people suffer and she wanted to test him for her love;
• Sousuke reappeared and she decided to use him for her ultimate goal;
• Shingo's job was just Momonga, a trigger for Sousuke. Shiratori's job was to help Rika with money and enjoying seeing people suffer;
• She planned to pin the blame on Shingo, but things escalated so much that she couldn't just do it so shallow;
• Misato was used in a blackmail attempt, with potential flaw indicating that her love plan was working, but otherwise, create material to help trap Sousuke aside from the baby;
• Akiba was to be destroyed because she, too, went for Sousuke;
• Rika's true love plan is to be loved by Sousuke, regardless of how soiled she is, and that way feel truly loved;
• Rika's Ultimate love goal is to create an enormous scandal over Sousuke and their married life, breaking him down and making sure that, regardless, he can only get hard to her, and eventually, only love her( i'm basing myself on her expression when talking to Iwabuchi, in the car).

Crazy, huh? But at it's core, my idea is that, we've seen part of her, but the missing other part is what'll make the missing piece appear.

 

[chivasmen]

So, "True Love" for Rika is a cuck. Deep.

All I hear is her repeating the same thing over and over: “I'll keep cheating on you and having affairs with other men, but you, Sousuke-kun, must keep your eyes on me alone and love me faithfully.” Seriously... Rika, do yourself a favor, bang your head against a pole and rest in peace. Nobody's going to miss you.

No matter how troubled her family background was, if she kept cheating on Sousuke and sleeping around with anyone, it was only a matter of time before their relationship fell apart.

This story could be summed up as being about a woman who is simply emotionally unstable and believes it's perfectly acceptable to make everyone around her miserable, even her own daughter, just to feel loved.

 

[Wyrm666]

And now officially

All I hear is her repeating the same thing over and over: “I'll keep cheating on you and having affairs with other men, but you, Sousuke-kun, must keep your eyes on me alone and love me faithfully.” Seriously... Rika, do yourself a favor, bang your head against a pole and rest in peace. Nobody's going to miss you.

No matter how troubled her family background was, if she kept cheating on Sousuke and sleeping around with anyone, it was only a matter of time before their relationship fell apart.

This story could be summed up as being about a woman who is simply emotionally unstable and believes it's perfectly acceptable to make everyone around her miserable, even her own daughter, just to feel loved.

The reasoning is ridiculous. There are so many men that would totally accept that situation because of the fetish. And having a fetish is not the same as loving someone. Rika, no matter how deranged she is, would know that.

It is implied throughout the story that Sousuke might have a cuckold fetish. If he has one indeed, how could his attachment be understood as True Love? And if he hasn't, how could he accept her? And if a man would genuinely not care about his wife sleeping around (and not feeling aroused by it), it would mean that sexual loyalty is not on his "must have" list for a relationship, thus it wouldn't make his love special.

Rika being wacked out of her mind explains everything, granted, but i guess I was expecting a bit more than that.

 

[YossyNova]

If Rika is on the spectrum of a Narcissist. Then she would most likely identify as a Malignant Narcissist. Key Traits (From an AI Summary): "It blends narcissistic traits with elements of the "Dark Triad" or "Dark Tetrad" (antisocial behavior, Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and sometimes sadism). They are manipulative, paranoid, coercive, vindictive, and completely lack remorse. They often bend or break rules to dominate and punish".

Red Flags of Malignant Narcissist:

• Grandiosity – Has an inflated sense of self-importance and superiority. ✅
• Superficial charm – Appears charismatic and likable on the surface, especially in public. ✅
• Lacks empathy – Cannot or refuses to understand or care about others' feelings.✅
• Manipulativeness – Uses deceit, charm, or coercion to control others.✅
• Exploitativeness – Takes advantage of others for personal gain without guilt.✅
• Vindictiveness – Seeks revenge or retribution for perceived slights.✅
• Pathological lying – Lies frequently, even when the truth would suffice.✅
• Sadistic tendencies – Gains pleasure or satisfaction from others' pain or humiliation.✅
• Gaslighting – Undermines others’ reality or perception to maintain control.✅
• Entitlement – Believes they deserve special treatment and unquestioned compliance.✅
• Paranoia – Harbors extreme distrust or suspicion of others' motives.❔
• Aggression – Responds to criticism or frustration with hostility or rage.❔
• Need for control – Demands power over others’ decisions, actions, or emotions.✅
• Envy and jealousy – Feels threatened by others’ success or happiness.❔
• Blame-shifting – Refuses to accept responsibility; always blames others.✅
• Smear campaigning – Discredits or slanders others to protect their image.✅
• Emotional cruelty – Uses guilt, shame, or degradation to harm others psychologically.✅
• Intense need for admiration – Constantly craves praise, attention, or validation.✅
• Hypersensitivity to criticism – Reacts poorly or aggressively to any perceived slight.❔
• Lack of remorse – Shows no guilt or concern for the harm they cause.✅
• Lies, manipulates, and gaslights✅
• Enjoys harming or controlling others✅
• Displays intense rage when challenged. (as of now) ❎
• Shows no remorse for bad behavior✅

No matter what sympathy points she can garner with Sousuke. She is too far gone into her own reality. That even her having a change of mind of her ways (bad habits) doesn't seem to be a possibility for this type of person. She has lived to many years living this life style to change over night. Real change takes work (possibilty years of counseling) . Work that sousuke is clear that he no longer wants to be a part of. So if it's true that Rika does love sousuke. Divorce and sousuke no longer loving her is the ultimate Karma. Also she is to selfish to actually kill herself. Just another attempt to threaten Sousuke (his unborn child is being held hostage).

 

[Kalimaman]

I was doing some looking at the oficial release dates from the raws, and something got my attention.
1 - The Tankobons are released within 3 months from each. The last one, vol 9( all the way to chapter 88, Miyabi's choking) was released just last Month. At this pacing, vol 10( up to chapter 98, Iwabuchi's escape) Should be released on 01/2027 and the last tankobon should be released at about 04/2027.

2 - I've also noticed that, the release pace has changed since 08/2026. Before, we would even get 7 chapters straight, but now we get 3 chapters and a week's rest.

I've thought of works like Prison school, which hyped the last tankobon, which woulld release months later. Or some other works which offered extra chapters( not omakes). But here, if i'm being honest, don't think it'll work. The manga should end( if i'm right) at 2026/12/28. Days before vol 10 and roughly 3 months before the last tankobon. The tanko sales wi'll be dead cold by then.

That's why, as crazy as it sounds, i believe my previous "3rd act" theory will happen, but not in the same way. I believe that( and that's being hopeful) we'll get some side stories following the end of this one, 1 a month. Explaining the world, and certain characters. The objective is to release Tankobon Vol 12, which should be cold, but at least will keep the work somewhat warm until vol 11( the main story) releases.

 

[Kalimaman]

OK, short summary about 103:

Spoiler

• Rika switches to a tender moe-like exprression, deciding that this kind of love won't change. Even after a children, even if sleeping with other men, she'll only love Sousuke. This is their "Happy ending"( Tittle of this chapter);
• Akiba enters the room. While Rika boasts as a victor, Sousuke says he won't change the idea of divorce. Momonga, PTA, sports festival, everything lead him to a path of despair, and Akiba was with him, teaching what kind and warm love was;
• The chapter ends with the confession that, during the spa trip, Sousuke did penetrate Akiba( his sin, from all the way back), with Rika's shocked face upon hearing it.

 

[slicerlucas]

Chapter 103 english translation MTL (Gemini AI Pro + Torii Image Translator): Link

Chapter 103 RAW: Link

Chapter 104 on November 17th (in Japan)

 

[UROD-PC]

Chapter 103 english translation MTL (Gemini AI Pro + Torii Image Translator): Link

Chapter 103 RAW: Link

Chapter 104 on November 17th (in Japan)

PENETRATION!?
----
Little bit

 

[janakete]

Chapter 103 is

 

[janakete]

Like you had said @Kalimaman, there is still something she's not told in the account.

Summarry in instants, but out of the blue, there's already one important thing happening on this chapter: the account partially fits Rika's perspective, but it does not fit her side of the story. There's still something she's not letting go publicly.

Has been told in this chapter, Rika has been sleep with various men even after married, so that mean not only mori shingo after 8 years. She also get climax and enjoying it. I think if when Rika told it, if mangaka adding some panel illustrate about it, it would be better

 

[janakete]

So what do you guys think will happen to Rika ?

One option has been eliminated, death/harm herself. But if she became whore and more more craving for sex with various men after this, it not good ending for me. Hanime or hentai manga, doujin with ntr genre, usually has ending like this btw 😑

 

[slicerlucas]

So what do you guys think will happen to Rika ?

1 option has been eliminated, that is death/harm herself. But if she bacame whore and more more craving for sex with various men after this, it not good ending for me.

Maybe she will lost self-control because she didn't get a "no" in a relationship. But, i don't know how she will be react.

 

[janakete]

PENETRATION!?
----
Little bit

But that doesn't mean my heart is right here (the dialogue baloon point on his d*ck)

 

[Kalimaman]

Like you had said @Kalimaman, there is still something she's not told in the account.

Has been told in this chapter, Rika has been sleep with various men even after married, so that mean not only mori shingo after 8 years. She also get climax and enjoying it. I think if when Rika told it, if mangaka adding some panel illustrate about it, it would be better

Not what i meant, actually. I meant that she omitted Misato( who was the reason she started dating Iwabuchi to begin with) and Shiratori( who admitted he did not sleep with her, but said she was somewhat famous on the Ura Aka scene) from her account.

This chapter really reinforced what i wanted to convey: that Rika showed a very "moe-moe-kyun" personality, only caring about her love plan, but omitting the nuances around it, all in which she's a cold, ruthless manipulator. This is exactly the missing piece we're after.

 

[dlblossom]

But that doesn't mean my heart is right here (the dialogue baloon point on his d*ck)

Rika shouting PENETRATION!?? got me weak asf 😭