Aisai no Ura Aka

[Mukola9191]

Yap i agree. If we see how rika personality so far she look like will not easily down just because Sousuke being cold to her or anything Sousuke say. We need to know first what the true goal rika and what she's "weak point"

As Rika says: why live if you can't have fun. Rika's main goal is to have fun, it's fun for her to watch Soska's confused face. Rika also wants to find her "great love". I believe that for her "great love" is when a man is ready to make any sacrifices for her, to forgive her for everything she does. So to speak, she is waiting for a prince on a white horse who will save her. When Soske stops expressing any emotions about Rika's actions, that's when Rika will break down. When he doesn't care about Rick, when he stops texting and calling at that moment Rika's fall starts. When Soske begins to express his feelings for other women, then it will be the end for Rika.

 

[janakete]

As Rika says: why live if you can't have fun. Rika's main goal is to have fun, it's fun for her to watch Soska's confused face. Rika also wants to find her "great love". I believe that for her "great love" is when a man is ready to make any sacrifices for her, to forgive her for everything she does. So to speak, she is waiting for a prince on a white horse who will save her. When Soske stops expressing any emotions about Rika's actions, that's when Rika will break down. When he doesn't care about Rick, when he stops texting and calling at that moment Rika's fall starts. When Soske begins to express his feelings for other women, then it will be the end for Rika.

if this really happen. It will make sense why rika confront akiba after sport festival and doesn't want divorce, because that mean she also loving Sousuke. But the contrary why she order misato to have sex with Sousuke ?

 

[XiaoNate]

if this really happen. It will make sense why rika confront akiba after sport festival and doesn't want divorce. But also if this happen why she order to record misato to have sex with Sousuke ?

He made great observations and now you also cooked, what was the real reason behind that BM ?
And now i am thinking, what if rika exposed herself on the call on purpose, somehow she knew that sousuke would also note the background sound and realized thst rika was close instantly and go for her, all of this seemed like rika already knew souske would find a way to win misato for his side and that BM plan was just a trick to introduce iwabuchi to sousuke and invite him for their "ultimate heart crush" orgia paradise, i mean, hard to believe iwabuchi stoping their way was just a fluke/coincidentally ocassion

 

[Mukola9191]

if this really happen. It will make sense why rika confront akiba after sport festival and doesn't want divorce, because that mean she also loving Sousuke. But the contrary why she order misato to have sex with Sousuke ?

I have a guess that Rika wants Soske to accept her as she is. As we remember, as soon as Rika found out that Sosuke knew about Shingo, she revealed the truth to him (shows the video). What about Misato, it's a way for her to prove that Soska hasn't given up yet and he's ready to go to the last. Or it's a compromise so that Soska can't get a divorce. But in fact, Rika doesn't confirm what kind of video she meant, we only know it from Misato's words.
In fact, it may turn out that all the words of Shingo, Misato and Iwabuchi are all lies. Soska takes his word for it, but he has no evidence. As for the video (Singo and Ricky) and the engagement certificate, it may turn out to be fake. And this whole game is aimed at checking Soska, and whether there is a great love between them. I'm just wondering why Iwabuchi hopes that Soska's heart won't break. As if he wants them to stay together.

 

[Mukola9191]

I want to ask you all about something else. What do you think is meant by the last words of Iwabuchi? "The main thing is that his heart doesn't break and fly to pieces. I hope for it..." Why does Iwabuchi hope for it? Does he want Soska and Rick to be together? Or does he himself hope that there is a "great love"?

And I'll add one more question. Why does Rika call Iwabuchi by his last name? Doesn't that confirm that they're not that close?

 

[Kalimaman]

I want to ask you all about something else. What do you think is meant by the last words of Iwabuchi? "The main thing is that his heart doesn't break and fly to pieces. I hope for it..." Why does Iwabuchi hope for it? Does he want Soska and Rick to be together? Or does he himself hope that there is a "great love"?

And I'll add one more question. Why does Rika call Iwabuchi by his last name? Doesn't that confirm that they're not that close?

"There, his heart will be crushed. I hope he doesnt crumple too much". He's basically implying that the emotional damage Sousuke will suffer may be too much for Sousuke to handle, and he will probably "break", with Iwabuchi sarcastically pointing out he himself hoping the damage won't be too much for he( Sousuke) to not handle( AKA, becomes too much broken from it. Depression, apathy, those sorts of things).

Yeah, that pretty much confirms it. It may even be that Rika and Iwabuchi's account was just another scheme by itself.

 

[Kalimaman]

if this really happen. It will make sense why rika confront akiba after sport festival and doesn't want divorce, because that mean she also loving Sousuke. But the contrary why she order misato to have sex with Sousuke ?

Guilty trapping him. Rika, to this moment, has not shown any instance of believing that Sousuke did not fall out of love for her. His pursuit for her, going into this town, was just as "proof" as that, in her eyes. If we take the "instances":

- Shiho is 7 y.o. If we add the 9 months pregnancy, and the fact that they're 8 years married, it means Rika rushed to get pregnant in the scope of 3 months;

- When dealing with the possibility that Akiba was targeting him, Rika simply used the ultrasound to scare her and also to baby trap Sousuke himself;

- During the Spa arc, Rika hugged him and used the "DNA test speech" to taunt him into staying( hitting his sweet spot);

- The entire Ordeal with Misato was to Create a Blackmail Video and Guilty trip him in staying. Remember, as much as he knows, he has no proper solid evidence of the adultery. Shingo's statement is no concrete evidence, and the Videos in Momonga themselves are not that solid( considering the mask itself). But a plain sight video of Sousuke and Misato is indeed a Solid evidence to back a case, especially considering Rika's pregnancy could be used as an added cause.

 

[janakete]

All the theories you guys shared are incredibly fascinating and mindblown. It make me with almost no room to question.

Taking all this in, it makes me wonder again, why does Sousuke seem so valuable to Rika and Iwabuchi, to the point where they are so desperate to see him suffer or down ? For Iwabuchi, there might be a logical reason wanting to ruin Sousuke because, in his eyes, Sousuke stole Rika from him. But what about Rika?? The only thing that comes to my mind is that Sousuke is valuable because Rika sees him as someone truly special to her, in other words, Rika is actually in love with Sousuke.

Think again about it, if Rika's goal from the start was just a business, she could have easily chosen a much more influential husband. Someone like a politician, or if she was truly addicted in social media, it would make far more sense for her to marry a man with heavy influence in the media industry. I'm sure it wouldn't bedifficult for Rika to seduce and control men like that, especially after we've seeing how she manipulates and controll the people in the PTA. Yet, instead, she married Sousuke a man who is in my opinion, brings no value other than the simple fact that he is deeply in love with her.

And that brings us back again to the contradiction. If Rika does love Sousuke, it bring back the to the question exactly like what Sousuke said "she wants to experience an greater/ultimate love, but why does she acts just making people hate her instead?" So, I feel like the "missing piece" is going to be the absolute turning point for how Rika and Sousuke's relationship resolves. But, I still put my faith in MITA. if Rika is truly doing all these awful things, she will definitely get her karma in the end

 

[Mukola9191]

I want to ask you all about something else. What do you think is meant by the last words of Iwabuchi? "The main thing is that his heart doesn't break and fly to pieces. I hope for it..." Why does Iwabuchi hope for it? Does he want Soska and Rick to be together? Or does he himself hope that there is a "great love"?

And I'll add one more question. Why does Rika call Iwabuchi by his last name? Doesn't that confirm that they're not that close?

I tried a bunch of different translators and here's what I came to about the last phrase of Iwabuchi. It translates as follows: "There his heart will break and fly to pieces. I hope for it..."
Based on this, I suggest that Iwabuchi's goal is to destroy the marriage of Soska and Ricky. As we can see, he is not happy with Ricky's words that Soska sacrificed a lot to find out all this. And he's also not happy that Ricky still has hope that she will be saved.

 

[XiaoNate]

I tried a bunch of different translators and here's what I came to about the last phrase of Iwabuchi. It translates as follows: "There his heart will break and fly to pieces. I hope for it..."
Based on this, I suggest that Iwabuchi's goal is to destroy the marriage of Soska and Ricky. As we can see, he is not happy with Ricky's words that Soska sacrificed a lot to find out all this. And he's also not happy that Ricky still has hope that she will be saved.

Good comment but..... saved?
How so?

 

[XiaoNate]

I tried a bunch of different translators and here's what I came to about the last phrase of Iwabuchi. It translates as follows: "There his heart will break and fly to pieces. I hope for it..."
Based on this, I suggest that Iwabuchi's goal is to destroy the marriage of Soska and Ricky. As we can see, he is not happy with Ricky's words that Soska sacrificed a lot to find out all this. And he's also not happy that Ricky still has hope that she will be saved.

I translated with a bunch of ai and all of them translated to: I hope it doesnt get completely crushed

 

[Mukola9191]

Good comment but..... saved?
How so?

I mean, it's not yet clear who is really the main villain, Iwabuchi or Rika. If it's Iwabuchi, and he manipulates Rika, and she can't resist him, then Rika may want to be saved. But if the villain is Rika, then why is she doing it only now and why does she need it. After all, you can see that she is "madly" in love with Soska. Maybe she has some offences in the past on Soska?

 

[XiaoNate]

I was just rereading chapter 9 in order to remember some things that i did forget and i realized how overrated rika's banks account is, dont get me wrong, she has a good amount of money in her bank, but WAY WAY less than i first tought she had, i mean, chapter 9 showed her bank account and it is 88 million ienes, for me it was something like 15-20 millions USD, but it is just almost 600k usd, she not that much of a healthy woman, despite when compared to sousuke who is a avarage salary man (definetely not poor) she is much richer, sousuke would normally take 6-7 years to make that money with just with his mensal income( supposing that he makes 10k per month)

Momonga channel has not even a whole year( if im mistaken you guys can correct me on this) on the Internet, and to make 500k usd within a year, your marketing must be absurd, and your SNS must be reslly famous. Rika(with shingo as a coupple) didnt seemed to be thst much of famous to explain that amounts of money being earned with just their videos, and here is the main issue with that, what exactly rika had to do to make that much of money ???

 

[Kalimaman]

I mean, it's not yet clear who is really the main villain, Iwabuchi or Rika. If it's Iwabuchi, and he manipulates Rika, and she can't resist him, then Rika may want to be saved. But if the villain is Rika, then why is she doing it only now and why does she need it. After all, you can see that she is "madly" in love with Soska. Maybe she has some offences in the past on Soska?

From what we have, and considering no plot twists until now, it's clear Rika is the antagonist of the story, as much as the meaning of what antagonism is.

She is the force that opposes, and forces into action, the protagonist( in this case, Sousuke). An antagonist doesn't necessarily needs to be a sheer villain type character, but just by showing opposition, and somewhat forcing a clash with the protagonist, does achieve this status( in fact, antagonism may not be even reduced to a person. It may be an organization, a status quo, or a social system by itself).

Terauchi was, as of now, just Sousuke's call to action.

And Iwabuchi may be a villain himself, but as far as the story showed us, he was less involved in Sousuke's life than Rika. Not only that, the amount of damage he did is still less than what was showed to us, done by Rika herself.

 

[XiaoNate]

Even if Iwabuchi turns out to be confirmed as the mastermind behind all of her actions, and a villain, there is no chance in hell that rika can prove to be redeemable bro, that would infuriate everyone and be pretty much another cliche PT

 

[Mukola9191]

Even if Iwabuchi turns out to be confirmed as the mastermind behind all of her actions, and a villain, there is no chance in hell that rika can prove to be redeemable bro, that would infuriate everyone and be pretty much another cliche PT

PT?

 

[XiaoNate]

PT?

Plot twist

 

[SeekerofDreams]

"There, his heart will be crushed. I hope he doesnt crumple too much". He's basically implying that the emotional damage Sousuke will suffer may be too much for Sousuke to handle, and he will probably "break", with Iwabuchi sarcastically pointing out he himself hoping the damage won't be too much for he( Sousuke) to not handle( AKA, becomes too much broken from it. Depression, apathy, those sorts of things).

Yeah, that pretty much confirms it. It may even be that Rika and Iwabuchi's account was just another scheme by itself.

All I got out of that was that he hopes a toy that he’s having fun with doesn’t break too soon. Cuz that won’t be fun when he has so much more he wants to do to Sousuke.