Thanks for bringing this back!
i imagine 'shoujo manga' must be even more far away when you have a bad home life even if it does, well, romanticize a 'fluffy' unrealistic romance (tho other than mangaka drawing their own story of them dating their roommate and such i wonder how many shoujo romances are 'accurate' as opposed to like josei/seinen stories)
must be sucky if a whole city/school is also part of the cult too as opposed to her family and (the JP equivalent of) CPS being able to do something but idk how they'd rly handle cults if 'religious freedom' is a big deal in japan too
Tho "semi autobiographical" is really concerning. I imagine she made it out alright (within reason, trauma aside), considering this story was able to be made, unless it ends up with her death or so and the mangaka making a story to honor the death based on diaries/paragraphs/newspaper articles left behind and such